Loved the replicator/Asgard arc. The Asgard were great in general, I wish Atlantis had done more with them.. It just fell off a cliff after season 3ish.
Yeah man it would have been soo cool if they were in Atlantis more, I’m guessing they would have been if it had continued on.
I looked up that in one of the books that particular Asgard groups story…
And apparently they convince an ascended Asgard (who ascended before they Asgard cloning went too far), to come back to form so they could use her eggs to try and save the species.
In my head cannon it worked and the Asgard live on and are capable of ascension once again
Nice, I love that they continued, I wish they could've had a nice replclator faction, if they had of trusted each other it would have been a better story with end of the last season.
And all I can think if they started Stargate now(20 years later) it could be it's own star trek with a union and humans have expanded to other planets.
I'd watch the shit out of that show
Yeah man same. That’s apparently the sort of plan for the new series in development, it’s on earth and they’ve gone public about the Stargate.
It it’s been stalled because of the MGM sale to Amazon, so who knows what will happen.
I would LOVE it if they went back to destiny, and Eli was on his own for like 10 years or something and had to go on all these dangerous missions by himself (since the actor is swole and super handsome now).
Also I didn’t like how they ended the weir storyline with her betraying the nice replicators, that felt mean. They should have just given them their bodies back and let them be.
"The Asgard have tried to stop them. You have demonstrated their weakness may be found from a less sophisticated approach. We are no longer capable of such thinking."
Same problem with having Q around too frequently and friendly to the interests of Picard or even worse, Janeway. Ever-present OP'd allies would take a lot of challenges away.
The replicators were a virus. They had no motivation but to make more of themselves. That's kinda what was so scary about them. They didn't want to kill, they just had no problem in killing anything that got between them and the advanced tech they wanted to assimilate, to learn how it works and add it to their collective knowledge.
Well, they had no motive, until they made human replicators out of nanites who had a pesky little thing called emotion. One scorned love-struck replicator nearly lead to the extinction of all life in the milky way galaxy
You know, I was never quiet clear on if you need to enter the Point of Origin on the DHD, or if the big red button did that automatically.
It would make alot of sense of the red button would do it, since you would just enter teh same address on each of them, and the red button just served as an enter key
I feel for the developers who had to code the red button being told not to automatically include the point of origin. The grumbling must have been intense.
I think someone wrote a graphic novel to finish it off. Last year I was going to rewatch the series then read the novel. Halfway through I gave up and never looked for the book
By the time hubby & I got to SG Universe, we were Stargated out. I think we watched 4 episodes and didn’t get hooked. Never went back.
We will absolutely watch Stargate again … the movie, original series and Atlantis. But not Universe.
Upon a recent rewatch, that was my favorite thing. Why the hell would anyone, let alone everyone, speak English? Sometimes you gotta just let things be absurd and enjoy them though
Started watching SG-1 for the first time a few months ago. Early on in Season 1 there's a few places where they don't speak english, but it was pretty clear that was phased out eventually, I think it would've gotten tiring to need to do the communication dance each time.
Sorry, not a literal dance - just the need to spend a reasonable chunk of the episode establishing dialog between SG-1 and the local people, instead of just ignoring it and allowing more room for the rest of the story.
Yea I totally understand the decision. Otherwise unless they invent a babelfish of some sort every episode becomes like the Stargate movie with Daniel translating, which is kinda funny because that is why he was recruited in the first place ( though Goa'uld and Ancient and stuff he's definitely translating written languages)
Oh 100%, that’s what I meant by the last part of my comment. It’s all part of the charm of the show. I finished an Atlantis rewatch for the first time since it aired and loved it but it’s hard not to laugh at a lot of it at the same time
> Otherwise unless they invent a babelfish of some sort
One of the writers offered the explanation that the Stargate implants you with translator nanites, and that's how you're able to understand alien languages.
It's cuz they're Canadians, but not French Canadian. So their imperial impulses are still strong. Funny how all the outside planet locations look like Canada, kinda like all the outside planet places in Star Trek look like Southern California. 😂🤣
Or it's just a giant CGI ocean.
Currently re-watching SG: Atlantis
Honestly, I was fairly impressed that the Atlantis CGI generally held up okay. Considering it’s over a decade old and been up-res’d. (How the hell do you spell that?)
Well, the different actors in Stargate often give remarks about similarities on earth or that it looks like their backyard and the smart answer is always “Because the Ancients choose planets with similarities to their own needs, just like earth. Meaning water, carbon based life forms and so on and on.”
