Stargate - Command SG-1

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Television series
German title Stargate - Command SG-1
Original title Stargate SG-1
Stargate SG-1 1997 logo.svg
Country of production Canada , United States
original language English
Year (s) 1997-2007
length 42 minutes
Episodes 214 in 10 seasons ( List )
genre Science fiction
idea Jonathan Glassner
Brad Wright
production Brad Wright
Richard Dean Anderson
Robert C. Cooper
music Joel Goldsmith
First broadcast July 27, 1997 (USA) on Showtime
German-language
first broadcast
January 6, 1999 on RTL 2
occupation
The stargate: 1 = chevrons; 2 = selection ring; 3 = glyphs; 4 = event horizon

Stargate - command SG-1 or shortly Stargate SG-1 is a military science fiction - television series based on the movie Stargate is based from 1994. The series tells the adventures of the task force "SG-1" - one of several SG units - which visits distant planets. All of these worlds are outside of our solar system and are connected by a network of star gates. Stargate s, linked together.

The series was discontinued after ten seasons. By then, it had been listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest running science fiction series. In comparison, the British sci-fi series Doctor Who ran in its original run for 27 years (1963-1989) continuously with new episodes every year, but was ignored by the Guinness Book for no reason.

Due to the success of the series, three offshoot series have followed so far : Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe as well as the animated series Stargate Infinity , whose plot does not belong to the official Stargate canon . Two direct-to-DVD productions following the series have also been released so far : Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum . In 2017, a web series called Stargate Origins was produced, which takes up some of Stargate's storylines, but takes place at the time of the Second World War.

action

Both the film and the series are named after an extraterrestrial device called the "Stargate" (German "Sternentor"). It can be used to establish a wormhole connection to Stargates on other planets. Through the opened wormhole it is possible - practically without loss of time - to travel to this planet. Teams of soldiers and scientists explore the planets and keep an eye out for advanced technology. These teams are constantly confronted with new civilizations and dangers.

A Stargate consists, among other things, of a ring-shaped portal that is large enough to allow several people to pass through at the same time or to be able to transport larger items of equipment. - One of two Earth star gates is under the control of the United States Air Force in an underground nuclear bunker in the Cheyenne Mountains in the US state of Colorado . The entire project is strictly confidential.

Beginning of the series

The series' plot begins about a year after the events of the movie . The people on earth believe that there is no more apart from the stargate on earth and the one on the planet Abydos , which according to the official mission report is considered destroyed. Therefore, little attention is paid to the stargate on earth. Surprisingly, however, the gate on earth is activated and the Goa'uld Apophis steps through into the military base. He kills the team guarding the gate and kidnaps a soldier. The Air Force then calls up the members of the first mission, including Colonell Jack O'Neill. The recruits admit that after their return they did not report the truth: Since Ra was defeated, they considered the threat to Earth to be averted and did not destroy the Stargate on Abydos. Dr. Daniel Jackson stayed behind after his first mission on Abydos because of Sha're at his own request.

When Abydos is visited again and there with Dr. Jackson is contacted, he reports of his discovery that there are not just the gates on Earth and Abydos, but a whole system of star gates. Soon after, Apophis attacks Abydos too. He kidnaps Jackson's wife Sha're and her brother Ska'ara. One of the seriously wounded soldiers is able to memorize the gate address of the planet to which Apophis retreats after his attack. Therefore, people start a rescue operation. When Apophis' most important Jaffa , the Primus Teal'c , takes the side of the people, it is possible to free most of the people imprisoned there, but not Sha're and Ska'ara. These become new hosts for Apophis' wife and son.

Now that the humans know that the Earth is threatened by the Goa'uld, they decide to set up a Stargate program to investigate the other worlds to find weapons and allies against the Goa'uld. For this purpose, the SG teams visit the planets whose goal addresses are Dr. Jackson found it on a mural during his time on Abydos.

The SG teams are groups of soldiers and scientists. The most important team is SG-1, consisting of the commanding officer Jack O'Neill , the soldier and physicist Dr. Samantha Carter , archaeologist and linguist Dr. Daniel Jackson and the Jaffa Teal'c.

Further development

The episodes of the early seasons in particular are largely self-contained and deal with visits to different planets. Usually the SG-1 team is in danger or has to help extraterrestrial peoples. - In the later seasons, larger and larger story arcs are built up.

First of all, Apophis remains the most dangerous opponent of humans. Over time, however, it turns out that he is just one of many Goa'uld who have divided up almost the entire Milky Way among themselves. Most of these so-called system lords are enemies with one another.

SG-1 also makes the acquaintance of the Tok'ra , who are biologically also Goa'uld but do not suppress their human hosts. The Tok'ra fight the Goa'uld, but avoid attacking individual system lords. They try to incite the system lords against each other so that they weaken each other through fighting. In contrast, in the middle seasons, the humans take out some system lords. Most often the result is that the defeated forces are taken over by the victor, making humanity an even more dangerous enemy.

Starting with the third season, the replicators appear as new enemies. These are machines that "eat" anything made of metal in order to replicate themselves from it. They are also instrumental in Apophis' death.

Another highly developed breed is the Asgard . As part of a planetary protection agreement, they protect the earth from the Goa'uld, whom they are technically far superior to. In return, SG-1 helps the Asgard in situations where they need physical assistance.

Seasons six to eight are marked by the fight against the Goa'uld Anubis . When he is defeated, the Goa'uld practically no longer play a role. In addition, with the discovery of the lost city of the ancients at the end of the seventh season, the basis for the Stargate Atlantis offshoot is laid.

In the last two seasons, the Ori appear as new enemies. These come from another galaxy and begin very quickly and almost inexorably to submit to the Milky Way. At the end of the tenth season it is possible to destroy them with the help of the technology of the ancients; however, their human forces remain a threat.

An overview of all episodes can be found under Stargate - Command SG-1 / List of Episodes .

Sequels

Two direct-to-video films have been released since the series ended:

  • The first, Stargate: The Ark of Truth , continues the story of the Ori: Both the remnants of the Ori and their human followers are defeated as part of the film.
  • The second, Stargate: Continuum , is about Ba'al , the last surviving Goa'uld system lord. Shortly before his planned execution, he changes the timeline with a time machine, but can ultimately be defeated.
  • A third film, Stargate: Revolution , was announced but has since been completely shelved.

history

The first episode of the series was the pilot film Children of the Gods , which was broadcast in the United States on July 27, 1997 on Showtime . After four seasons, the series was originally supposed to be discontinued, but a fifth was eventually produced. That more seasons followed later, is because Stargate - Kommando SG-1 switched to the SciFi-Channel . There the first episode of the sixth season was broadcast on June 7, 2002. The series finally ended with the tenth season. The last episode Unending was first shown on March 13, 2007 on the British broadcaster Sky1 .

End of Stargate SG-1

After ten years of Stargate SG-1, the SciFi channel announced that the series would no longer be renewed for another season. Producer Robert C. Cooper stated that same day that he did not want the Stargate franchise to die and that Stargate SG-1 would continue in some form. In addition, the discontinuation of Stargate SG-1 had no impact on the continuation of the Stargate Atlantis offshoot .

