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{{quote|''Where will ''Destiny'' take you?''}}
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The show was canceled midway through its second season. [[Kick the Dog|The cast and crew only learned of the cancellation via Twitter.]]
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== A-G ==
* [[Accidental Pervert]]: There's an episode where Chloe is using the Ancient equivalent of a shower when the power goes out. She calls out for Eli, he comes running... and just ''happens'' to shine his flashlight on her, getting a full frontal before realization hits and he stutters an apology while looking away. [[Fan Service|Too bad the camera's positioned behind her]].
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*** The trope is inverted and subverted by Rush in the same episode. Telford asks Rush for help in communicating with the alien they just found, since he's the only one among them to actually have contact with aliens. Rush dryly notes, "Different aliens."
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Where do we begin; Vanessa James and Scott, Eli and Chloe, Perry and Rush, Volker and Park, TJ doing this to more than one guy. This show loves to create ships and then sink them.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The Season 1 [https://web.archive.org/web/20131007220956/http://stargate.mgm.com/view/character/171/index.html Kino webisodes] cover some of the little details in each episode and give background information. Some are just there for a little humor/fanservice. Others help fill in the blanks, such as the accompanying webisode for "Time".
** An in universe "manual" occurs in the form of a series of video lectures hosted by SG-1's Daniel Jackson. They appaear to cover basics like what the stargate is and how it works as well as a number of other topics.
* [[Almost Out of Oxygen]]: The subject of "Air", specifically the CO2 poisoning variety.
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* [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]: Maybe. Franklin, the idiot who sat in the chair in "Justice" and fried his brain, regains just enough mobility to try it again in "Sabotage". This time, he seems to freeze the entire room, and by the time they come back to check on him, the man is gone. We can't be sure if he ascended, though. The machine might just have vaporized him. It's probably relevant that every time someone ascends in the previous two series, they leave their clothes behind. Not the case with Franklin.
** Nope. He was uploaded to Destiny's computer.
*** [[Word of God]] is that it wasn't even really him; the ship's AI absorbed him and used his brain patterns as a template for the AI and [[A Form You Are Comfortable With|used his form for interacting with the crew]].
* [[Attack Drone]]
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Armando Elsinor von Spelker III. Not named on the show, but on [http://josephmallozzi.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/june-13-2010-world-cup-round-up-mailbag/ Joseph Mallozzi's blog].
* [[Ax Crazy]]: ''Dannic''. Strangling one of your only scientists [[You Have Failed Me...|for not being able to correct a problem on the spot]], getting rid of a third of your remaining men just because the guy they were loyal to ''wasn't'' [[Ax Crazy]], utterly refusing to surrender in the face of horrible death? He hits the qualification line full speed, then kills it for getting in his way. His defeat exemplifies this. In most other similar situations, his defeat would come about as a result of a Heel Face Turn or at least a Noble Villain. Dannic? He gets defeated because his men (including above scientist) aren't as crazy as he is. That is, they don't like the protagonists, they don't want them to win, but they also aren't willing to fly as far off the deep end as Dannic.
* [[Back for the Dead]]: {{spoiler|The people who stayed on the "Eden" planet.}}
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: End of first season. [[Cliff Hanger|Or is it]]? It wasn't.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Greer really isn't very happy about Telford attacking Young. He sprints into the room and takes him apart in under six seconds. Hurting TJ is also this for Young, as is the general suggestion that he cannot protect the people under his command.
** When it comes to Rush, keep your hands off Amanda Perry. Simeon found out the hard way.
* [[Big Breasts, Big Deal]]: James clocks in at a Type 3, with a hint of annoyance.
* [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]]: This is shaping up to be ''Universe's'' hallmark. They've already had chestbursters/chest''burrowers'' and a [[Giant Spider]], and there's more on the way. Seems without the Ancients around the rest of the universe evolved some creepy shit.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|Telford and the Ursini}} in "Resurgence".
* [[Big Damn Villains]]: {{spoiler|The catfish aliens}} in "Deliverance". However, they were really more of a diversion than actual help.
