I bought the giant blu-ray boxed set this March and have been slowly going through the entire series for the first time in years. I had forgotten how great this series is. I’m hoping we can get a fourth series one day.
I would love another series too. I thought a good idea would be "Stargate: Alpha." Where all SGC operatins have been moved to the Alpha Site to act as an extra buffer for Earth. Even have a Daedalus class ship on full time watch. I figure it would be called The Thor and most of the new Daedalus ships would be named after our departed asgardian allies. And of course through that show we would get updates and crossovers with Atlantis and Destiny.
@@sonicguyver7445 that would be cool! I would also like it if it’s not just earth, but a team made up of members from various planets we met in SG-1 such as Langara helping out.
I find the TV series deepened and enriched the original movie. The weird thing is thig unlying science fiction seemed to lurch and in the first season or season until they found their walking legs
One of the stargate sg1 stories had the best alien occupation scenario I've ever heard of before. The aliens came to earth and offered advanced technology including a medication to extend our lifespans by another 200 years. What the humans didn't realize until it was too late was that the same medication was making everyone sterile and unable to give birth. All the aliens did was outlive the humans.
@@ukaniko Yes, this is true they wanted to take over Earth and in one episode they did but the team discovered their secret and found a way using a solar flair that was due and they could send a message back in time through the gate to warn them not to go to that planet. Once received they removed that planet from their dialing frequency. In another episode where Carter and a diplomat are with them talking and she asks what the word on a paper meant; they told her, Sterile. The Aschen folks left the room and the next thing they knew the Aschen had dialed earth and Carter climbed down by rope to see what was happening and found out they were going to send a bomb through the gate to Earth. The Aschen came back into the room and fought with the diplomat who told Carter to go, so she sent through the code and when she got back instructed them to close the Iris. Stopping them from blowing up Earth, and preventing them from alerting other planets of their plans of taking over their planets.
I remember in the first few episodes that when they went through the Stargate they appeared on the other side with frost on them. They would be rubbing their hands and arms because they were so cold. Then, with no explanation that I can remember, there were suddenly no cold issues whatsoever. Does anyone else remember this and if it was explained, or just an abandoned aspect of Stargate travel?
Yeah, they explained that it was caused by the Earth dialing computer not calculating planetary shift correctly which caused a rough ride and frost on their skin. Basically in the lore, planets are shifting their positions slowly over time. The Stargates (with DHDs) will automatically check in with one another periodically to update the planetary shift coordinates. But, since the Giza Stargate was buried for several thousand years, it was never able to make this check in. So, when it winds up in the SGC, the Stargate has slightly out of date planetary coordinates which prevent it from establishing a lock to any planet outside of a certain range. I think the only 2 planets the gate was able to lock onto at this time were Abydos (from the Stargate movie) and Heliopolis (S1, EP10 The Torment of Tantalus) because they were relatively close to Earth. In S1 EP1 when Jackson shows them the Abydos Cartouche and they learn the Stargate can go to thousands of worlds, Carter realizes that the planetary shift problem and they start working to fix it. At first it is still pretty bumpy because of the margin of error in their calculations. But, as time goes on, they get better and better at calculating. Until S2, EP15 - The Fifth Race where O'Niell has the ancient knowledge downloaded into his brain and he writes an equation for calculating the planetary drift that has almost no margin of error. Thus, solving the problem once and for all. Except for S5, EP5 - Red Sky where they experienced the rough ride and frost skin again because their computer overrid a couple safety features of the gate and calculated a wormhole that went through the center of a star.
Honestly I loved how the Gates were used as a storytelling device, allowing for diverse human populations across the galaxy, and godlike super aliens even though that point fanned the flames of the Ancient Aliens theory.
I hope the new series embraces how powerful and technologically advanced the Tau'ri have become by this point in the series; we're the dominant force in the Milky Way and Pegasus galaxies, and we are in possession of the entirety of the Ancients and Asgard's repositories of knowledge. The gates in the next series should be gates that have been built by us as "the second evolution of the Ancients" start seeding other galaxies planets with gates to explore them.
We always think we're the strongest huh? As much as we advanced, other societies who were already far ahead of us within the series would have also had astronomical advancements, which would keep us behind them either way.
@@Selahhhhhhhhhhh Of course we do, we're Human, but we're also Ancients. When the Alteran Ancients seeded and colonized the Milky Way they thought they were the strongest too, but in the end most of them were wiped out by a plague their technology couldn't stop or cure and after the survivors abandoned the galaxy it fell to the Asgard to protect just a handful of planets from the Goa'uld. When the Alterans seeded and colonized Pegasus they thought they were the strongest too, and they were for a while, but we both know how that went in the end. We're going to make the same mistakes because at the end of the day we are them. We're going to go poking around in a completely foreign Galaxy thinking our technological and military strength can protect us from whatever we might find there as we start seeding planets with Stargates and bringing in human settlers. Then inevitably the Big Bad for the new show who already dominated that galaxy will give us the same harsh wake up call the Ancients got.
@@lucycarr6065 The show will continue as is. Humans dabbling in things they barely have knowledge on and getting in all sorts of predicaments because of it and the advanced societies who advanced because of their own cumulative knowledge unlike the Tauri whose knowledge was inherited and adopted from others will have a greater edge over the Tauri because of it. At the end of sg1 and Atlantis Rodney and Sam, the two smartest and learned people still barely knew their ass from their hands in regards to ancient technology. They knew just enough to survive and navigate but not enough to master, efficiently replicate and control.
@@Selahhhhhhhhhhh It's been over a decade since SGU and even during SGU we had a fleet of intergalactic ships and the knowledge and technology to harness the power of an entire planet to power a 9 chevron gate. SG1 ended with us defeating a race of what were essentially omnipotent gods. Pretending that nothing has changed in the decade since then and now would be a terrible decision for the showrunner's. The classic fish out of water episodic formula can still be the same for the new series, while still acknowledging that things have changed significantly in the three decades we've been using the stargate. Rodney and Sam weren't the foremost experts on alien technology, the scientists and engineers in Area 51 who built the Naquadah Generators and Anti-Replicator Weapons were. The people who built the weapons that the Tauri used to defeat the same replicators that even the Asgard and Ancients couldn't defeat. Remember in SGA when Sheppard jokingly says he wishes he could destroy an entire planet with the push of a button, and Rodney just casually says "Area 51 is working on it"? Sam and Rodney were front line research scientists who made new discoveries and used their scientific knowledge on combat missions, the scientists in Area 51 were the ones who reverse engineered and improved on the technology discovered by SG teams throughout the series. They're the ones building our ships and weapons and they'd be the ones building the Tauri stargates. It's actually unfortunate that we've never gotten much of a look inside Area 51 and that is another thing I really hope the new series gives us.
Highly recommend Stargate SG-1. It is a really well done series. I think the only one that if feel is a better series is Star Trek TNG when it comes to writing.
Whether it be the Dune universe, 40k, Stargate, Hyperion Cantos or any of the other vast science fiction worlds the need for a travel “McGuffin” is necessary. The sheer vastness of space would never allow for any coherent story telling if people had to travel in real time to other galaxies. I think this is a necessity for any rational story telling in these universes. You also have your basic backstory with these as well. Either it existed and was discovered, Mass Effect, or it was perfected over time like the Navigators in Dune. In 40k it became a location of psychic and emotional hellscapes, an interesting twist. I do not think it detracts from the story to have such a device present.