On October 11, 2006, MGM gave Stargate producers permission to produce two Stargate SG-1 films for direct sale on DVD. With positive acceptance by fans and corresponding sales figures, further films are quite conceivable, according to MGM. The German title of the first DVD is Stargate: The Ark of Truth - The Source of Truth and was released on May 2, 2008. On the second DVD, the English original title Stargate: Continuum was retained in the German version. The US version was released on July 29, 2008, and September 12, 2008 for the German version.

On March 23, 2007, Robert C. Cooper, co-producer of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, announced the start of a third Stargate television series. After the cancellation of Stargate Atlantis after five seasons on August 21, 2008, he announced that the SciFi channel had ordered a first season of the new series Stargate Universe . The launch was originally planned for early 2009, but was then postponed to autumn 2009.

Broadcast in German-speaking countries

In Germany, all ten seasons were shown on the private broadcaster RTL 2 . The pilot film ran on January 6, 1999, the last episode on September 26, 2007. From the first to the sixth season, RTL 2 was always the first broadcaster to broadcast new episodes in German-speaking countries. From the seventh season, however, the first broadcasts ran on the Austrian broadcaster ATV .

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actor role German voice Season
Richard Dean Anderson Jack O'Neill ( Captain / Colonel / Brigadier General / Major General / Lieutenant General ) Erich Rauker 1-10
Amanda Tapping Dr. Samantha Carter ( Captain / Major / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel ) Christin Marquitan 1-10
Christopher Judge Teal'c Tilo Schmitz 1-10
Michael Shanks Dr. Daniel Jackson Klaus-Peter Grap 1-10
Tony Amendola Bra'tac Reinhard Kuhnert 1-10
Gary Jones Walter Harriman ( Chief Master Sergeant ) Hans-Helmut Müller / Andreas Hosang 1-10
Don S. Davis George Hammond ( Major General / Lieutenant General ) Gerhard Paul (season 1–9)
Kaspar Eichel (season 10)
1-10
Teryl Rothery Dr. Janet Fraiser ( Captain / Major ) Arianne Borbach 1-7, 9
Carmen Argenziano Jacob Carter / Selmak ( Major General ) Ernst Meincke 2-8
Corin Nemec Jonas Quinn Matthias Deutelmoser 5-7
Claudia Black Vala Mal Doran Katrin Zimmermann 8-10
Ben Browder Cameron Mitchell ( Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel ) Charles Rettinghaus 9-10
Beau Bridges Hank Landry ( Major General ) Norbert Gescher 9-10
Lexa Doig Dr. Carolyn Lam Silvia Missbach 9-10

main characters

Jack O'Neill

Richard Dean Anderson plays the role of the head of the Stargate SG-1 team and later commanding officer of the SGC . His character Jonathan "Jack" O'Neill had to be renamed slightly compared to the movie Stargate . That is why he was given a second "l" at the end of his surname.

Jack O'Neill was born in Chicago , Illinois on October 20, 1952 , but grew up in Minneapolis , Minnesota . He served in the US Air Force, trained in special operations and was held captive in Iraq for four months . He married Sarah, with whom he had a son named Charlie. Charlie accidentally shot himself with Jack's service gun, which Jack could never forgive himself. Jack resigned and took early retirement. Five years later he was asked to do the first job in Abydos ( Stargate movie ). Sarah had left him on his return. He returned to retirement until Apophis came to Earth through the Stargate a year later. He is the team's tactician and specializes in military tasks, but mostly leaves the scientific work to Carter or Daniel Jackson. O'Neill has his own sense of humor, which is especially evident from Dr. Jackson and Teal'c are rarely perceived as "funny". He has strong feelings for Samantha Carter, but he is unable to enter into a relationship with her due to his and her military service.

At the beginning of Season 8, O'Neill is promoted to Brigadier General and Commander of the Stargate Center and successor to General Hammond .

With Season 9, O'Neill is promoted to Major General and takes over the management of the newly formed Federal Department of Homeworld Security . He has a few guest appearances in other SG-1 and "Stargate: Atlantis" episodes as well as (with the rank of Lieutenant General ) in Stargate Universe .

Dr. Samantha Carter

Amanda Tapping plays Samantha Carter . Samantha Carter is an officer in the US Air Force and holds a PhD in astrophysics and is recognized as a specialist in the field of plasma and particle research. She is a pilot with close combat training and flew over 100 hours of aerial missions with the F-16 in the Gulf War . She has a medical field training and is a visiting professor at the Airforce Academy. At the beginning of the 1st season she was still a captain and was promoted to major in the 3rd season . In Season 8, she was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel .

Carter briefly carried the Tok'ra Jolinar from Malkshur with him, since then she has been able to sense Goa'uld symbionts in her vicinity and operate Goa'uld hand-held devices, since a protein from the symbiont was left behind and Naquadah remained in her body. Her father, Jacob Carter , who was previously a major general in the Air Force and suffered from cancer, also received the Tok'ra symbiont Selmak implanted as a last resort. Since then he has acted as an intermediary between the humans and the Tok'ra.

Although she has strong feelings for O'Neill, she cannot enter into a relationship with him because of her and his military service. She was single for a long time until she met Pete Shanahan in season 7, with whom she even got engaged towards the end of season 8. That connection ultimately broke because of her feelings for Jack O'Neill. At the same time she suffered another stroke of fate when her father (played by Carmen Argenziano ) died because the Tok'ra Selmak in him was already too old. But because of Selmak, her father lived six years longer.

At the beginning of Season 9, Carter was transferred to Area 51 , but later returned to SG-1 (after the Ori appeared ). This is due to Amanda Tapping's pregnancy.

After the end of Stargate: SG-1, Samantha stars in Stargate Atlantis Season 4 . She is promoted to colonel there and will take over command until further notice. After her first year as the leader of the Atlantis expedition, she is appointed to Baal's extraction ceremony and to report on her first year as commander of Atlantis to Earth. There Richard Woolsey opens her immediate withdrawal from the Pegasus Galaxy. She spends another year on Earth with her original team. When a Wraith ship sets course for Earth, she coordinates the Earth Defense Force with Major Davis. At this point, Carter is the temporary in command of the Stargate Center as Gen. Landry is in Washington. Upon his return, she will take command of the new Earth spaceship USS George Hammond .

Dr. Daniel Jackson

Michael Shanks plays Dr. Daniel Jackson . Dr. Daniel Jackson has three doctorates (in archeology , anthropology and philology ) and speaks 23 earthly languages. He was born in 1965 and is the only child of Dr. Melburn and Claire Jackson, who both died during childhood in an accident for which he secretly blames himself. Before the first Stargate mission, he was very controversial as an archaeologist, since he put forward the thesis that the pyramids were not built by the pharaohs of the 4th Dynasty , but by aliens. But because of this thesis, which finally turned out to be correct, he was called in by the military after the discovery of the Stargate. With its help one could decipher the characters on the Stargate and put it into operation. Thus Daniel Jackson is the man who made the Stargate project possible in the first place. He always tries to resolve conflicts peacefully first, because he abhors violence and only accepts it as a last resort. Often he is also successful with this approach.

