Stargate: Timekeepers Review

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You never quite know what you're going to find on the other side when you step through the stargate, and when it came to Stargate: Timekeepers, I certainly wasn't expecting a very competent stealth tactics game. All the same, slinking across varied alien worlds and setting up well-timed tactical ambushes ended up feeling like a natural fit for the types of budget-constrained capers SG-1 got up to in earlier seasons of the show. The story isn't anything to report back to command about, but the vibes and presentation hit the spot.

Timekeepers definitely takes its cues from the Stargate: SG-1 television show – though it focuses on a completely new team of quippy characters. The slightly campy tone is pleasantly reminiscent of an era before prestige TV, when things were a bit less grim and serious and you might see United States Air Force officers knocking out alien soldiers and tying them up with ropes. At the same time, it doesn't come off as overly goofy or comedic, striking what I found to be a good balance.

The fast-paced plot is set in the same universe as SG-1 and Atlantis, picking up during the seventh season's climactic Battle of Antarctica, before following a parallel adventure completely new to Timekeepers. Therein lies a bit of a problem, though. If you don't know anything about Stargate lore, the writers are basically hurling you off a cliff. There's no effort made to explain what Stargate Command does, who the Jaffa or the Goa'uld are, or why Earth is currently at war with someone named Anubis. I had to go wiki diving to remember what was going on at this point, and I've seen the whole series multiple times – granted, it's been more than 10 years since my last rewatch. It seems intended for existing SG-1 fans only.

The team I assembled across Timekeepers' seven initial missions – the first half of what is planned to be a 14-episode "season," with the second half coming later this year – is made up of soldiers and misfits who are a bit two-dimensional in their