Perfect point about the need for a fast travel hand-wave. Even The Expanse has continuous acceleration on minimal fuel to allow travel throughout the solar system in a shorter timeframe. Even the old Buck Rogers in the 25th Century show from1919-81 had fast travel gates, in stable locations in space. And they even called them "Star Gates"!
Never heard of 40k. Guess I'll go Google it. Book, game or TV series? Guessing not a game, but could be wrong. But you're entirely right, the technology growth for travel speed, at least in our reality, is much too slow, combined with understanding how the forces of such speeds effect the body and materials which are used to build the devices used for travel. The best scenario is by discovering alternate forces in space that can be used or harnessed to move people from one place to another through a "wormhole" or a current pretty strong theory in which there are essentially gravitational "mountains and valleys" through space which would be followed through normal space travel but by knowing where the peaks are, and how to theoretically "jump" from peak to peak over the valleys would speed up space travel by an unfathomable amount. In that last example, think about space as one big wave, going up and down, the gravity in certain areas pulling the wave down, and lessening, allowing it to go back up, which would mean that not only is space travel ALREADY slow, but not being able to avoid these gravitational slopes would make it near impossible to get anywhere but if you can figure out how to jump from crest to crest of the wave, then it could actually speed up how we can move through space. I read something about that just in recent months, and how not only is it a pretty solid theory but most likely how space travel would exist in our current technological state and much of those peaks and valleys are mapped out already, so now there are physicists hard at work at figuring mathematically the force it would take us to jump those valleys and how far we are off as a species from being able to create the technology to do that. Kinda like a Stargate at intervals throughout space and you travel from one to the other, but we actually don't teleport, we just use gravitational forces combined with some type of acceleration generated from the craft to help slingshot you from gate to gate, exploiting gravitational pull rather than being hindered by it.
@@godslayer1415 Stargate isn't one of the franchises that I've spent much time on. Your comment seems absurd. I've spent thousands of hours reading Science Fiction for several decades. You should probably see a doctor about getting your meds adjusted. Asshole.
@@grokeffer6226 Bud I don't know why but your final comment made me lose my shit. I have no idea why lol. Some cool tidbits on the Stargate imo are that it can be manually dialed, there can be multiple on one pla etc and the wormholes don't interfere with eachother, and they can be used for accidental time travel.
What? Like voice to text for phones? I never saw that in any stargate episode The closest I ever saw was when a Nox activated the Earth gate to allow the Tollans to go to their word and the wormhole just activated. Now Kawhoosh or anything
@@Ptaaruonn The symbol for earth on the earth gate is a pyramid with a sun over top of it Coincidentally, the symbol for Abydos is a pyramid with 3 suns over it
My favorite of the gates is definitely the Atlantis and Pegasus Galaxy gates. They are the "Digital" equivalent of the more "Analog" style gates that are in the Milky Way galaxy. Can you just imagine if we managed to find one here, like in the Stargate movie, and manage to get it working? That would change... Everything!!
I’d be happy if they gave us one more season of SGU. It wasn’t the best part of the franchise, but that the way they left that final episode was just cruel.
@@Pete...NoNotThatOne HA! Right? If you can find the English version on YT, there's a SGU comic that gives an ending to the story. I haven't been able to find it in English though.
@@Pete...NoNotThatOne There is french channel on yt about stargate. He shows comic from SGU in english, so it is possible to read the story from background.
@@wearemikej That comic's bad and the continuation of the story relies on a massive contrivance that cheapens the entire struggle leading up to it and removes one of the major driving forces behind the overall story.
Huge fan of the franchise and all three shows. Was disappointed when SG:U was canceled abruptly. Would be cool if the series was continued. I think the Star Gates the devices are very awesome and are utilized in my practical and non-practical ways. Thanks for sharing. Look forward to the next video. 😁👽👾🤖
How about the Ori supergates used to transport warships? Or the mini gate that Orlan built in Samantha Carter's basement? Or Atlantis's wormhole drive?
Hey Nerd! Or Cookies. Found your channel really by accident. I was recommended one of you Stargate lore vids one night, and since I found it to be very well done, and super accurate when it game to the lore, I decided to check out your channel. Been really loving you Dune Lore vids as the only stuff I knew of Dune before watching your videos, was from the games Dune 2, Dune 2000, and the David Lynch movie (one of my favorite movies). Even though Lynch didn't follow the book all the well, I still love the movie. Guess I just wanted to say keep doing what you are doing. they are very good videos.
This is another very nice video on Stargates Franchise. Congratulations to Nerd Cookies for their very good videos on this subject. As a device, the Stargates are very interesting and play a central role within the franchise. Based on the scientific concept of wormhole the video explains the complementary technological components added to the stargate device in order to be used as system allowing the travel between distant cosmological location instantaneously. Of course such a technology created by the Ancient (a Type 3 Civilization on Kardashev scale) is very much beyond what we are able to understand (we are a 0.7 Civilization on Kardashev scale). Anyway, congratulations to Nerd Cookies for the very good technical explanations included within the video in order to understand the usage of the stargate network used in Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe.
My favorite gate has got to the milky way gate. I remember first seeing it in the movie and being fascinated. The Atlantis gate is pretty good too but there's something about that original stargate.
While the Stargate franchise has made the most use of the "Magic Doorway" concept as a plot device to allow travel to different locations it is neither the first nor the latest to do so. In 1967 the Star Trek episode "City on the Edge of Forever" had the Guardian Of Forever - an irregular 3 metre ring that permitted travel in space and time. John DeChancie's Skyway trilogy uses vertically-aligned Tipler cylinders to create spacetime gateways along an intergalactic highway. The British TV series Primeval (2007 - 2011) had time portals that connected the present to locations millions of years in Earth's past. The French TV series Missions (2017 - 2019) also features "Gateways" that permit travel to different locations in time and space.
My favorite is the OG Movie/SG1 Milky Way gate but my second favorite is the massive Ori super gate which I’m surprised you didn’t mention! Also the gate that Orlin (that creepy ancient with a crush on Sam) built in Sam’s basement was pretty cool!
Thank you, I enjoyed this video on the lore of the Stargate’s. I am a huge fan of the series and my hubby and I are watching it again in order. Please do more videos of the series.
I consider myself fairly well read on most of the topics you've presented so far, but I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos. There's a little nugget I missed or forgot in almost every video, and to have this all delivered in such a soothing voice is even better! Please keep it coming, you're definitely on of my favourite creators on the platform.
Explain this to me, when a chevron on a sending gate locks, the corresponding chevron on the receiving gate also locks. How does the receiving gate know that its address is going to be entered? Wouldn't thousands of receiving gates activate at the same time until the final glyph is pressed?
I believe there is a slight delay, since the gate on the other side is receiving these specific instructions from the dialing gate, thru subspace, but which is fast and efficient enough to lock the gates together. The better analogy here is to compare the Stargate to a telephone. We dial first the number we want to call, and the system determines the line you want to reach, and on a blip, you're hearing the ringing sound of the other line.
@@theonlyjacknicole I think you missed my point. Once the last chevron is locked on the sending gate, the wormhole appears. But the receiving gate begins reacting to the dialing before that. So thousands of gates in the system should react until the final glyph is entered and the actual address of the receiving gate is finished. A telephone doesn't give you advance warning that someone is about to call, but the star gates do. I'm still not sure if I've made myself clear. I'm in dire need of a nap...but I'm addicted to TH-cam and these silly discussions.