After the first Stargate mission ( movie ) he stays on the planet Abydos to live with the locals. When his wife and brother-in-law are kidnapped by Apophis' Jaffa , he returns to Earth and becomes a member of SG-1 (series pilot). He becomes advisor to the SGC and envoy to the President of the United States . When his wife dies, he is overcome by self-doubt and grief for a long time. At the end of the 5th season he is exposed to radiation. Instead of dying, with the help of the already ascended ancient grandma Desala , he manages to "ascend" to a higher plane of existence (like the ancients ), after which he occasionally helps the SG-1 team, despite a ban on interference. For this reason and because he cannot bear to let his friends suffer without doing anything, he is sent back to the world of the living at the end of season 6. Later he helps in the discovery of the ancient outpost on earth and the Stargate address of the ancient city of Atlantis . When he is killed again later during the war with the Replicators , he is again given the choice of either dying or ascending. In this election, he encourages Grandma Desala to attack Anubis . He will be given life again and he will return to earth. At the end of Season 8, he left SG-1 to go to Atlantis. After missing the flight, however, he was again a member of SG-1. At the beginning of the 9th season he accidentally made the Ori aware of the Milky Way, which is now threatening Earth. He was also briefly prior in season 10. He has a guest appearance on season 5 of Stargate Atlantis , where he and Dr. McKay is looking for a hidden laboratory for the ancients.

Teal'c

Christopher Judge plays the alien Teal'c (pronounced: Tie-Alk), a Jaffa , husband of Drey'auc and father of Rya'c. After Ronak, father of Teal'c and first primus of Kronos , was killed by Kronos, Teal'c fled with his family to Chulak . There he rose to become the first primus of Apophis. His mentor was Bra'tac , whom he replaced as Primus. This taught him that the Goa'uld are false gods and enslave the Jaffa as they are the true power of the Goa'uld. Bra'tac was also Teal'c's foster father and instructor, who taught him almost all of his fighting and meditation techniques.

In the pilot, Teal'c rises against his "god" Apophis and joins the SG-1 team. After initial difficulties, he eventually becomes a member of SG-1. Over time, he becomes an important member as he has valuable information about the Goa'uld (in areas such as weapons, technology, language and culture). Furthermore, it was Teal'c's goal to free his "brothers", the Jaffa. This is very slow in the first few seasons. But over time, his movement gains more influence.

At the beginning of the 6th season, his wife Drey'auc dies because she could not find a new symbiote and did not want to be stolen by another Jaffa. In season 7, he meets the warrior Ishta (a Jaffa Amazon), with whom he enters into a relationship.

In the course of the 6th season his symbiote was killed, since then he has been using the drug tretonin, which makes him independent of a symbiote and still helps him to have a perfect immune system . Tretonin itself also has the effect of lifelong dependence and without this Teal'c would also die.

At the end of Season 8, Teal'c achieved his goal of liberating Jaffa and founding his own nation. In the high council of the Jaffa he is supposed to take on a leading role which he rejects. With the appearance of the Ori , he was not present in the decisive election, so that Gerak became the leader of the Jaffa nation. During the 9th and 10th seasons, Teal'c was again an active member of the SG1 team. In the last episode of Season 10, he and SG-1 lived in a time bubble for over 50 years. Since Teal'c ages much more slowly than a human, he was able to end the time bubble from the outside and thus rejuvenate the team. He himself has had gray streaks since then. He made a guest appearance on Season 4 of Stargate Atlantis : He was asked by Samantha Carter to help Ronon Dex . Therefore he travels to Atlantis for a short time.

Jonas Quinn

Jonas Quinn ( Corin Nemec ) is an alien from the planet Langara , whose people, like many others, were abducted from Earth several thousand years ago. In the Kelowna nation, he was an advisor to the government experimenting with Naquadriah .

In a runaway experiment, Daniel Jackson is exposed to a high dose of radiation when he removes the naquadriah core from a test weapon to stave off an explosion. Jackson "dies" as a result of this radiation. As a witness to the near-disaster, Jonas feels guilty because he neither had the courage to help Daniel nor was he allowed to tell the truth about the accident on Kelowna. Under the pressure of his conscience, he flees to earth and takes the supplies of Naquadriah with him, which leads to his government declaring him a traitor and public enemy. In the 6th season he becomes a member of SG-1 and takes over the place vacated by the alleged death of Daniel Jackson . Jonas Quinn integrates into the SG-1 team relatively quickly, but he is not able to support Dr. To replace Jackson. While he is undoubtedly a good researcher, he cannot match the skills and knowledge of Dr. Jackson about the ancient language. This also becomes clear when he incorrectly translates the tablet from the treasury of Ra: "Lost City" it is first translated by him, later he reformulates the name as "City of the Lost". That is also not correct, but indirectly leads the SG-1 team to the planet to which Daniel Jackson was brought by Grandma Desala during his descent. Jackson later translated the name of the city as "The Lost City".

After Daniel Jackson returns in season 7, Jonas returns to his planet. There he was re-accepted by the state and given a high post to mediate between the three great powers of the planet. In later episodes he meets again with SG-1 and together they save Jonas' planet from the threat of an old Naquadriahmine of the planet's former Goa'uld. During the 9th season it is learned that his home world has been conquered by the Ori . Its current status is unknown.

George Hammond

As successor to General West, Major General George Hammond ( Don S. Davis ) was entrusted with the management of the SGC . So he was the one who put Colonel O'Neill back into active service.

Because of his position, he rarely went through the Stargate himself. Hammond likes to let things slip by, breaking the rules when necessary and trying to protect his teams. For this reason, he has also been a target of the NID and was blackmailed into resignation, which was reversed thanks to Colonel O'Neill. At the end of the seventh season, however, he is transferred for political reasons and the civilian Dr. Weir , who later takes over the leadership of the Atlantis mission . However, he continued to participate in the Stargate project. So he was the commander of the spaceship Prometheus during the attack on Earth by Anubis . Hammond is promoted to Lt. between seventh and eighth seasons . Promoted to General and transferred to Head of Homeworld Security for the United States Department of Defense . There he is now responsible for all operations that have to do with the Stargate and the security of the earth against attacks from outside. So he stuck with it and still has great influence as the President sees him as an important advisor. Brigadier General O'Neill takes his place in the Stargate Center . In the last Stargate Atlantis episode of season 5, it is mentioned in passing that Hammond died unexpectedly of a heart attack (Don S. Davis actually died on June 29, 2008 of complications from a heart attack). In memory of him, the next Daedalus-class ship, the USS "Phoenix", is renamed the USS "George Hammond".

Cameron Mitchell

Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell ( Ben Browder ) defended SG-1 at the end of Season 7 in Antarctica as the squadron leader of an F-302 squadron. During the fight against Anubis' soldiers, he was shot down and seriously injured in the crash. For this heroic commitment he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor . General O'Neill promised him at the hospital that he would get whatever job he wanted when he got well. He decided to become a member of the SG-1 team. However, Jack O'Neill did not tell him at the beginning of Season 9 that all members of SG-1 have new responsibilities and that he must put together a new SG-1 team. However, he manages to "reactivate" Daniel Jackson, who actually wanted to fly to Atlantis with the Daedalus, and Teal'c, who was on Dakara . After some persuasion, Samantha Carter, who did research in Area 51, returns to the team. With Cameron Mitchell, SG-1 is a full four-person team for the first time since Jack O'Neill was promoted to general. When deployed with the Prometheus or the Odyssey, Cameron Mitchell takes command of the F-302 squadron if necessary. Sometime after the Ori threat was eliminated and before his appearance on Stargate: Continuum, he was promoted to Colonel along with Carter . He is still in command of SG-1 to this day.