* [[Big Fun]]: Eli: Big (Nerdy) Fun.
* [[Big Good]]: O'Neill, to the best that he is able, back on Earth.
* [[Bluffing the Murderer]]: Young does this to Rush after he learns Rush made Sgt. Spencer's suicide look like a murder and tried to implicate Young as the perpetrator simply to get him out of the way.
* [[Boarding Party]]: The Lucian Alliance.
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* [[Brainwashed]]: Telford.
* [[Brain Uploading]]: well, consciousness uploading, the neural interface chair can do that {{spoiler|and has done that with Franklin, Ginn and Amanda Perry}}
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Ongoing for Chloe, what with being trapped on ''Destiny'' with everybody else, her father dying, having no useful skills to help out right off the bat, kidnapped by aliens, stranded offworld twice in a row, getting shot in the season one finale, and then {{spoiler|being slowly transformed into an alien and being ostracized by all of her friends because of it}}. TJ, too, starting from "Faith" onwards. Even Wray has a few moments, though it's more of a [[Break the Haughty]] with her. Eli is starting to stack up emotional problems, too, especially after "Malice", what with {{spoiler|his new girfriend having been [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]}}. Finally, talking about [[Break the Haughty]], Rush in the same episode.
* [[Breather Episode]]: "Faith" and "Visitation", both dealing with the god-like aliens, are non-action episodes which focus more on the difference between science and faith/religion. They come after the action-packed episodes. "Cloverdale" consists of Scott, infected by an alien organism, hallucinating a normal life in an idyllic rural town. This one leads into an action episode.
* [[Brick Joke]]: As well as one heck of a [[Tear Jerker]]. In "Air Part 1" we see Rush break down in private as he listens to a piece of classical music, we only later learn in "Human" this was his deceased wife's favourite piece to play on the violin.
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* [[Book Ends]]: {{spoiler|The show begins with ''Destiny'' powering up its interior systems, and ends with them shutting down. Almost in perfect reverse order.}}
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: After "Seizure" Eli seems to have stopped looking at Rush as a surrogate father-figure.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Volker was initially this, Adam Brody seems to have taken this role as of season 2.
* [[Came Back Wrong]]: {{spoiler|Everyone on the shuttle in "Visitation".}}
** {{spoiler|But not in any of the classic forms of this trope.}}
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Young: "Lotta work." -- particularly in regards to Rush. Seems to have dropped it in later season one episodes. Came back with a vengeance in season two.
* [[The Champion]]: Ronald Greer frequently acts as one towards the crew on ''Destiny'', whether it be single-handedly [[You Shall Not Pass|holding off]] a horde of hostile alien plants in "''Cloverdale''" or immediately volunteering to undergo a risky transplant surgery to give Volker one his kidneys in "''Hope''".
* [[Character Development]]:
** As of "Space", Lt. James has made the jump from generally useless [[Power Perversion Potential|Kino magnet]] to semi-sympathetic third stringer, complete with CMOA and basic character insight. In an episode that didn't even focus on her for more than 5 minutes.
** Greer started off looking like he would be the short tempered [[Loose Cannon]]. But thanks to much needed character moments he has shown humor, loyalty, and insight as well.
** Young has developed quite a bit from the somewhat overly cautious and by-the-book guy he started off as into someone quite a bit better equipped to handle the weight of command. As a sign of this, over the course of the show, his hair has gotten progressively longer from the standard crew cut. {{spoiler|This is somewhat ironic, as later episodes will have him question his ability to command while he's been quite adamant in doing so up till now.}}
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** Mid-season 2 finale: How is ''Destiny'' going to survive the drone armada? What did Chloe do to the ship at the end?
** Season 2 finale: {{spoiler|How will Eli survive the jump to the next galaxy? Will he fix the pod? Will he find another way? Are his calculations correct or are they screwed for good?}}
* [[Cloning Gambit]]: An unintentional example with {{spoiler|Telford}} who, through the power of the [[Applied Phlebotinum|stargate]] and [[Timey-Wimey Ball|time travel]], becomes a clone of himself, which becomes handy when the "real" {{spoiler|Telford}} dies shortly thereafter.
