The first TV series spawned from the original movie that expanded the Stargate universe as it followed the premier team of the top-secret US military organization Stargate Command, SG-1, as they explored the galaxy, protected Earth from newly-discovered threats and sought to acquire advanced ...
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What happened between Carter and Martouf? [closed]
In The Tok'ra, Sam and Martouf agree to wait together for Selmak to heal Jacob's cancer. Later, when Garshaw shows up and surprises them, they are clearly holding hands and jump away, embarrassed.
It ...
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Why didn't Stargate Command continue to fast dial the gate?
The Stargate Command dialing computer allows for the dialing of a gate without a corresponding Dial Home Device (DHD). While the custom dialing system has certain advantages, one of it's biggest ...
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Why weren't the Tollan named 'The Fifth Race'?
In Stargate SG-1 we learn of an alliance of four great races in the episode
The Fifth Race. It is also in this episode that the Asgard tell Jack that humanity is on it's way to becoming the fifth ...
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What's the origin of an “Avenger” computer virus?
I noticed that a couple of sci-fi shows refer to a computer virus named "Avenger". I doubt this is a coincidence, and suspect they're referring to something, possibly real or possibly fictional. The ...
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How can a Goa'uld be extracted from its host and who can do it?
I'm writing a fanfic story that is based off Stargate SG-1 and I cannot find this information. If anyone knows please share.
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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 long were O'Neill and Teal'c stuck in the time loop in Window of Opportunity?
In season 4 episode 6 of Stargate-SG1, "Window of Opportunity", Jack O'Neill and Teal'c get stuck in a time loop, repeatedly living the same ten or so hours after a mission to a planet where they had ...
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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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How does Apophis reopen the Stargate in the opening scene of the pilot? [duplicate]
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How did the Goa’uld Raiding team return in the beginning of the pilot?
In the first sequence of the SG-1 pilot, Children of Gods, Apophis and some Jaffa come to Earth, ...
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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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What is the deal with Daniel Jackson's sweater?
During Season 6 of Stargate SG1 after Daniel Jackson has died and ascended, he appears multiple times in a variety of episodes. In the vast majority of these appearances he is wearing a cream/beige ...
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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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Can I pass to a Stargate Back and Forth? [duplicate]
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What happens to objects that enter a Stargate from the wrong side?
Can a person/object pass thru a stargate and goes back again without having to shutdown the gate's ...
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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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What is the name of the Goa'uld species?
It is strongly implied, or even stated explicitly over the course of the series that Goa'uld is not a species name, but the name of a race or faction within the species, with Tok'ra being another ...
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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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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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Is Dr. Jackson a crutch for the writers? [closed]
Aside from being a convenient crutch for the writers, why is Dr. Jackson a member of the most elite of the Stargate teams, SG-1? He has no military training, a weak personality, and, not to mention he ...
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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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Why aren't the Asgard in Atlantis?
Why don't the Asgard go into the Pegasus Galaxy and study Atlantis?
As we see in the Stargate series, the Asgard weren't perfect and couldn't defeat the replicatiors but the Ancients had the ...
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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 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 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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Are there still Replicators in the Asgard's home galaxy?
At the end of the Stargate SG-1 episode Reckoning the Replicators invading the Milky Way galaxy are rendered inert by the super-weapon on Dakara. But did this defeat of the Replicators include all of ...
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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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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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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 ...
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McKay/Carter Intergalactic Gate Bridge name reference to real world
It seems likely to me that the McKay/Carter Intergalactic Gate Bridge is a reference to the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge or Freeway given the similarity in name and the show's Canadian connection.
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What happened to the android duplicates of the SG-1 team?
In the episode "Tin Man," the SG-1 team is:
Later, in the episode "Double Jeopardy," they:
Is there any mention of what happened to Harlan, the old facility, and how the team got to Juna?
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SG1 - Gemini - Why was not Sam Carter at fault for losing the only weapon that could stop a Replicator?
She screwed up by letting the Replicator of herself have access to the design of the weapon. Usually this type of screw up is done by Daniel Jackson. But after this happens everyone is telling her ...
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Where Do the Handsignals the SGC Uses Come From?
In Stargate: SG1 there are many times Jack O'Neill uses handsignals to communicate with his team members. When I've searched, I've seen a number of different languages using hand signals, but I've ...
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How did the Goa'uld Raiding team return in the beginning of the pilot?
At the very beginning of SG1, the Goa'uld invade Earth, and then return somehow. How did they manage to return? There was no DHD, and somehow they didn't let it be known where they were going, IE, ...
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How did the Goa'uld develop interplanetary travel?
As was pointed out in the answer http://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/11241/3958 the Goa'uld were once a fledgling race with the Unas as the only attachment outside of their little pond. However, suddenly ...
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Are Goa'uld naturally evil?
I understand the Goa'uld are naturally parasitic but are they naturally as evil and selfish as they are in the current age? The Tok'ra show that some Goa'uld can be at least somewhat considerate ...
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Could the Stargate Program have stolen a DHD from an uninhabited planet?
In 48 Hours they destroy the last functioning DHD on earth in order to save Teal'c, however at the same time they establish at least a rudimentary knowledge about how to hook up and unhook a DHD ...
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Why did Daniel have to negotiate with the Russians for a DHD?
Early in the series, they discover a second gate under the Antarctic, complete with a DHD. Later, the DHD is shown to function through a rogue team using the second gate. Even later, the Russians ...
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What was missing that kept Stargate Command from making their own Stargates?
The SGC understood the functions of a dial-home device and was able to create their own when the gate they had didn't have a DHD.
I remember in one or two episodes there were issues that led to ...
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Are Jaffa Just Altered Humans?
From what I can see, the Jaffa seem to be just humans who have been surgically altered to provide the pouch for a symbiote to live in as it grows and matures.
Is this true, or are there other ...
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Did Daniel Jackson ever actually die?
I remember Daniel Jackson either dying or nearly dying in the pilot movie and then being revived in Ra's sarcophagus.
At the end of season 5, his
Late in the series it became a joke among other ...
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What happens to a Jaffa's goa'uld once it matures?
In Stargate SG-1, it is mentioned that there are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Jaffa warriors, each with their own Goa'uld symbiote. It is also often mentioned that there are relatively ...
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Do Jaffa Staff Weapons Have an Escalating Effect?
I was just re-watching part of the Stargate: SG1 pilot, Children of the Gods, and saw something that may just be a production writing issue, but it also got me wondering.
When SG1 is about to be ...
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Closing the Stargate Wormhole
I don't know Stargate: SG1 well enough to find episode titles, so I hope people will bear with me (or one who is wiser might edit this and add them).
In a number of situations in the show, we see the ...
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Why didn't SG-1 bring more Jaffa weapons back through the stargate?
I'm about halfway through watching Stargate SG-1 and I noticed several occasions where SG-1 fought Jaffa forces near the stargate. While they often had to leave in a hurry, there were many situations ...
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In the Stargate episode 'Secrets', why did they not attempt to take Sha're back to Cimmeria?
Thor's Hammer was fixed in Thor's Chariot, wasn't it? Was there some reason why Sha're could not have been taken back to Cimmeria during that brief window of opportunity?