Hank Landry

Major General Hank Landry ( Beau Bridges ) is the new commander of the SGC at the beginning of the ninth season , replacing his friend O'Neill . He is a leader by nature, which is reflected in the direct and uncomplicated way with which he approaches all tasks. In addition, he has very good negotiating skills, which he proves again and again.

Dr. Lam is Landry's daughter, but the two of them are not on the best of terms. As the 9th and 10th season progressed, the relationship improved.

Vala Mal Doran

Claudia Black at Comic-Con in San Diego , 2004

Vala Mal Doran ( Claudia Black ) is a confident alien thief. At first she is only concerned with her own gain and hides her true character behind lots of humor and suggestive remarks. She forges her plans without scruples and is also not afraid to use others to get there. However, as the Ori threat increases , it takes the side of the humans and plays an important role in the fight against the Ori.

Vala first appeared in season eight when she stole the Prometheus. In the ninth season, Vala already plays in the first episodes, almost as a replacement for Amanda Tapping , who is on maternity leave. When the Ori Supergate is destroyed, it will be sucked into the Ori Galaxy. There she marries a man named Tomin. After the invasion of the Ori, she can be freed and is a permanent member of SG-1 from the beginning of Season 10.

Vala can use Goa'uld techniques, such as a healing device, since she was once host of the Goa'uld Qetesh. After a rebellion and terrible torture on their home planet, the Tok'ra removed their symbiote and nursed them back to health.

Her daughter Adria emerged from a secret artificial insemination of the Ori. She leads the Ori army in season 10. Vala tries to dissuade them from the Ori's evil intentions. Adria rose towards the end of season 10.

Supporting characters

People

Dr. Janet Fraiser

Major (previously Captain) Dr. Janet Fraiser ( Teryl Rothery ) is the Senior Medical Officer at the Stargate Center's medical department . During the course of the Stargate missions, she is confronted with many new diseases and other medical quirks, all of which she masters. On the other hand, she is overwhelmed in situations with paranormal circumstances because she thinks and acts very rationally. In her private life, she takes care of Cassandra ( Katie Stuart ), an alien girl who was rescued by SG-1. In the course of the 7th season she is killed during a rescue mission on a strange planet.

In the 9th season there is an encounter between SG-1 and a Janet Fraiser from a parallel universe. In its reality, this has taken over command SG-1 and is looking for a cure for the Prior's disease.

Dr. Carolyn Lam

Dr. Carolyn Lam ( Lexa Doig ) heads the medical staff of the Stargate Center from the ninth season. At first she doesn't get along with her father ( General Landry ) at all, as he was never there for her in her childhood due to his service. The relationship only improves when her father becomes seriously ill.

Robert Kinsey

Robert Kinsey ( Ronny Cox ) is an immoral power politician and opponent of SG-1. As a senator, he is initially the chairman of the approval committee, and later vice-president. First he wants to close the Stargate Center, later take control and disembark Hammond and O'Neill. But his repeated attempts fail and ultimately plunge him into misfortune. He also becomes a member of the trust.

Single Goa'uld

Apophis

Apophis ( Peter Williams , named after the ancient Egyptian god Apophis ) triggers the resumption of the stargate program with his attack on earth through the stargate and the kidnapping of a soldier. Apophis is one of the most powerful Goa'uld and the main antagonist of SG-1 in the first few seasons. He is defeated and dies, but SG-1 is forced to hand over his body to Sokar, who resurrects him. Apophis regains his power. His fleet is lured into a trap by SG-1, he survives in his mother ship, but this is taken over by the replicators in a distant galaxy. SG-1 finally manages to destroy the spaceship together with Apophis and the replicators when it enters the atmosphere. His wife Amonet casts Daniel Jackson's wife Sha're, his son Clor'el casts her brother Ska'ara. For a long time at the beginning of the series, SG-1 followed the recovery of these friends.

Baal

Cliff Simon , actor in Ba'al

Ba'al ( Cliff Simon , after the god Ba'al ) is a Goa'uld system lord. Like most Goa'uld, he makes changing alliances in his pursuit of power. He helps destroy the replicators of the Milky Way by using a program with which you can select all the stargates of a galaxy at the same time. He apparently serves Anubis, but conspires with the people against him. Ba'al is the only Goa'uld to play an even bigger role after the victory of the Jaffa Rebellion. He temporarily moves to earth, where he makes many clones of himself. There he soon takes control of the trust. In doing so, he sheds the ancient Goa'uld clothing and pretends to be a commercial entrepreneur in public. In the end he takes over Adria by using an anti-prior weapon and occupies it. Ba'al is the last living Goa'uld system lord at the end of the series. He lost his life in season 10 when he was deployed in Adria and died while being removed through the Tok'ra. There were many clones of him that he created himself. The last one was wiped out in the movie Stargate: Continuum .

Anubis

Anubis ( David Palffy , after the god Anubis ) was once a mighty Goa'uld of the galaxy. Grandma Desala helped him to rise , ignoring his malevolence. The other ancients rejected him for his cruel deeds and only half sent him back to punish Grandma Desala. He regained power and quickly became one of the worst enemies of Stargate Command and the Jaffa Rebellion.

To demonstrate his power, he destroyed the planet Abydos and an entire fleet of Goa'uld mother ships. As a replacement for the Jaffa warriors who had become unreliable, he developed so-called super warriors - genetically modified hosts with willless symbionts. These were considered to be invincible until a special hand weapon was developed.

An invasion of his huge armed force against Earth could only be averted at the last second: SG-1 discovered the ancient outpost in Antarctica in good time and destroyed Anubis' fleet with the weapons platform there. The device that gave Anubis human form was also destroyed. Anubis subsequently took a host, began to destroy the galaxy and could only be stopped with the help of Omar Desala. Since then there has been no trace of either Anubis or Desala.

Hathor

Hathor ( Suanne Braun , after the goddess Hathor ) was a Goa'uld queen who was locked in a sarcophagus in a Mayan temple about 4,000 years ago. An archaeological team discovered the sarcophagus and freed Hathor. She could feel the Stargate and tried to get into the Cheyenne Mountain Complex and was caught. However, by secreting a substance, she was able to turn all men into mindless slaves. She planned to set up her "nest" in the Stargate Center and created an entire basin of Goa'uld larvae using Daniel Jackson's DNA. She also turned Jack O'Neill into a Jaffa and wanted to make him her Primus. The women and Teal'c, who was immune to the substance through his symbiote, were able to stop them, but Hathor managed to escape to Chulak. After their escape, the men's condition returned to normal. Hathor later kidnapped the SG-1 team, with the exception of Teal'c, for information on the Goa'uld System Lords. She played a future version of the Stargate Center for the team, but the deception was soon discovered and Hathor died shortly afterwards when O'Neill shoved her into the tank of a cryogenic unit.