To my speculation, once you dial the first six chevrons you have technically sent to the network the intent to dial a specific gate. That gate then prepares itself by performing the "startup" sequence you see when a receiving gate is dialed. Once the 7th chevron is locked in on the sending gate, it finalizes the call to the receiving gate to establish a wormhole. This is why if the receiving gate is busy or wormhole formation is not possible because the gate is buried, you won't know until you try to enter the 7th chevron of which you either get a lock or your receive a busy signal and the 7th chevron does not lock. Given that the inner ring has to rotate around to "dial" it is more than enough time for each gate to negotiate and send the necessary information.
@@zeighy Okay, now that that's settled, how about those gates where the bottom part is embedded in a base holding it up? Why isn't that base destroyed when the wormhole forms? th-cam.com/video/NeN_OSmZvG4/w-d-xo.html
I love these Stargate videos! I've watched the original and Atlantis seasons multiple times. I had one question about the DHD's though, are they really wireless? I thought they needed cables to connect to their respective gates.
You are only thinking that because being hardwired is an important plot point in multiple episodes. Not because the video is completely wrong at that point.
@@MapMonkeyTube Hahaha not sure if you meant to tag that /s (sarcasm) or not. But yeah, I remember that being a plot point in quite a few episodes like you said.
Like so much in visual SF, basic conceptual mistakes and errors abound. These 'gates' are actually really elaborate matter-teleporters, not dissimilar to Star Trek. While no one has ever 'seen' a real 'wormhole', granted, these star gates do not function the way they are described. With a 'wormhole', you wouldn't, or shouldn't need to disassemble, and reassemble anything. You simply step through and the traveler 'steps' across 2 points of space and time. If you have the tech to create stable wormholes, and can bridge any two points in space and time, then de-rezzing something or someone, is not only pointless, but actually a rather risky proposition.
Your Ra video inspired me to rewatch the original movie on Netflix. Ra is like Darth Vader, he has an evil gravitas. I'm thinking of rewatching all of it now. Stargate SG-1 is on Netflix, Stargate Universe is on Amazon, but I can't find Atlantis anywhere.
Milky Way Stargates are still the best. Then ring of glyphs looks like mystical symbols and it's ability to manually rotate always makes it more exciting. And the iris added to the Earth Stargate was an amazing addition. I liked how in later seasons they made a bit more effort to come up with more home signs for specific gates. Like the world where everyone was in stasis on those virtual dream chairs. The symbol to get out of the dream world was also the Homesign on the DHD. After that episode I kept an eye on the background of different worlds, looking for anything that might be the home sign. The only example I remember was the world where everyone was living in a domed city and hooked to a supercomputer. There was a U shaped design on the central part of that computer that could have been a Stargate glyph.
An interesting question is also: is the wormhole created at the point you dial? Or were the wormholes created at the same time the gates were and are just 'inflated' by the activation of the gate, but otherwise extremely small? Somehow it seems more satisfying to imagine the ancients stringing worlds together like a vast necklace or loom.
They have to be created with the dialing gate. How do we know this? Well the fact that the stargate can be used in such unintended ways, such as: 1. A gate can unintentionally dial itself in the past. 2. A gate can dial all others at once if overwritten to do so. 3. The fact that the DHD's update each other's Gate Database with their Current Stellar Drift. 4. Gates not part of the original network being able to dial and be Dialed by gates on the network: Tolan, Carter's Basement, and the SuperGate Basiclly since in point #3 the DHD's are used to calculate changes in Gates positions' It unfortonetly can't be that there is a wormhole between EACH and EVERY stargate, in even One of the Networks
the wormhole is microscopic, the event horizon demolecularizes you and sends your atoms through the wormhole, along with an imprint memory of how to put you back together on the other side
I would actually say, the gates on SGU are the first version. The gates on SG1 are the second version. The gates on SGA are the third and latest version. You can see the technological progress. The first version moves the entire gate, the second version moves just the inner ring, the third version moves nothing.
As someone with zero knowledge of stargate lore (never seen a single episode, always heard of it but tonight my curiosity had me click on this video) I have a couple questions. If they can only be used one way how do people get back to their original location? Can any gate be used as the transmitting gate? Is there always a conveniently placed DHD on location?
Gate travel is done with two gates. To say that a gate is one way travel is a bad statement, it makes it sound like you can open a gate to a place that doesn't have a gate and that's not true. When you open a gate you are connecting to another gate.
Yeah they do, I don’t remember which episode, but they say it’s because the Stellar Drift calculations got better. It’s part of them using their own dialing computer, and not a DHD.
You didn't mention that the Destiny stargates could be activated by the console in the gate room of destiny or by handheld tablets by travelers using the system. The tablets could not only connect a stargate to Destiny but to other stargates in range of the one that they're using which one team used to leapfrog stargates back to destiny You also didn't mention the seed ships which traveled ahead of Destiny which plants new stargates that the ship automatically builds so that travelers from destiny can travel to in search for supplies
@@dragonweyr44 no difference. Sorry i may have written that wrong, i was just agreeing with you , they went out in advance and harvested material and manufactured the gates , and mapped the universe.
@@shanenolan8252 They harvested material? I never heard of them doing that They refuel by diving into a star and collect solar energy but there is no mention of them landing on a planet in order to harvest raw materials. I don't think they even have the capability to This kind of confuses me though as to how it can build endless numbers of stargates without gathering materials to do so
@@dragonweyr44 they actually do mention it , in the episode with lou diamond Phillips and the seedship .its automated i believe, the path the ship takes is following the gates seeded by the seedships. They move about exploring planets in search of raw materials and water and oxygen. They might have discussed it in other episodes but that one comes to mind
This is an unpopular opinion, but I always liked that the movie implied that space travel without the Stargates was possible, but slow and energy intensive, so the Stargates themselves were the only method of quickly and economically traveling between planets. Thus placing a Stargate required the slow travel to a planet and then building a gate there. And then the show made it possible to travel between galaxies possible in a matter of days and nerfed the uniqueness of the Stargates themselves.
While this is a nice into and informative vid for someone whose never seen the show but most SG1 ,Atlantis and SGU fans who've seen most if not all of the episodes already know most of the info presented here. A few other things I think Dr. Jackson ( either James Spader or Michael Shanks ) coined the term DHD. I don't believe the Alterans ever named the device but DHD seems to stick throughout the franchise. Also in season 9 the fans learned the Ancients/Alterans refer to the Stargates as Astria Portas and we know from the show that different cultures have different names for the Stargates.
I loved the Movies and the Shows but there was a mistake made at the very beginning of this video that i have to correct, The race that created the stargates were not called The Ancients. That was only a reference to them, they in fact are called the Alterans.
I have my doubts of constellations being the mapping method of a super advanced technology. Constellations as seen from earth have been a "constant" through out recorded history, yes. However, to an advanced society that travels between galaxies the constellation method of mapping breaks down as star patterns would be infinitely different when viewed from different positions within a galaxy. For instance, say your ship drops out of hyperspace unexpectedly as you were traveling across the galaxy. The ship would need a navigational computer capable of mapping your position from scratch to determine your location. Not saying impossible but I would think very difficult with little to no frame of reference to begin. This is how the Jupiter One got "Lost in Space".
In the 1st movie, the tracking system (however that worked) traced a path to another "galaxy", I forget the name. When the TV series picked up the torch, all gates were confined to our galaxy with a ZPM or planetary source of energy being required to get to the Asgard, Atlantis or Destiny. That inconsistency has always bugged me, but was never a deal breaker. Another issue I had was with the Iris that was added a few seasons in. The formation of the event horizon is always a violent display and is shown several times to vaporize anything in its path. However, the iris is always closed prior to the gate finishing the inbound sequence. Why is it able to withstand the force of the blast? I can only guess at the level of tech required to maintain subatomic clearances across an area that large to prevent matter from reintegrating at SGC's end. I mean, the event horizon itself is visibly rippling the whole time it's active. I liked the series as long as I didn't think too much into these areas.
