8.7/10945 votesLoading...#1 - Gauntlet
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/9/2011
Eli and Rush have found a way to identify the location of drone mother ships using the Destiny's long range sensors. The bad news is that the Drones seems to be awaiting them at every possible stop along Destiny's path. They find a temporary solution to neutralize the mother ships but realize that they cannot engage in a major battle every time they need to re-supply. Eli suggest that they use the stasis pods for the crew and jump to the next galaxy, a trip that will take three years. All goes well until they realize that one of the pods has been damaged and one person will have to stay behind in the hopes of fixing the unit in the short time available or die.
Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: Paul Mullie, Joseph Mallozzi
8.5/10806 votesLoading...#2 - Epilogue (2)
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/25/2011
While attempting to return a group of colonists to their home, the crew finds that the planet is on the verge of seismic destruction.
Director: Alex Chapple
Writer: Carl Binder
8.4/10787 votesLoading...#3 - Twin Destinies
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/14/2011
Rush travels back in time to avert a disaster, meeting a past version of himself.
Director: Peter DeLuise
Writer: Brad Wright
8.4/10659 votesLoading...#4 - Blockade
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 5/2/2011
The Destiny needs to be refueled but every time they come out of FTL the drones seem to be waiting for them. It's not obvious how the drones know they're there but it doesn't matter a great deal since they only have one more try before running out of fuel completely. Eli suggests they go through a blue supergiant star, though the heat it creates might destroy the ship. They have little choice so Col. Young evacuates everyone to the only planet available with the exception of Eli and Rush. Lisa also stays behind to collect some of the medicinal herbs they've grown only to be trapped just as the Destiny goes through the star. On the planet, Young and the others find evidence of a destroyed civilization - and the drones.
Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: N/A
8.2/10713 votesLoading...#5 - Common Descent (1)
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 4/18/2011
Destiny comes upon a colony where the people claim their civilization was founded two thousand years earlier ... by Destiny's crew.
Director: Peter DeLuise
Writer: Robert C. Cooper
8.1/10668 votesLoading...#6 - The Greater Good
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/2010
Rush and Young investigate an abandoned alien craft which is just outside the Destiny. While they do this, the crew onboard the ship find the bridge and discover that Rush is responsible for the countdown clock not activating when the ship emerges from FTL.
Director: N/A
Writer: Carl Binder
8.0/10714 votesLoading...#7 - Awakening
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/2010
The crew encounters a ship remarkably similar to Destiny, which may hold the key to their returning home.
Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: Joseph Mallozzi
8.0/10652 votesLoading...#8 - Malice
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/2010
Simeon makes his escape from Destiny, sending Nicholas Rush on a vengeful mission. But Young and Greer attempt to retrieve Simeon unharmed.
Director: Robert C. Cooper
Writer: Robert C. Cooper
8.0/10638 votesLoading...#9 - Resurgence (1)
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/2010
The crew's new-found control over Destiny's flight path introduces new risks when they find themselves in the middle of a war between two races.
Director: N/A
Writer: Paul Mullie, Joseph Mallozzi
8.0/10666 votesLoading...#10 - Hope
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 3/28/2011
Chloe's body is taken over by another consciousness. Meanwhile, Dr. Volker is stricken with a mysterious illness.
Director: N/A
Writer: Carl Binder
8.0/10677 votesLoading...#11 - Seizure
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 4/4/2011
Rush slips into a coma in the neural interface chair, and Amanda connects with him in the ship’s matrix, but Ginn informs Eli of a problem with that scenario. Elsewhere, Dr. Rodney McKay’s plan to dial the ninth chevron address hits a snag.
Director: Helen Shaver
Writer: N/A
7.9/101,060 votesLoading...#12 - Time
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/2009
Visiting a newly discovered jungle planet, the crew is amazed to recover a Kino by the gate. Downloading the Kino data, Eli discovers video of the team, which appears to have been shot during an earlier visit. The mystery of the video’s origin becomes a secondary concern as members of the team start falling ill.
Director: Robert C. Cooper
Writer: Robert C. Cooper
7.9/10874 votesLoading...#13 - Space (1)
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/2/2010
A snafu with the communications stones lands Col. Young's consciousness in an unknown being, resulting in a standoff between the Destiny and an alien vessel and the abduction of Chloe.
Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: Joseph Mallozzi
7.9/10807 votesLoading...#14 - Subversion
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/21/2010
Earth's Stargate Program isn't the only group in the Milky Way that's interested in the Ancients' Destiny. What's worse, this long-time foe may have a spy among those closest to the Icarus project.
Director: Alex Chapple
Writer: Carl Binder
7.9/10795 votesLoading...#15 - Incursion (1)
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 6/4/2010
An enemy from the Milky Way has boarded the Destiny and has taken hostages. Is it possible that they know how to get back or have they stranded themselves as well?
Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: Paul Mullie
7.9/10810 votesLoading...#16 - Incursion (2)
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 6/11/2010
As Young and Camille attempt to resolve the hostage crisis with Kiva, Destiny suffers from power fluctuations and blackouts due to its proximity to a binary pulsar.
Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: Joseph Mallozzi
7.8/101,004 votesLoading...#17 - Light
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/2009
With the ship on a collision course, the crew must decide who will stay and who will flee on the shuttle to try and find a habitable planet.
Director: Peter DeLuise
Writer: Brad Wright
7.7/101,255 votesLoading...#18 - Air (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/2009
When Icarus Base is attacked, it's inhabitants are forced to flee through the Stargate. The base was created on a distant planet to take advantage of a powerful energy supply located there. Their goal is to try and determine the purpose of the mysterious ninth symbol of the Stargate which they have never been able to lock in. In going through the Stargate, they are transported not to Earth but onto an very old, apparently uninhabited but huge spacecraft. With the group's commander injured, Lt. Scott and the chief scientist, Dr. Nicholas Rush lead the exploration of the craft. Several areas of the ship have been damaged but it is basically functional. They are able to learn that they are in fact billions of light years from Earth.
Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: Robert C. Cooper, Brad Wright
7.7/10665 votesLoading...#19 - Deliverance (2)
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/7/2011
Locked in a battle with a Drone Command Ship, the Destiny is surprised by the arrival of the Aliens that abducted Rush and Chloe.
Director: Peter DeLuise
Writer: Paul Mullie, Joseph Mallozzi
7.7/10663 votesLoading...#20 - Alliances
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 3/21/2011
Camille and Sgt. Greer are trapped when Homeworld Command comes under attack.
Director: Peter DeLuise
Writer: N/A
7.6/10715 votesLoading...#21 - Air (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2009
The survivors arrive on an uninhabited ship floating billions of light years away from Earth. Panic spreads throughout the group and Col. Young, who was severely injured during the escape, transfers command to Lt. Matthew Scott, before lapsing into unconsciousness. Teams led by Dr. Rush and Sgt. Greer try to make sense of the situation, while Lt. Tamara Johansen, a medic who was days away from leaving the program, is thrust into the role of chief medical officer.
Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: Robert C. Cooper, Brad Wright
7.6/10883 votesLoading...#22 - Justice
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/2009
Everyone is shocked when a member of the crew is found dead from a gunshot wound. While at first glance it appears to be suicide, the gun is nowhere to be found. The crew is confined to quarters while a search is performed and when the gun shows up in Col. Young’s quarters, he becomes the number one suspect.
Director: William Waring
Writer: Alan McCullough
7.6/10839 votesLoading...#23 - Divided (2)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/9/2010
Dr. Nicholas Rush and Chloe suffer nightmares following their ordeal on the alien vessel, and Rush suspects that a tracking device may have been placed on the ship's hull. Later, a splinter group on Destiny executes a coup with life-threatening consequences.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Paul Mullie, Joseph Mallozzi
7.6/10788 votesLoading...#24 - Lost
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/30/2010
Still trapped on the planet after the Destiny has jumped, Lt. Scott, Sgt. Greer, Chloe and Eli try to find a way out of the underground maze. After one is caught in another cave in, the remaining three make their way to a gate but must jump blindly from planet to planet hoping to pick up a signal from the Destiny before it jumps. On board the ship, Col. Young decides to send out a search party. The clock is ticking down and the next jump will take them into an inter-galactic void forever leaving their friends behind. TJ meanwhile decides the time has come to tell Col. Young that she is pregnant with his child.
Director: N/A
Writer: Martin Gero
7.6/10795 votesLoading...#25 - Sabotage
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 5/7/2010
The Destiny has jumped into hyperspace and is now traveling through an inter-galactic void. They've also been unable to locate Eli, Chloe and Scott who have been left behind. Dr. Rush has calculated that based on their current energy consumption, the Destiny has insufficient fuel to reach the next galaxy and they are doomed to die. The engines suddenly fail however and they arrange for an expert, Amanda Perry, to come on board via the communication stones and help them out. Perry and Rush have known each other for many years but as a quadriplegic, is experiencing what life has to offer. On Earth, Camile Wray's consciousness has been transferred to Perry's body and is wheelchair bound.
Director: Peter DeLuise
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Stargate Universe
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The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy....
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDrama
Network:Syfy
Top Episode Ratings Summary
"Gauntlet" is the best rated episode of "Stargate Universe". It scored 8.7/10 based on 945 votes. Directed by Andy Mikita and written by Paul Mullie, Joseph Mallozzi, it aired on 5/9/2011. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Epilogue (2)".