Mika McKinnon was a science adviser for this show and Stargate Universe. The series starts at the beginning of the eighth season of Stargate SG-1. It is a spin-off of the Stargate SG-1 series. Out of fifteen nominations, Cooper has received four awards.Stargate Atlantis is a television series. The numbers in directing and writing credits refer to the number of episodes.Ĭo-producer (1998–99: 12 episodes), supervising producer (1999–2000: 11 episodes), producer (1999: 11 episodes), co-executive producer (2000–01: 22 episodes), executive producer (2001–07: 126 episodes) a consulting role' for the end of Stargate Universe season 2, before leaving entirely.

In June 2010, it was revealed that Cooper was 'stepping back to. Following the conclusion of SG-1, Cooper wrote and directed the direct-to-DVD movie Stargate: The Ark of Truth.Īfter Stargate Atlantis was cancelled, Cooper and Brad Wright went on to create another spin-off, Stargate Universe which premiered on October 2, 2009. Cooper also directed ' Unending' the final episode of Stargate SG-1. Later in the tenth season of Stargate SG-1, in early scenes of the episode 'Talion', his older daughter Megan Elizabeth Cooper played a jaffa girl. In the 10th season premiere episode ' Flesh and Blood', Cooper's daughter Emma played the 4 year old Adria. Ĭooper made his directorial debut with ' Crusade' a ninth season episode of Stargate SG-1. In December 2003, it was announced that Cooper and Brad Wright had been working on a Stargate SG-1 spin-off series titled Stargate Atlantis. He also developed the idea of the Alliance of Four Races, even though two of the races had been invented by other writers (the Nox and the Asgard created by Hart Hanson and Katharyn Powers respectively). Cooper created the Ancients, the race that built the stargates. According to Stargate SG-1: The Essential Scripts, Cooper's ideas about the history of the Stargate universe were his own he wasn't working from ideas in a series bible. He made a cameo appearance in the Stargate SG-1 fifth season episode ' Wormhole X-Treme!', in which he was a staff writer who was told to get back to work.Ĭooper was responsible for creating much of the backstory of the Stargate universe. Cooper became a co-executive producer of Stargate SG-1 in season 4, and a full executive producer in season 5. Whilst working on Stargate SG-1, Cooper is credited with writing 52 episodes. He joined the crew of Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal as a story editor until he was promoted to a writer in 1996 where he worked until moving to Stargate SG-1 in 1997 as an executive story editor. Cooper started his writing career with a series of films, the first of which was Blown Away.

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