@@supermaster2012 OK. It's been awhile since I watched SG1 and I wasn't going back to get the exact episode it was added. Is that really all you had to say?
Stargate is probably my favorite sci-fi franchise. Even more so than Star Trek. A couple of things always bothered me though. One, I hate how they always acted like the area immediately surrounding the Stargate was basically an accurate representation of the planet as a whole. They'd be like "meh ... nothing to see here ... let's move on" and that'd be it for that planet. Second, I hated how they basically treated an entire galaxy like you would a planet. Like "oh so and so is in Pegasus ... let's go pay him a visit". Did the writers not realize just how gigantic even a small galaxy is? Third, why bother giving certain species their own language (for example, the Ja'ffa ... whose entire vocabulary apparently consists of just the word "kree"), and then have everybody else speak English? Star Trek suffered from this too ... but at least they explained it via the universal translator. In Stargate you basically just have to ignore it. Still, Stargate was the GOAT as far as I'm concerned. Was a major part of my late teens and early adult hood.
No discussion of how the Knox could control stargates by moving bare arms while the Aasgard use a small stone? Other species could also control them similarly.
My question has always been, how do they have enough symbols to make the networks work? If I recall, the symbols on the map are actually the ancient alphabet. Meaning there is a limit obviously of how many symbols it is. Then the last symbol is specifically the point of origin. My only guess is each location has a unique symbol that represents the world they are on. But then how would they be able to take one stargate to another world? Which we have seen them do several times. Which means that there would be a limit of how many worlds can use stargate a based on the amount of symbols on the stargate. Does anyone know the answer to this?
I'm a huge fan of the show, I know a lot about the ancient astronaut theory, but ive always wondered why the DHD's are of Gaould design (cosmetically) anyone help??
I feel I’m the only one who loves the stargate program is secret to the public Great franchise from a one off film And eaglemoss has gotten the rights to do the ships
I know it's fan fiction, but it feels just like a season of Stargate. The story follows a member of an SG team that encounters an ancient repository of knowledge and gets transformed into an ancient as a result. m.fanfiction.net/community/Stargate_Return_of_the_Ancients/68490/
I would love to see a more serious Star Gate reboot done on HBO or something. I love the movie and enjoyed the shows, but I never felt like the shows were connected to the movie. The show's always seemed like a cheap knockoff to me.
The Stargate SG1 franchise started out on Showtime before moving to the Sci-fi channel (as it was called then before becoming Syfy) The first season of SG1 was shown on Showtime at least partially and even featured nudity on the pilot episode which was edited out on syndication
@@lazy_riveN I enjoyed SG1, but it was corny AF. It does not hold up. Every planet they travel to looks exactly the same. Pine trees or a rock quarry. Because it was filmed in British Columbia. And it was often overcast or rainy. The same boring planets over and over. Shows are just better quality now.
Am i the only one who thinks the earth one is version 1 of the gate. SG-1 Gate looks like my 1997 middle school Nokia cell phone, while Universe looks my high school cell phone that finally got some color, and the Atlantis on looks like my college colocate phone.
Keep watching. You'll get into it if you like most mainstream Sci-Fi. Like most Sci-Fi the first couple of seasons have a lot of cheesy parts. But as the show gets going, there are a lot of fun episodes. But you have to watch all the shows in order the first time because they build off of each other. So now you just need to sit down for 10 hours a day and get it done.😵💫 You'll thank me later! I just watched your videos. They use lots of fun guns in the show too. The Carter Special is one.
I adore SG-1, but the everyone-speaks-English problem always makes me a little ashamed to recommend it to people. If they'd just added in something to explain why we can all (usually) understand each other (like the translators in Star Trek or the parasites in Farscape or even something mildly telepathic, perhaps mediated by the Gates), I would not hesitate to call SG-1 the greatest sci-fi show ever. There's a really complex theory I read online which would technically work; but I just think it's a shame this wasn't handled better out of the gate (pun intended).
They never get into who the gould stole there spaceship technology from as the ascetic is probably home grown but the underlying systems most likely aren't. Can't imagine them bushwhacking ancients or Acer and they don't show many truly alien species in this show.
CLICK BAIT!!! Sooo, where is the lore??? You just took some phrase from all the episodes and narated in this video for almost 10 minutes! CLICK BAIT!!!
My question has always been, how do they have enough symbols to make the networks work? If I recall, the symbols on the map are actually the ancient alphabet. Meaning there is a limit obviously of how many symbols it is. Then the last symbol is specifically the point of origin. My only guess is each location has a unique symbol that represents the world they are on. But then how would they be able to take one stargate to another world? Which we have seen them do several times. Which means that there would be a limit of how many worlds can use stargate a based on the amount of symbols on the stargate. Does anyone know the answer to this?
I bought the giant blu-ray boxed set this March and have been slowly going through the entire series for the first time in years. I had forgotten how great this series is. I’m hoping we can get a fourth series one day.
Well technically there is both a fourth and a fifth stargate series, if you count the animated stargate series as well as stargate origins
I would love another series too. I thought a good idea would be "Stargate: Alpha." Where all SGC operatins have been moved to the Alpha Site to act as an extra buffer for Earth. Even have a Daedalus class ship on full time watch. I figure it would be called The Thor and most of the new Daedalus ships would be named after our departed asgardian allies. And of course through that show we would get updates and crossovers with Atlantis and Destiny.
@@sonicguyver7445 that would be cool! I would also like it if it’s not just earth, but a team made up of members from various planets we met in SG-1 such as Langara helping out.
I find the TV series deepened and enriched the original movie. The weird thing is thig unlying science fiction seemed to lurch and in the first season or season until they found their walking legs
I saw Stargate in theaters. God, I had no clue of the expanse of the lore.
I love this channel more with every video...
One of the stargate sg1 stories had the best alien occupation scenario I've ever heard of before. The aliens came to earth and offered advanced technology including a medication to extend our lifespans by another 200 years. What the humans didn't realize until it was too late was that the same medication was making everyone sterile and unable to give birth. All the aliens did was outlive the humans.
I was not a fan of the Ascen; they were deceiving to the people they met and then they wanted to blow up Earth. Not nice!
@@suzrad6643 The Aschen didn't want to blow up Earth, they wanted to steal Earth's resources for themselves like they did with the Volian planet.
@@ukaniko Yes, this is true they wanted to take over Earth and in one episode they did but the team discovered their secret and found a way using a solar flair that was due and they could send a message back in time through the gate to warn them not to go to that planet. Once received they removed that planet from their dialing frequency. In another episode where Carter and a diplomat are with them talking and she asks what the word on a paper meant; they told her, Sterile. The Aschen folks left the room and the next thing they knew the Aschen had dialed earth and Carter climbed down by rope to see what was happening and found out they were going to send a bomb through the gate to Earth. The Aschen came back into the room and fought with the diplomat who told Carter to go, so she sent through the code and when she got back instructed them to close the Iris. Stopping them from blowing up Earth, and preventing them from alerting other planets of their plans of taking over their planets.
I love your channel and I absolutely adore Stargate.TY for this awesome nerdy moment. Kawoosh!
I remember in the first few episodes that when they went through the Stargate they appeared on the other side with frost on them. They would be rubbing their hands and arms because they were so cold.
Then, with no explanation that I can remember, there were suddenly no cold issues whatsoever.
Does anyone else remember this and if it was explained, or just an abandoned aspect of Stargate travel?