* [[Colonel Badass]]: For the first few episodes, Col. Young appeared as if his his character should've been named Col. [[Peanuts|Charlie Brown]]. But... after finally deciding "enough is Enough," he hauled off and kicked three kinds of ass. And he did it to the show's two resident [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]], using some pretty neat cunning to pull it off, too. Yep, he's officially a [[Badass]].
* [[Continuity Drift]]:
** The ''Daedalus''-class starship ''Hammond'' can make the Milky Way-Atlantis trip (2 million light years) in three weeks (the ZPM-powered ''Odyssey'' can do it in four days). Going 21 light-years from Earth to the Icarus planet, by that measure, should only take thirty seconds, although someone may have decided to take it slow to give the [[Naive Newcomer|civilians new to the Stargate Program]] enough time to be given a Daniel Jackson video [[Info Dump|crash course]] in SG-101, and there's evidence of an efficiency factor to speed vs. distance.
* [[Continuity Nod]]:
** Anyone who has seen the later seasons of the previous SG shows knows what's coming when O'Neill threatens to beam Eli up to his spaceship. More subtly, later in the scene Rush alludes to the memory-altering technology used in ''SG-1''.
** A few musical cues in the premiere homage the previous ''Stargate'' shows:
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*** The seed ships really become impressive when you remember that gates are unbelievably powerful, durable and dangerous objects that humanity wouldn't be able to manufacture for centuries at least, and this ship can churn them out in a fully automated process, as well as find habitable planets in the galaxy and deploy the gates there. There have to be some robots aboard...
* [[Courtroom Episode]]: "Justice".
* [[Crack Pairing]] / [[Ships That Pass in the Night]] / [[Pair the Spares]]: In-universe. Eli was shocked to find out that his alternate self married corporal Barnes.
** Alternate James and Varro also got married; but they have at least some interaction. The two of them teaming up to destroy a Drone stands out.
* [[Crapsack World]]: Note how many characters are listed as [[The Woobie]] on the character sheet. The entire world seems to be out to get these poor schlubs.
* [[Crush Parade]]: {{spoiler|Simeon gets run over by a stampede of two-legged, dinosaur-like creatures triggered by Rush. Doesn't kill him, but he could barely move after.}}
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: It looks like war between Ursini and Drones was very one-sided and eventually Drones killed them all.
* [[Curse Cut Short]]: Eli at the beginning of "Time".
{{quote|'''Eli''': What. The. *Title Card*}}
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* [[Directed by Cast Member]]: [[Robert Carlyle]] directed the season 2 episode "Pathogen".
** David Blue directed a number of planet scenes in the first season episode "Time".
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: Dannic, the crazed replacement leader of the Lucian Alliance after {{spoiler|Kiva dies}}, tries to strangle Ginn for [[You Have Failed Me...|failing to correct a problem]] as fast as he wants. {{spoiler|When he completely loses it, she shoots him in the back four times.}}
* [[Double Standard]]: Apparently LGBT activists got angry that a scientist using Wray's body was going to have sex with Rush, causing it to be cut from the episode, yet it's ok for Wray to have sex with her girlfriend using a (presumably) straight woman's body.
** Also, Rush is unwilling to sleep with Perry when she is in Wray's body (partly because she is in Wray and partly because he's still grieving over his wife); but has no problems sleeping with her when she's inhabiting Ginn. This doesn't go over well with Eli.
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** The cast's initial entrance onto the ''Destiny'' through the Stargate was also rather dynamic. Particularly Young, who does an impressive flight across the entire room. There's a good reason he's limping around up until "Water". Essentially repeated when the Lucian Alliance arrives.
