Sorry, this item is not available in
Image not available for
Color:
Image not available

To view this video download Flash Player

 

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
Sell Us Your Item
For up to a $10.92 Gift Card
Trade in
More Buying Choices
Amazon.com Add to Cart
$25.18  & FREE Shipping. Details
Anchor*Media Add to Cart
$28.99  & FREE Shipping. Details
Serenity-Now Add to Cart
$44.00  & FREE Shipping. Details
Have one to sell? Sell yours here

Sgu Stargate Universe: Complete First Season [Blu-ray] (2010)

 NR |  Blu-ray
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (353 customer reviews)

List Price: $59.99
Price: $24.91 & FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details
You Save: $35.08 (58%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In Stock.
Sold by youlikethat and Fulfilled by Amazon. Gift-wrap available.
Want it tomorrow, May 21? Choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. Details
Watch Instantly with Prime Members Per Episode Buy Season
Stargate Universe Season 1 [HD]
$0.00
$2.99 $13.99
Stargate Universe Season 1
$0.00
$1.99 $19.99

Other Formats & Versions

Amazon Price New from Used from
Blu-ray 5-Disc Version $24.91  
DVD 6-Disc Version $16.06  
Up to 53% off Popular Hit TV Series
Save now on popular hit TV series such as Justified, Breaking Bad, Jesse Stone, and many more. Offer ends May 31, 2013.

Frequently Bought Together

Sgu Stargate Universe: Complete First Season [Blu-ray] + SGU: Stargate Universe - The Complete Final Season
Price for both: $42.40

Buy the selected items together

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?


Product Details

  • Format: AC-3, Blu-ray, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby TrueHD), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Subtitles: English, French
  • Dubbed: English, Spanish
  • Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 5
  • Rated: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
  • DVD Release Date: October 5, 2010
  • Run Time: 874 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (353 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00402FGEE
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,809 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Special Features

None.

Watch Free Previews and Buy Episodes from Amazon Instant Video (Learn More)

Stargate Universe Season 1 [HD] - Available Formats
TV
HD TV

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

If it isn't already apparent that Stargate Universe (a.k.a. SGU) is not your big brother's Stargate, all doubt disappears when a Nick Drake sound-alike song called "Don't Forget to Breathe" makes its way onto the soundtrack near the end of "Air," the three-episode pilot that unveils this new series. The stargate itself--an artificially created "wormhole" through which one can instantly travel to different worlds light-years away--is still around, but much else has changed. Gone, for the most part, are the rough-and-tumble adventures that were the specialty of SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, SGU's popular predecessors. Gone, too, are insouciant but charismatic and intrepid leaders like SG-1's Col. Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson does make several cameo appearances in that role in the course of these 20 episodes, offered here on six discs) and Atlantis's Col. John Sheppard, along with such memorable and monstrous alien nemeses as the Goa'uld, the Wraith, and the Replicators. In their places, in addition to a new ongoing story line, is a rather less conventional approach, featuring a more minimalist vibe and an entirely fresh cast of earnest, intense, mostly youthful characters battling personal demons and complex interpersonal relationships (including some involving, gasp, gay couples), along with a myriad of technical issues more typical of sci-fi shows. Sprinkle in a few more sensitive tunes of the kind you'd encounter on a nighttime soap opera, and you've got what might be called the emo Stargate.

If this all sounds very serious, well, these folks have a lot to be serious about. Very early on, the "Icarus Base" is under alien attack, forcing military and civilian personnel alike to escape through the stargate. They end up aboard Destiny, a massive ship that's millions of years old and was once the property of the omniscient master race known as the Ancients. Not only do our characters barely know how to operate the ship, they also have no idea where they are, except that it's billions of light-years from Earth. It's the responsibility of the two main men, Col. Everett Young (Justin Louis) and scientist Dr. Nicholas Rush (Robert Carlyle), to figure out how to get everyone home safely, a task that dominates the series' overall arc. That dicey proposition is complicated considerably by ceaseless internecine conflict on the ship, much of it between soldiers and civilians (typified by Young and Rush, both of whom are self-righteous, utterly humorless, and not especially likable). Much of the action takes place on Destiny, but there are occasional excursions to various planets in search of water and other supplies; there are also trips to Earth made possible by magical "communication stones" that allow users to exchange bodies with folks on the other end. As is the case with many new programs, SGU takes a while to hit its stride, but when that happens about a third of the way into the season, the results are often quite exciting; SGU may not be as much fun as the earlier shows, but it's still well written and entertaining, with excellent production values, good special effects, and some two hours' worth of bonus material. --Sam Graham

