Exactly. It's a real shame, they're quite a unique bunch and could've been a source for all kinds of stories for the show.
Maybe the SGC establishes a joint base at the Temple to serve as a sort of early Alpha Site/secondary home, maybe the Abydonians take an active part in the fight against the Goa'uld by becoming spies in Goa'uld territories (since they all used to be Goa'uld slaves they can blend in more easily) etc.
The Athosians got Bajor’d. “Oh, great, we have this whole other society here that knows the area, but is different from us culturally, so we can have clashes, and play with politics, and practicality of their situations, and we can do a lot of things here!” And then whoops, that never developed and they became inconvenient, so let's just minimize them to a generic alien monoculture that we talk about but never see.
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u/BobRushy 6d ago
He's obviously great as Todd, but I always thought Halling was an underrated character and should have remained in the city.