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: [[Up to Eleven|Hoo boy]], so far we have Scott's parental/religious issues, Young's troubled marriage, TJ's shattered hopes of going to medical school (and now her pregnancy), Young and TJ being stuck on the ship after trying to break off their affair, Greer's anger issues which had him imprisoned for striking Telford on-duty, Chloe [[Break the Cutie|watching her father die]], and Dr. Rush's insufferable nature. It's almost funny how Eli was a misfit on Earth and yet here he's portrayed as the ''normal'' one along with the side and supporting cast.
* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]:
** During an attack by the Lucian Alliance on the Icarus Project base, they finally get the ninth chevron working. Six minutes later, after a massive power drain, the entire planet goes boom very spectacularly. Justified in that the planet's core was already unstable. Plugging it into the gate and having the Lucian Alliance bombard the base didn't help.
** Repeated in a role reversal in the finale when the ''Hammond'' attacks the Lucian Alliance base as they attempt to reach ''Destiny''. They skipped out on the big boom, though, just showing surface eruptions.
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** Also in Deliverance: {{spoiler|Destiny with the catfish aliens versus the drones}}.
* [[Ensemble Cast]]
* [[Eternal English]]: The descendants of the crew sent back in time still speak perfect English (complete with modern slang) 2000 years later, but a couple episodes later we learn that spelling did change when we see abandoned storefronts and a newspaper. They apparently spelled "Attack" as "Atak" and "Market" as "Markit", among other things.
** Justified though. They have original recordings of the original crew so while the spelling might change due to initial lack of written documentation, they would have a lifetime and more of video recording with spoken word. In other words, the language became more of a phonetic (spelt as it sounds) language since they only had verbal records and only later, written.
* [[Everybody Has Lots of Sex]]: Well, not ''everybody'', but Lisa Park has sex with whoever she feels like, and Scott and Chloe waste no time in having a sexual relationship as soon as they admit their attraction (despite there presumably being a very short supply of condoms and birth control pills).
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* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: The Stargates installed on the ''Destiny'' and on the planets seeded by the ships ahead of it all spin. That is to say ''the entire Stargate spins''.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: ''Everything.'' The ''Destiny'' is mind-bogglingly old and thus falling apart at the seams, virtually every planet they've been to has either vicious creatures or deadly parasites, and the first alien race they've encountered seems to view them as little more than an infestation. The second nearly drained ''Destiny's'' power, but that was arguably self-defense given the context.
* [[Explosive Decompression]]:
** Averted. When the senator sacrifices himself to seal a hull breach in the shuttle, there's no implied "[[Squick|pop]]." It's actually portrayed as kind of a peaceful death. They even mention that his body is still there, which they eventually get to. However, it was more like decompression on an airplane, since the shuttle's weakened shield should be able to hold back a small amount of atmosphere from escaping.
** Also averted in "Space" when the aliens cut holes in ''Destiny''. A nearby soldier had to hold on tight to avoid the strong wind, but other than that was fine. ''Destiny'' was able to seal the relatively small leak with a shield in short order anyway.
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* [[Fake Shemp]]: Kiva appears in "Intervention" for a single shot, from the shoulders down.
* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: Goes hand in hand with their use of [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]]. Victims of said things tend to die in really unpleasant ways. Then there's the guy in "Incursion" who gets burned into ashes by the gamma radiation of a binary pulsar.
* [[Fan Service]]: Chloe in the shower and a pond, Greer in his quarters, and Lt. James in... anything. Someone attempted to use a Kino to [https://web.archive.org/web/20130519003647/http://stargate.mgm.com/view/othercharacter/87/embed_vid/1054/index.html spy on Lt. James] in the shower, so now she's fan service for the ''Destiny'' crew, as well. Although she's developed into a stronger character lately, she also has appeared to have lost her uniform top and walks around in either a tan t-shirt or tank top. The ship also seems to be a little cold. Unlike a lot of fanservice characters though, James dresses appropriately as the situation dictates such as full combat apparel in the Season 1 finale.
* [[A Father to His Men]]: Young, especially towards Greer, Scott, and Eli.
