History Trivia / DarkMatter2015

** There would have been another time travel episode involving Prof Brophy, the scientist who invented the Blink Drive, who eluded the crew in "Isn't That a Paradox?". This time they would have gone to [[TheFifties the 1950s]].

** In an earlier version of the script for "Welcome to Your New Home", Felicia was in One's hotel room when Corso came him and he shot her as well, and had a longer monologue about everyone thinking they're the hero of their own movie and the hero never dying before shooting One (which was a bit meta). In an even earlier plan, One's seeming death would have been in a shuttle explosion, but it would have turned out to be Corso who died.

*** Meanwhile, Ryo would refuse Teku's entreaties that he return to the throne of Zairon and decide to let the Android reset him to Four using his neural imprint from the last time he used Transfer Transit pre-Ryo (in Season Two, "Going Out Fighting"). Four would grapple with the guilt of knowing he betrayed the crew and indirectly caused Nyx's death, even though he couldn't remember it anymore, and would start slipping up and cutting himself during sword practice in an apparent form of SelfHarm.

** In an earlier version of the script for "Welcome to Your New Home", Felicia was in One's hotel room when Corso came him and he shot her as well, and had a longer monologue about everyone thinking they're the hero of their own movie and the hero never dying before shooting One (which was a bit meta).

** In an earlier version of the script for "Welcome to Your New Home", Felicia was in One's hotel room when Corso came him and he shot her as well, and had a longer monologue about everyone thinking they're the hero of their own movie and the hero never dying before shooting One.

* ActingInTheDark: In the first season finale, one of the team [[spoiler:turns out to be TheMole for the Galactic Authority]]. The cast was not told who this was -- even in the script stage (which solely referred to [[spoiler:"the mole"]]) until being informed by showrunner Creator/JosephMallozzi just before they shot the final scene. The video of them finding out can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNNhgffe8k here]].

* The reason the character of Adrian Maro, Tabor Calchek's assistant who took over his role as a handler for mercenaries when the Corporate War broke out and the latter went into hiding, was introduced in Season Three was because Creator/DavidHewlett wasn't available to reprise his role. Otherwise, it would have been Calchek who was on the ''Raza'' (with Solara Shockley as his bodyguard) for a few episodes of the season rather than Adrian.

** An outright crossover between ''Stargate'' and ''Dark Matter'' (via the Blink Drive) came '''very''' close to being made at MGM post-cancellation when MGM's new streaming service Stargate Command was launched.

** An outright crossover between ''Stargate'' and ''Dark Matter'' came '''very''' close to being made at MGM post-cancellation when MGM's new streaming service Stargate Command was launched.

--->'''Two:''' I promised I'd go back for him. (Unclear what this could refer to.)\\

'''Three:''' Her husband set me up. (Confirmed to be about the Catherine Moss storyline. Although, obviously, Derrick Moss didn't set him up, so either Three/Boone thinks he did when he says this, or he's referring to Darius van Hoeven via a wife who wasn't mentioned in the actual series.)\\
'''One:''' And he has a lead on a scientist who could save her life. (Possibly Two's nanite glitches. Originally, One would have still been around.)\\

** Season Four would have focused on the ''Raza'', the GA, the independent worlds and the corporations all fighting the alien invasion. A method developed to detect alien-possessed simulants would have had the side effect of also exposing the androids who were hiding amongst humans. There would have been an incident where Sarah, in her new android body, rescued Three but displayed a level of cruelty that shocked him, causing him to reject her, which would embitter her against humanity. The android liberation movement would have split into two factions, a more moderate one led by Dr Shaw and a more violent one led by Sarah. Ultimately, Sarah's android faction would have expelled the aliens from the galaxy but also overcome Dr Shaw's faction. Season Five would then have focused on the android rebellion, with Sarah as the final BigBad of the series.

*** This would have been foreshadowed in Season Four by Lt Anders seeing the General in a GA lockup even though he didn't dissolve when he was killed in Season Three.

*** GA Lt Anders, Wexler and Three would have stolen the ''actual'' white hole bomb and used it to destroy the gateway the Black Ships were coming through. Several of the alien ships would be destroyed while others escaped out into the galaxy. Meanwhile, Six and Alt Tash would have formed an EnemyMine to escape the alien dimension and saved each other's lives in the process. Wexler would have joined the ''Raza'' as the TokenEvilTeammate on a probational basis while Tash left, now on fairly good terms and in command of the Alt crew's Ishida cruiser and the Alt Android.

*** The third episode ends with Lt Anders contacting the crew to offer them a deal. This would have been that they become official agents of the GA in exchange for their criminal records being wiped clean, with Anders as their contact.
** Eventually, following the episodes shown so far in Virtual Season Four, Alt Wexler would have cemented his place on the crew by tricking [[Creator/WilWheaton Alexander Rook]] while the ''Raza'' were transporting him to GA custody for interrogation about the aliens (while Two would much rather kill the blackguard). Wexler would have manipulated Rook into revealing that the important information was all in an implant in his spinal column, and Two would have delivered the GA the implant and some surrounding gray matter. ([[DontExplainTheJoke She finally killed him]].)

