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Trapped on board the Odyssey, the members of SG-1 must live out the rest of their lives together when Carter activates a time dilation field to save the ship from destruction.
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"[Executive producer] Robert Cooper has written and is also directing the last SG-1 script and it's a cool story. I can't tell you too much about it other than we travel into the future and then back again into the past.
"Probably the biggest challenge for us is putting our regular cast in period make-up. First we age their characters 20 years and then 40 years. It's very interesting to look in Photoshop and see that 40-year transition. It's going to be quite an eye-opener for the fans."
(Executive producer N. John Smith, in an interview with Starburst magazine [#343, October 2006])
"['Unending' is] a great season-ender (I'd say series ender but, really, that's up to the fans -- so long as they keep supporting the DVDs, the longer we'll keep telling stories) that offers some truly poignant moments and finally offers up some major satisfaction for members of 'that' fan contingent."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in a post at his blog)
"[SG-1 gets] trapped on a space ship stuck in a time dilation field and they live out roughly 50 years of their lives -- just our team. One of the things the fans have always talked about is that they love when the team is together. And so we put them together for 50 years, just them! And you see the relationships that develop and how they evolve.
"And then, of course, as science fiction allows you to do, we just undid it all. I think it was kind of a fun way to say goodbye to this era of SG-1."
"We were never going to blow up the S.G.C. and kill everyone. It's apparently quite bad for the reruns! ... We want people to feel as though the Stargate universe is on-going, even though one arm of it is not being produced any more."
(Executive producer Robert C. Cooper, in an interview at StargateSG1.com)
The writers originally planned to end with a cliffhanger finale, anticipating another renewal. But when word came in August of 2006 that SCI FI did not want an eleventh season of the show, they had to rethink how to end SG-1's run on the network without ending the premise entirely -- similar to the challenge faced when the show ended its 5-year run on Showtime in Season Five.
The network did not want a cliffhanger, Cooper said, and "out of respect for the fans we wanted that episode to have a little bit of a spirit of closure, a sense of ending without it being an ending. And thus we called it 'Unending.' It's one of those fun science fiction concepts that allows you to have a window into one possible version of the future for these characters."
(GateWorld news report)
"The story that we came up with is I think a great, fitting ending to 10 years. [It's] very moving. ... In a way the final episode of SG-1 is called 'Unending' for a reason. It's got an element of a wrap-up. There's a look into the characters and the personality of the characters that [fans] will never see and never be able to see in any other story."
(Executive producer Brad Wright, in an interview at StargateSG1.com)
"I know fans don't like to hear the business side of things but I would have liked to have [Richard Dean Anderson] in 'Unending.' Unfortunately, we were over budget as it was and when it comes down to it, what justifies the salary overage from a studio perspective is a potential ratings bump that might help get us picked-up. We were already canceled at that point."
(Writer-director Robert C. Cooper, in a post at Joseph Mallozzi's blog)
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