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Stargate SG-1 (stylized as STARG\u1430TE SG\u00b71 and often abbreviated SG-1) is a Canadian-American military science fiction adventure television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 science fiction film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich. The television series was filmed in and around the city of\u00a0Vancouver,\u00a0British Columbia, Canada. The series premiered on\u00a0Showtime\u00a0on July 27, 1997 and moved to the\u00a0Sci Fi Channel\u00a0on June 7, 2002; the final episode first aired on\u00a0Sky1 on March 13, 2007. The story of\u00a0Stargate SG-1<\/i>\u00a0begins about a year after the events of the feature film when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the\u00a0Stargate\u00a0can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets and in space. SG-1 is an elite United States Air Force special operations team, one of about 20 teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the\u00a0Goa’uld, the\u00a0Replicators\u00a0and the\u00a0Ori. The series draws upon\u00a0Egyptian mythology,\u00a0Greek mythology,\u00a0Norse mythology\u00a0and\u00a0Arthurian legend<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Stargate SG-1<\/i>\u00a0takes place in a\u00a0military science fiction\u00a0environment and employs the common science fiction concepts of strongly differentiated characters fighting an unequivocally evil enemy (the\u00a0Goa’uld). However, it links alien races with well-known Earth mythologies, by use of the central Stargate device. Near-instantaneous interplanetary travel allows quick narrative shifts between the politics on Earth and the realities of fighting an interstellar war.<\/sup>\u00a0Stargate SG-1<\/i>\u00a0gradually evolves the basic premise of the\u00a0Stargate<\/i>\u00a0film into its own unique mythological superstructure,<\/sup>\u00a0expanding upon\u00a0Egyptian mythology\u00a0(notably the gods\u00a0Apep\/Apophis and\u00a0Anubis\u00a0as Goa’uld villains),\u00a0Norse mythology\u00a0(notably the god\u00a0Thor\u00a0as an\u00a0Asgard ally) and\u00a0Arthurian legend\u00a0(notably\u00a0Merlin\u00a0as an\u00a0Ancient ally\u00a0against the god-like\u00a0Ori), among others.\u00a0SG-1<\/i>\u00a0introduces new alien races (as opposed to alien human civilizations) less often than other science fiction television series and integrates newly encountered races or visited planets in stand-alone episodes into its established mythology while leaving the plotlines accessible for new audience members.<\/sup>\u00a0Despite the show’s extensive intergalactic mythology and science fiction elements, scholar M. Keith Booker considered\u00a0SG-1<\/i>\u00a0ultimately character-driven and heavily dependent on the camaraderie among the SG-1 members.<\/sup><\/p>\n

The producers embraced humor and wanted\u00a0SG-1<\/i>\u00a0to be a fun show that did not take itself too seriously.<\/sup>\u00a0Brad Wright regarded\u00a0SG-1<\/i> as a family show with adequate violence as opposed to random or gratuitous violence. <\/sup>Christopher Judge did not consider\u00a0SG-1<\/i>\u00a0as a “message show by any stretch of the imagination, but occasionally there are messages there”.<\/sup>\u00a0Aimed at a popular audience,\u00a0Stargate SG-1<\/i>\u00a0emphasized its present-day-Earth story frame by frequently referencing\u00a0popular culture, like\u00a0The X-Files<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/i>\u00a0had done before.<\/sup>\u00a0Jonathan Glassner had written\u00a0The Wizard of Oz<\/i>\u00a0references into his own scripts since the first season, which the other writers imitated after Richard Dean Anderson began referencing the film on his own.<\/sup>\u00a0O’Neill references Richard Dean Anderson’s favorite television series,\u00a0The Simpsons<\/i>, throughout the show.<\/sup>\u00a0SG-1<\/i>\u00a0makes meta-textual references to the process of writing and filming a science fiction TV series in several episodes<\/sup>\u00a0and alludes to the main actors’ previous TV roles in the pilot episode (Carter: “It took us fifteen years and three supercomputers to\u00a0MacGyver\u00a0a system for the gate on Earth”) and in a\u00a0Farscape<\/i>\u00a0vignette in the milestone episode “200”.<\/p>\n