Product Description

A group of soldiers, scientists and civilians, fleeing an attack, is stranded billions of miles from Earth on an Ancient ship known as the Destiny. Locked on an unknown course, they must fight to survive and find a way home. The danger, adventure and hope they find on board the Destiny will reveal the heroes and villains among them.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
94 of 107 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond the Edge October 31, 2010
Format:DVD
Watching the first episode of this show, I was groaning constantly. It seemed that someone had sat down and decided to merge two of the most popular science fiction shows of the decade (LOST and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA) into one expensive-looking series. I mean, it had all the cliches. You've got the pretty girl who pretty much has the words "love triangle" tattooed across her forehead, the awkward boy genius, the Adama-like commander, the Baltar-like scientist, and a goal of returning to Earth from someplace far away.

Oh, and there were flashbacks. Sure, the action was cool, but it mostly looked like the visual effects artists of BSG had found new jobs.

I worked my way past the two part pilot and into what the main concept of the series would be. You have an Ancient ship called "Destiny" flying somewhere in another galaxy, and a group of soldiers and civilians are effectively trapped aboard it. They have very little knowledge of what makes the ship tick or what its purpose even is; they can't even figure out how to turn it around or make it do simple things.

Once I had given this premise a chance to settle, I continued on just to see if the writers would drop the ball. They didn't. They took that ball and ran with it to places that I still find myself trying to make sense of. I'm bewildered, frustrated, and angry at everyone on Destiny. And I'm loving every single second of it.

What you have is a spacebound mystery that leaves you largely in the dark (LOST) on a ship where its crew just wants to go home (BATTLESTAR GALACTICA or STAR TREK: VOYAGER). The concept seems derivative, largely because it is, but once this series found its footing all bets were off. You stop caring about what Destiny really is, where its going, and why. Suddenly, I just started caring about the characters, and tried to put myself in their shoes as much as I could.

In that sense, I think STARGATE UNIVERSE is starting to win me over more than BSG and LOST ever did. SGU has a lot to say about life, the universe, and everything, but hasn't yet allowed its story to suffer beneath the weight of religious overtones and politics. It tackles these subjects with a scalpel, giving you a good story first and a message second, never the other way around. It asks you to think, but doesn't force you to.

And this series is visually beautiful, I have to say that. This is the space opera that I was hoping BSG would become. The acting is fantastic, as well; the cast really do all they can to sell this premise, the story, and their characters. The writers also do their best not to sell the science of the series short. For the most part, everything is well-researched and at least mostly plausible...given the implausible circumstances.

I've just finished the last episode and I am jumping with excitement over what's going to happen in the next season. SGU has made a believer out of me. It's taken me on a wild ride: one that doesn't appear to be ending anytime soon.
Was this review helpful to you?
70 of 83 people found the following review helpful
By JME2
Format:DVD
The creation of a new show within a television franchise is a tricky business. The new show must maintain the familiar elements of its parent series or predecessors while establishing its own identity and seeming fresh and new. The Stargate franchise is no different. "Stargate Atlantis" heavily emulated "Stargate SG-1", despite their differences. While "Stargate Universe" maintains the familiar rules of Stargate stories, it is in many ways a rejection of its sister shows and this rule -- and yet, as Season 1.0 showed, it worked, so things looked good for Season 1.5.

Season 1.5 contains the second half of Season 1 and picks up shortly after the mid-season cliffhanger, where Colonel Young marooned Dr. Rush on a desert world in retaliation for framing him for murder. While Young is haunted by his decision, there are new problems for the Expedition commander. Tensions between the military and civilian camps are boiling to a head and the threat of a mutiny seems imminent. These threats from within are exacerbated by outside threats as the Icarus survivors learn that there is intelligent life in their region of space after all, intelligent life that has long had its eyes on Destiny's secrets. And there are still the unresolved questions surrounding the attack that brought to them the ship in the first place. Was the Lucian Alliance actually responsible for the attack on Icarus Base and if so, how did they learn of the top-secret project?

This still a different kind of Stargate, a darker and gritter take on the concept. The difference here is that serialization pays off as the characterization and seeds of Season 1.0 finally bear fruit and payoff. Questions put into play in the early episodes are answered and like SG-1 and the Atlantis Expedition before it, SGU finishes its freshmen year with a bang.