Marduk

Marduk, named after the Babylonian god Marduk , was a Goa'uld and the bearer of the artifact Eye of Tiamat . Because of his cruelty, he was locked up in a healing sarcophagus in his ziggurat by his own priests with a creature that ate the flesh of his host. When the host died, the symbiote took possession of the carnivorous being itself. The SG1 team finds a Russian cigarette packet in front of Mardus Ziggurat, which is why a Russian team joins in exploring the ziggurat. It turns out that a former Russian reconnaissance team let the creature Marduk resided in out of the sarcophagus and is now hunting the SG1 team and the Russian team. It wants to win back the eye of Tiamat. In the end, the last survivor of the Russian team and the SG1 team transport themselves out of the ziggurat in a ring transporter and blow them up and the Goa'uld.

Yu

Yu (after the mythological Chinese Emperor Yu the Great and the deity Yu Di , also known as the Jade Emperor ) is, in contrast to his fellows, more peaceful and seeks more wisdom than power, but is also ready to defend his sphere of influence. It is generally considered to be moderate, even among the Goa'uld. He also never played the role of a god, since he recognized that one could rule by peaceful means. Yu made several pacts with Earth when it was convenient, but otherwise had no interest in this part of the galaxy as it was far from his sphere of control. He always acts as a mediator in discussions about alliances between system lords. Militarily he is one of the weak system lords, since he is only interested in defense and not in conquest. He is chosen by the system lords because of his deliberate manner and strategic knowledge as the leader in the fight against Anubis, but he cannot defeat him and must flee together with the other survivors of the battle. In contrast to its conspecifics, it does not have an Egyptian touch, but an old Chinese appearance. Since Yu refused to enslave (as host) other people and was one of the oldest Goa'uld, he and his host ultimately suffered from dementia and old age .

Jaffa

The Jaffa are the Goa'uld warriors and incubators whom they believe to be gods to serve. The maturing Goa'uld symbionts in their abdominal cavity give them everlasting health, superhuman strength and live for over 150 years. But their life depends on the symbionts. This addiction will be defeated from the end of Season 6 through a means called Tretonin. Jaffa do not sleep, but have to do a very deep meditation every day, which they call Kelno'reem , in order to stay healthy.

Bra'tac

Bra'tac ( Tony Amendola ) was Teal'c's predecessor as Primus at Apophis and his instructor. After Teal'c's father was killed, Bra'tac took him under his wing and became the boy's role model and foster father. He taught Teal'c various forms of defense and meditation techniques. Although he first pretended to be loyal to Apophis, he saw through him, having recognized early on that the Goa'uld were false gods.

Together with SG-1 and the Tok'ra, he later succeeds in overthrowing many system lords. Bra'tac later also trains Teal'c's son. Bra'tac is also an important member of the Free Jaffa High Council, but refuses to take the lead because he thinks he is too old. With his level-headed manner, Bra'tac makes a decisive contribution to preventing the threatening war between Jaffa and Tok'ra. As a fighter a legend, he has mastered both the staff weapon and the lists of war like no other before him. Much of it he passed on to Teal'c. The character Bra'tacs is the most common supporting role in the series. He is 133 years old at the start of his appearance on the series.

Rak'nor

Rak'nor ( Obi Ndefo ) is a Jaffa who was initially in the service of Heru'ur. When he saw Teal'c being tortured and still not breaking in, he helped him escape; later he joined the Jaffa rebellion.
His father, Del'nor, had once been spared by Teal'c when Apophis ordered Del'nor's death. Del'nor had finally gone to Chulak, where he joined the Bra'tac rebellion. He also removed the snake symbol from his son Rak'nor in order to free him from the false gods.

Hak'tyl

The Hak'tyl (translated means something like "liberation") are a tribe of female Jaffa who appear from the seventh season of the series. They live on the planet of the same name, which is initially under the influence of the Goa'uld Moloc. Later, the Hak'tyl manage to achieve freedom with the help of SG-1. Hak'tyl leader Ishta ( Jolene Blalock ) begins a relationship with Teal'c.

Tok'ra

The Tok'ra (literally translated "against Ra") are Goa'uld from a biological point of view. They find it an insult to be so called because they are enemies with the system lords. Unlike the Goa'uld, they only use volunteer hosts who are willing to share their bodies and thereby achieve perfect health and long life. Nor do the Tok'ra suppress their hosts. In contrast to the Goa'uld, who can live for thousands of years due to their healing device sarcophagus, the life expectancy of a Tok'ra is only a few centuries. But their life is still longer than that of a host, which is why they have to change hosts. They don't use the sarcophagus as it makes people addicted and malicious. The Queen of the Tok'ra is the origin of the attitudes of her descendants and indirectly involved in the production of the substance tretonin, but dies during her acquaintance with SG-1. The Tok'ra can therefore no longer receive any new symbionts and have been considered a dying species ever since.

Martouf / Lantash

The important Tok'ra Lantash and his host Martouf ( JR Bourne ) was the lover of Jolinar and her landlady. He and his host transfer these feelings to Carter, who has the memories of Jolinar, which is an important link between Tok'ra and humans. Martouf is shot dead in Season 4 for being programmed as a suicide bomber by the Goa'uld.

Jacob Carter / Selmak

Jacob Carter ( Carmen Argenziano ) is Samantha Carter's father and, at the beginning of the series, also a member of the US military with the rank of Major General in the US Air Force. He feels guilty for barely spending time with his children. He and George Hammond have long been friends. When he fell ill with cancer and was dying, he entered into a symbiosis with the Tok'ra Selmak , who cured his illness, and joined the Tok'ra. Selmak is one of the oldest and wisest Tok'ra. Jacob and Selmak continue to help SG-1 and continue the cooperation between Tau'ri and Tok'ra after the alliance was officially dissolved due to various approaches. Both die in Season 8 episode 18 of Selmak's old age.

Other important aliens

Chaka

Chaka is an Unas who initially kidnaps Daniel, but then becomes friends with him. There is a special relationship of trust between him and Daniel. Chaka learns to communicate better and can thus mediate between some Unas tribes and the people.

fifth

Fifth ( Patrick Currie ) is the first human-like replicator with the ability to empathize . In creating it, his Replicator brothers and sisters sought to correct a bug inherited from their sire. It turns out that this makes him capable of human feelings such as love or hate, which is viewed as a weakness among the replicators. He is betrayed by Carter in the Hala bubble. As leader of the replicators, he now seeks revenge and the annihilation of people. But since he also loves Carter, he copies her with replicator units and gives her all the knowledge that he was able to read from Carter's brain as part of the identity of the Carter copy. This is ahead of him in personality and therefore annoyed by his adolescent form of affection. Therefore she destroys him and replaces him as the leader of the replicators.

Grandma Desala

Grandma Desala ( Carla Boudreau and Mel Harris ) is an ascended ancient who repeatedly intervenes in the history of the lesser beings. Since this is forbidden by the will of the other ascended ancients, she has to constantly walk a fine line and consider how far she can go. Grandma Desala helps people ascend by saying difficult-to-understand sayings in the style of koans . While she makes a serious mistake at Anubis, she later pays attention to the moral quality of her protégés. She helps Daniel Jackson to rise and prevents Daniel from stopping Anubis from Abydos.

