In 2016 a glass bottle found buried in the threshold of a man’s house was featured in an episode of Antiques Roadshow filmed in Trelissick, Cornwall; glass specialist Andy McConnell tasted a small amount of the contents theorising it was possibly port or wine though he did note the rusty flavour and the presence of nails, a later episode in 2019 then revealed the contents had been analysed by Loughborough University that identified it actually contained “urine, a tiny bit of alcohol, and one human hair” alongside some brass pins dating from the late 1840s and an ostracod. It was theorised to be a witch bottle.[4][5]
Love it!
SGU is so perfectly poised for a continuation at any point. Everyone but Eli is in cryo and we don’t know what happened.
Some actors won’t come back? Ok, the characters died in cryo. Some actors are sceptical about returning? Their cryo pods are stuck and can’t be shut down. David Blue specifically won’t come back? Eli didn’t manage to fix the last cryo pod. Or maybe he’s just missing, along with a shuttle.
Anything could have happened on the ship in the intervening time. Any plot device that’s too powerful (like the stones) could go missing. Don’t like the enemies that were being set up? That’s cool, it’s a new galaxy.
And of course, since it’s not actually certain how long Destiny will take to cross the gap (maybe Eli had to slow it down?), this continuation is evergreen.