Yeah, they explained that it was caused by the Earth dialing computer not calculating planetary shift correctly which caused a rough ride and frost on their skin.
Basically in the lore, planets are shifting their positions slowly over time. The Stargates (with DHDs) will automatically check in with one another periodically to update the planetary shift coordinates. But, since the Giza Stargate was buried for several thousand years, it was never able to make this check in.
So, when it winds up in the SGC, the Stargate has slightly out of date planetary coordinates which prevent it from establishing a lock to any planet outside of a certain range. I think the only 2 planets the gate was able to lock onto at this time were Abydos (from the Stargate movie) and Heliopolis (S1, EP10 The Torment of Tantalus) because they were relatively close to Earth.
In S1 EP1 when Jackson shows them the Abydos Cartouche and they learn the Stargate can go to thousands of worlds, Carter realizes that the planetary shift problem and they start working to fix it. At first it is still pretty bumpy because of the margin of error in their calculations. But, as time goes on, they get better and better at calculating. Until S2, EP15 - The Fifth Race where O'Niell has the ancient knowledge downloaded into his brain and he writes an equation for calculating the planetary drift that has almost no margin of error. Thus, solving the problem once and for all.
Except for S5, EP5 - Red Sky where they experienced the rough ride and frost skin again because their computer overrid a couple safety features of the gate and calculated a wormhole that went through the center of a star.
I so miss going through that thing...
The old orifice, right?
@@necrosunderground Exactly!!
Honestly I loved how the Gates were used as a storytelling device, allowing for diverse human populations across the galaxy, and godlike super aliens even though that point fanned the flames of the Ancient Aliens theory.
What do you mean? Do you think this show made the theory popular?
@@Demonslate Without a doubt. There wouldn’t have been an Ancient Aliens show without Stargate.
I hope the new series embraces how powerful and technologically advanced the Tau'ri have become by this point in the series; we're the dominant force in the Milky Way and Pegasus galaxies, and we are in possession of the entirety of the Ancients and Asgard's repositories of knowledge. The gates in the next series should be gates that have been built by us as "the second evolution of the Ancients" start seeding other galaxies planets with gates to explore them.
Sounds like great idea, I'll happily watch that.
We always think we're the strongest huh? As much as we advanced, other societies who were already far ahead of us within the series would have also had astronomical advancements, which would keep us behind them either way.
@@Selahhhhhhhhhhh Of course we do, we're Human, but we're also Ancients. When the Alteran Ancients seeded and colonized the Milky Way they thought they were the strongest too, but in the end most of them were wiped out by a plague their technology couldn't stop or cure and after the survivors abandoned the galaxy it fell to the Asgard to protect just a handful of planets from the Goa'uld. When the Alterans seeded and colonized Pegasus they thought they were the strongest too, and they were for a while, but we both know how that went in the end. We're going to make the same mistakes because at the end of the day we are them. We're going to go poking around in a completely foreign Galaxy thinking our technological and military strength can protect us from whatever we might find there as we start seeding planets with Stargates and bringing in human settlers. Then inevitably the Big Bad for the new show who already dominated that galaxy will give us the same harsh wake up call the Ancients got.
@@lucycarr6065 The show will continue as is. Humans dabbling in things they barely have knowledge on and getting in all sorts of predicaments because of it and the advanced societies who advanced because of their own cumulative knowledge unlike the Tauri whose knowledge was inherited and adopted from others will have a greater edge over the Tauri because of it. At the end of sg1 and Atlantis Rodney and Sam, the two smartest and learned people still barely knew their ass from their hands in regards to ancient technology. They knew just enough to survive and navigate but not enough to master, efficiently replicate and control.
@@Selahhhhhhhhhhh It's been over a decade since SGU and even during SGU we had a fleet of intergalactic ships and the knowledge and technology to harness the power of an entire planet to power a 9 chevron gate. SG1 ended with us defeating a race of what were essentially omnipotent gods. Pretending that nothing has changed in the decade since then and now would be a terrible decision for the showrunner's. The classic fish out of water episodic formula can still be the same for the new series, while still acknowledging that things have changed significantly in the three decades we've been using the stargate.
Rodney and Sam weren't the foremost experts on alien technology, the scientists and engineers in Area 51 who built the Naquadah Generators and Anti-Replicator Weapons were. The people who built the weapons that the Tauri used to defeat the same replicators that even the Asgard and Ancients couldn't defeat. Remember in SGA when Sheppard jokingly says he wishes he could destroy an entire planet with the push of a button, and Rodney just casually says "Area 51 is working on it"?
Sam and Rodney were front line research scientists who made new discoveries and used their scientific knowledge on combat missions, the scientists in Area 51 were the ones who reverse engineered and improved on the technology discovered by SG teams throughout the series. They're the ones building our ships and weapons and they'd be the ones building the Tauri stargates. It's actually unfortunate that we've never gotten much of a look inside Area 51 and that is another thing I really hope the new series gives us.
Cookies, really thinking you are spying on me. I just restarted Stargate Atlantis YESTERDAY!.
Lol, I just started rewatching SG-1. Crazy this popped up 😊
I’ve never got into stargate but see how it influenced other franchises like mass effect relays and Star Wars with the kwa hypergates.
Its very good .
To be fair stable wormhole gates have been around far longer in SF than Stargate.
It's worth a watch. When you finish, make sure to read ROTA.
Highly recommend Stargate SG-1. It is a really well done series. I think the only one that if feel is a better series is Star Trek TNG when it comes to writing.
I like the Space Gates. Puddle Jumpers FTW!
I thought we were going with "gate ships"...
Whether it be the Dune universe, 40k, Stargate, Hyperion Cantos or any of the other vast science fiction worlds the need for a travel “McGuffin” is necessary. The sheer vastness of space would never allow for any coherent story telling if people had to travel in real time to other galaxies. I think this is a necessity for any rational story telling in these universes. You also have your basic backstory with these as well. Either it existed and was discovered, Mass Effect, or it was perfected over time like the Navigators in Dune. In 40k it became a location of psychic and emotional hellscapes, an interesting twist. I do not think it detracts from the story to have such a device present.
Perfect point about the need for a fast travel hand-wave. Even The Expanse has continuous acceleration on minimal fuel to allow travel throughout the solar system in a shorter timeframe.
Even the old Buck Rogers in the 25th Century show from1919-81 had fast travel gates, in stable locations in space. And they even called them "Star Gates"!
Never heard of 40k. Guess I'll go Google it. Book, game or TV series? Guessing not a game, but could be wrong. But you're entirely right, the technology growth for travel speed, at least in our reality, is much too slow, combined with understanding how the forces of such speeds effect the body and materials which are used to build the devices used for travel. The best scenario is by discovering alternate forces in space that can be used or harnessed to move people from one place to another through a "wormhole" or a current pretty strong theory in which there are essentially gravitational "mountains and valleys" through space which would be followed through normal space travel but by knowing where the peaks are, and how to theoretically "jump" from peak to peak over the valleys would speed up space travel by an unfathomable amount. In that last example, think about space as one big wave, going up and down, the gravity in certain areas pulling the wave down, and lessening, allowing it to go back up, which would mean that not only is space travel ALREADY slow, but not being able to avoid these gravitational slopes would make it near impossible to get anywhere but if you can figure out how to jump from crest to crest of the wave, then it could actually speed up how we can move through space. I read something about that just in recent months, and how not only is it a pretty solid theory but most likely how space travel would exist in our current technological state and much of those peaks and valleys are mapped out already, so now there are physicists hard at work at figuring mathematically the force it would take us to jump those valleys and how far we are off as a species from being able to create the technology to do that. Kinda like a Stargate at intervals throughout space and you travel from one to the other, but we actually don't teleport, we just use gravitational forces combined with some type of acceleration generated from the craft to help slingshot you from gate to gate, exploiting gravitational pull rather than being hindered by it.