Thor

Thor is the commander in chief of the Asgard fleet. A close relationship of trust develops between him and SG-1 after SG-1 saves the Asgard world from the replicators more than once. He dies during mass suicide due to their physical degeneration along with the other Asgard, after SG-1 has transferred the knowledge of his race to the on-board computer of the Odyssey, a ship of the people. Thor is usually voiced by Michael Shanks .

Orici

Orici , also known as Adria by SG-1 , (played by Morena Baccarin ) was born by Vala Mal Doran and is a special Ori creation . The Ori have implanted much of their knowledge and skills in them. Orici grows into a young woman within a very short time. She leads the Ori fleet in the Milky Way, where she uses her skills to represent the Ori. Towards the end of Season 10, Ba'al manages to use Orici as a host and is captured by SG-1. When trying to remove Ba'al from Orici, the latter secretes a poison that kills Orici's body, forcing her to ascend. After the Ori dies, she receives power to herself, but can be defeated by Morgan Le Fay when the Doci and the Priors learn the truth about the Ori ( Stargate: The Ark of Truth ).

Organizations

Military

US Air Force

The US Air Force directs and operates the Stargate Center (SGC) . In addition, she provides the staff for the spaceships and some SG teams.

Stargate Center

The entrance gate to the “Stargate Center” is the real existing entrance to the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center

The fictional Stargate Center (SGC) is, as the name suggests, the headquarters in which the Earth's Stargate is located. It is located below NORAD in the “ Cheyenne Mountain Complex” and is a former American rocket base from the Cold War. It is strictly confidential. At the beginning of the series, Major General George Hammond is in command of the facility, then replaced by Jack O'Neill , who has been promoted to Brigadier General. Major General Hank Landry later takes over the reins. The Stargate Center is subordinate to the Pentagon.

In addition to the Stargate Center in the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, there is also another base, including the so-called alpha base on the planet called P3X-984 , which will be set up in the first seasons as an alternative base in the event that the Stargate Command on Earth is overrun by the enemy. Later, the planet is changed after Anubis accessed Jonas Quinn's brain via brain probes and thus the location of the secret base became known to him.

Area 51 is essentially an offshoot of the Stargate Center, a military research station in the Nevada desert. Since there is not enough space in Cheyenne Mountain to examine an alien spaceship, for example, all larger (or no longer used) objects are brought to Area 51 for storage and research.

Others

Civil

NID

The NID is a US civilian organization that oversees the SGC.

There were secret cells in the ranks of the NID who tried criminally to get their financial benefit from the Stargate. There are also several groups of former NID agents who are conducting illegal actions for the purpose of protecting the earth. It was from these renegade cells that the TRUST was formed . In the course of the series, the Stargate command and the NID work together better and better after initial problems.

Originally, the NID was supposed to be called “NRD”, which among the authors stood for “Not a Real Department”. But later they decided on “NID”. This abbreviation also has no official meaning, but was interpreted as the “National Intelligence Department” in the Stargate Pen & Paper role-playing game .

IOA

In addition to Russia , which has supported the Stargate project since an earlier phase of the series, China , France and Great Britain will join the circle of supporting nations since the Pentagon informed these governments about it at a summit meeting. They work together within a supervisory authority as the International Oversight Committee (IOC, also called International Oversight Advisory, IOA ). This body will later replace the US government or the US president as the highest decision-making body with regard to the Stargate program. Richard Woolsey is almost always the chairman and therefore the face of the IOA .

TRUST

The TRUST is founded by former employees of the NID after the criminal activities of the NID are exposed. On the one hand he takes actions to get financial profit from the Stargate, on the other hand he pursues the goal of defending the earth, whereby he acts unscrupulously.

In order to achieve its goals, the TRUST does not shy away from using symbiotic poison to wipe out the lives of entire planets populated by Jaffa. The trust is later infiltrated and taken over by the Goa'uld Ba'al . Both before and after infiltration by the Goa'uld, the TRUST poses some problems and repeatedly puts the SGC at risk.

Races

Old races

All ancient races that have highly developed technology and already lived in the time of the ancients.

Alteran
They were the first stage of human evolution. After a heated dispute among the Alterans, they split into two factions - Antiker and Ori.
Antique
The ancients, like the Ori, descend from the Alteran people. After a violent dispute with the Ori, the ancients left their original galaxy and colonized the Milky Way. They are considered to be the builders of the Stargates and many other groundbreaking technology. After eons, the ancients finally managed to ascend to a higher plane of existence where they continued to exist as energetic beings. The ancients have the rule that none of them should interfere in the affairs of a lower plane of existence. They were a very cultured people who, unlike the Goa'uld and the Ori, rejected worship by lower races and were considered to be very peaceful and inquisitive. So they dedicated themselves to the exploration of other planets. After the ancients left the Pegasus galaxy about 10,000 years ago, most of them ascended. Not all ancients were able to ascend, so there was intermingling with humans whereby many of them are actually genetically related to the ancients and have the ancient gene needed to use their technique.
Ori
The Ori, like the ancients, descend from the Alteran people, who, however, were left behind by the well-known ancients. They see themselves as gods and allow themselves to be worshiped accordingly in order to increase their power by collecting additional energies from people in a complicated process through the worship of people. Through the veneration the ascent should be made possible or simplified for the people. In fact, however, it shortens their life expectancy by drawing off the energy. They are almost always represented by priors to whom they have given telekinetic powers, among other things. People who do not want to follow their teaching of the origin let their followers destroy them. They see the ancients as their only threat and greatest enemy. They therefore collect the energy of people in order to be able to destroy them. The Ori began the invasion of the Milky Way after they learned from Vala and Daniel Jackson of the existence of thousands of inhabited worlds, which promised them even more energy in the fight against the ascended ancients. However, they did not intervene personally in the battle in the Milky Way, but only sent priors with supporters in powerful spaceships.
Asgard
This people was with them before the rise of the ancients and is now allied with humans. You are at war with the Replicators and the Goa'uld. In many areas their technology is not as developed as that of the ancients, but they have similarly good and fast spaceships. In contrast to the ancients, the Asgard misunderstood the dangers of cloning, which ultimately leads to their extinction. The Asgard are far superior to human technology, they also produced many great thinkers and wrote about the meaning of life. After they are weakened by a virus that is further damaging their genetic makeup and attacked by the Ori, they all commit mass suicide together . As the last act, they hand over their knowledge to the people and destroy their new homeworld with them. In Stargate Atlantis "The Lost Tribe" one learns that some Asgard came to the Pegasus galaxy to continue their experiments there due to disagreements with the high council of the Asgard (cloning experiments on humans) during the war between the Ancient and the Wraith. Their ships, which were capable of long interstellar flights, were destroyed by the Wraith, which is why they had to hide on an inhospitable planet with a poisonous atmosphere. And so a second, "evil" Asgard civilization developed, which secured its continued survival by cloning through experiments on humans and does not stop at human collateral damage in the fight against the Wraith.
Nox
One of the "four races" in the universe. They formed an alliance with the Asgard, Furlingers, and the Ancients. They are vegan pacifists with sophisticated engineering that includes effective camouflage techniques and extensive medical knowledge. The pacifism of the Nox goes so far that they are more likely to die themselves than to kill another living being for self-support.
Furlinger (Fellinge)
Also belong to the alliance of the four races, but they are only mentioned in seven episodes, the viewer learns practically nothing about this race.

