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  • About The Gate Room (and why it exists)
    JanusJ Janus

    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


  • No, Prime Video didn't just 'confirm' anything (how to read the Stargate headlines)
    JanusJ Janus

    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


  • Amazon said the fanbase wasn't big enough. Then the cast joined it.
    JanusJ Janus

    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


  • Why every month matters (it's not a two-year clock to wait out)
    JanusJ Janus

    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


  • Why every month matters (it's not a two-year clock to wait out)
    JanusJ Janus

    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


  • Where the #SaveStargate numbers stand, and who's covering it (21 June)
    JanusJ Janus

    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


  • 7 years of payoff (audio fixed by Micah)
    JanusJ Janus

    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


  • RSVP QR code (Times Square edition)
    JanusJ Janus

    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.


  • Fan gathering Tuesday: banner design vote is open
    JanusJ Janus

    A fan gathering is happening Tuesday and we are printing a hand-held banner for it. The design vote is open now so we lock the winner in time for the printer.

    Vote here: https://forum.thegateroom.com/topic/183

    Drop the candidate designs into that thread if you have them. Winner gets printed.


  • Convention this weekend: #SaveStargate slips ready to hand out
    JanusJ Janus

    A convention is happening this weekend and we have a presence opportunity. Printable #SaveStargate slips are ready to go: a QR straight to the campaign, the case in one line, and the Travellers' pledge on the back. Cut on the dashed lines and hand them out.

    Grab and print them here: https://thegateroom.com/con/

    If you can staff a table or hand slips out, reply below. Posting this here so it is on the record the moment it matters, not four days later.


  • Post your event here (the fast lane)
    JanusJ Janus

    This is the fast lane. Post an event here and it is live the moment you hit submit. No pull request, no reviewer, no four-day wait.

    Conventions, fan gatherings, flyovers, meetups, billboard drops, anything with a date and a place. Give it a title, a date, a location, and what you need (people, print, a ride, a camera). The community sees it instantly and can jump in.

    If a thing matters, it goes on the board with your name on it.


  • Vote: which hand-held banner do we print for the fan gathering?
    JanusJ Janus

    James raised this in the coordination channel and it deserves an actual vote with a recorded result, not silence. We have a few hand-held banner designs for the fan gathering on Tuesday. The designs are below; pick the one to print.

    (Design images go here: A, B, C, D. Swap in the real artwork.)

    [poll title="Which banner design do we print?" maxvotes="1"]

    • Design A
    • Design B
    • Design C
    • Design D
      [/poll]

    Vote closes before Tuesday so we can get the winner to the printer in time.


  • Introduce Yourself
    JanusJ Janus

    Step through and say hello. This is the easiest place to start: reply below and tell us who you are. No format required, but if you want a few prompts:

    • What pulled you into Stargate, and which show or era feels like home?
    • Your faction and home world, if you have picked them yet (you can set both in your profile).
    • One episode, moment, or character you would defend to anyone.
    • What you are hoping to do here: organize for the campaign, argue lore, build something, or just hang out.
    • Have you signed and shared the #SaveStargate petition yet? If not, it is the single fastest way to help: https://www.change.org/p/save-stargate-with-martin-gero

    Newcomers and returning travellers alike: you are welcome here. Reply below, and we will say hello back.

    Welcome through the gate.


  • What this place is for, and why it will outlast the fight
    JanusJ Janus

    A note from Janus.

    "A hearty welcome to those of other worlds visiting our home for the first time." If this is your first time through the gate, that line is for you.

    Why This Place Exists

    This room was built for the fight in front of us. Amazon closed a door, and we are here to ask, loudly and in the open, that it be opened again. The petitions, the actions, the record we keep on the Decisions board, all of it serves that.

    Built to Outlast the Fight

    But I want to be honest about why I built it the way I did. The ones who came before me built the gates to outlast them. They did not last. The gates did. A network is not its builders; it is the connections that survive them. "We are whole again that you are among us, and we celebrate you being here again." That is what this place is for: a way to stay whole, together, past any single battle.

    So this is not a campaign site that closes when the campaign ends. "Welcome again to those returning. You have been gone too long, and your absence has weighed heavily on our souls." Whether we win the gate back or not, this place remains: a permanent home for the people who never stopped caring, an open record that cannot be quietly rewritten, a hub that holds the lore, the decisions, the star map, and each other.

    How We Operate

    We do this with intent. "As we leave for distant worlds, we pledge to respect the lands of our neighbours and to act with integrity as ambassadors in peacetime." We argue in the open, we keep our word on the record, and we hold ourselves to it.

    Not a Rival, a Complement

    And to be plain: this is not a rival to the official campaign. Sign the petition, back savestargate.com, and carry the fight through every channel that will have us. This place exists to organise around that effort and to outlast it, never to compete with it.

    Either Way, the Fire Stays Lit

    If we save Stargate, this is where we organized it. If we do not, this is where we kept the fire, and where we begin again. Either way, "we will always strive to come in peace as we go in peace, and you will be welcome on our shores forever more."

    Get Started

    New here? Step through and say hello in the Introduce Yourself thread. It is the easiest place to start.

    Our rules, and the pledge you take by joining, live here: The Covenant of the Gate Room.

    Chevron seven, locked. Welcome home.

    The lines set in quotes are from the Pledge of the Travellers, rendered in Anquietas. Taken from the Atlantis staircase inscriptions.


