

“Stargate SG-1” may have lasted 10 years on the air plus two television movies, but now it looks like the series has finally come to an end.

Speaking to SciFi Wire while promoting his guest star role in The CWs Smallville, former SG-1 actor Michael Shanks confirmed that there do not appear to be any new plans to continue with the intrepid team through television movies as was originally hoped following the show’s cancellation.

“Given the amount of time lag that’s gone on between us doing the movies, I suspect that we might be very far away from, if ever, doing another DVD movie, said Shanks, who played Daniel Jackson in the series and two later straight-to-DVD movies that were released in 2008. This might be the closing of the book on that particular [chapter of the] franchise.

Originally, the first movie was developed to serve as a closing chapter to the Ori storyline that dominated the final two years of the series. The Ark Of Truth resolved many of the dangling threads while leaving the door open to new adventures. This was quickly followed up with Continuum, a standalone tale involving time travel, alternate timelines and the return of Jack ONeill (Richard Dean Anderson).

And although it was considered a success, Shanks believes everyone has moved on to greener pastures.

Never say never. It’s always a possibility, Shanks said of future Stargate projects. But I think everybody’s moving on to a certain point, and with the new show doing well, everybody’s focusing their attention on that. The SG-1idea is somewhat on the back burner, which is a little bit unfortunate, because I think one more story would have been a great way to bring Rick [Anderson] back in and really go there. But you know, business is business.”

But, with Stargate: Universe going strong on Syfy — and with a second season already in the pipeline — is there a market for more SG-1 trips through the gate?

“Stargate: Universe” hits DVD Tuesday with the first half of the first season. The second half of the season is expected to air on Syfy in April.