There's no such thing as original thought anymore. We're all just regurgitating the same old ideas, over and over again. Boiling them down into a giant melting pot of mediocrity.
Martin (Marty) Lloyd (an alien refugee) wrote it within the Stargate universe, and based it off his interaction with SG-1.
The Air Force (with the exception of SG-1) love it and keep it going because it gives ridicule-factor to any rumours of a secret alien portal (also because its dope)
Grell (the robot) carries the show.
Vala Mal Doran is extraordinarily salty about not being in it.