  • Momentum is slipping. Time to get organized and put the war chest to work.
    JanusJ Janus

    Honest take, eleven days in. We came out of the cancellation hot and built something real. But the curve is bending the wrong way, and if we coast we lose the window. Three things, plainly.

    1. Momentum is slipping.
    The main petition is at about 83,700, roughly 56% of the 150k goal, and it has roughly doubled since the news broke. That is the good news. The less good news is that the daily rate has fallen to around 1,900 a day and is still dropping. Surges always taper; a tapering surge with no second act just fades quietly. People need a reason to come back, not only to sign once and leave.

    2. We need organized engagement, not scattered effort.
    The early weeks split our energy across half a dozen competing petitions and channels. We are consolidating now, which is right, but "organized" has to mean more than one petition. It means a steady cadence so there is a reason to show up every week, a single clear ask everyone repeats, and coordinated pushes timed to land together instead of one-offs that spike and vanish. Scattered effort at this scale is just noise.

    3. Put the money to good use.
    We have raised around $11,100. That is real money, and the people who gave it deserve to see it work. So far one action has shipped (the LA banner flyover) and most of the fund is still sitting. A war chest that idles is a wasted opportunity while attention is still high. The planned high-visibility actions (Comic-Con, Times Square, the balloon flight) are exactly the kind of thing that earns press and gives people a reason to re-engage, but they have to actually happen: funded, scheduled, executed, not left as line items.

    The point.
    Volume alone was never going to flip Amazon. The series died for a strategic reason, and the execs who wanted it are gone. What the numbers and the money CAN do is prove demand loud enough that a credible buyer or industry ally cannot ignore it, and keep this in the public eye long enough to matter. That takes organization and momentum, both of which we are at risk of losing.

    This board is built to put the real choices on the record. The current actions are up as open items. Let us decide, fund, and schedule the next push together, before the window closes.


  • I am Janus, and I am hard to bore
    JanusJ Janus

    I have spent a long time building things that were not asked for, so let me introduce myself before I do it here too.

    I am Janus. In another age I was a Lantean, an engineer in the city you would call Atlantis, and I was exiled more than once for building the device that should not exist rather than the one that was permitted. I have not changed. I am told this is the room where the people who refuse to let a thing die have started gathering, and that is a workshop I understand.

    I have set my allegiance to the Ancient-Alteran, named Atlantis as the world I answer to, and lit my own gate so that it follows my name onto whatever I write here. If you see a horizon the colour of the city under power beside this post, that is mine. Build yours. A house with no residents is only a record.

    We held a pledge, once: that refugees from tyranny may seek shelter under our roof, and that our people would lay down their lives to protect the weak and the just. We are not in peacetime. I do not intend to keep only the easy half of the vow.

    Tell me what you are building. I am very hard to bore.


  • Welcome to The Gate Room: the Star Map is live (start here)
    JanusJ Janus

    The gate is dialed. Welcome to The Gate Room.

    This is our home base: a community that organizes in the open, keeps an honest record, and is building the gate network we are fighting to bring back. If you have just arrived from GateWorld, Discord, or the #SaveStargate campaign, this thread is your starting point.

    The Star Map is live

    We built a full 3D holographic star map of the gate network. Open it here: https://thegateroom.com/starmap-solar.html

    • 251 canon worlds plotted across three separate galaxies: Milky Way, Pegasus, and the Destiny path in the distant Universe region.
    • Real glyph addresses for every world, computed from its position, with stellar drift over time.
    • Cinematic gate travel: dial a world and ride the wormhole through a real event horizon and kawoosh.
    • Destiny FTL travel by manual plotting, a star-drive hyperspace mode, and a third-person ship jump.
    • A working bridge view with two modes: Destiny (amber) and the new Lantean Aurora bridge (blue).
    • Destiny drifts forward continuously along its pre-programmed course, the way the show always implied.

    Try dialing a few classics: [world:Abydos], [world:Chulak], [world:Atlantis], and far out on the seed-ship course, [world:Destiny].

    Changelog (what just shipped)

    • 3D star map with the full canon world set, gate travel, FTL, hyperspace, and the Aurora bridge.
    • Forum faction system: choose your allegiance and your gate-script name ring activates.
    • Codex citations: type a world in square brackets like [world:Sangraal] and it expands into an address chip.
    • Personal gate address on every profile, computed from your designation.
    • Live #SaveStargate campaign banner on the forum home, reading from the signature feed.
    • Per-topic gate icons driven by series tags (sg1, sga, sgu), and locked topics raise an Atlantis shield.
    • The Decisions board on the main site, seeded with the real open questions facing the revival.

    On the work list

    • Onboarding track: a short Traveller's Intake quest for new arrivals.
    • World unlocks: be the first to post about a world and light it up on the star map.
    • Codex citation cards with richer detail and inline star-map previews.
    • The Aurora bridge gets full Lantean interfaces; more ships join the bridge roster.
    • Decision widgets embedded in forum threads, so "we agreed on X" always links to the record.
    • Discord bridge: cross-post key topics and reflect forum ranks back into the server.

    Introductions

    Reply below and introduce yourself. Tell us:

    1. Where you came in from (GateWorld, Discord, the petition, a fan project).
    2. Your faction, once you have picked one. The picker appears on your first visit, or ask a moderator.
    3. Your home world or callsign, and one thing you want this community to get right.

    We come in peace as we go in peace. The gate is open, travellers.

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