That's some serious technology. I'd never fully realized how impressive it was.
I want one.
Really? A device you dial like a telephone that transports great distances and you didn't realize - maybe Sci Fi isn't for you
@@makeracistsafraidagain Five or six would be even better.
@@godslayer1415 Stargate isn't one of the franchises that I've spent much time on. Your comment seems absurd. I've spent thousands of hours reading Science Fiction for several decades. You should probably see a doctor about getting your meds adjusted. Asshole.
@@grokeffer6226 Bud I don't know why but your final comment made me lose my shit. I have no idea why lol. Some cool tidbits on the Stargate imo are that it can be manually dialed, there can be multiple on one pla etc and the wormholes don't interfere with eachother, and they can be used for accidental time travel.
I love Stargate! Thanks for this. We need more Stargate content on TH-cam (and TV).
Also, the symbols on the DHD all have a phonetic equivalent, allowing addresses to be spoken like names.
What? Like voice to text for phones?
I never saw that in any stargate episode
The closest I ever saw was when a Nox activated the Earth gate to allow the Tollans to go to their word and the wormhole just activated. Now Kawhoosh or anything
@@dragonweyr44 Season 7, "The Lost City," when Jack is under the influence of yet another Ancient head-grippy thing.
Yeah, the Å thing, the symbol for earth, reads as "At"
@@Ptaaruonn The symbol for earth on the earth gate is a pyramid with a sun over top of it
Coincidentally, the symbol for Abydos is a pyramid with 3 suns over it
@@dragonweyr44 Yes, and it's read as "at".
My favorite of the gates is definitely the Atlantis and Pegasus Galaxy gates. They are the "Digital" equivalent of the more "Analog" style gates that are in the Milky Way galaxy.
Can you just imagine if we managed to find one here, like in the Stargate movie, and manage to get it working? That would change... Everything!!
What tells you we haven't found it? Tip: Try searching what the USA found in Irak...
Same! I love Stargate Atlantis! ❤
I miss this show. Now that Amazon owns MGM, does anything believe another series might be in our future? Fingers crossed.
I’d be happy if they gave us one more season of SGU. It wasn’t the best part of the franchise, but that the way they left that final episode was just cruel.
@@Pete...NoNotThatOne HA! Right? If you can find the English version on YT, there's a SGU comic that gives an ending to the story. I haven't been able to find it in English though.
@@wearemikej nice, thanks for that, I may have to get going with my Google-fu.
@@Pete...NoNotThatOne There is french channel on yt about stargate. He shows comic from SGU in english, so it is possible to read the story from background.
@@wearemikej That comic's bad and the continuation of the story relies on a massive contrivance that cheapens the entire struggle leading up to it and removes one of the major driving forces behind the overall story.
Huge fan of the franchise and all three shows. Was disappointed when SG:U was canceled abruptly. Would be cool if the series was continued. I think the Star Gates the devices are very awesome and are utilized in my practical and non-practical ways. Thanks for sharing. Look forward to the next video. 😁👽👾🤖
How about the Ori supergates used to transport warships? Or the mini gate that Orlan built in Samantha Carter's basement? Or Atlantis's wormhole drive?
Im i right but wasn't one of those super gates left over after the show ended. That could be dialed to the pegasus galaxy if they wished. ?
Hey Nerd! Or Cookies. Found your channel really by accident. I was recommended one of you Stargate lore vids one night, and since I found it to be very well done, and super accurate when it game to the lore, I decided to check out your channel. Been really loving you Dune Lore vids as the only stuff I knew of Dune before watching your videos, was from the games Dune 2, Dune 2000, and the David Lynch movie (one of my favorite movies). Even though Lynch didn't follow the book all the well, I still love the movie. Guess I just wanted to say keep doing what you are doing. they are very good videos.
Giorgio Tsoukalos produced the Stargate series! 😂
This is another very nice video on Stargates Franchise. Congratulations to Nerd Cookies for their very good videos on this subject. As a device, the Stargates are very interesting and play a central role within the franchise. Based on the scientific concept of wormhole the video explains the complementary technological components added to the stargate device in order to be used as system allowing the travel between distant cosmological location instantaneously. Of course such a technology created by the Ancient (a Type 3 Civilization on Kardashev scale) is very much beyond what we are able to understand (we are a 0.7 Civilization on Kardashev scale). Anyway, congratulations to Nerd Cookies for the very good technical explanations included within the video in order to understand the usage of the stargate network used in Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe.
The stargate as a storytelling device is brilliant. Probably my favorite of the America "Star-" properties.
My favorite gate has got to the milky way gate. I remember first seeing it in the movie and being fascinated.
The Atlantis gate is pretty good too but there's something about that original stargate.
Thanks guys . Great thumbnail
While the Stargate franchise has made the most use of the "Magic Doorway" concept as a plot device to allow travel to different locations it is neither the first nor the latest to do so.
In 1967 the Star Trek episode "City on the Edge of Forever" had the Guardian Of Forever - an irregular 3 metre ring that permitted travel in space and time.
John DeChancie's Skyway trilogy uses vertically-aligned Tipler cylinders to create spacetime gateways along an intergalactic highway.
The British TV series Primeval (2007 - 2011) had time portals that connected the present to locations millions of years in Earth's past.
The French TV series Missions (2017 - 2019) also features "Gateways" that permit travel to different locations in time and space.
New Nerd Cookies vid?
Indeed.
Indeed.
Thank you for featuring the Stargate franchise! :)
My favorite model for gates is the Destiny version. But then again, the Destiny is near my favorite ship of sci-fi in many regards.
The ones first shown are my favorite design, it can be mechanically operated and muscled through the chevrons in case part of it malfunctions/breaks.
My favorite is the OG Movie/SG1 Milky Way gate but my second favorite is the massive Ori super gate which I’m surprised you didn’t mention!
Also the gate that Orlin (that creepy ancient with a crush on Sam) built in Sam’s basement was pretty cool!
Thank you, I enjoyed this video on the lore of the Stargate’s. I am a huge fan of the series and my hubby and I are watching it again in order. Please do more videos of the series.
Will do! Thanks for the support!
I consider myself fairly well read on most of the topics you've presented so far, but I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos. There's a little nugget I missed or forgot in almost every video, and to have this all delivered in such a soothing voice is even better! Please keep it coming, you're definitely on of my favourite creators on the platform.
Just so you know, the thumbnail image isn't a Stargate, it's a Jumpgate from the X-Universe game series
Explain this to me, when a chevron on a sending gate locks, the corresponding chevron on the receiving gate also locks. How does the receiving gate know that its address is going to be entered? Wouldn't thousands of receiving gates activate at the same time until the final glyph is pressed?
And yes, I know it's just a TV show, but still...
I believe there is a slight delay, since the gate on the other side is receiving these specific instructions from the dialing gate, thru subspace, but which is fast and efficient enough to lock the gates together.
The better analogy here is to compare the Stargate to a telephone. We dial first the number we want to call, and the system determines the line you want to reach, and on a blip, you're hearing the ringing sound of the other line.
@@theonlyjacknicole I think you missed my point. Once the last chevron is locked on the sending gate, the wormhole appears. But the receiving gate begins reacting to the dialing before that. So thousands of gates in the system should react until the final glyph is entered and the actual address of the receiving gate is finished.