If you're enjoyed the opening 10 episodes, then you'll love the second half.
Was this review helpful to you?
89 of 117 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Tolerable episodes in Intolerable packaging July 12, 2010
Format:DVD
As I have adamantly proclaimed before, the 1/2 Season rip-offs absolutely have to stop. I'l explain in detail what I will do to the marketing executives. I will only buy SGU as a complete season box set, or I will wait for both the 1/2 seasons to fall beyond the price point together well below the average full season price for other series. YOU WILL NOT GET THE EXTRA MONEY!

On its own merits SGU is an interesting premise and approach to the setting. I like it well enough and want to see more. But I will NOT support the price gouging tactics of the marketing execs. If that "percieved lack of income" ends up killing the show (which could and should otherwise survive on its own merits) the blame is on them, not the public that refuses to be ripped off.
Was this review helpful to you?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Morons that cancel great serries grr ...
Almost all the reviews I have read say they loved or enjoyed this series .. So of course it was cancelled and some mindless fluff cheaper to produce replaced it so that the main... Read more
Published 17 hours ago by james edalgo
5.0 out of 5 stars Stargate Universe. A feat of the imagination!
I was entertained and jettisoned through galaxies, subspace and new worlds by the voyages of the Destiny, a ship lost in the universe. Read more
Published 18 hours ago by Lilian Gafni
3.0 out of 5 stars Not the same stargate
I am a huge fan of the stargate series but this show didn't seem the same. Everyone was cryptic and the show felt more like a show about character development then about the plot. Read more
Published 2 days ago by steve
4.0 out of 5 stars should not have been canceled
this show deserved another year, it had finally found its way. i would love to see how it all ended.
Published 9 days ago by Steve E.
5.0 out of 5 stars Love It!
I really like Robert Carlyle in this. It's a fresh take on an old series. Sorry to see it didn't last longer.
Published 10 days ago by Sandra Moreau
5.0 out of 5 stars A great addition to the overall story
SGU brings an edgier, darker side to Stargate, and I for one think it fits well. There were very serious times in the previous series, and I appreciate a more dramatic performance... Read more
Published 12 days ago by Nat739DT
5.0 out of 5 stars Ended too soon...
I really wish it had gained the audience to stay on the air. TV without Stargate or Start Trek is depressing.
Published 21 days ago by S. Emert
5.0 out of 5 stars I want MORE
Firefly and Trek have a great addition to the tribe. Blows past every limit, but keeps all the issues of progress front & center.
Published 22 days ago by Ron Maartmann-Moe
5.0 out of 5 stars Stargate for adults
We are fans of the entire Stargate collection (SG-1, SG Atlantis, SG Universe). We got this set to complete the first season because we didn't have the last ten episodes of the... Read more
Published 22 days ago by Frodo the Cat
3.0 out of 5 stars I lose it with the stones.
This show had GREAT potential, but, in my opinion, pushes it a little to far with the transference of souls via the stones. Read more
Published 23 days ago by James A. Ferguson
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews


Forums

Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions

Topic From this Discussion
Does the Blu ray set have extras? DVD set does! Be the first to reply
Spanish translation
Alguien me puede decir si este blu ray viene con idioma en español o subtitulos en español, el dvd trae idioma en español latino. Gracias por las srespuestas
May 16, 2011 by Luis Leopardi |  See all 4 posts
Help me
The final season is the second season.
Jul 8, 2011 by L.W. |  See all 3 posts
Boy, do I feel scammed...
wise to wait for a whole season to be released, they have done this many times before.
Oct 9, 2010 by Kirk A. Smith |  See all 6 posts
boring
I like some of episodes. The problem is that it is character driven and not plot driven. Most of the characters are not like able. I like rush young and eli. Most of the conversion are not interesting. The writers some are good make interesting events feel trivial and focus to much on trivial. I... Read more
Jan 2, 2011 by Michael Craig Bryant |  See all 2 posts
Full season cheaper than half season?!?!?!
In addition, Netflix has really expanded their instant viewing selection (I remember when it was a joke containing movies no one would ever want to watch). This now includes all of SG-1 (including the two follow-up tv movies), all of Atlantis and the first season of Universe. It's the wave of the... Read more
Sep 14, 2010 by Robert J. Lynch |  See all 3 posts
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 




Look for Similar Items by Category

youlikethat Privacy Statement youlikethat Shipping Information youlikethat Returns & Exchanges