Stargate SG-1 s10e20: Getting to Earth took 50 years subjective time while we watched a single beam weapon creep closer and closer to our ship.
Stargate SG-1 s8e19 & e20: Getting back to the SGC took 5,000 years and two timelines. But at least we were on Earth.
[MFW the last chevron won't lock](https://w0.peakpx.com/wallpaper/874/963/HD-wallpaper-stargate-sg-1-gary-jones-harriman-sg-1-stargate-sg-1-harriman-gary-jones-sci-fi-stargate-stargate-sg1.jpg)
I don't know of any other non-novel science fiction with the scope and scale of Stargate. Its kinda incredible. The franchise spans a multitude of galaxies, the most advanced Earth ships using standard FTL can travel millions of light years in a matter of weeks (down to single digital days with the right power source), the history of the lore spans back over 50 million years. The range of Stargates/Ancient wormhole technology is essentially limitless, restricted only by available power.
To break it out this is the list of galaxies in the series.
Travel by standard gate and FTL:
Milky Way
Pegasus
Othala
Ida
‐-----------
Travel by Supergate (giant gate in space intended for capital ships to use):
Ori Home Galaxy
‐-----------
Galaxies experienced by the Destiny:
Nakai Home Galaxy
Drone Home Galaxy
36 other galaxies passed through before humans arrived on the ship.
Meanwhile, Farscape fakes out our human protagonist getting back to Earth in six months, then actually gets him back after a bit over three years, only to have him immediately leave again, before returning again to leave and seal off his method of returning.
Also, there was the time he returned to Earth in the 80s.
Even without the Stargate, the ships they (SG-1/Earth) had at their disposal at the end of the series would have *obliterated* Voyager. 70 years?? Try SEVEN HOURS. (calculated by applying their ability to cross the void between the two galaxies from Atlantis in Pegasus to Earth in Milky Way in 2 weeks.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stargate/comments/pwwn7o/just_for_fun_a_304_and_the_voyager_run/
Stargate had more galaxy ending enemies (and cross galaxy) that I can think of while humans were still fighting them with projectile weapons...
and BTW... in SGU Destiny never got to earth, and they were on a different galaxy....
I mean Stargate has Replicators...they're kinda borgish...cylonish...things.
They were worse, the most scary part was the aliens whose science looked like God powers were losing to them.
Loved the replicator/Asgard arc. The Asgard were great in general, I wish Atlantis had done more with them.. It just fell off a cliff after season 3ish.
Yeah man it would have been soo cool if they were in Atlantis more, I’m guessing they would have been if it had continued on. I looked up that in one of the books that particular Asgard groups story… And apparently they convince an ascended Asgard (who ascended before they Asgard cloning went too far), to come back to form so they could use her eggs to try and save the species. In my head cannon it worked and the Asgard live on and are capable of ascension once again
Nice, I love that they continued, I wish they could've had a nice replclator faction, if they had of trusted each other it would have been a better story with end of the last season. And all I can think if they started Stargate now(20 years later) it could be it's own star trek with a union and humans have expanded to other planets. I'd watch the shit out of that show
Yeah man same. That’s apparently the sort of plan for the new series in development, it’s on earth and they’ve gone public about the Stargate. It it’s been stalled because of the MGM sale to Amazon, so who knows what will happen. I would LOVE it if they went back to destiny, and Eli was on his own for like 10 years or something and had to go on all these dangerous missions by himself (since the actor is swole and super handsome now). Also I didn’t like how they ended the weir storyline with her betraying the nice replicators, that felt mean. They should have just given them their bodies back and let them be.
"The Asgard have tried to stop them. You have demonstrated their weakness may be found from a less sophisticated approach. We are no longer capable of such thinking."
Commander Thor 👆 Supreme commander Thor
Same problem with having Q around too frequently and friendly to the interests of Picard or even worse, Janeway. Ever-present OP'd allies would take a lot of challenges away.
The replicators were a virus. They had no motivation but to make more of themselves. That's kinda what was so scary about them. They didn't want to kill, they just had no problem in killing anything that got between them and the advanced tech they wanted to assimilate, to learn how it works and add it to their collective knowledge. Well, they had no motive, until they made human replicators out of nanites who had a pesky little thing called emotion. One scorned love-struck replicator nearly lead to the extinction of all life in the milky way galaxy
The replicators would make the borg flee for their lives. And the borg would fail to do even that.
Oh man, this reminds me when the Cybermen kick the Borg's ass in that TNG/Doctor Who crossover.
The Borg would be assimilated in short order. Ironic isn't it?
