History Series / StargateUniverse

** If you worked for the SGC, [[FridgeBrilliance wouldn't you be afraid of "snakes" under your skin too?]]

* BadassCrew: Averted ''to hell and back.'' Young's narration even explicitely calls them the wrong people entirely.

*** YMMV on that one - she did have a soldier covering her.
*** So why didn't ''he'' investigate? Unlike Chloe, he was actually ''armed''.

* GoodLookingPrivates: Quite a few. Greer, Scott and Vanessa James stand out.

* FridgeBrilliance: Of course [[spoiler:the inhabitants of Novus have a cure for Motor Neuron Disease, a sizable portion of the population is descended from TJ thus the disease must have been a lot more common on Novus than on Earth.]]

* ThirtyGambitPileup: Rush, Telford, O'Neill, and the IOA are all working gambits to varying degrees.
** Telford's was a double-blind gambit actually being run by the Lucian Alliance, and his "de-programming" at the end of the first season derailed that, but it was already too late.

* GotABiggerProblemNow: The issue of the stranded team in "Human" and "Lost" is resolved ten minutes into "Sabotage", by coincidence no less, so they can get on with the plot.

* IfYouKnowWhatIMean: Rampant in the episode "Seizure" when discussing the applications of virtual interaction.

* PowerPerversionPotential: In "Darkness", Eli and Riley Hunter try to use the Kino to spy on Second Lieutenant James. They ''almost'' make it. All they and the audience get to see is James in a tank top and boyshorts, which is [[{{Fanservice}} plenty]]. The communication stones count, since people can and have used the bodies they inhabit for a little [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "recreational activity"]] before switching back; according to a webisode, the people on Earth sign waivers permitting those who switch with them to do such things with the on-loan bodies so long as it doesn't negatively impact their lives.

** [[HappilyMarried Alternate Greer and Alternate Park]] had a ''lot'' of kids... and its implied even when they're older and have a bucket-load of grandkids, they're still [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean very active]].

* TheDogBitesBack: Dannic, the crazed replacement leader of the Lucian Alliance after [[spoiler:Kiva dies]], tries to strangle a woman for [[YouHaveFailedMe failing to correct a problem]]. [[spoiler:When he completely loses it, she shoots him in the back four times.]]

** Justified though. They have original recordings of the original crew so while the spelling might change due to initial lack of written documentation, they would have a lifetime and more of video recording with spoken word. In other words, the language became more of a phoentic (spelt as it sounds) language since they only had verbal records and only later, written.

* FailOSuckyname: Alternate Brody named a nation "Futura". Yes, the font.

** Also, Rush is commonly seen as one of these, and most the crew are usually GenreSavvy enough to always assume that fact.

* TheMutiny: In the aptly named "Divided", orchestrated by Rush and Camille, who want power away from the military. Suffice it to say it doesn't go so well.
* MyEyesAreUpHere: James says this to [=McKay=]. In the previous episode, she implies it's not the first time.

* YankTheDogsChain: Poor Eli... he finally gets the girl, [[spoiler:but she gets brutally murdered two episodes later.]] But then we discover [[spoiler:Ginn and Perry apparently were stuck in the stones and get downloaded into ''Destiny''.]] Then the very next episode [[spoiler: Ginn and Perry get locked out, to rescue Rush, who got trapped in a virtual scenario accidentally by Perry]].

* Character Derailment: Rodney McKay. For a one line joke (repeated twice) the writers throw away McKay's last year on Atlantis and have him stare at some large boobs. Thanks guys.

** A single Drone Ship is able to blow a hole through one of the Gates that snaps part of it like a twig... compared to the later Gates that could withstand naquadah-enhanced nuclear weapons, proximity to blackholes, direct meteor-impacts, and being thrown into Stars. The Destiny Stargates seem to be remarkably fragile.

* HotAmazon: Lt. James. See BoobsOfSteel, above.