Recent involvement of science fiction writers include Harlan Ellison who served as a creative consultant on Babylon 5 and John Scalzi who served as a creative consultant on Stargate Universe.

Recent popular shows produced in Vancouver include The Dead Zone, Smallville, Andromeda, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Universe, The 4400, Sanctuary, and the reimagined Battlestar Galactica.

* Brad Wright, writer, producer, co-creator and / or executive producer of Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate Universe

* Icarus Base, a place in the series Stargate Universe

* Chloe Armstrong, in the television series Stargate Universe

* " Obelisk planet " — Stargate Universe

" Jack " O ' Neill, USAF is a fictional character in the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe, three science fiction shows about military teams exploring the universe via a network of alien transportation devices.

O ' Neill reappears as a lieutenant general in Stargate Universe with Nicholas Rush, where he is recruiting Eli Wallace into the Icarus Project.

Anderson has also had various guest appearances on the two spin off series ' Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe.

Anderson had several guest cameos scattered over the first season of Stargate Universe.

In total he appears in 6 episodes of Stargate Universe, the most of any main actor from Stargate SG-1.

* Nicholas Rush, a character in the television series Stargate Universe

In the fourth episode of Stargate Universe, the Ancient ship Destiny suffers an almost complete loss of power and must use aerobraking to change course.

In season 2 of Stargate: Universe, Episode " Common Decent-Part 1 " the ancestors of the crew state that one of the two continents was named " Futura ".

He also appeared in the tenth and eleventh episodes of Atlantis fifth and final season, and made a cameo appearance in the pilot of the third Stargate series Stargate Universe.

* Eli Wallace, a main character on Stargate Universe.

* The popular TV series Stargate SG-1 introduces ' Replicators ' as some of the deadliest enemies of life.

* NID ( Stargate – TV series )

*" Morpheus " ( Stargate SG-1 ), an episode of the sci-fi TV series Stargate SG-1

In the Stargate franchise, the TV show that followed the original film established the main antagonist from that film, the now-deceased Ra, as part of an alien species called the Goa ' uld, establishing many more instances of that species as enemies as the series progressed.

* " Aurora " ( Stargate Atlantis ), a TV episode

* " Threshold " ( Stargate SG-1 ), an episode of the TV series

These include A Clockwork Orange, The Snake Pit, Quantum Leap ( TV series ), Stargate, Frances, Requiem for a Dream, the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey as well as the movie adaptation, Melrose Place, A Beautiful Mind, The Caretaker, The Best of Youth, House ; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Shine, The Beverly Hillbillies ( film ), the film version of Girl, Interrupted, Insanitarium, Changeling, Ciao!

* ATA gene, Ancient Technology Activation Gene, in the Stargate science fiction TV series

There also have been TV series that are ( more or less ) direct spin-offs of successful films ( e. g. Highlander: The Series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate SG-1, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles ).

* Athos ( Stargate ), a fictional planet in the TV series Stargate Atlantis

* In the Sci-Fi TV series Stargate SG1, Unas is a species of sentient homonid and original host to the parasitic goa ' uld-the main antagonist species throughout the story arc.

Anderson was nominated in the category for " Best Male Performance in a 2008 Science Fiction Film, TV Movie, or Mini-Series " at the Constellation Awards in 2009 for his work in Stargate: Continuum ( 2008 ), where he reprised his role as O ' Neill.

* Stargate SG-1 In the TV series, the system Lord Yu Huang Shang Ti is reportedly based on this Emperor.

* In several episodes the TV series Stargate SG-1, whole planets are used as penal colonies, generally by the goa ' uld, e. g. Hadante in episode 25 ( season 2 )

* In the TV show, Stargate: SG-1, the native people of Earth successfully rebel against the Goa ' uld in 2995 BC.

* Anti-Replicator Gun on the TV shows Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis

He made guest appearances on TV series like Highlander, University Hospital, and The Outer Limits, appeared in the TV movie A Family Divided and had a small role in The Call of the Wild, before winning the role of Daniel Jackson on Stargate SG-1.

He was on the Stargate SG-1 hockey team, competing against the teams of other Vancouver-based productions such as Smallville, and also displayed his aptitude for the sport in the 2006 TV movie Under the Mistletoe, in which he played the part of a school hockey coach.

Ancient astronaut theory has been used as background or main topic in many fictional works such as Lovecraft's short story " The Call of Cthulhu " ( 1926 ), the movie Stargate ( 1994 ), the movie Knowing ( 2009 ), the movie Prometheus ( 2012 ), the TV show Earth: Final Conflict, and innumerable comic books, manga books and video games.

* Athena, a fictional character in the TV series Stargate SG-1

Athena appears in the television series Stargate SG-1 when she kidnaps Vala Mal Doran to gain information on the Clava Thessara Infinitas ( The Key to Infinite Treasure ).

In all the Stargate television series, characters are able to communicate instantaneously over long distances by transferring their consciousness into another person or being anywhere in the universe using " Ancient communication stones ".

* The hall inspired the name of an Asgard starship commanded by Supreme Commander Thor, in the television series Stargate SG-1 named Beliskner.

In the Canadian-American military science fiction series Stargate SG-1 and later in the series Stargate Atlantis, Daedalus is the name for the second interstellar and first intergalactic spaceship built by Homeworld Security.

* Gene therapy plays a major role in the sci-fi series Stargate Atlantis, as a certain type of alien technology can only be used if one has a certain gene which can be given to the members of the team through gene therapy involving a mouse retrovirus.

In 2006 and 2007, the television series Stargate SG-1 used Merlin and Arthurian legend as major plot points.

series Stargate SG-1, a minor Goa ' uld was named " Nerus ".

* " Nemesis " ( Stargate SG-1 ), episode 22 of season 3 of the 1997 science fiction series

* Stargate Infinity, an animated television series

The Burnaby campus has been prominently featured in science fiction television series such as Stargate SG-1, Battlestar Galactica, and Andromeda.

By the time the series ended, The X-Files had become the longest-running science fiction series in U. S. television history, though it was subsequently surpassed by Stargate SG-1 in 2007 and by Smallville in 2011.

* " Descent " ( Stargate SG-1 ), an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1

Jack O ' Neill is a fictional character in the Stargate film and television series.