* [[Five-Man Band]]: Though through characterization given to those outside the band, it's becoming less and less of a five man band. At this point, the list below includes practically everyone that's gotten a spoken line save for the ones that got killed off.
** [[The Hero]]: Col. Young
** [[The Lancer]]: Scott
** [[The Big Guy]]: Greer
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* [[For Science!]]: Dr. Rush, we understand you want to open the ninth chevron, but you don't cut off everyone's escape to Earth and strand 80 people in uber-deep space aboard a broken ship just to see where it goes. Not cool man, not cool. He tries to excuse it, but it's obvious he's just trying to justify his desperate move to dial the ninth chevron.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: in the pilot "Wow, that is a ''big'' gun..."
* [[Franchise Killer]]: On his February 11th 2011 blog, [[Word of God|Joseph Mallozzi]] mentioned that SGU's cancellation puts a definite hiatus to plans for further [[Stargate Atlantis]] and [[Stargate SG-1]] films.
** Though they were also cancelled for the same reasons as Atlantis, that the network decided they didn't want to pay the cost of the series with the current recession, and generally didn't inform the producers of the status of the series at any point along the line.
*** The cast were informed of the cancellation by ''fans'' via Twitter, who actually had heard it before they did... which pretty much sums how [[Screwed by the Network]] Universe was treated.
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: Eli, being a sci-fi geek, often assumes some alien creature will kill them on an alien planet, especially if it looks nice. He was actually right in "Time", right down to the chest-bursting aliens reference.
* [[Ghost in the Machine]]: Franklin turns into this after he sits in the interface chair for the second time. Rush and Eli do so deliberately to Ginn and Amanda Perry after it turns out that their minds have been floating around in the ether waiting for someone to connect to.
* [[Giant Spider]]: There's one in "Human". Greer wastes very little time shooting it.
{{quote|'''Scott:''' There was... a spider.
'''Young:''' (flatly) A spider.
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** First, Senator Armstrong, suffering from internal bleeding due to his heart medication being a blood thinner, enters a shuttle attached to the ''Destiny'' that is venting atmosphere, as the only way to close the door is from the inside. Also note that his sacrifice pre-empted Col. Young's sacrifice.
** Hunter Riley almost does one trying to prevent a hull breach, but he pulls through.
** Rush does one in "Time", or rather tries. He jumps through an unstable wormhole and is sent back in time. [[Reset Button|More time travel fixed it.]]
** Lt. Scott: in "Time", when his entire squad is slaughtered by the very creatures needed to save the ship, he realizes that [[Failure Is the Only Option|he does not have the manpower or time to save the ship]], and thus decides that [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|it's time for another go-round]], knowing that it will [[Apocalyptic Log|cost him his life]]. Dude's hardcore.
** Franklin in "Sabotage". We don't know where he went, but using that chair was a one-way trip as far as the crew knew.
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* [[It Has Been an Honor]]: Young does this as he toasts the crew in "Gauntlet", shortly before they {{spoiler|go into stasis}}.
* [[It's the Journey That Counts]]: An alternate timeline Camile makes a speech to this effect after she and the rest of the crew have been stranded on an alien planet and forced to make a new civilization. The trope also applies to ''Destiny'' itself, somewhat more literally: it's not about getting to the end of the universe, but picking up the pieces of the puzzle along the way.
* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]:
** Aplenty in "Subversion". And not just by the Lucian Alliance. O'Neill himself says yes to it at the end of the episode.
** Twist in the next episode makes it a subversion. It's not like they actually intended to gain some information this way. And it's not like this is the first time he's approved, reluctant or not. See "Threshold" in ''SG-1''.
* [[Jittercam]]: While ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' probably was an influence, the producers have mentioned shows like ''[[Firefly]]'' and even ''[[The Shield]]'' when discussing this element. They even had ''The Shield'''s director of photography working on the pilot to help them establish it. There's one bit where Eli manages to find a remote-controlled hovering camera, and he looks into the lens in [[The Office|much the same way Jim does]]. The later episodes seem to tone down the use of the jitter save for instances where they're trying to establish a certain feel such as when the crew does EVAs on the hull of the Destiny.
