The Gate Room

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What it's for

The Stargate community has never had one place to call home. GateWorld gives you the news. Dial the Gate gives you the interviews. Everyone else is scattered across a dozen Discords, Facebook groups and subreddits, none of them searchable, none of them lasting, none of them ours. For a fandom this size and this loyal, there has never been a single place to actually gather.

The Gate Room is that place. A real forum where the whole community can sit down together and talk, plus the tools to decide and remember things as one community instead of in twenty separate rooms.

Why a forum, and not just another Discord

Discords are great for the moment and terrible for memory. Everything scrolls away, nothing is searchable, and when a server dies it all goes with it. A forum is the opposite: threaded, searchable, permanent, and owned by the community, not rented from a platform that buries it or shuts it down. That's the difference between a chat and a home.

A record that holds

On top of the forum, the community gets a way to make its choices stick. Decisions are proposed in the open, debated, and recorded with a date and a tally, so "we agreed on X" is a dated link, not a maybe, and nobody can claim a consensus that didn't happen. Inward, it keeps us honest. Outward, when we make a case to a studio or the press, it's receipts: real decisions and real demand, not vibes.

Bigger than any one campaign

#SaveStargate is what The Gate Room is being used for first, and the most urgent thing right now. But it isn't what it's for. Win or lose on the revival, the community keeps the forum, the record, the working groups, the codex, the place. savestargate.com is the campaign's front door. The Gate Room is the community's home, built to outlive any one fight.

Why I built it

I'm Janus. I built it because the community I love never had a commons of its own, just borrowed rooms. Call it the Tollan instinct: a real place, open, on the record, that can't be quietly rewritten or lost.

You're welcome to contribute

It's open, and it's yours. You don't need permission. Jump into the forum, vote on a decision, propose your own, join or even lead a working group, add a pledge, or share your story. I built the frame. You fill it.

If it's useful, use it. If something's missing, tell me and I'll build it. https://thegateroom.com

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A headline has been doing the rounds: "Prime Video Officially Confirms Stargate Reboot's Future." It reads like breaking news. It isn't.

That article is dated 2 June 2026. The "future" it "confirms" is the cancellation we have all known about for three weeks. Nothing in it is new. It's the same report from the day the decision broke, with a headline written to feel current.

This keeps happening because the entire story still traces back to that one 2 June trade report. There has been no further reliable news about the show's status since. So outlets reword the original, trending widgets resurface it, and to anyone who doesn't check the date it looks like a fresh development. It isn't. A new headline on an old fact is not new information.

There's a second error baked into that same headline, and it's worth fixing every time: "reboot." It was never a reboot. Martin Gero, the showrunner, said it plainly: "It is not a reboot. It is a brand new chapter." It was a continuation set in the same canon as the previous shows, with Brad Wright and Joe Mallozzi consulting to keep it honest. Tellingly, the same outlets that print "reboot" in the headline describe it as "the same continuity" in the body. Continuation, not reboot.

So here is what is actually true, as of today: on 2 June, Amazon MGM declined to move forward with Gero's series. Amazon has said it's still exploring ways to further the franchise. There is no replacement showrunner, no timeline, and no new greenlight. That's the entire known status, and it hasn't changed.

None of this is a reason to despair, and it isn't a conspiracy. It's just how entertainment coverage works: one trade report, milked for weeks. The fix is simple. Before you share a Stargate headline, or let one ruin your day, check two things: the date on the article, and whether it says "reboot." If it's old, or it says reboot, you already know more than the headline does.

For the dated, sourced version of where things actually stand, keep this handy: Where Stargate actually stands.

#SaveStargate

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Amazon's stated reason for cancelling the series was that it wouldn't reach beyond the existing fanbase. The strongest answer to that line didn't come from us. It came from the cast.

What stands out isn't that they commented. Actors put out polite, distant statements all the time. These didn't. They climbed into the campaign on its own terms, on the fans' schedule, in the fans' language.

Robert Patrick played Colonel Marshall Sumner for exactly two episodes, in the Atlantis pilot, twenty years ago. By any normal Hollywood math that's a footnote he owed nothing to. He posted anyway, and he reached for the word "rare" twice. Not ratings. Not valuation. Rare.

Hello Stargate universe! I truly enjoyed my time as part of the Stargate Atlantis family. "Colonel Marshall Sumner". Many of the cast are still in my life to this day. That's rare. This community is rare. #SaveStargate LFG!!!!!
Robert Patrick (@robertpatrickT2)

Christopher Judge carried Teal'c for ten seasons. What matters is what he became after: the voice of Kratos, a Game Awards win in 2022 and a BAFTA in 2023, a performer at the very top of his field right now. He didn't need the nostalgia. As the banner plane crossed Amazon MGM, he posted three words.

#SaveStargate Indeed! ️
Christopher Judge (@iamchrisjudge)

They weren't alone. Michael Shanks cheered the organizing itself: "This is how you organize. Well done." Rachel Luttrell, Paul McGillion, David Nykl, Simone Bailly and Peter Kelamis all turned up across SG-1, Atlantis and Universe at once. And Joe Mallozzi, who ran the SG-1 writers room and organized the 2019 campaign that got this very series greenlit, called modern audiences "organized, strategic, and data literate," then watched this fanbase prove it within days.

Here is the argument underneath all of it. A fanbase that pulls in people at the summit of their fields, for free, is not a liability to manage. It is the rarest asset in the business. When the talent hasn't moved on, the claim that the audience has stops holding water. The existing fanbase isn't a barrier to a wider audience. It's the backbone of one.

