Here’s a shocker: Jack O’Neill dies in the first few minutes of “Stargate: Continuum”. Now wait a minute, before you Stargate fans get all mad at me, let me say this: “Continuum” is a time travel story, so yes, Jack O’Neill dying, as well as Teal’C and Vala vanishing into thin air in a cloud of black smoke, is no cause for concern. If we’ve learned one thing about the Stargate universe, it’s that death is not absolute. Heck, it wasn’t absolute even when the episode of the week didn’t involve time travel, so why should it be even close when the entire episode hinges on the team time traveling back into the past to set things right? (And anyways, Jack shows back up as his bewildered, Homer-loving self at the 30-minute mark anyhow. Well, okay, maybe not quite his old self, but close enough.)

At last, we have the DVD cover art and specs for the second (and final?) Stargate made-for-DVD movie, “Continuum”. Amazon.com has the title listed as being available July 29, 2008, but you can pre-order your copy now. Ben Browder, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Claudia Black returns for a second go-around in a Stargate movie, this time they must stop Ba’al from changing history by traveling into the past. And if you saw the bootleg trailer that was posted a while ago, you also know that Richard Dean Anderson makes a guest appearance.

Well it’s not the best quality, and to be sure the sounds of the audience hooting and hollering doesn’t exactly make it the best viewing environment, but, um, well, it’s your first look at the teaser trailer for the upcoming Stargate: SG1 DVD movie, “Stargate: Continuum”. One word: Richard Dean Anderson is back, baby! Check it out below. I don’t know how long it’s going to stay up on YouTube, but I’ll try to find other versions just in case.

While “Stargate: The Ark of Truth” was intended to wrap up the Ori storyline that had taken up the final two seasons of Stargate: SG1 the TV series, “Stargate: Continuum”, the second of two direct-to-DVD Stargate movies, will be a standalone movie that, says star Ben Browder, will be more accessible to the casual fan. Meaning that you won’t have to be a Stargate nut to “get” the second movie, which is probably for the best, as “Truth” was waaaaaaaay inside baseball, and non-fans would be lost from the first scene in.