I absolutely adored the time travel fake married/family adventure episode but Dark Matter being set int he 27th century is kinda problematic. I really would like it to be another galaxy like Ida or Othalla or Pegasus etc. One that the Ancients explored, and seeded with life after Pegasus.

I mean they seeded Earth (and maybe a couple of other planets?) but the reason humans are spread across the Milky Way is because of the goa’uld. Whereas the Ancients were co-habiting the galaxy with the Pegasus second-generation (hence why they were well-known as the Ancestors) and so stargate usage etc. probably did it there (+ Ancient interference).

BUT the Ancients were known experimenters (and their ethics not so much) I mean the reason the wraith exist is because of a human colony being exposed to the Iratus bug as part of the Ancients looking into how to become immortal. So it’s not a big leap to imagine them seeding a galaxy with life and purposely not seeding it with Stargates so as to see the difference in human development.

Then the smoky bad possessing aliens could be ‘others’ from the ascension plane. Like Anubis, he got ‘stuck’ and so didn’t reform a body when he descended and so he needed to possess people. The Black Root ships were in a galaxy far away and so the explosion was like the power of a black hole for a supergate (like how the Ori invaded).

It fits and makes sense (to me at least) … except for the 27th century part and they are the same galaxy as Earth (we visit) etc. so it is definitely our galaxy and there are no stargates.

It makes more sense really for Dark Matter to be future Star Trek except that doesn’t work due to aliens – Dark Matter doesn’t have any. Still I can very easily see the Federation crumbling and becoming the GA but then I was cynical about the Federation long before Discovery hung a lampshade on it for me.

aaaaand I’m rambling again. Sorry it’s just sarashouldbestudying suggested I “embrace my inner five-year-old” and write what made me smile and I do enjoy smushing my favourite things together. It’s just proving hard to make them fit logically :/