That's why we keep going, steady and classy, every week. The people who built Stargate showed up for it. We do the same. #SaveStargate

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To put numbers under this, the momentum we would be giving up is real and it is peaking right now:

The petition is near 100k (94k as of this morning) and still climbing.
The flyover over Amazon MGM reached the execs.
A single support stream pulled around 90,000 live viewers.
It has been covered across Variety, Deadline, IGN, Polygon, Collider, Space.com and more.

Full snapshot: https://forum.thegateroom.com/topic/446

The precedent backs it too. Save the Expanse got its revival in about two weeks, not two years, because they hit hardest while the cancellation was fresh and the attention was high. That window is open now and it narrows every month we sit on it.

And for the "is it even still cancelled / is something new coming" questions that keep circling, here is the dated, sourced status so we are all working from the same facts: https://thegateroom.com/where-stargate-stands

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A few people are landing on a comforting idea: that we can hold out two years for the next exec team, since a show takes two or three years to make anyway. I get the instinct, but it's the wrong clock, and acting on it would quietly hand the studio exactly what it is counting on.

Here is the reframe. The two-to-three years is production time, and it only starts after a yes. It is not a runway we get to relax on. The thing we are actually fighting for is the decision, and that window is open right now. Every month we wait pushes the decision further out, which pushes any real show years further out, and at some point it simply doesn't happen. The production clock is downstream. It is the least urgent thing in this whole picture.

These are the clocks that are actually ticking.

The team scatters

This was not a pitch on a napkin. Gero ran a roughly twenty-week writers room, brought on an Oscar-winning production designer and an Emmy-winning visual effects supervisor, and had the show in UK pre-production with filming planned for this fall. That assembled team existed for a moment. The day it was cancelled, those people started taking other jobs, because that is how the industry works. Every month, the exact group that was ready to build this scatters a little further and gets harder to ever put back together.

Momentum does not keep

Campaigns have a half-life. Right now the petition is near a hundred thousand, the flyover reached the building, the press is covering it, and the cast is posting. That energy exists because the cancellation is fresh. Save the Expanse moved in a couple of weeks, not a couple of years, because they struck while it was hot. A campaign that goes quiet for two years does not reheat. The press stops treating "fans still want it" as news, and a cold petition convinces nobody.

A new exec team is not a rescue

The hope that fresh executives will revive this gets the incentives backwards. New execs arrive with their own slate and no attachment to a project the last team killed. The people in the building right now are the only ones who know this show was real and who saw the fan response with their own eyes. Every month, that memory fades, and a future team starts from "what is Stargate." Waiting for the door to revolve is not a plan, it is a coin flip we keep making worse.

Waiting is the studio's win condition

This was said in here already: they expect this to be a fad, and they expect duration to be the key. That cuts both ways. The single best way to prove the cancellation read was correct, that this was just noise from the existing fanbase, is for us to go quiet and wait. Patience, in this exact situation, looks identical to giving up. The way you prove it is not a fad is by still being here, steady, next month and the month after.

What urgency actually means

None of this means panic, and it definitely does not mean getting louder or angrier. Our whole edge is that we read as organized and serious, not rabid. Urgency here just means consistency: showing up every month, keeping the numbers moving, staying visible and staying classy, so that whoever is making the call cannot pretend we went away.

The two-year clock is a story that lets us relax. The real clocks are running right now. #SaveStargate

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The momentum is real, and it's measurable. Here's where things stand as of 21 June 2026.

The numbers

The lead petition just crossed 94,000 signatures and is closing on 100k. That's the marker to push over this week.
The banner flyover above Amazon MGM Studios in Culver City did its job. Word came back that it was "seen by all the execs" and treated as a big deal inside the building.
A single stream in support peaked around 90,000 live viewers, which is hard to wave off as a passing fad.

The voices carrying it

The cast and creators are with us in public: Christopher Judge, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Rachel Luttrell, Robert Patrick, Torri Higginson and Suanne Braun, alongside producer Joseph Mallozzi and series creator Martin Gero. When the people who built Stargate are openly in your corner, a studio pays attention.

Who's covering it

The story and the fan response have been picked up across Variety, Deadline, Nerdist, IGN, Polygon, Collider, Screen Rant, ComicBook.com and Space.com, with the Stargate-focused outlets following it closely: GateWorld, Dial the Gate and Cosmic Book News.

One thing to keep handy

The June 2 cancellation report keeps getting reshared as if it's new. When it turns up, here's a single dated page that lays out where things actually stand, sourced to the trades: Where Stargate actually stands.

New to the campaign? savestargate.com is the place to start.

Keep it steady and keep it classy. We're being read as an organized fandom, not an angry one, and that's the reputation that gets a show greenlit. #SaveStargate

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Micah fixed the audio on this one and added it to the campaign arsenal. The whole pub goes up as the fleet arrives on the big screen. Seven years of payoff, and now it actually hits on the audio.

Download the clip · also in the campaign arsenal

Big thanks to Micah for the fix. #SaveStargate

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Matt (JWLY) put together a clean RSVP QR code with a Times Square look. Scan it or tap the link, it lands in the same place either way.

Times Square RSVP QR code

RSVP here: https://savestargate.com/rsvp

It points at savestargate.com/rsvp, the one stable link we use for every event. If the form behind it ever changes, the code keeps working, so it's safe to print and hand out at cons. Big thanks to Matt for making it.

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Nothing is final until the rights lapse. The team was ready, the fans never left, and now the cast is loud. Reversals have happened for less than this. Godspeed, everyone.

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Came to Stargate late, binged all of it, and the thought that a new show got this close before vanishing is rough. Not letting this one go quietly.