The #SaveStargate campaign just cleared a number Amazon can’t pretend not to see.
The “Save Stargate with Martin Gero” petition has passed 100,000 verified signatures, a milestone fans have been driving toward for three straight weeks, with thousands more names still coming in every day.
This is not a movement running out of gas.
It is the clearest hard signal yet in a campaign built around one argument: measurable demand. Six figures of verified, opt-in support is not a tantrum. It is a focus group with receipts.
And on the talent side, the loudest voice this week belongs to an actor whose character didn’t even make it out of the pilot.
Robert Patrick Gets Loud For Stargate
Robert Patrick, who played Colonel Marshall Sumner, the Atlantis expedition’s first military commander before the Wraith killed him off in the two-part premiere “Rising,” has become one of #SaveStargate’s most active celebrity backers since the cast mobilized around last week’s banner flyover.
On June 20, he explained exactly why:
A lot of folks have asked why I jumped into the #SaveStargate campaign. Truth is, this was never about how many episodes I appeared in. It was about supporting friends, standing behind a cast and crew I respect and recognizing one of the most passionate fan communities out there… When people care that deeply about something and work that hard to keep it alive, I’m happy to lend my voice. Some things are worth getting loud about. LFG #SaveStargate
Robert Patrick (@robertpatrickT2), June 20, 2026
The context matters because Patrick’s on-screen Stargate footprint comes down to one excellent episode.
The “never about how many episodes” line is him saying the quiet part out loud. Screen time was never the point. The cast was. The crew was. The fanbase was.
It tracks with what he told fans during the flyover, when he called this a rare community worth showing up for.
Patrick Is Also Calling Out Joe Flanigan
The detail worth flagging is who Patrick tagged.
He closed the post by tagging Rachel Luttrell, who played Teyla across all five Atlantis seasons and is the castmate who pulled Patrick into the campaign in the first place. He also tagged Joe Flanigan.
Flanigan is the Atlantis lead. He played Lt. Colonel John Sheppard for all five seasons, and in-universe, he is the officer who took command of the military contingent the moment Sumner died.
Patrick’s character handed Sheppard the keys. Now Patrick is, in effect, calling him into the room.
There is a wrinkle. Flanigan has been dark on X since 2025, with no public activity on the account in well over a year. So the tag is less a realistic summons than a flare, with Patrick pointing the fandom’s attention at the one major Atlantis lead who still hasn’t surfaced.
If anyone can reach him, it is the castmates who keep saying they are still in each other’s lives. For now, his silence is not a no. It is just an empty chair where the expedition’s CO should be.
Joe Mallozzi Keeps The Gate Open
While the cast cycles in and out, longtime franchise producer Joe Mallozzi has been the campaign’s constant.
He has been posting about Stargate daily, from behind-the-scenes photos and videos to vintage bloopers, outtakes and a running fan-engagement bracket where readers vote to “crew” a hypothetical ship.
It keeps the fandom busy. It keeps the hashtag warm. And it keeps the pressure on Amazon MGM between the bigger campaign moments.
It also feeds the argument Mallozzi has been making since day one: genre executives hold their audiences in “contempt” and keep mistaking organized, data-literate fans for a niche to be managed instead of a base to be served.
He made the same case when he accused Amazon of “trolling fandom” as the petition hit 75K.
Now the petition has passed 100,000 verified signatures, giving that argument a much louder voice.