A telephone doesn't give you advance warning that someone is about to call, but the star gates do. I'm still not sure if I've made myself clear. I'm in dire need of a nap...but I'm addicted to TH-cam and these silly discussions.
To my speculation, once you dial the first six chevrons you have technically sent to the network the intent to dial a specific gate. That gate then prepares itself by performing the "startup" sequence you see when a receiving gate is dialed. Once the 7th chevron is locked in on the sending gate, it finalizes the call to the receiving gate to establish a wormhole.
This is why if the receiving gate is busy or wormhole formation is not possible because the gate is buried, you won't know until you try to enter the 7th chevron of which you either get a lock or your receive a busy signal and the 7th chevron does not lock. Given that the inner ring has to rotate around to "dial" it is more than enough time for each gate to negotiate and send the necessary information.
@@zeighy Okay, now that that's settled, how about those gates where the bottom part is embedded in a base holding it up? Why isn't that base destroyed when the wormhole forms?
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I love these Stargate videos! I've watched the original and Atlantis seasons multiple times. I had one question about the DHD's though, are they really wireless? I thought they needed cables to connect to their respective gates.
You are only thinking that because being hardwired is an important plot point in multiple episodes.
Not because the video is completely wrong at that point.
@@MapMonkeyTube Hahaha not sure if you meant to tag that /s (sarcasm) or not. But yeah, I remember that being a plot point in quite a few episodes like you said.
Really enjoy your presentations
Like so much in visual SF, basic conceptual mistakes and errors abound. These 'gates' are actually really elaborate matter-teleporters, not dissimilar to Star Trek. While no one has ever 'seen' a real 'wormhole', granted, these star gates do not function the way they are described. With a 'wormhole', you wouldn't, or shouldn't need to disassemble, and reassemble anything. You simply step through and the traveler 'steps' across 2 points of space and time. If you have the tech to create stable wormholes, and can bridge any two points in space and time, then de-rezzing something or someone, is not only pointless, but actually a rather risky proposition.
Great video, I think Stargate might be my favorite franchise.
Your Ra video inspired me to rewatch the original movie on Netflix. Ra is like Darth Vader, he has an evil gravitas. I'm thinking of rewatching all of it now. Stargate SG-1 is on Netflix, Stargate Universe is on Amazon, but I can't find Atlantis anywhere.
Atlantis as well as the other two shows can be found on Hulu.
Milky Way Stargates are still the best. Then ring of glyphs looks like mystical symbols and it's ability to manually rotate always makes it more exciting. And the iris added to the Earth Stargate was an amazing addition.
I liked how in later seasons they made a bit more effort to come up with more home signs for specific gates. Like the world where everyone was in stasis on those virtual dream chairs. The symbol to get out of the dream world was also the Homesign on the DHD. After that episode I kept an eye on the background of different worlds, looking for anything that might be the home sign. The only example I remember was the world where everyone was living in a domed city and hooked to a supercomputer. There was a U shaped design on the central part of that computer that could have been a Stargate glyph.
Great Video. BUT the space gate you show at 7:54 is from the X-series Videogames.
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Top notch vid 👍
An interesting question is also: is the wormhole created at the point you dial? Or were the wormholes created at the same time the gates were and are just 'inflated' by the activation of the gate, but otherwise extremely small? Somehow it seems more satisfying to imagine the ancients stringing worlds together like a vast necklace or loom.
They have to be created with the dialing gate. How do we know this?
Well the fact that the stargate can be used in such unintended ways, such as:
1. A gate can unintentionally dial itself in the past.
2. A gate can dial all others at once if overwritten to do so.
3. The fact that the DHD's update each other's Gate Database with their Current Stellar Drift.
4. Gates not part of the original network being able to dial and be Dialed by gates on the network: Tolan, Carter's Basement, and the SuperGate
Basiclly since in point #3 the DHD's are used to calculate changes in Gates positions'
It unfortonetly can't be that there is a wormhole between EACH and EVERY stargate, in even One of the Networks
the wormhole is microscopic, the event horizon demolecularizes you and sends your atoms through the wormhole, along with an imprint memory of how to put you back together on the other side
Thanks for this video
I miss Stargate.
Thank you!
New subscriber here love you're channel keep it up
Thank you!
With Amazon taking over MGM, really hoping for a new SG series soon
OK you got my vote new sub here thank you 🙂
Thanks for the sub!
Love your voice. This is like Nerd ASMR.
I'd love to see your take on the Hypergate from the Lost in Space movie and perhaps your take on the Netflix series.
I would actually say, the gates on SGU are the first version. The gates on SG1 are the second version. The gates on SGA are the third and latest version. You can see the technological progress. The first version moves the entire gate, the second version moves just the inner ring, the third version moves nothing.
As someone with zero knowledge of stargate lore (never seen a single episode, always heard of it but tonight my curiosity had me click on this video) I have a couple questions. If they can only be used one way how do people get back to their original location? Can any gate be used as the transmitting gate? Is there always a conveniently placed DHD on location?
Gate travel is done with two gates. To say that a gate is one way travel is a bad statement, it makes it sound like you can open a gate to a place that doesn't have a gate and that's not true. When you open a gate you are connecting to another gate.
early in the SG-1 show the people transiting the wormhole would come out cold...covered in frost. later that went away. was that ever explained?
Yeah they do, I don’t remember which episode, but they say it’s because the Stellar Drift calculations got better. It’s part of them using their own dialing computer, and not a DHD.
You didn't mention that the Destiny stargates could be activated by the console in the gate room of destiny or by handheld tablets by travelers using the system. The tablets could not only connect a stargate to Destiny but to other stargates in range of the one that they're using which one team used to leapfrog stargates back to destiny
You also didn't mention the seed ships which traveled ahead of Destiny which plants new stargates that the ship automatically builds so that travelers from destiny can travel to in search for supplies
Seedships
@@shanenolan8252 Seedships? Seed ships?
What's the difference?
@@dragonweyr44 no difference. Sorry i may have written that wrong, i was just agreeing with you , they went out in advance and harvested material and manufactured the gates , and mapped the universe.
@@shanenolan8252 They harvested material? I never heard of them doing that
They refuel by diving into a star and collect solar energy but there is no mention of them landing on a planet in order to harvest raw materials. I don't think they even have the capability to
This kind of confuses me though as to how it can build endless numbers of stargates without gathering materials to do so
@@dragonweyr44 they actually do mention it , in the episode with lou diamond Phillips and the seedship .its automated i believe, the path the ship takes is following the gates seeded by the seedships. They move about exploring planets in search of raw materials and water and oxygen. They might have discussed it in other episodes but that one comes to mind
This is an unpopular opinion, but I always liked that the movie implied that space travel without the Stargates was possible, but slow and energy intensive, so the Stargates themselves were the only method of quickly and economically traveling between planets. Thus placing a Stargate required the slow travel to a planet and then building a gate there.
And then the show made it possible to travel between galaxies possible in a matter of days and nerfed the uniqueness of the Stargates themselves.
While this is a nice into and informative vid for someone whose never seen the show but most SG1 ,Atlantis and SGU fans who've seen most if not all of the episodes already know most of the info presented here. A few other things I think Dr. Jackson ( either James Spader or Michael Shanks ) coined the term DHD. I don't believe the Alterans ever named the device but DHD seems to stick throughout the franchise. Also in season 9 the fans learned the Ancients/Alterans refer to the Stargates as Astria Portas and we know from the show that different cultures have different names for the Stargates.
