The Save Stargate campaign started with fans. Then a producer joined. Now the cast is mobilizing, and it’s spreading across every live-action Stargate series.
In the days since Amazon canceled Martin Gero’s Stargate series, actors from SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe have publicly thrown in behind the fan effort, not with scattered statements, but by actively recruiting one another and slotting into the fans’ own coordinated tweet storm.
The latest and most vocal addition: Robert Patrick.
Robert Patrick Joins the Tweet Storm
Patrick, who guest-starred in the Stargate Atlantis two-part pilot “Rising” as Colonel Marshall Sumner — the expedition’s first military commander — announced he’ll personally take part in the fan-organized tweet storm timed to Tuesday’s banner flyover over Amazon MGM Studios.
“Hey Stargate fans! I will be taking part in the Tweet storm tomorrow (Tuesday 6/16) at 10:30am PT/1:30pm ET #SaveStargate,” Patrick wrote, adding that he had signed the petition and crediting fellow Atlantis star Rachel Luttrell for the heads-up: “Thanks @rachel_luttrell for the shoutout and alert. I will be here for it!”
In a follow-up post hyping the effort, Patrick shared a photo with Luttrell and reinforced the timing: “Let’s go @rachel_luttrell!! #SaveStargate Tuesday 6/16 right here 10:30amPT/1:30pm ET.”
Patrick’s tweet storm is timed to Tuesday’s fan-funded banner flyover over Amazon MGM, the aerial protest fans organized against the cancellation.
Rachel Luttrell Is Helping Pull the Cast Together
That exchange points to something more organized than a few actors venting independently.
Luttrell, who played Teyla Emmagan across all five seasons of Atlantis, has been crediting fans and rallying support, and Patrick’s posts make clear she’s the one who looped him in. The cast, in other words, is recruiting the cast.
It’s a level of coordination that mirrors the fan campaign itself, which has leaned hard into staying organized rather than letting the backlash turn into a pile-on.
The Support Spans All Three Shows
What makes the cast response notable isn’t just the number of names — it’s the spread. The support now reaches across all three live-action Stargate series.
Michael Shanks, who played Daniel Jackson on SG-1, has been the most relentless voice, urging fans to sign petitions, call Amazon, and make noise since the cancellation broke.
Patrick and Luttrell bring Atlantis into the fold.
And Peter Kelamis, who played recurring scientist Dr. Adam Brody on Stargate Universe, has voiced his own support, posting: “I forgot how truly AWESOME Stargate fans are! Love you guys!!! Let’s make it happen!!! #SaveStargate.”
Taken together, that’s talent from SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe all pulling in the same direction, alongside longtime franchise producer Joe Mallozzi, who has been the campaign’s through-line from the start.
The Talent Is Backing What Mallozzi Described
The cast mobilization is, in a sense, the live demonstration of an argument Mallozzi made days earlier.
The producer recently contended that genre executives hold fans in “contempt” and underestimate their power to make or break a show, describing today’s audiences as “organized, strategic, and highly data-literate.”
Now the franchise’s own actors are doing exactly that, organizing, recruiting each other, and joining a fan campaign on the fans’ own schedule rather than issuing detached statements from a distance.
The line between the talent and the fanbase has effectively collapsed into a single coordinated push.
A Campaign Still Climbing
The cast additions come as the broader effort keeps building.
The main “Save Stargate with Martin Gero” petition has surpassed 85,000 signatures, a fan GoFundMe funded a #SaveStargate banner plane set to fly over Amazon MGM Studios in Culver City on Tuesday, and organizers have timed a coordinated tweet storm to the flight, the same one Patrick says he’s joining.
As we reported, Amazon canceled Gero’s series despite a completed 20-week writers room and pre-production already underway in the UK, with filming set for the fall, a decision widely tied to the studio’s executive shakeup.
Amazon MGM Studios still hasn’t publicly addressed the fan revolt, the petitions, or the disputed reports that the show lacked broad appeal.
For now, the message from the Stargate cast is unified across three shows and a decade of canon: they want the gate open — and they’re willing to organize to do it.