*** Alt Portia would have brought Three to the planet where Alt Boone had his stash in order to raid it for useful items, since she was ditching Boone whose growing alcoholism made him a liability, using Three's knowledge of himself to get past the security systems. Triggering an alarm would have brought Boone there, and Three would have tricked Portia and Boone into being locked in the vault while he escaped and got back to the ''Raza''.

*** Lt Anders, Wexler and Three would have stolen the ''actual'' white hole bomb and used it to destroy the gateway the Black Ships were coming through. Several of the alien ships would be destroyed while others escaped out into the galaxy. Meanwhile, Six and Alt Tash would have formed an EnemyMine to escape the alien dimension and saved each other's lives in the process. Wexler would have joined the ''Raza'' as the TokenEvilTeammate on a probational basis while Tash left, now on fairly good terms and in command of the Alt crew's Ishida cruiser and the Alt Android.

*** With help from Lt Anders and Wexler, the crew would have stolen the ''actual'' white hole bomb and used it to destroy the gateway the Black Ships were coming through. Several of the alien ships would be destroyed while others escaped out into the galaxy. Meanwhile, Six and Alt Tash would have formed an EnemyMine to escape the alien dimension and saved each other's lives in the process. Wexler would have joined the ''Raza'' as the TokenEvilTeammate on a probational basis while Tash left, now on fairly good terms and in command of the Alt crew's Ishida cruiser and the Alt Android.

*** Alt Portia would have brought Three to the planet where Alt Boone had his stash in order to raid it for useful items, since she was ditching Boone whose growing alcoholism made him a liability, using Three's knowledge of himself to get past the security systems. Triggering an alarm would have brought Boone there, and Three would have tricked Portia and Boone into being locked in the vault while he escaped.

** [[https://josephmallozzi.com/2018/05/17/may-17-2018-dark-matter-episode-401-act-1/ Virtual Season Four]] on Mallozzi's blog shows what was meant to happen in the first three episodes of the season.

*** An episode in Season Three would have involved the Alt-universe Jace Corso and ended with a scene showing One in stasis being moved to a secure location by his lawyer Felicia (Creator/MarcBendavid's prominence in the episode as Alt Corso disguising the fact that he was going to be in it as One, too, at the end). However, Marc Bendavid was unavailable to film with his schedule, so the episode was pushed to Season Four, and the time travel episode "Isn't That a Paradox?" was made instead. Then the show was cancelled.

*** An episode in Season Three would have involved the Alt-universe Jace Corso and ended with a scene showing One in stasis being moved to a secure location by his lawyer Felicia (Creator/MarcBendavid's prominence in the episode as Alt Corso disguising the fact that he was going to be in it as One, too, as a cameo at the end). However, Marc Bendavid was unavailable to film with his schedule, so the episode was pushed to Season Four, and the time travel episode "Isn't That a Paradox?" was made instead. Then the show was cancelled.

*** An episode in Season Three would have involved the Alt-universe Jace Corso and ended with a scene showing One in stasis being moved to a secure location by his lawyer Felicia (Creator/MarcBendavid's prominence in the episode as Alt Corso disguising the fact that he was going to be in it as One too as a cameo at the end). However, Marc Bendavid was unavailable to film with his schedule, so the episode was pushed to Season Four, and the time travel episode "Isn't That a Paradox?" was made instead. Then the show was cancelled.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JhydC4cW20 As posted on Youtube]], an episode late in the first season would have featured voiceovers from the crew hinting at backstory and future plot elements for Season Two, but they were ultimately cut:

* ExecutiveMeddling: Joseph Mallozzi has stated that [[spoiler:killing off One at the start of Season 2]] was not his creative decision at all; one or more of the network execs really liked the AnyoneCanDie trope ala ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and directed them to kill off [[spoiler:One because he was the first-billed character]].

* ExecutiveMeddling: Joseph Mallozzi has stated that [[spoiler:killing off One at the start of Season 2]] was not his creative decision at all; one or more of the network execs really liked the AnyoneCanDie trope ala ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and directed them to kill off [[spoiler:One, the first-billed character]].

'''Three:''' Her husband set me up. (Confirmed to be about the Catherine Moss storyline. Although, obviously, Derrick Moss didn't set him up, so either Three/Boone thinks he did when he says this, or he's referring to Darius van Hoeven via his unmentioned wife.)\\

'''Three:''' Her husband set me up. (The Catherine Moss storyline. Although, obviously, Derrick Moss didn't set him up, so either Three/Boone thinks he did when he says this, or he's referring to Darius van Hoeven via his unmentioned wife.)\\

'''Three:''' Her husband set me up. (The Catherine Moss storyline.)\\