The plot of\u00a0Stargate SG-1<\/i>\u00a0picks up a year after the conclusion of the events recounted in the\u00a0original feature film. It follows the present-day adventures of SG-1, a military team from Earth. SG-1 and a dozen other SG teams venture to distant planets using an alien portal known as a\u00a0Stargate, which in the series is housed in a top-secret\u00a0United States Air Force\u00a0military base known as\u00a0Stargate Command\u00a0(SGC) in the underground\u00a0Cheyenne Mountain Complex\u00a0in\u00a0Colorado Springs, Colorado. In the first eight seasons, the mission of the SG teams is to explore the galaxy and search for alien technology and allies to defend Earth against the\u00a0Goa’uld, a snake-like parasitic alien race from planet P3X-888 that takes humans as unwilling hosts. As explained in the series’ backstory, the Goa’uld had transported human slaves from\u00a0Earth\u00a0to other habitable planets across the galaxy thousands of years ago and now pose as gods of old Earth mythologies, particularly\u00a0Ancient Egypt. SG-1 eventually learns that highly evolved human-like beings, known as the\u00a0Ancients, had originally built the Stargate network millions of years earlier, before\u00a0ascending to a higher plane of existence, after which they pledged not to interfere in the lives of other species. The\u00a0Ori, a faction of the same race as the Ancients who instead use their powers to subjugate other species by religious indoctrination, assume the role of the main antagonists in\u00a0Season 9\u00a0and\u00a0Season 10.<\/p>\n

Goa’uld Arc<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Cheyenne Mountain Complex\u00a0in\u00a0Colorado, United States is home to Earth’s fictional Stargate Command in the\u00a0Stargate<\/em>\u00a0universe.<\/p>\n

The pilot episode (“Children of the Gods”), set one year after the events of the original feature film, introduces the Goa’uld\u00a0System Lord\u00a0and main villain\u00a0Apophis\u00a0(Peter Williams) as he attacks Earth’s mothballed SGC military base through the Stargate and kidnaps an airman. The SGC is brought back into action when the Stargate is revealed to be part of an interplanetary network connecting countless planets. SG teams are created to help defend Earth against the Goa’uld, who have interstellar pyramid warships and vast armies of\u00a0Jaffa\u00a0(hereditary slaves and human incubators to the Goa’uld) at their disposal. Earth’s flagship team SG-1, which includes Apophis’s defected First Prime (lead Jaffa soldier)\u00a0Teal’c, initiates several alliances with other cultures in the galaxy, such as the Goa’uld-like but truly symbiotic\u00a0Tok’ra, the advanced human\u00a0Tollan, the pacifist\u00a0Nox, the benevolent\u00a0Roswell-alien\u00a0Asgard\u00a0and remnants of the powerful Ancients. Another alien threat arises in the\u00a0Season 3\u00a0finale (“Nemesis”) in the form of sentient machines called\u00a0Replicators. Meanwhile, rogue agents of a shadowy intelligence agency on Earth, the\u00a0NID, repeatedly attempt to take control of the Stargate and other alien technology. Despite Apophis’s death in the beginning of\u00a0Season 5, the\u00a0Goa’uld Empire\u00a0remains a major foe in\u00a0Stargate SG-1<\/em>\u00a0until the end of\u00a0Season 8. The only influential Goa’uld in the last two seasons of\u00a0Stargate SG-1<\/em>\u00a0is the System Lord\u00a0Ba’al\u00a0(Cliff Simon), who is defeated in the direct-to-DVD film\u00a0Stargate: Continuum<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Anubis Arc<\/strong><\/p>\n

After Apophis’s defeat in the\u00a0Season 5\u00a0premiere (“Enemies”), the half-Ascended Goa’uld System Lord\u00a0Anubis\u00a0(David Palffy) assumes the role of the primary antagonist of the show. This new villain possesses much of the knowledge of the Ancients and their technology. While Earth builds its first interstellar spaceship (the\u00a0Prometheus<\/em>) in seasons\u00a0Season 6\u00a0and\u00a0Season 7, Anubis creates an army of almost invincible\u00a0Kull Warriors\u00a0and wipes out or subordinates most of his adversaries amongst the System Lords. In the Season 7 finale (“Lost City”), SG-1 discovers a powerful weapon in an Ancient outpost in Antarctica that annihilates Anubis’s entire fleet and also sets the stage for the spin-off series\u00a0Stargate Atlantis<\/em>. Ba’al subsumes much of Anubis’s power in\u00a0Season 8, while Anubis, who survived the destruction of his fleet in a disembodied form, quietly begins to re-assert his influence. Human-form Replicators begin to conquer the System Lords, but SG-1 finds and adjusts an Ancient weapon to destroy all Replicators throughout the galaxy. Near the end of Season 8 (“Threads”), it is revealed that the benevolent Ascended being\u00a0Oma Desala\u00a0(Mel Harris) is responsible for Anubis’s original ascension. When she engages Anubis in an eternal stalemated battle on the Ascended plane to prevent his acting on the mortal plane, the Replicators and most System Lords have already been annihilated and the Jaffa win their freedom from Goa’uld rule.<\/p>\n