* [[Jerkass]]: Telford is a definite one of these. His unreasonable nature notwithstanding, he earned the spot when {{spoiler|he started driving a wedge between Young and his ex-wife right after Young reconciled with her. Telling her that Young is still sleeping with TJ, along with who knows what else? Not cool}}. [[Handwaved]] later when it's revealed he was brainwashed; he's a lot more reasonable after that.
** Then we get "Twin Destinies" and he seems to have reverted to being a jerkass. Ends up getting almost the entire crew killed, himself and Rush sent back in time and gets his past self killed as a result. Telford is just as bad as his future self and is partly at fault for his own death.
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* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: Dr. Rush.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Second Lieutenant James' role has been mostly limited to secondary character one-liners, and being large breasted. Though that's been countered a few times, such as her long standing deal with [[Triang Relations|Scott and Chloe]], her saving people from electrified corridors by ''[[Crazy Awesome|running straight through them]]'', and a subplot dealing with some inadequacy issues around Colonel Young and her own abilities in the back half of the season.
* [[The Mutiny]]: In the aptly named "Divided", orchestrated by Rush and Camille, who want power away from the military. Suffice it to say it doesn't go so well. TJ even points out the stupidity of a bunch of civilians going up against US Air Force Colonel.
* [[My Eyes Are Up Here]]: James says this to McKay. In a previous episode, she implies it's not the first time.
* [[My Future Self and Me]]: {{spoiler|Rush and Rush in "Twin Destinies". It doesn't last. Likewise, though unseen on screen, Telford and Telford. It also doesn't last.}}
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** Can be applied to the second finale, due to the whole series ending on {{spoiler|the ''Destiny'' crew going into stasis for anywhere from 3 years to eternity, no guarantee that they'll ever complete ''Destiny'''s mission, and Eli left to fix the last remaining stasis pod or die when the life support shuts down}}. [[Screwed by the Network|And then the series got canceled.]]
* [[Not So Different]]: Rush and Young.
* [[Not So Harmless]]: This show took the ineffectual Lucian Alliance and [[Took a Level
** The Ursini, the race that controls the Seed Ship, are essentially a race the size of small children and are equally as fragile-looking. The ''Destiny'' crew underestimating them manages to screw them over in some pretty big ways.
* [[Novelization]]: Of the pilot, "Air", by veteran Stargate author James Swallow.
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* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: Averted. Injuries are usually portrayed realistically. Franklin was shot in the shoulder at the end of third episode, and was suffering from the consequences episodes later. Wray somewhat plays the trope straight, in that while she was stabbed in the shoulder by a screwdriver and had her arm in a sling, she's fine by the next episode. Of course, it's unclear how much time passed. In the season finale, Chloe gets shot in the leg and the bullet goes straight through. For the rest of the finale, Eli has/wants to carry her. She's also bleeding to death. Young was limping for a decent chunk of the first season. Greer spends a few episodes with an arm sling after getting shot.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Eli and Greer, who seem to be the only people trying to keep everyone alive on the ship, instead of attempting to seize power.
** Varro and Ginn are this to the [[
* [[Open-Heart Dentistry]]: A milder, alternate discipline version as TJ is assigned the task of giving psych evaluations to the crew despite being a medic and only doing undergraduate level psychology during college, something lampshaded by her as she mentions how it hardly makes her qualified to carry them out. A straighter example happens when TJ is asked to perform surgery on Rush. She isn't qualified, so a surgeon from Earth is called in using the stones. They fail, so TJ has to finish the job.
* [[Opening Narration]]: "''Destiny''. The design is clearly Ancient."
