Editing Prometheus (Stargate) (section)

===Writing===

In order to justify the expense of building such a large set ''Prometheus'' was intended to be featured throughout multiple episodes of [[Stargate SG-1 (season 6)|season six]].<ref name="on the set day 1" /><ref name="EXECUTIVE DECISION">{{Cite interview |last=Cooper |first=Robert C. |interviewer=Kate Ritter |title=EXECUTIVE DECISION |url=http://rdanderson.com/stargate/features/articles/2002-07-robert.htm |work=rdanderson.com |date=18 July 2002}}</ref> At this time executive producer [[Brad Wright]] expected that this would be the final season of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' and felt that it was "time to start seeing some of the benefits, some of the repercussions of what we've learned and the technology we've brought back from all the places we've been", imagining both the ''Prometheus'' and ''X-302'' as being technical developments that had come about from the ''Stargate program''.<ref name="the wright stuff">{{Cite interview |last=Wright |first=Brad |interviewer= Ian Spelling |title= The Wright Stuff  |work= [[Dreamwatch]] |page=43 |issue=98 |date=November 2002 |issn=1356-482X |quote= Knowing that this is season six and that this is likely the last season of the show, we're going to show the fruit of the technical developments that you you've seen for the past few years.}}</ref><ref name="the wright stuff 2">{{Cite interview |last=Wright |first=Brad |interviewer= Ian Spelling |title= The Wright Stuff  |work= [[Dreamwatch]] |page=43 |issue=98 |date=November 2002 |issn=1356-482X |quote= The idea is that it's time to start seeing some of the benefits, some of the repercussions of what we've learned and the technology we've brought back from all the places we've been. That's going to happen on a couple of levels and with a couple of ships, in fact, because we know that Anubis is coming and we're going to have to defend ourselves. We have to get ready for that.}}</ref> Wright also expected that the season would build towards a showdown with [[Anubis (Stargate)|Anubis]], and planned on using the ''Prometheus'' in a ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' [[Lost City (Stargate SG-1)|feature film]] that would have concluded the show and setup the spinoff series ''Stargate Atlantis''.<ref name="the wright stuff 2"/><ref name="memento commentary 6">{{Cite AV media |title="[[Memento (Stargate SG-1)|Memento]]" |date=2 February 2004 |last=DeLuise |first=Peter |type=[[audio commentary|DVD commentary]] |language=en |publisher=[[MGM Home Entertainment]] |author-link=Peter DeLuise |series=''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' |minutes=8:11 |quote=At the time the story was invented we didn't know that there was going to be a seventh season, so getting the Prometheus up and running was moving towards the idea that the Prometheus was going to help us be a weapons platform and our last line of defence on Earth.}}</ref> In conceptualizing and writing material set on board the ''Prometheus'', the writers spent time theorising what "the United States Air Force do with a big ship in outer space", combining elements of not just the [[United States Air Force|Air Force]], but also the [[United States Navy|Navy]] and imagining how it would work.<ref name="memento commentary 1">{{Cite AV media |title="[[Memento (Stargate SG-1)|Memento]]" |date=2 February 2004 |last=Kindler |first=Damian |type=[[audio commentary|DVD commentary]] |language=en |publisher=[[MGM Home Entertainment]] |series=''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' |minutes=1:45 |quote=In having the Prometheus, we had to theorise what would the United States Air Force do with a big ship in outer space and how would that work because suddenly your combining elements of not just the Air Force, but also the Navy.}}</ref>