I loved the Movies and the Shows but there was a mistake made at the very beginning of this video that i have to correct, The race that created the stargates were not called The Ancients. That was only a reference to them, they in fact are called the Alterans.
I have my doubts of constellations being the mapping method of a super advanced technology. Constellations as seen from earth have been a "constant" through out recorded history, yes. However, to an advanced society that travels between galaxies the constellation method of mapping breaks down as star patterns would be infinitely different when viewed from different positions within a galaxy. For instance, say your ship drops out of hyperspace unexpectedly as you were traveling across the galaxy. The ship would need a navigational computer capable of mapping your position from scratch to determine your location. Not saying impossible but I would think very difficult with little to no frame of reference to begin. This is how the Jupiter One got "Lost in Space".
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In the 1st movie, the tracking system (however that worked) traced a path to another "galaxy", I forget the name. When the TV series picked up the torch, all gates were confined to our galaxy with a ZPM or planetary source of energy being required to get to the Asgard, Atlantis or Destiny. That inconsistency has always bugged me, but was never a deal breaker.
Another issue I had was with the Iris that was added a few seasons in. The formation of the event horizon is always a violent display and is shown several times to vaporize anything in its path. However, the iris is always closed prior to the gate finishing the inbound sequence. Why is it able to withstand the force of the blast?
I can only guess at the level of tech required to maintain subatomic clearances across an area that large to prevent matter from reintegrating at SGC's end. I mean, the event horizon itself is visibly rippling the whole time it's active.
I liked the series as long as I didn't think too much into these areas.
The iris was literally added on the first episode 20 minutes into it.
@@supermaster2012 OK. It's been awhile since I watched SG1 and I wasn't going back to get the exact episode it was added. Is that really all you had to say?
What is the background music?
Team Stargate ATLANTIS!!!
*Beam me up Scotty*
No wait.. Wrong matter-transporter, my bad😉
Thx nerd cookie 😎👍💖
7:30 is not a Stargate, it's a jumpgate from X3 Terran Conflict, in particular the south gate on Argon Prime.
Yeah but it looks pretty cool though, right? 😄
If only this kind of technology existed so that we can get from here to there within the planet Earth.
Stargate is probably my favorite sci-fi franchise. Even more so than Star Trek. A couple of things always bothered me though. One, I hate how they always acted like the area immediately surrounding the Stargate was basically an accurate representation of the planet as a whole. They'd be like "meh ... nothing to see here ... let's move on" and that'd be it for that planet. Second, I hated how they basically treated an entire galaxy like you would a planet. Like "oh so and so is in Pegasus ... let's go pay him a visit". Did the writers not realize just how gigantic even a small galaxy is? Third, why bother giving certain species their own language (for example, the Ja'ffa ... whose entire vocabulary apparently consists of just the word "kree"), and then have everybody else speak English? Star Trek suffered from this too ... but at least they explained it via the universal translator. In Stargate you basically just have to ignore it.
Still, Stargate was the GOAT as far as I'm concerned. Was a major part of my late teens and early adult hood.
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No discussion of how the Knox could control stargates by moving bare arms while the Aasgard use a small stone? Other species could also control them similarly.
My question has always been, how do they have enough symbols to make the networks work? If I recall, the symbols on the map are actually the ancient alphabet. Meaning there is a limit obviously of how many symbols it is. Then the last symbol is specifically the point of origin. My only guess is each location has a unique symbol that represents the world they are on. But then how would they be able to take one stargate to another world? Which we have seen them do several times. Which means that there would be a limit of how many worlds can use stargate a based on the amount of symbols on the stargate. Does anyone know the answer to this?
0:10 A pyramid built with rebar?
I'm a huge fan of the show, I know a lot about the ancient astronaut theory, but ive always wondered why the DHD's are of Gaould design (cosmetically) anyone help??
123 viewer and I have evidence for that!
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8:00 This isn't a Spacegate from Stargate. This is a gate from the X-Universe (a computer game).
I feel I’m the only one who loves the stargate program is secret to the public
Great franchise from a one off film
And eaglemoss has gotten the rights to do the ships
I believe that Stargates are very real.
What would happen if u went round back of Stargate and entered never seen anyone do that
Alterans - they did not call themselves the ancients...
I know it's fan fiction, but it feels just like a season of Stargate. The story follows a member of an SG team that encounters an ancient repository of knowledge and gets transformed into an ancient as a result. m.fanfiction.net/community/Stargate_Return_of_the_Ancients/68490/
I would love to see a more serious Star Gate reboot done on HBO or something.
I love the movie and enjoyed the shows, but I never felt like the shows were connected to the movie.
The show's always seemed like a cheap knockoff to me.
The Stargate SG1 franchise started out on Showtime before moving to the Sci-fi channel (as it was called then before becoming Syfy) The first season of SG1 was shown on Showtime at least partially and even featured nudity on the pilot episode which was edited out on syndication
god, no reboot. Shows are great and have an established universe. There is no need in reboot at all.
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I enjoyed SG1, but it was corny AF. It does not hold up.
Every planet they travel to looks exactly the same. Pine trees or a rock quarry. Because it was filmed in British Columbia. And it was often overcast or rainy.
The same boring planets over and over.
Shows are just better quality now.
the Iraq war was about a stargate. Saddam had it.
Am i the only one who thinks the earth one is version 1 of the gate. SG-1 Gate looks like my 1997 middle school Nokia cell phone, while Universe looks my high school cell phone that finally got some color, and the Atlantis on looks like my college colocate phone.
I'm here because I want to like Stargate but I just cant get into it
Keep watching. You'll get into it if you like most mainstream Sci-Fi. Like most Sci-Fi the first couple of seasons have a lot of cheesy parts. But as the show gets going, there are a lot of fun episodes. But you have to watch all the shows in order the first time because they build off of each other. So now you just need to sit down for 10 hours a day and get it done.😵💫 You'll thank me later! I just watched your videos. They use lots of fun guns in the show too. The Carter Special is one.
All of them
Pegasus stargate model
This is the real reason we invaded Iraq the last time. Saddam had a real stargate and he needed to be stopped from using it.
I adore SG-1, but the everyone-speaks-English problem always makes me a little ashamed to recommend it to people. If they'd just added in something to explain why we can all (usually) understand each other (like the translators in Star Trek or the parasites in Farscape or even something mildly telepathic, perhaps mediated by the Gates), I would not hesitate to call SG-1 the greatest sci-fi show ever. There's a really complex theory I read online which would technically work; but I just think it's a shame this wasn't handled better out of the gate (pun intended).
They never get into who the gould stole there spaceship technology from as the ascetic is probably home grown but the underlying systems most likely aren't. Can't imagine them bushwhacking ancients or Acer and they don't show many truly alien species in this show.
New TV Series or not?
What now??
I am like 971
Seems to me humans are the slaves or food for these beings.
CLICK BAIT!!! Sooo, where is the lore??? You just took some phrase from all the episodes and narated in this video for almost 10 minutes! CLICK BAIT!!!
If your going to lore then lore right they are the Alterans only the young races call them ancients.
Just me or does she sound hot? lol
My question has always been, how do they have enough symbols to make the networks work? If I recall, the symbols on the map are actually the ancient alphabet. Meaning there is a limit obviously of how many symbols it is. Then the last symbol is specifically the point of origin. My only guess is each location has a unique symbol that represents the world they are on. But then how would they be able to take one stargate to another world? Which we have seen them do several times. Which means that there would be a limit of how many worlds can use stargate a based on the amount of symbols on the stargate. Does anyone know the answer to this?