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** The finale: {{spoiler|With grim prospects for Destiny's survival in the current galaxy, the crew plan a continuous, three-year, FTL jump into the adjacent one Destiny had intended to visit next. With only a month's worth of supplies, and rather than waiting out the journey, the crew instead man the ship's stasis pods, effectively putting the whole show on a bus.}}
* [[Quit Your Whining]]: {{spoiler|When Young locks himself in his quarters after the ship tortures him with visions of ''Destiny's'' destruction, combined with the [[Trauma Conga Line]] he had already gone through, Scott invokes this to snap Young out of his funk.}}
** After {{spoiler|Simeon kills Amanda and Ginn}}, Eli begins suiting up in fatigues to {{spoiler|hunt Simeon down}} in a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]. Colonel Young catches Eli and points out that {{spoiler|Simeon has killed three people so far and used booby traps to injure two of the trained military personnel sent to capture him}}. Young also explains to Eli that killing someone profoundly changes you-no matter who you are. After considering Colonel Young's words, Eli returns to his station.
* [[Race Against the Clock]]: Happens in virtually every episode. Whenever ''Destiny'' stops, it brings up a countdown clock with a random amount of hours for the crew to do whatever it is they need to do. Once the countdown ends, the ship jumps back to FTL, regardless of whether or not the crew has made it back to the ship. When there's not a Race Against The Clock scenario, that usually means something is wrong.
* [[Ragnarok Proofing]]: For a ship that's been actively traveling the universe for over a million years apparently without maintenance, the ''Destiny'' is actually in amazingly good condition. Well... sorta. It's more that it's simply amazing that it works at all, and systems are going to be crapping out every episode for most of the first season. ''Still'', that's amazingly good condition for a million plus year old ship that's totally unmaintained.
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** Averted by Lt. James, who despite being [[Ms. Fanservice]], openly states that she doesn't get around.
* [[Refusal of the Call]]: Eli is [[You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!|completely unconvinced]] when [[Deadpan Snarker|O'Neill]] and [[Insufferable Genius|Dr. Rush]] show up on his doorstep, informing him that he is their [[Chosen One]]. Unlike most examples, however, this doesn't end all that badly for him. Well, other than the whole stranded on the other side of the universe thing, but that has nothing to do with him ''refusing'' the Call.
* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: [[Preacher Man|Dr. Caine]] never appears before "Justice". Averted in the case of Ginn (Julie [[Mc Niven]]) and Simeon (Robert Knepper). You can see them in various shots and sequences throughout "Incursion"; however, the show averts [[Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize]] by not focusing on them at all.
* [[Retool]]: With respect to the rest of the Stargate franchise. Apart from the whole [[Darker and Edgier]] aspect to SGU, choosing a setting that's billions of light-years away from Earth and all of its advanced alien tech helped to curb the [[Plot Leveling]] that had set in over the years.
* [[Retroactive Precognition]] [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in ''Common Descent'' when {{spoiler|TJ discovers that she has Motor Neurone Disease from a recording of an alternate version of herself who had been sent into the past and died from it}}
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** Also, {{spoiler|"Twin Destinies"}}.
* [[Ship Sinking]]: If Eli being symbolically shown as Chloe's 'brother' in ''[[Adventures in Coma Land|Cloverdale]]'' didn't do enough to convince viewers that pairing was sunk, ''Epilogue'' torpedoed it then dropped some depth charges on the wreck just to be sure.
* [[Ship Tease]]: The Novus versions of Young and TJ get married and have two kids.
* [[Shoot Out the Lock]]: Standard sci-fi example with Greer in "Pain". Semi-justified since it's been established that one does need to push the button for the doors to work, but doesn't explain why the other side was disabled along with it.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Eli, being the resident geek, is fond of these.
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* [[Someone Has to Die]]: {{spoiler|Senator Armstrong in "Air" to seal off an atmosphere leak.}}
** {{spoiler|The possibility is invoked in the series finale when the final stasis pod fails, leaving the odd one out with two weeks to try to repair it or die when the life support gives out. Eli volunteers to take the risk.}}
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: In "Hope", just before dangerous surgery. Mixed with [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]].
