Stargate is an American sci-fi franchise started by the 1994 film directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Kurt Russel and James Spader, it lead to three live-action TV shows, an animated series and numerous comic books, novels and video games. A long-buried alien artifact that can generate ...
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How come the stargate closed on John Shepherd and Ronon on Season 2 Ep 18 “Michael”
When they saw Michael going in to the stargate, Ronon immediately ran and tried to jump in the stargate but the stargate just powered off.
This is strange because:
1) Stargate should not close on ...
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How did Samantha Carter walk through the Stargate from SGC to Atlantis
Did they use the gate macro thing, or did they have a ZPM? If they used the gate macro with a mid-point, would they suffocate in space?
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Why is the seventh chevron necessary? [duplicate]
Wouldn't the place from which the user is dialling the gate always be the point of origin? Why do the stargates need this extra bit of information which could be easily implied?
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Changes in the Constellations shape over time Vs Stargate Glyphs
I just remembered that the relative position of stars change with time. I made a quick search and found this reference : What Will the Constellations Look Like in 50,000 Years?
I didn't see much ...
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How Would a Newly Built Stargate With a DHD Be Able to Bootstrap Into The “Stargate Network”?
While we only once see the (finished) construction of any "model" of stargate in the episode "Awakening" from Stargate Universe, how would you suppose the Ancients, when building their network, add a ...
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Is a Dial Home Device Connected To A Stargate In A Wired or Wireless Fashion?
While watching some of the episodes of the Stargate Series, I have been wondering in what fashion the DHD interacts with the stargate itself.
I've have read some of the various questions and answers ...
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Why are Asgardian ships so huge?
Asgardians have only one being in a very large ship. Why didn't they make their ship small enough for maneuverability, stealth, and easy-enough to defend when breached?
Or just make their ship big ...
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Who played the Airperson who was verbally shoved aside by McKay in “The Intruder”? [closed]
Who portrays the delightful Airperson to whom McKay barks "Airperson, don't be there!" around midway through Stargate: Atlantis's excellent second-season episode [S02E02], "The Intruder"?
As she is ...
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Why would Ford ditch his jumper?
In the Stargate: Atlantis second season premiere "The Siege, Part III", Sheppard says about Ford:
It doesn't matter where he goes. The second he gets to wherever he's going, he's gonna ditch the ...
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Stargate Atlantis Boxsets
I am wanting to purchase a Stargate Atlantis boxset, however there seem to be two to choose from
There is a 'megapack' as shown here
And there is a 'Complete pack' as shown here
My question is what ...
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Is the Stargate now at Homeworld Command?
The Stargate wiki page for the SGU episode "Alliances" says:
Because Greer said that the Stargate is activating most likely the Stargate is now in Homeworld Command.
I watched the episode just a ...
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What happens when Goa'uld Lord enters a Jaffa
When Klorel was tried in the planet of the Tollan people, he was removed from Skaara and will be sent to a Goa'uld world. Jaffas aren't influenced by Goa'uld but uses them (term comes from Teal'c when ...
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SG-1 A matter of time
Why did the Gate closed when the SG-10 Team opened it from their side but did not close when homebase dialed into the black hole planet? Supposedly its drawing power from both sides, it should have ...
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Children of the Gods plot inconsistency?
In Stargate SG-1's pilot episode - Children of the Gods, the scene opens with a group of soldiers playing poker in the gate room. These soldiers have some minor banter about how "nobody ever comes ...
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What happened to Cassandra?
Cassandra is the little girl saved from planet P8X-987 after her people were wiped out by Nirti, she was adopted by Dr Janet Fraiser and featured in several episodes.
I don't remember her ever ...
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How do SG teams know how to get home?
Not being able to dial home from another gate was a core plot point of the movie, in fact more than half of the movie was spent with Daniel Jackson trying to work out the gate address to get the team ...
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What happened to the 'freezing' side effect of gate travel?
In the movie and in the early episodes of Stargate SG-1, whenever a team travelled from Earth to their destination they always arrived 'cold'. This is especially noticeable in the movie.
In the later ...
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Why didn't a SG team just bring back a Dial Home Device? [duplicate]
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Could the Stargate Program have stolen a DHD from an uninhabited planet?
In the scope of the movie this question probably doesn't work, but during the many seasons (and ...
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How can a destination gate glow when being dialed?
In episode The Tok'ra II. Sam, Her Father and the ...Lover Boy was leaving the Tok'ra under attack planet. They are now in front of the Gate, then the Stargate lit up (as if being dialed as ...
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Why do the symbols on Jaffa foreheads differ?
I know that the symbols on a Jaffa's forehead pertain to the System Lord to which they belong, but why do some Jaffa have black Tattooed symbols, while others have Gold symbols, while yet others have ...
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Which “Stargate” actor played the same role in “Stargate Atlantis”?
Wikipedia says this about Richard Kind:
In 2006, he guest starred on Stargate Atlantis as Lucius Lavin, in the episodes "Irresistible" and "Irresponsible," making him the only actor to appear in ...
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Are there any new sci-fi shows with similar quality to Stargate and Star Trek? [closed]
Stargate has been over for a while now... yet I haven't seen anything to take its place yet. Are there any new sci-fi shows I can watch to fill the void?
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Why doesn't a blackhole destroy a Stargate?
In at least one episode, the SGC dials a planet that is in the midst of being destroyed by a blackhole. Will the blackhole eventually destroy the Stargate (on either end) and terminate the wormhole? ...
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What powers the puddle jumpers?
So far as I can tell, a power source for the puddle jumpers hasn't been identified, although they seem to require power. What is the source of this power?
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How were ZPM's Made?