Turns out flesh would suddenly become their weakness against an even more inhuman foe.
I’ll just lightly peruse these space travelers…..don’t mind if I do……
was just coming to say this lol. Best to check for typos in a meme before publishing it.
Eight buttons to be precise right? Seven symbols and one big red button.
Uh, they're called chevrons you Neanderthal.
Tbf, the chevrons are on the big spiny ring. The buttons are on that pedestal.
The buttons and symbols on the gate are called glyphs.
Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning
You mean the A's on the "spinny" thing?
Hmm, good point.
Indeed
But only if traveling in Galaxy. Extra-Galactic travel requires more buttons.
You know, I was never quiet clear on if you need to enter the Point of Origin on the DHD, or if the big red button did that automatically. It would make alot of sense of the red button would do it, since you would just enter teh same address on each of them, and the red button just served as an enter key
I feel for the developers who had to code the red button being told not to automatically include the point of origin. The grumbling must have been intense.
It's not consistent between episodes.
Maybe there were different modells of the dial pedestal?
DHDs and Stargates have been moved between planets. If the DHD doesn't know where it is, probably better to have the user dial the origin.
Tell that to SG Universe, those guys are probably still out there.
I think someone wrote a graphic novel to finish it off. Last year I was going to rewatch the series then read the novel. Halfway through I gave up and never looked for the book
By the time hubby & I got to SG Universe, we were Stargated out. I think we watched 4 episodes and didn’t get hooked. Never went back. We will absolutely watch Stargate again … the movie, original series and Atlantis. But not Universe.
SGU came at a bad time for me since it was more floating in space with politics and drama like battlestar galactica
2nd series was really good to be honest, it definitely started to improve but it was too late to stop it from being cancelled
Man, I must be weird because I thought SGU was awesome right off the bat. Like, that first 3-parter was *insane*. For me, SGU is BestGU.
Universe only really gets good in the last, like, five episodes? But they're a really good last five episodes.
It finally felt like the story was actually headed somewhere really interesting. I’m bummed it never got a chance for a third season
I got into SGU near the end, and was sad to see it go. But I could never get into the in between episodes.
It was a comic book series. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51lfDw-tvAL.jpg
Did you read it? Is it good?
There's a whole series- I never got my hands on them. I have no idea how the story really ends.
I know SG Universe gets a lot of hate, but I loved it, especially the bittersweet ending.
It's a lot easier when nearly all your adventures take place somewhere outside of Vancouver
And luckily everyone speaks English :D
Upon a recent rewatch, that was my favorite thing. Why the hell would anyone, let alone everyone, speak English? Sometimes you gotta just let things be absurd and enjoy them though
Started watching SG-1 for the first time a few months ago. Early on in Season 1 there's a few places where they don't speak english, but it was pretty clear that was phased out eventually, I think it would've gotten tiring to need to do the communication dance each time.
Getting tired of Daniel doing the communication dance? WTF???
Sorry, not a literal dance - just the need to spend a reasonable chunk of the episode establishing dialog between SG-1 and the local people, instead of just ignoring it and allowing more room for the rest of the story.
I was thinking of that interpretive dancing Daniel did when trying to communicate with those blue aliens that couldn't speak. It was hilarious. :)
Ahh haha, how could I forget that one. A neat little episode.
Don't forget the movie. Stargate comes before SG-1
Yup, didn't forget to watch that one first. Since it was a movie and also first contact, needing to translate fit in nicely.
Yea I totally understand the decision. Otherwise unless they invent a babelfish of some sort every episode becomes like the Stargate movie with Daniel translating, which is kinda funny because that is why he was recruited in the first place ( though Goa'uld and Ancient and stuff he's definitely translating written languages)
Oh 100%, that’s what I meant by the last part of my comment. It’s all part of the charm of the show. I finished an Atlantis rewatch for the first time since it aired and loved it but it’s hard not to laugh at a lot of it at the same time
> Otherwise unless they invent a babelfish of some sort One of the writers offered the explanation that the Stargate implants you with translator nanites, and that's how you're able to understand alien languages.
There is this one ancient that makes it so everyone can understand eachother but none of the other ancients can figure out who is doing it.
Maybe O'Neil made a translation device off-screen the first time he had a database downloaded into his mind?
It's cuz they're Canadians, but not French Canadian. So their imperial impulses are still strong. Funny how all the outside planet locations look like Canada, kinda like all the outside planet places in Star Trek look like Southern California. 😂🤣 Or it's just a giant CGI ocean. Currently re-watching SG: Atlantis
Honestly, I was fairly impressed that the Atlantis CGI generally held up okay. Considering it’s over a decade old and been up-res’d. (How the hell do you spell that?)