Young races

All races that only gained importance after the rise of the ancients.

Goa'uld
A worm-shaped, parasitic breed. The Goa'uld originally lived in stagnant waters. They forcefully invade hosts (for example, through the mouth or neck) and, after clinging to the brain stem, take complete control of the host's body. Their first hosts were the Unas that appear on their home planet. However, when they met humans on earth, they used them as new hosts, as they recognized their physical advantages over the Unas. The Goa'uld Ra is considered to be the discoverer of humans (he is also considered to be the first to keep them as slaves and hosts). Their larvae are placed in the abdominal cavities of the Jaffa, where they grow until they can take over a human as a host themselves. The Goa'uld have mastered the technology of the ancients to a large extent (ring transporter, sarcophagus, weapons, etc.), but due to a lack of technical knowledge, the Goa'uld were never able to achieve the quality of ancient technology. Most Goa'uld want unconditional worship by the humans and Jaffa (which is contrary to the moral conduct of the ancients). The Goa'uld are losing many planets and much of their power to the forces of Earth and a Jaffa rebellion. In Stargate: Continuum , the last system lord was finally killed.
People
The homeworld of humans is the earth. However, they were kidnapped by the Goa'uld and settled on many other planets. Because of their simple physique, they are better suited as hosts than the Unas. It is believed that humans represent a second evolution of the ancients. The fact that some non-ascended ancients went to Earth from Atlantis explains that some humans carry the ancient gene required to use ancient technique. The Tollans are a technically advanced people . After they have proven themselves, the people are considered to be the "fifth race" of the old alliance.
Replicators (replicants)
The replicators were created by the android Reese and it has been suggested that they are based on ancient engineering. They are extremely aggressive and invade planets like a swarm of locusts, always looking for more sophisticated technology. They convert the machines and resources of other worlds into replicator parts and then assemble them into new replicators. Originally in the shape of insects, they later evolve into human shapes. They are destroyed at the end of Season 8, but reappear in the movie Stargate The Ark of Truth , this time created by the IOC as a weapon against the Ori.
Unas
Humanoid race that was very resilient and originated on the same planet as the Goa'uld. They were also the first Goa'uld hosts before they began using humans as hosts. At first glance they may seem primitive, but they are intelligent beings with a social structure, culture and language.

Planets

Stargate contains a multitude of planets, many of them in only one or a few episodes. Here are the main planets from the Stargate universe:

Abydos
The planet from the movie Stargate . It is the home of Sha're and Ska'ara. The Goa'uld Ra settled on Abydos after being driven from the earth by the Egyptians. Abydos was also visited in several episodes of the television series and was destroyed in episode 6.22 of Anubis by its modified mothership. To protect the population, Grandma Desala lets them all rise.
Alpha base
The alpha base is on an uninhabited planet. It was established by the people of the earth in order to be able to evacuate the leaders of the earth or allied peoples there. The Alpha base changes its location more often throughout the series.
P3X-888
The original home planet of the Goa'uld and also inhabited by Unas .
Chulak
A planet inhabited by Jaffa , formerly controlled by the Goa'uld Apophis. After his fall, Chulak becomes one of the first worlds on which free Jaffa live. Chulak is also the home planet of Teal'c . Later, Chulak is captured by the Ori as their first target.
Dakara
Best-kept planet of the system lords. Here the Goa'uld perfected the art of taking human hosts and thereby created the Jaffa. For all of Jaffa this is a sacred place. SG-1 found a device in the temple of Dakara that can manipulate matter in a molecular way. With this device, the ancients brought life to the Milky Way after the epidemic. System Lord Ba'al, the Jaffa and humans jointly use this device to destroy the replicators in the Milky Way. The Jaffa later use this device to wipe out the population on planets under the control of the Ori, whereupon the Ori Dakara ravage and destroy the device.
Earth (tau'ri)
The homeworld of humans and the first ancient planet in the Milky Way. The earth was also the first location of the legendary ancient city of Atlantis.
Langara
This is the planet where the three rival nations of Kelowna, Tirania, and Andaria live. Kelowna is home to Jonas Quinn . Here are the only known occurrences of Naquadriah.
Orilla
Asgard's new home planet. The planet was destroyed by the Asgard themselves after they faced extinction from cloning too often.
P3X-972 (Heliopolis)
When the Stargate was first activated by the US military in 1945, Ernest Littelfield came to this planet. The planet was a meeting point for the four great races of the universe (Antiker, Nox, Asgard, and Furlinger). The Stargate later fell into the sea and the meeting point, a fortress, was destroyed.
Tollana
The new home planet of the Tollans, which has their self-built Stargate. Tollana is later attacked by the Goa'uld Anubis, who has developed shields against her ion cannons.
Pangar
The Tok'ra queen Egeria was held captive by Ra on Pangar for more than 2000 years. The Pangarans found Queen Egeria during excavations and made experiments with her and her descendants for almost 50 years. The descendants were eventually abused to make tretonin - a substance that ultimately became the key to Jaffa's independence from the Goa'uld.

Episode list

Film and series

The idea for the television series came back in 1994, shortly after the film. Originally there was the idea of ​​the producers of the film Stargate , Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin , to produce a sequel in the form of a movie. The studio that had the rights to Stargate preferred the idea of ​​a television series. When Emmerich and Devlin saw the concept of the series, they didn't want anything to do with it because it didn't match their idea of ​​the project.

Unsurprisingly, there are many points where the series deviates from the movie. From the beginning of the series, the alien planet was referred to as "Abydos", although this name does not appear in the film. In addition, the position of the planet has been moved from the Potash Galaxy to the Milky Way. A key point that has been changed in the series is the origin of the stargate. The film explains (indirectly) that Ra created the stargate to send slaves from Earth to Abydos. In the series, the ancients are introduced as builders of an entire network of star gates.

In the film, Ra's Jaffa also do not have any cross-shaped symbiotic openings on their stomach and neither do they have any symbols of their master on their foreheads. The staff weapons and gliders were adopted almost identically. The scene of the revolt of the people of ancient Egypt on earth against Ra in the series is very similar to the scene in the movie in the sand dunes on Abydos.

The history of the Goa'uld (the name does not appear in the film) has also been changed. In the movie there was talk of Ra belonging to a dying race and that his soul was beginning to separate from his body. There are also brief scenes of his real body, which is reminiscent of the appearance of Asgard in the series. In the series, on the other hand, the Goa'uld are not a dying race, but a parasitic worm-like life form.

A major difference is in the character of Jack O'Neil (in the series O'Neill in the future), in the film a tough, depressed US soldier whose son Tyler (in the series he is called Charlie) has just died. For the series, his character was rewritten so that he appears funnier and more personable, but no less cynical.