Ori Arc<\/strong><\/p>\n

The original SG-1 team disbands after the events of Season8, but slowly reunites under new team leader Lt Col. Cameron Mitchell\u00a0after the SGC inadvertently draws the attention of the Ori to the existence of sentient life in the Milky Way; the Ori are revealed to be a faction of ascended Ancients residing in another galaxy that are diametrically opposed to the Ancients’ belief in strict noninterference in the lower planes of existence, sapping the energy from untold billions of “lower beings” (non-ascended sentient beings) by means of their worship in a religion called Origin. While the Ori send enhanced human beings named\u00a0Priors\u00a0to the Milky Way to convert the galaxy to Origin, Ba’al and some minor Goa’uld infiltrate Earth through\u00a0The Trust<\/em>\u00a0(a coalition of rogue NID operatives) to rebuild their power. At the end of\u00a0Season 9\u00a0(“Camelot (Part 1)”), the Ori begin an evangelistic crusade with their warships and effortlessly wipe out the combined fleet of Earth and its allies. The leader of the Ori,\u00a0Adria<\/a>\u00a0(Morena Baccarin), is introduced in the premiere of\u00a0Season 10\u00a0(“Flesh and Blood (Part 2)”). SG-1 searches for the Sangraal, an Ancient weapon that might defeat the Ori, while Ba’al and his clones attempt to find the weapon for their own purposes. With the help of the powerful Ancient\u00a0Merlin\u00a0(Matthew Walker), SG-1 finds the construction plans of the Sangraal and sends a working version to the Ori galaxy. Shortly thereafter, Adria ascends. The direct-to-DVD film\u00a0Stargate: The Ark of Truth<\/em>\u00a0ends the Ori Arc.<\/p>\n

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Generals\u00a0Michael E. Ryan and John P. Jumper, USAF Chiefs of Staff, appeared as themselves in “Prodigy” (2001) and “Lost City” (2004).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The\u00a0U.S. Department of the Air Force, through the\u00a0Air Force Office of Public Affairs, Entertainment Liaison in Los Angeles, co-operated closely with the\u00a0Stargate SG-1<\/i>\u00a0producers. Before the beginning of the series, the Air Force granted production access to the Cheyenne Mountain complex to film stock shots. They also read every script for mistakes and provided help with plausible background stories for all characters, ribbons, uniform regulations, hair advice, plot lines and military relationships & decorum on an active military base.<\/sup>The USAF flew up several\u00a0T-38 Talon,\u00a0F-15\u00a0and\u00a0F-16\u00a0fighter jets to Vancouver for various episodes and direct-to-DVD films.<\/sup><\/sup><\/sup>\u00a0Many of the extras portraying USAF personnel were real USAF staff.<\/sup><\/p>\n

Two successive\u00a0Chiefs of Staff of the Air Force, Generals\u00a0Michael E. Ryan\u00a0and\u00a0John P. Jumper, appeared as themselves in Season 4’s “Prodigy” and Season 7’s “Lost City”, respectively. General Jumper’s second scheduled appearance in Season 9’s “The Fourth Horseman” was cancelled due to ongoing real-world conflicts in the\u00a0Middle East.<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0Air Force Association\u00a0recognized Richard Dean Anderson at its 57th annual dinner on September 14, 2004 for his work as actor and executive producer of the show and for the show’s positive depiction of the\u00a0United States Air Force.<\/sup><\/p>\n

Several scenes of Season 4’s “Small Victories” were filmed aboard and outside a decommissioned Russian\u00a0Foxtrot<\/i>-class submarine, which had been brought from\u00a0Vladivostok\u00a0to Vancouver by a private owner.<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0United States Navy\u00a0invited the cast and producers to film aboard the nuclear submarine\u00a0USS\u00a0Alexandria<\/i>\u00a0(SSN-757)<\/span>\u00a0and at their\u00a0Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station\u00a0in the\u00a0Arctic\u00a0for the direct-to-DVD sequel\u00a0Stargate: Continuum<\/i>.<\/sup><\/p>\n

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