* [[Space Friction]]: Averted. Every time ''Destiny'' drops out of FTL, it maintains its forward momentum. The shuttle is shown adjusting its attitude and velocity in a realistic manner with maneuvering thrusters, though this may be less a case of [[Shown Their Work|showing their work]] than adopting the style of the 2000s ''[[Battlestar Galactica|BSG]]'', in which ships maneuvered in a similarly realistic fashion.
** In "The Greater Good" Rush states that the ship he and Young are stranded on has "gone ballistic" after the engines fire for a brief period. In fact, that's the premise of the episode - what happens when you have space friction and your engines crap out!
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*** Then even zanier in "Common Descent": {{spoiler|the crew of the other destiny didn't die, they reappeared about 2000 years in the past and started a prospering civilization.}}
* [[Temporary Blindness]]: {{spoiler|Park}} in "Blockade". At least, {{spoiler|Rush}} sure hopes it will be temporary.
* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: Half of the episode "Pain", when the P.O.V. switches to a person bitten by the alien bugs. Sometimes [[Dead Person Conversation|it's obvious]], [[Tomato Surprise|sometimes not]].
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: A group of particularly religious civilians decides to stay behind on a habitable planet despite the fact that there is an oncoming winter and they lack the necessary survival skills and equipment to weather it. Even the shuttle Young leaves behind for them doesn't help much.
** That they didn't even consider building shelter around the shuttle, creating a basic roundhouse with a fire pit to redistribute warmth is incredibly ridiculous, when you consider that these people were mostly ''scientists.''
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** Morrison, who attempts to dial the Stargate even though he is aware that the Drones are able to sense them when they're active. James punches him out for this.
** Chloe, when an alien race attacks the ship and cuts a hole in the hull, do not stand in front of it like a deer in headlights. ''Run!''
* [[Took a Level
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: ''SGU'' is bad about this. The three trailers for season two not only defuse most of the suspense from the season 1 finale, but give away several of the big plot twists later on.
** The promo for "Malice" is incredibly awful with this.
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* [[Tricked-Out Time]]: Pretty much the plot of "Time": with each iteration the crew get things a little more right with the help of the information left behind by the crew in the previous iteration, and eventually they avert the crisis all together.
* [[Trickster Mentor]]: Rush is this to Eli.
* [[Twist Ending]]: "Time". See [[One Hundred Percent Completion]]. Bet you didn't see it coming.
* [[Two Scenes, One Dialogue]]: Used to explain the life support situation to the injured Colonel and the Senator in "Air".
* [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]: Telford nearly every time he's on the ship in Season 1, especially in "Earth". Far less so in season 2 {{spoiler|especially once he comes back with the ursini. In fact, at this point, he defers to Young as the ship's commanding officer, acting as an advisor.}}
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*''Rush suddenly notices that Telford has landed on the conduit he'd earlier warned that had 1000 volts passing through it.''*
'''Future!Rush''': *''Utterly horrified''* Oh no... }}
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]:
** Rush's own subconscious pulls this on him through the form of his wife during his [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]].
** In "Subversion", Telford pulls this on O'Neill and Young in regards to Earth's "protect ourselves first" policy, arguing that toppling the System Lords without concern for the fate of their slaves led to the creation of the Lucian Alliance. While he's arguably right on a base level, YMMV on whether or not he has a valid point.
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** It's not so much they ''can't'' go home, as it is the fact that the only way they have of getting enough available power to dial the Stargate all that distance is ''horrendously'' complicated, and even one tiny hitch can screw you over entirely. See "Twin Destinies" for exactly how badly it can screw up.
* [[You Had Us Worried There]]: In "Aftermath", a shuttle is about to enter the atmosphere of a planet with possibly shuttle-destroying turbulence. Rush informs them and they decide to give it a go. After a tense few seconds, the shuttle calls back to tell Rush they're ok... then drops out of the sky like a stone.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Kiva is fond of this, being Lucian Alliance, but she's at least pragmatic about it. Dannic will do it to his scientists on the spot if they can't get the job done instantly.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Kiva again. Of course in some cases for her, usefulness includes 'dead'. Poor Airman Rivers.
* [[You Look Familiar]]:
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