The writers were conscious of comparisons to science fiction series ''[[Star Trek]]'', with Paul Mullie acknowledging that by setting episodes onboard ''Prometheus'' "You might say we're sort of straying into Star Trek territory now", whilst [[Peter DeLuise]] called the episode "[[Memento (Stargate SG-1)|Memento]]" "a lot of fun being able to do our own Star Trek-type thing".<ref name="memento illustrated">{{Cite interview |last=DeLuise |first=Peter |title=Stargate SG-1: The Illustrated Companion: Seasons 5 and 6 |publisher=[[Titan Publishing Group]] |place=London |date=2004 |pages=78 |quote=Now we have seen Prometheus previously, but this was the ship in full working order and ready to go! It was a lot of fun being able to do our own Star Trek-type thing. We've purposely avoided doing a big spaceships show before now - we had a Stargate! - so to end up doing one was a bit ironic. |section=Memento |isbn=184023606X}}</ref><ref name="mullie 1">{{Cite magazine |last=Mullie |first=Paul |date=January 2003 |title=Sixth Sense |magazine=[[TV Zone]] |publisher=[[Visual Imagination]] |issue=159 |page=26 |issn=0960-8230 |quote=You might say we're sort of straying into Star Trek territory now that we've got our own ship and are able to head our into Space. If we could only compensate for the Naquadria problem we'd be all set. However, things could never be that easy |interviewer=Steven Eramo}}</ref> Despite this, Joseph Mallozzi stated that the show wouldn't turn into ''Star Trek'', whilst Cooper justified earth building ships like the ''Prometheus'' as "a natural progression", proclaiming "I love the ships. I think they're cool, and I think ship shows are cool. I don't think we're ever in danger of becoming ''Star Trek''".<ref name="joe q and a">{{Cite web |last=Mallozzi |first=Joseph |date=8 December 2002 |title=Joseph Mallozzi Live Chat |url=https://www.gateworld.net/news/2002/12/joseph-mallozzi-live-chat-3/ |website=Gateworld}}</ref><ref name="directing the future">{{Cite web |last=Cooper |first=Robert C. |date=14 April 2006 |title=Directing the Future |url=https://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/04/directing-the-future/ |website=Gateworld |interviewer=David Read and Darren Sumner}}</ref> In writing episodes set on board the ''Prometheus'', writers such as Damian Kindler felt that it was important that he not lose sight of what ''Stargate SG-1'' was about and in writing "[[Memento (Stargate SG-1)|Memento]]" explained "you can't get too in love with the fact you've got a new big toy to play with", believing that stories involving the ship should all come back to the ''Stargate''.<ref name="memento commentary 2">{{Cite AV media |title="[[Memento (Stargate SG-1)|Memento]]" |date=2 February 2004 |last=Kindler |first=Damian |type=[[audio commentary|DVD commentary]] |language=en |publisher=[[MGM Home Entertainment]] |author-link=Damian Kindler |series=''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' |minutes=2:27 |quote=after six years of going through this [the Stargate], we were like 'oh my gosh we get to be on a ship and "make it so" and "number 1 meet me in my ready-room" and all this, and it was a little intoxicating.}}</ref><ref name="memento commentary 4">{{Cite AV media |title="[[Memento (Stargate SG-1)|Memento]]" |date=2 February 2004 |last=Kindler |first=Damian |type=[[audio commentary|DVD commentary]] |language=en |publisher=[[MGM Home Entertainment]] |author-link=Damian Kindler |series=''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' |minutes=4:58 |quote=You can't get too in love with the fact you've got a new big toy to play with on the show. The whole idea of this story is that all things take us back to the big O.}}</ref>

In season seven, the ''Prometheus'' registry was changed from ''X-303'' to ''BC-303''. Writer Joseph Mallozzi confirmed that the ship was no longer deemed "experimental" and that BC was short for Battle Cruiser.<ref name="joe q and a 2">{{Cite web |last=Mallozzi |first=Joseph |date=31 May 2003 |title=Joseph Mallozzi Live Chat |url=https://www.gateworld.net/news/2003/05/joseph-mallozzi-live-chat/ |website=Gateworld}}</ref> As the show continued into its seventh and eighth season, Joseph Mallozzi felt that ''Prometheus'' had become a character that the show needed "to check in on now and again" and executive producer Robert C. Cooper would encourage the writers to set stories on board the ship in order to justify keeping the set up, resulting in episodes such as "Memento", "Grace" and "Prometheus Unbound".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mallozzi |first=Joseph |date=2003 |title=Q&A with Joe Mallozzi |url=http://www.sjhw.net/wildhorses/mallozzi2.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040819225029/http://www.sjhw.net/wildhorses/mallozzi2.html |archive-date=19 August 2004 |website=Wild Horses}}</ref><ref name="kindler 1">{{Cite magazine |last=Kindler |first=Damian |date=January 2005 |title=Stayed Tuned |department=Stargate SG-1 Season Eight, Part II |magazine=[[TV Zone]] |publisher=[[Visual Imagination]] |issue=Special 61 |page=60 |issn=0960-8230 |quote=Prior to this, we'd done four stories involving the ship. However, Rob Cooper said, 'We have the sets, which are spectacular, and loads of VFX shots revolving around the ship. It'd be great to do another Prometheus episode.'}}</ref><ref name="memento commentary 5">{{Cite AV media |title="[[Memento (Stargate SG-1)|Memento]]" |date=2 February 2004 |last=Kindler |first=Damian |type=[[audio commentary|DVD commentary]] |language=en |publisher=[[MGM Home Entertainment]] |author-link=Damian Kindler |series=''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' |minutes=5:50 |quote=I was working on another story when Brad said 'we still have the sets up for the Prometheus and we need another story', so we started bouncing that around.}}</ref>

''Daedalus'', the sister-ship of ''Prometheus'' was originally imagined as an "improved version of the Prometheus" by art director James Robbins when blueprints of the ship were first shown in the episode "[[Moebius (Stargate SG-1)|Moebius]]", however these plans were abandoned with art director Peter Bodnarus entirely reimagining the Daedalus as its own new class of ship.<ref name="robbins 2">{{Cite magazine |last=Robbins |first=James |date=January 2005 |title=Citizen Joe & Moebius |magazine=[[TV Zone]] |publisher=[[Visual Imagination]] |issue=Special 61 |page=56 |issn=0960-8230 |quote=Fans will also get a glimpse of the Daedalus, which is the new and improved version of the Prometheus.}}</ref><ref name="sga s2 comp 1" />