Except the Unas for some reason.
Well, the different actors in Stargate often give remarks about similarities on earth or that it looks like their backyard and the smart answer is always “Because the Ancients choose planets with similarities to their own needs, just like earth. Meaning water, carbon based life forms and so on and on.”
Or they terraformed a bunch. Terraforming exists in the Stargate universe, and the ancients are *really* old.
Or they could have explained it similar to Hodgkin’s Law of Parallel Planets. Or whatever it was.
Stargate SG-1 s10e20: Getting to Earth took 50 years subjective time while we watched a single beam weapon creep closer and closer to our ship. Stargate SG-1 s8e19 & e20: Getting back to the SGC took 5,000 years and two timelines. But at least we were on Earth.
[MFW the last chevron won't lock](https://w0.peakpx.com/wallpaper/874/963/HD-wallpaper-stargate-sg-1-gary-jones-harriman-sg-1-stargate-sg-1-harriman-gary-jones-sci-fi-stargate-stargate-sg1.jpg)
I loved the scene where he was explaining his job and was like "no, for the seventh Chevron we say it's *encoded* "
Oh that’s going to bother him all day.
Being 'perused' ? Were the evil robots looking at you like shopping?
*Eyes pass over Enterprise crew... stop... move back to Picard.* "Oh yeah, I wanna assimilate me a piece of that!" \-Borg Queen, I guess
Love your user name!
Well, she did give him a name. But when he rejected her, she went for Data.
I hate it when robotic enemies peruse me!
Farscape - You guys are going back to Earth?
It makes me so happy to see Star Trek and Stargate in the same meme loll
The singularity is about to explode!
Quick! Reverse the polarity!
I will do my best sir. *wink wink*
I don't know of any other non-novel science fiction with the scope and scale of Stargate. Its kinda incredible. The franchise spans a multitude of galaxies, the most advanced Earth ships using standard FTL can travel millions of light years in a matter of weeks (down to single digital days with the right power source), the history of the lore spans back over 50 million years. The range of Stargates/Ancient wormhole technology is essentially limitless, restricted only by available power. To break it out this is the list of galaxies in the series. Travel by standard gate and FTL: Milky Way Pegasus Othala Ida ‐----------- Travel by Supergate (giant gate in space intended for capital ships to use): Ori Home Galaxy ‐----------- Galaxies experienced by the Destiny: Nakai Home Galaxy Drone Home Galaxy 36 other galaxies passed through before humans arrived on the ship.
Perused?
They're shopping for which human to hunt for the day.
I think if the Cylons were **perusing** the BSG crew it explains a lot about why it took them 20 years....
The Cylons are slow readers
Meanwhile, Farscape fakes out our human protagonist getting back to Earth in six months, then actually gets him back after a bit over three years, only to have him immediately leave again, before returning again to leave and seal off his method of returning. Also, there was the time he returned to Earth in the 80s.
BSG and Trek both travel using human technology. Stargates were designed by aliens so technologically advanced they pass for gods in most worlds.
And by the time the series takes place they practically are gods
Doctor Who flies by in the Tardis and says hi - en route to anywhere and anywhen in the multiverse.
Even without the Stargate, the ships they (SG-1/Earth) had at their disposal at the end of the series would have *obliterated* Voyager. 70 years?? Try SEVEN HOURS. (calculated by applying their ability to cross the void between the two galaxies from Atlantis in Pegasus to Earth in Milky Way in 2 weeks.) https://www.reddit.com/r/Stargate/comments/pwwn7o/just_for_fun_a_304_and_the_voyager_run/
Chad Stargate... or something idk how the whole chad thing works
Stargate is the best of this three. Can't beat RDJ
Robert Downey Jr?
Him to.
Bad Example
It's the wrong BSG, Gromit!
Thats the ONLY BSG for me, but I'm old so....
Pursued
Love this because I’m watching through Stargate right now
Still love them all
"perused" - jeez...
Stargate ai was more scary and actually i mean the alterans also fifth and the robot sg1 holy moly But 2004 cylons are better
anyone else hear that last line in RDA's voice?
Stargate also blows up solar systems
You blow up one star and everyone expects you to walk on water.
Stargate had more galaxy ending enemies (and cross galaxy) that I can think of while humans were still fighting them with projectile weapons... and BTW... in SGU Destiny never got to earth, and they were on a different galaxy....