r/StrangeNewWorlds • u/Hanz-Olo • Aug 10 '25
Theory Was it me, or was that kinda Stargate?
The quarry they were shooting in for the excavation looked just like the one they used to use all the time in Stargate.
When they first showed the small statue with the bubble above it, it almost looked like a DHD.
Cmon. Those were TOTALLY Goa'uld!
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u/Paisley-Cat Aug 10 '25
Star Trek has done many different things over the course of the franchise.
TOS had several episodes based on well known movies and television shows of its era.
SNW S3E5 had some Stargate tropes but it’s clearly grounded the science fiction of the Trek franchise. The three groups existing out of phase with one another was a cool concept that hasn’t been used in Trek. The episode also had some body and eldritch lovecraftian horror elements.
So a good blend of things, in the tradition of the franchise.
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u/cezannesdoubt Aug 10 '25
The episode absolutely had Stargate feel to it - especially the Goa'uld resonances!
The first reference that came to mind when I was watching it, though, was Halo. Of course, there's the well-worn trope of opening ancient ruins and accidentally unleashing an ancient, incredibly powerful evil. But there's also the really interesting interaction between the Vezda and Batel, which suggests the former and the Gorn are ancient enemies, just like the Flood and the Forerunners. It's the same twist - the reptilian antagonists are actually not the cosmic big bad, but instead might be the only ones who know how to fight the old parasitic foe that you've inadvertently unleashed (and who are so scary partly because they have the power to take over & transform your crew). I wonder if that means the Federation will find itself teaming up with the Gorn to fight the Vezda, just like Master Chief & the Arbiter (an arc Star Trek has used before, e.g. Voyager, the Borg & Species 8472).
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u/DelosBoard2052 Aug 10 '25
I also sensed a strong Stargate vibe to this episode, and I'm not displeased. I liked Stargate - the visuals, the links to ancient Earth contact imaginings... yes. Interesting blend.
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u/MaddyMagpies Aug 10 '25 edited Aug 10 '25
They used the exact same quarry TWICE THRICE in Discovery. Once in S1 "The Wolf Inside", once in S2 "If Memory Serves" and once in S5 "Jinaal".
Its the Kurtzman era equivalent of all the Caves. I feel at home when I see it again.
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u/Kitchener1981 Aug 10 '25
- Unlikely, Strange New Worlds filming is based in the Greater Toronto Area, Stargate filming is based in the Lower Mainland around Vancouver.
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u/MadTube Aug 10 '25
I used to watch the Arrow-verse shows. Pretty sure that exact quarry was used for the climax of the last big crossover event.
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u/Naive-Connection-516 Aug 10 '25
It’s funny. I went into it feeling like it was an episode of Stargate, and left feeling like I was finally getting season three of Halo.
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u/rrstewart257 Aug 10 '25
Pretty sure the same quarry was used in Killjoys at some point. I think I read somewhere that it gets used a lot for an "other-worldly" feel for science fiction shows.
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u/TacticalGarand44 Aug 11 '25
Your third point makes me think of:
"That hot chick was so totally a Goa'uld."
"Yeah man, I was still gonna tap that!"
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u/Lycurgus-117 Aug 10 '25
All of those types of things were common in Star Trek long before stargate was even a movie script, let alone a tv series.
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u/Starch-Wreck Aug 10 '25
It was a little too close to Children of the Comet from Season 1. The plot was different but the circumstances of Uhura, Spock, Laan, and landing party stuck in an alien mystical object needing to decipher the code to get out. Complete with mystic blue alien.
Sure, Star Trek had several episodes like that. But with a limited run, how many escape room episodes where death is in the line can we have?
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u/theitgrunt Aug 10 '25
It was probably the same quarry outside of Atlanta that every show shoots at. stranger things, the walking dead, countless marvel productions, Star wars shows have all been there.
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u/Hanz-Olo Aug 10 '25
Star Trek shoots in Canada, so not the ATL Quarry. And Star Wars is in the UK, except for a few shows that shot at Manhattan Beach Stages in Cali.
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u/alsocomfy Aug 13 '25
I thought the same thing. Documentary film makers / journalist on site at away mission and doctor figure gets killed.
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u/rmeddy Aug 10 '25
Yeah kinda if you squint , I mean isn't the Goa'uld the worm guys from Conspiracy and the Ancients are Iconians?
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u/coolangattic 29d ago
The walls of the quarry had naturally occurring ice from the water coming through the walls which you wouldn't find happening in Vancouver. I wonder how cold it was when they shot this because all that actors had coats on. Never really saw that in TNG when all the planets they visited were just the hills in California and were nice and warm. I get the feeling they had nice big warm coats just off camera to put on between shots.
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u/WhatAmIATailor Aug 10 '25
The drone camera had vaguely SGU vibes now that I think of it.