Anyone Else Think the Asgard Should Come Back in a New Stargate Series?

[BigDog26]

The Stargate franchise has been dormant since Stargate Universe ended in 2011. There have been rumours of revivals and reboots periodically but nothing materialised. If a new series happened the Asgard question would be interesting. They chose extinction in Unending. But the Vanir Asgard in Atlantis survived and were last seen with at least one ship escaping. Their fate was never resolved. A new series set after the events of all three shows could potentially revisit Vanir Asgard survivors. It would also inherit the Odyssey with all its Asgard technology. The possibilities are genuinely interesting.

[Oscar_57]

A new Stargate series almost happened multiple times. Amazon was rumoured to be developing one. MGM ownership complications kept killing it

[Daemon82]

The Asgard as the true fifth race was always teased but never fully explored. A new series could actually go to the Ida galaxy and see what's left

[Taz]

Any new Stargate without at least acknowledging the Asgard legacy would feel incomplete. Thor's influence on Earth through the Odyssey should still be felt

[ReacherLynx]

The Vanir Asgard are perfect antagonists for a new series. They have Asgard technology and no Asgard ethical constraints. That's a compelling threat

[Tracey49]

Michael Shanks returning as Daniel would be important for continuity. He voiced Thor too so there's a poetic completeness to him being present if Asgard threads are picked up

[StoneCold]

The time dilation ending of Unending means a revived series could be set decades later with different versions of characters. Lots of creative freedom

[Josh93]

The time dilation angle would actually give a new series a pretty clean way to have its cake and eat it. You could acknowledge the original Atlantis-era and SG-1 history without forcing every surviving character back into the same room for a nostalgia convention. A story set decades later could have the SGC dealing with the consequences of decisions made by people who are now legends, while a new team discovers that the galaxy has moved on in some very inconvenient ways.

As for bringing the Asgard back, I would be careful with that. Their sacrifice in Unending worked because it felt final, and simply revealing that a secret group of Asgard survived would cheapen it a bit. A better option might be descendants, preserved knowledge, archived personalities, or even another faction that developed from Asgard technology. That gives the writers the fun stuff without hitting the reset button every time continuity becomes awkward.

You could even make their absence part of the plot. Imagine a new team finding an abandoned Asgard facility and assuming it is basically a treasure chest of advanced technology, only to discover that half the systems are locked behind safeguards designed specifically to stop humans doing something spectacularly stupid. Given the franchise's history, that would be less science fiction and more documentary.

[DiamondDallas86]

The idea has potential, although bringing the actual Asgard back would make me nervous. Their ending was one of the few moments where Stargate really committed to the consequences of its own story. They chose to pass on their accumulated knowledge because their species was dying, and undoing that with "surprise, a few survived" would feel a little too much like television arithmetic: if the audience liked them, the death apparently did not count.

A new series could still use them heavily without resurrecting them. Their technology, AI archives and old facilities could be scattered across the galaxy, with different powers fighting over what remains. One episode could involve a human expedition trying to repair an Asgard ship while another faction is attempting to strip it for weapons. Another could reveal that an old Asgard decision has created a problem nobody in the modern SGC even knew existed. That gives you the sense of a living history rather than just wheeling Thor back into the briefing room for another cameo.

The time-dilation ending also opens up a useful middle ground. Set the new show far enough ahead that the original cast are historical figures, but keep enough familiar institutions and technology that it still unmistakably feels like Stargate. Then occasional references to Carter, O'Neill, Daniel or the Atlantis crew actually mean something instead of becoming a weekly checklist of "remember this character?" moments. Nostalgia is great in small doses. Too much and suddenly the plot is standing in the corner waiting for its turn.