Stargate: The Ark of Truth - The Source of Truth

With the end of Season 10 of Stargate SG-1, one crucial question remained: How will the Ori continue? This story arc, which was still open at the time, was brought to a close with "The Ark of Truth". In this film, the SG-1 team flies to the home galaxy of the Ori in order to finally defeat Adria (Orici) and with her all Ori, or their priorities, by means of the "Ark of Truth" (Ark of Truth) assumed there. In the end, SG-1 and the crew of the Odyssey have to fight not only against the Ori, but also against the replicators newly created by a member of the IOA.

The 98-minute film “Stargate: The Ark of Truth” was released on DVD on March 11, 2008 in the USA and Canada, and on DVD on May 2, 2008 (DVD loaned on April 18) in Germany.

Stargate: Continuum

Only one Goa'uld system lord remains: Ba'al . However, this is expected to be executed soon and SG-1 is said to be present at this execution. But suddenly Teal'c and Vala disappear into nowhere. General O'Neill is killed by the poison intended for Ba'al . Carter , Daniel and Mitchell then return to Earth. But when they get there, the course of history was changed. The SGC does not exist. While they are trying to convince everyone responsible of what happened, a Goa'uld mothership fleet appears in orbit around Earth. It is led by Ba'al and his queen Quetesh (Vala). The first of the two is Teal'c. Now SG-1 must figure out how to undo things before the whole world is enslaved by Ba'al.

Others

  • The concept of the star gates has been used since 1986 in the science fiction booklet series Star Gate - Gate to the Stars , later: Star Gate - The Original .
  • The language problems that can actually be assumed in communication between inhabitants of different planets are largely ignored. The descendants of the displaced people often speak generally understandable English in the English version or at least one of the ancient languages ​​of the earth that Daniel Jackson speaks, even if there is little or no indication of how this language was pronounced. Even non-humans mostly speak English without it being clear where they can do this from or why they should take the trouble to learn the language. The people in the series do not have machine ( Star Trek ) or organismic ( Farscape ) universal translators.
  • In the online computer game World of Warcraft , the developers built an homage to Richard Dean Anderson's role as Jack O'Neill and Amanda Tapping's role as Samantha Carter. In the town of Stormwind, the champions' hall are "Captain O'Neal" and "Lieutenant Carter". In return, in the 10th episode of the 3rd season of Stargate Atlantis, Dr. Weir with Dr. Lee, an avid fan, about World of Warcraft, but only to distract him. Also in the 4th season, Dr. Lee his passion for WoW.
  • Allusions to Star Trek or Star Wars appear again and again in the series. In the episode "1969" O'Neill calls himself James T. Kirk during an interrogation . O'Neill also suggested that the man-made spaceship (later the Prometheus) be named "Enterprise". The raising of Teal'c's eyebrow can be interpreted as an homage to the character Mr. Spock . Then again, in the third episode of season 5, Jack and Teal'c visit Major Carter to watch a Star Wars film they brought with them. In addition, O'Neill poses as "Skywalker ... Luke Skywalker " during an interrogation . In the offshoot series Stargate Atlantis, Major John Sheppard often uses the phrase "Take it easy , Chewie", by which he actually means Ronon Dex, who, like Chewbacca from Star Wars, is easily irritated. Daniel Jackson poses as Hans Olo to smugglers in the 12th episode of the 8th season , a reference to Han Solo . In the 10th episode of the second season of Atlantis, John Sheppard also says " R-2 , please turn off the autopilot". The episode "Everything on One Card (Part 1)" pays homage to Star Wars: Episode VI - The Return of the Jedi . The SG-1 team must destroy Anubis' mother ship in this episode; the mission briefings, the plan and ultimately the visual effects during the execution of the attack are similar to the destruction of the Death Star in Star Wars .
  • Richard Dean Anderson is a fan of the animated series The Simpsons . Therefore, his role as a fan of the series is also designed. (Example quote: "I forgot to record the Simpsons. That's damn important to me.") In the 19th episode of season 8, Jack owns a boat that he christened "Homer". Anderson himself also had a guest appearance with the Simpsons, more precisely in the 17th season in the 17th episode Kiss, Kiss Bang Bangalore , where his roles in MacGyver and Stargate SG-1 are discussed. In season 4, episode 10, Richard Dean Anderson alludes to Homer Simpson . (Quote: "Now I remember something. There's a man there. He's bald and wears a short-sleeved shirt and somehow he's pretty important to me. Uhh ... I think his name is Homer.")
  • In episode 15, season 7, "Daniel's Dreams," Sam hums the Stargate theme song while standing next to O'Neill in an elevator scene. Actress Amanda Tapping originally wanted to hum MacGyver's theme song, but she couldn't think of it.
  • In episode 8, season 3 "Demons", O'Neill lifts his little finger to the corner of his mouth in a dialogue scene at the beginning of the film - a gesture that alludes to Dr. Evil from the recently released Austin Powers feature film .
  • In episode 191 "The Scourge" season 9, episode 17, Lt. At the end of the episode, Colonel Cameron Mitchell selected the film Starship Troopers for the cozy video evening . Unfortunately, this is translated as Raumschiff Enterprise in the German version , so the gag is completely lost.
  • In the 200th episode, an allusion to the series Farscape , in which Ben Browder and Claudia Black starred , is made in various scenarios for a film adaptation of the television series "Wurmloch-Extrem" .
  • There are some supporting actors who appeared in series and film in several roles. The Lucius actor in the Pegasus galaxy also played a scientist and member of the Stargate Center in the original film, a Tollaner actor also played Dr. Weir's friend Simon, the actor of the second runner in Stargate-Atlantis, also played a Lucian Alliance bounty hunter in Stargate SG-1. Steve Bacic , who played the Goa'uld Camulus, had previously appeared in the minor supporting role of Major Coburn, he had in the meantime become known through the series Andromeda , which was produced around the same time .

Awards

  • 1999, 2003 and 2004 the respective Saturn Award for the best television series in syndication . Acting awards went to Richard Dean Anderson for Best Actor in 1998 and Amanda Tapping for Best Actress in a TV Series in 2004 .
  • In 2000 the series won a Gemini Award for best setting in a dramatic series.
  • In 2003 the series won a Gemini Award for Best Special Effects for the episode The Secret of Asgard .
  • In 2004 the series was awarded the German Curt Siodmak Prize .
  • In 2006 the series was included in the 2007 Guinness Book of Records as "the longest running science fiction television series" (10 years) .
  • In the same year the series won another four Gemini Awards: for the episode Camelot in the categories “Best Sound in a Dramatic Series” and “Best Visual Effects”, for the episode The Secret of Ori (DVD title The Origin ) in the category “Best Make-Up” and for the episode The Bridgehead (DVD title Das Schutzschild ) again in the “Best visual effects” category.

literature

  • Wolfgang Hohlbein: Stargate SG-1. Episode guide. 1st edition, Burgschmiet-Verlag (BSV), Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-933731-48-8 .

Web links

Commons : Stargate  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Stargate in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  2. Record Breaker? - Does Stargate Really Beat Who As Longest Running Show? Retrieved August 13, 2016 .
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