{"id":757948,"date":"2026-06-24T11:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/757948\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:29:08","slug":"stargate-fan-petition-to-amazon-passes-100000-signatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/757948\/","title":{"rendered":"Stargate fan petition to Amazon passes 100,000 signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"

No one has ever claimed that\u00a0Stargate\u00a0fans aren\u2019t vocal. Trapped between the cultural monoliths of\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0and\u00a0Star Trek\u2014and forced to navigate more critically beloved, flashy rivals like\u00a0Battlestar Galactica\u00a0or The Expanse\u2014the Gaters have made up for their sometimes smaller numbers with volume over the decades, reminding people that 17 seasons of television and a handful of movies split across multiple networks, spin-offs, and casts isn\u2019t, like, nothing. And for their dedication, they\u2019ve largely gotten the short end of the stick\u2014including news earlier this month<\/a> that Amazon was dumping plans for a revival of the chevron-heavy science fiction franchise because it was only going to appeal to, well, Stargate\u00a0fans.<\/p>\n

In response, those same fans have now crafted a new petition that\u2019s currently sporting 100,000 signatures, demanding that Amazon give that particular version of the show\u2014created by long-time series writer Martin Gero\u2014a fair shake in the court of public opinion. And, sure, some of this rhetoric might be a little overblown\u2014the intro video<\/a> for the campaign begins with a Gandhi quote\u2014but it does seem to be generating a fair amount of support, including from franchise stars like Michael Shanks and Christopher Judge. (Also, somewhat weirdly, Robert Patrick, who was only in the first two episodes of\u00a0Stargate Atlantis\u00a0before getting snacked on by a space vampire, but who\u2019s apparently stayed a friend and supporter of the franchise ever since.)<\/p>\n

Of course, none of this is going to defeat the tautological idea that only\u00a0Stargate\u00a0fans care about\u00a0Stargate\u2014but it does emphasize that these fans exist, or at least exist enough to put a name on a digital petition in fairly significant numbers. Gero himself (whose other recent work includes the short-lived\u00a0Quantum Leap\u00a0reboot and, probably most relevant to Amazon\u2019s desire to keep playing ball with him, long-term showrunning duties on the successful Blindspot) is still under an overall deal with the streamer; he was active on social media back when the new Stargate\u00a0series was announced by Amazon about seven months ago, but hasn\u2019t made any public comments since the series was canceled back at the start of June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No one has ever claimed that\u00a0Stargate\u00a0fans aren\u2019t vocal. Trapped between the cultural monoliths of\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0and\u00a0Star Trek\u2014and forced to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-757948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}