by me, Kerry Burgess, 01/22/2026 8:03 PM
Don't know who reads my blog-posts here on my blog.
No one in particular I think of when I create and assemble this content.
Today is another day of Don't Give a F If You Cannot Keep Up
Even now into my 60's, I don't forget stuff
I knew there were episodes towards the end of the cancelled tv-series "Stargate: Universe" that I chose not to view.
But until today, I thought maybe it was just one and that it was something I knew about and maybe viewed while not really paying attention
Today, looking around for a title that would not cause me to make another blog-post here, I scanned through the final episodes of that tv-series and was mildly baffled about the presence of s2e17 "Common Descent"
I mean, I have been completely unaware of it. Until today. Today it is completely new to me. Got it paused now to make this note.
They way I remember it all these years is "Stargate: Universe" was the first title in that franchise that I had followed. I had not followed any of the previous tv-series and there was only episode of "Stargate SG-1" ("It's Good to Be King") that I could remember ever viewing before SGU
At some point, I got bored with SGU and its mindless crap and stopped following it. It was cancelled after only two seasons and a "cliffhanger" episode with the fate of the crew unresolved.
This episode now is the fourth from the last. I know I viewed the final episode at some point years later after it was cancelled.
There seems to be a following episode to "Common Descent" that I might view tonight
Viewing this episode now tonight is a purely random choice by me.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 01/22/2026 9:18 PM
As happens sometimes during such examinations, dialog I heard earlier this evening reminds me of dialog in a video from decades ago
Dialog during live tv-news and that is the best possible source
Because it is completely new. New and absolutely certainly before the decision I made randomly later to view this episode and certainly and absolutely trivial enough to know it did not cause my decision
And it wasn't even actual dialog. It was just a trivial observation that was followed with dialog that completely is unrelated, serving only as a sort of lesson of wisdom, coming from that old guy
From 1/12/1909 ( ) To 1/22/2026 ( Today , Thursday ) is 42744 days
42744 = 21372 + 21372
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/8/2024 ( debut "Dark Matter" AppleTV+ streaming-video series ) is 21372 days
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 04/18/11 5:14 PM
from 5/9/2003 to 4/18/2011 is 7 years 345 days
I also thought to myself while I was generating these details for this observation that anytime I try to predict the day I will jump into the past I am somehow ensuring that I will not know the day I make that time travel jump.
That seems to be a contradiction though because if that detail is established in the natural order of the time of the universe then there is nothing I can do to change it. Therefore that thought is just another way of telling me that I am trying to predict an event of the future and I am not going to predict that actual day.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 04/18/11 6:25 PM
Then I saw a steady downpour of snow begin and the weather reports indicate that two feet of snow will accumulate by tomorrow morning.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 04/19/11 11:43 AM
Well, the world did not explode last night while I was sleeping and because I lied earlier in my journal about the accumulating snow.
I did have a dream, that I only now recall a moment of, where I saw my boot step down deeply into a thick layer of snow covering the ground. I cannot recall any other details but I can still visualize something and I am left with the sense that I might have been walking on that bridge in Metaline Falls Washington where I wrote about going to go to after I transfered to that empty world and I was just going to sit there for a while on that bridge drinking beers and kicking back for a long while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Minkowski
Stargate: Universe
"Common Descent"
TV-series season2 episode 17, 04/18/2011
(from internet transcript)
LATER. Young is briefing a group in the Mess.
WRAY: They call them the ancestors. Why would they say that?
YOUNG: According to Scott, they claim that their civilisation was founded two thousand years ago by the crew of the Destiny. They say it was in their historical archives. They even had copies of old Kino footage and that's how they were able to recognise Scott and Greer.
JOHANSEN: How is it possible?
WALLACE: The other Destiny. They dialled inside a star, right, and the whole ship went back in time, what, twelve hours? When that happened, there was two of everyone - you, me, everyone. We thought that most of them died in the unstable wormhole trying to get back to Earth, but what if they didn't die? What if the wormhole sent them even further back? We know solar flares can do that: cause a wormhole to loop back on itself and move through time.
WRAY: But it didn't loop back on itself.
RUSH: There was no Destiny here two thousand years ago. The wormhole simply jumped to another Gate in the vicinity.
WALLACE: This is unbelievable! Those people are our descendants!
YOUNG: Eli. We didn't go back in time.
WALLACE: Well, no, not us exactly, but the other us. Same D.N.A.
(He looks around at the others as they look bewildered.)
WALLACE: Oh, come on! Am I the only person here who thinks this could be the coolest thing ever?!
(T.J. gives him a rueful smile. Camille still can't smile at all.)
WALLACE: Fine. Don't you at least wanna know what happened to them; how they survived and developed as a society?
From 6/13/1953 ( ) To 11/27/1998 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Origin of Species" ) is 16603 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/18/2011 ( ) is 16603 days
From 11/28/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 2" ) To 4/18/2011 ( ) is 16942 days
16942 = 8471 + 8471
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/11/1989 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th president of USA federal government 1981-1989: Farewell Address to the Nation ) is 8471 days
From 6/8/1919 ( ) To 11/21/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 1" ) is 16603 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/18/2011 ( ) is 16603 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1720536/
Stargate Universe
S2.E17
Common Descent
Episode aired Apr 18, 2011
https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/v/object-715712/picture-post/
From 6/8/1919 ( ) To 11/28/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 2" ) is 16610 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/25/2011 ( ) is 16610 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1720540/
IMDb
Stargate Universe
S2.E18
Epilogue
Episode aired Apr 25, 2011
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM191911201812102
Stargate: Universe
"Epilogue"
TV-series season 2 episode 18, 04/25/2011
(from internet transcript)
KINO VISION. The Kino is floating near the Stargate. The area around the Gate is surrounded by trees and the sun is shining. Matt comes into view and activates his radio.
SCOTT: Colonel, this is Scott, come in.
YOUNG (over radio from the other side of the wormhole): Go ahead.
SCOTT: Yeah, this planet looks good. You can start sending people through.
YOUNG: Copy that.
(Greer walks over and looks into the Kino.)
GREER: Well, this is it. Our new home. A planet known only to God.
THE PRESENT. The Kino recording ends and a new screen comes up on the wall.
BRODY: Hell of a lot of data here.
PARK: Yeah, looks like they documented everything.
YAOZU: "It is easier to know where you are going when you know where you have been."
(The Destiny crew turns and look at him as he quotes solemnly. He gazes back at them for a moment, then names the originator of the quote.)
YAOZU: Eli Wallace.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 10:46 PM Pacific-timezone USA Thursday 01/22/2026