Is there any in universe explanation about how ZPM's were made?
Why could this process not be replicated by humans?
A quick read of this wikipedia page brings up this information:
A fictional ...
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When do Stargates close? [duplicate]
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Closing the Stargate Wormhole
I've seen numerous scenes where they're on another planet and dial to another stargate, the gate opens, it waits for each and every team ...
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What is the episode where person is the power source for the city defense shield?
In the episode a city is being attacked by the bad guys. The defense shield for the city doesn't work because part of it was stolen by the black ops technology thieves from earth. What is the episode? ...
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What happens when an object is too big to materialize on the other side of the stargate?
So I was wondering: What would happen, if someone shoved a... let´s say 100ft pole through the stargate, while there´s not enough space for it on the other side?
The most well known case of this is ...
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Is there a list of Stargate 'arc' episodes anywhere?
I haven't been able to find one, and I hoped you fine people could help. Something like this Where can I quickly check if a given X-Files episode is a MOTW or arc episode? but for Stargate would be ...
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Why was Samantha Carter on SG-1? [closed]
It seems unusual to me, of any of the characters, that Carter was on SG-1. While she is extremely smart, and a reasonably good fighter, her strength is in gate physics and other similar stuff. As most ...
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How come SG-1 couldn't get back to Earth?
In Stargate SG-1 S02E16, The Fifth Race, SG-1 (Captain Carter, Teal'c and two other members, who replaced Colonel O'Neill and Dr Jackson) is "trapped" on planet in binary system, where second star has ...
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What happens to a traveller or object when a Stargate's iris is closed?
Not knowing Stargate much, this might have been explained, but if someone (or something) travels towards a closed iris, does it get sent back, or is it horribly squished against the facade?
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Is there a limit to the damage a sarcophagus can heal or bring back from death? [duplicate]
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Is there a time limit within which a sarcophagus can be used to revive a dead body?
It seems numerous times that Apophes, Apophes son and other Goa'euld system lords ...
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Are the Egyptian historical references in Stargate SG-1 based on actual history?
Are the references to historical facts in SG1 based on actual facts or are they made up in story lines for the show?
Specifically I was asking about the history to the Egyptian gods Ra, Apophis etc. ...
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What does it take to overcome your Goa'uld symbiote?
In the stargate universe, when an adult Goa'uld symbiote bonds with you it takes control over your body, forcing you to watch as it commits horrific deeds.
However Skaara manages to overwhelm his ...
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Would the earth being absent screw up the orbit of the other planets?
In a final season episode of Stargate, they make the earth intangible/phase out to protect from an attack from the Ori. In the movie Justice League: Doom they do the same thing, except to protect from ...
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What causes a stargate to not accept an incoming connection?
I'm in the middle of season 3, and I have watched 2 episodes which contain information that seems to contradict, and I'm trying to get this sorted straight.
100 days (Episode 3.17)- The stargate ...
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What is the first episode of Stargate that Teal'c says “Indeed”
So, I'm recently re-watching Stargate SG-1, and I noticed something odd. Teal'c doesn't say Indeed... It got me wondering, when is the first time that Teal'c says Indeed in the series?
Specifically, ...
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Why is the Stargate program run by the Air Force?
In the Stargate universe the Stargate program is run by the United States Air Force. But why was the Air Force given the reins on this project? Is it simply because the Stargate was located in ...
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What happens to objects that enter a Stargate from the wrong side?
We know that matter can only travel one way through a Stargate -- dialing gate to destination. What happens to things that enter the wormhole from the destination side? For example, if someone dials a ...
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How could Ernest Littlefield have reintegrated on Heliopolis?
We know that Stargates only reintegrate matter at the destination once the entire object has gone through the gate on the departing side. This behavior is made explicit in the Atlantis episode 38 ...
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Why would in-galaxy dialing need to account for stellar drift?
Samantha Carter explains in the pilot that because of the expansion of the universe, stars are moving away from each other and a correction needs to be made to the dialing protocol to account for ...
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Is there a time limit within which a sarcophagus can be used to revive a dead body?
In Stargate and SG-1 the Goa'uld use a healing device, called a sarcophagus, for various purposes (provide long life to their host, reward sycophants, etc). One of the more unpleasant uses Goa'uld ...
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What causes the stargate to sometimes open instantly?
In many random occurrences of Stargate SG-1, the stargate can seemingly open instantly while other times it appears to slowly light up random symbols before a wormhole opens. I am referring ...
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How many missions did the SG-1 team go on through the stargate?
In the TV show Stargate SG-1, how many missions through the stargate did the SG-1 team go on?
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Why did the Stargate cover stones have the gate address to Abydos on them?
In the movie Stargate it is revealed that ancient Egyptians rebelled against Ra and kicked him off of Earth. They then buried the stargate and crafted a set of elaborately decorated cover stones for ...
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How do you fine tune a stargate?
In the Stargate universe DHD and the computer system used by SG command can 'fine tune' the gate address and make sure despite the gates relative positions changing (due to, as Jeff points out Stellar ...
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How much correction can a stargate perform?
In the first episode of Star gate it is revealed the reason they have always failed at gate dialling is that due to the shift of planets/galaxies/universe expansion and the fact they don't have a DHD ...
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Where does the iris on the SGC stargate retract to?
In the Stargate SG-1 TV series it is shown prominently many times that the stargate in the SGC has a retractable iris. This iris is used to prevent matter from exiting the wormhole.
When the iris ...
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What is the difference between the gold tattoo and the black ones?
In Stargate, the Jaffa have a tattoo for the shape of the Goa'uld they serve. Some Jaffa have Gold ones that appear to be some kind of implant, while others just have a black one. It seems in general ...
