Didn’t buy the DVDs? Catch the second Stargate movie, Continuum, tonight at nine on SCI FI (April 3).

All your favorites are on board including Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Michael Shanks, and Richard Dean Anderson. Here’s the summary:

An adrenaline-driven, action adventure film, that has members of SG-1 returning to a world where their history has been dramatically altered. Continuum reunites Richard Dean Anderson as Jack O’Neill, with all the series favorite crewmembers. The most northern filmed movie production in history.

Stargate: Continuum features incredible visual effects, out-of-this-world battle sequences and breathtaking scenes shot on the Arctic ice. The film finds Ba’al as he travels back in time and tries to prevent the Stargate program from ever being started. The SG-1 team must somehow restore history and once again save the galaxy from oppressive domination.

Sounds good to me and come on, how cool is Ba’al there, sitting on his throne?

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  After ten seasons on the small screen, the SG-1 crew have made the leap to. . . well. . the small screen, but in a very big way.  “Stargate: The Ark of Truth” is the first in a series of straight-to-DVD movies and it hits store shelves this Tuesday.

With a bigger budget behind them (rumored to be around 7 million) and more time to dedicate to one storyline, the Stargate movies are poised to be grander than ever.  But turning any TV series into a film comes with one inherent problem — how do you keep fans engaged without alienating potential viewers who have never seen the TV show.

Me?  I fall somewhere in between and I probably represent the majority of the audience for this movie.  I’ve seen Stargate SG-1 now and again.  I’m familiar with the basic characters and premise but I haven’t seen a single episode in the past five years.  I do watch Stargate Atlantis on a regular basis, so I’ve got a leg up there.  Keep this in mind as I review the movie.

The overall premise revolves around an Ancient artifact which is reported to contain a relic which will cause anyone who views it to know the truth about the Ori.  That is, they’ll realize that the Ori are false gods and thus they will cease to fight in their name.  This is particularly relevant at the moment because Stargate Command has received word that the Ori followers are about to launch a mass attack on the Earth.  Eventually, the SG-1 team is split into two factions; Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks), Vala (Claudia Black), and Teal’c (Christopher Judge) go after the ark with the aide of Vala’s husband, Tomin (Tim Guinee) a follower of the Ori.  Sam (Amanda Tapping) and Cam (Ben Browder) take to the skies aboard the newly outfitted battlecruiser Odyssey with James Merek (Currie Graham) of the IOA along to make things difficult for them.

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