* Abydos ( Stargate ), name of a fictional planet in the Stargate science fiction universe

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 ".

* In the Stargate Universe TV series, an Ancient spaceship, Destiny, travels to an artificial source of CMBR with indications that the universe as we know it might have been created by some form of sentient intelligence.

The plot centers around the premise of a " Stargate ", an ancient ring-shaped device that creates a wormhole enabling travel to a similar device elsewhere in the universe.

* In Stargate universe, the ancient human civilization of 8000 B. C encounters a Pyramidal Spacecraft, supposedly of the Alien Ra, who has been searching the Galaxy for a Host which can sustain his dying form and prevent his demise.

* In the Stargate universe, attitudes toward a noninterference policy vary:

* Puddle jumper, a spacecraft in the fictional Stargate universe

* Melia ( Stargate ), a member of the Atlantean High Council in the Stargate fictional universe

* Erebus is the name of a planet in the 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.

Executive producer Brad Wright stressed the importance of O ' Neill's presence in the Stargate universe even after the character went on hiatus during the last two seasons of SG-1 when Anderson took a leave from regular acting.

Following the precedent set by Star Trek, these story arcs show alternative universes that have turned out " worse " than the " original " universe: in Stargate SG-1 the first two encountered parallel realities featured Earth being overwhelmed by an unstoppable Goa ' uld onslaught ; in Buffy, two episodes concern a timeline in which Buffy came to Sunnydale too late to stop the vampires from taking control ; Lois & Clark repeatedly visits an alternative universe where Clark Kent's adoptive parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent, died when he was ten years of age, and Lois Lane is also apparently dead.

* Ida Galaxy, a fictional galaxy in the Stargate fictional universe, home galaxy to the Asgard

Unlike, for instance, the Stargate universe, the different species are shown to have their own languages ( for instance, Huttese ), which are “ translated ” for the viewer by means of subtitles, or a third character acting as an interpreter.

Within the Stargate franchise universe, force fields function in much the same way.

* Ancient ( Stargate ), a race who built the Stargates in the Stargate universe

* Drone Weapon, in the Stargate universe

The writers and producers of Stargate SG-1 and the main canon of the Stargate franchise were not involved with Infinity, and neither MGM, the production teams nor the fans of Stargate consider Infinity to be an official part of the Stargate universe.

* In the Stargate SG-1 fourth season episode " Scorched Earth ", a Human society known as the Enkarans are threatened on their new homeworld by an alien ship that is terraforming the planet to be suitable for the sulfur-based Gadmeer species.

* In the Stargate Atlantis fifth season episode " Remnants ", a device is found whose purpose was to seed a planet with silicon-based life.

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.

Well known cinematic movies, which deal with Khufu or at least have the Great Pyramid as a theme, are Howard Hawks ' Land of the Pharaohs from 1955, a fictional account of the building of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, and Roland Emmerich ´ s Stargate from 1994, in which an extraterrestrial device is found near the pyramids.

James Todd Spader ( born February 7, 1960 ) is an American actor best known for his eccentric roles in films such as Pretty in Pink ; Less Than Zero ; Sex, Lies, and Videotape ; Crash ; Stargate ; and Secretary.

Rarer are shows based on space travel without vehicles ; Stargate SG-1 is the prime example.

The robotic Cylons in the new version of Battlestar Galactica are usually animated characters, while the Asgard in Stargate SG-1 are animated when they are shown walking around or more than one is on screen at once.

Stargate ( French: Stargate, la porte des étoiles ) is a 1994 American French epic adventure-military science fiction film released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ) and Carolco Pictures.

Created by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, the film is the first release in the Stargate franchise.

While these humans eventually rebelled and buried the Stargate, thousands of others had been taken to the other planet through the Stargate and used to mine the quartzite-like mineral on which all of Ra's technology is based.

Ra reveals his intention to send the atomic bomb brought by O ' Neil, which was to be used to destroy the Stargate to prevent invasion if a threat is discovered, back to Earth ; its destructive power is now to be enhanced 100-fold with an accompanying shipment of his quartzite-like material to produce cataclysmic results.

Jackson decides to remain on the planet with Sha ' uri, and the team is able to return to Earth through the Stargate.

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

An episode of Stargate SG-1 is named after the story, The Torment of Tantalus.

In contrast to many other fictional FTL technologies, such as a " jump drive " or the Infinite Improbability Drive, the warp drive does not permit instantaneous travel between two points ; instead, warp drive technology creates an artificial " bubble " of normal space-time that surrounds the spacecraft ( as opposed to entering a separate realm or dimension like hyperspace, as is used in the Star Wars, Stargate franchise, Warhammer 40, 000, Babylon 5 and Andromeda universes ).

* 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.

The Stargate franchise is based on this concept, where an alien race visited Earth and took on the mantle of ancient gods with the intent of capturing different groups of humans and sending them elsewhere to use as slave labor or corporal hosts.

Another example of this is in two episodes of the popular sci-fi show Stargate SG-1 an alien race known as the Aschen befriend humans and share their advanced technology and medicine freely in exchange for stargate addresses.

* 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.

Many of these were under contract by the U. S. government as part of the espionage program Stargate Project, which terminated in 1995 having failed, in the government's eyes, to document any practical intelligence value.

" Dr. Julian Bashir ( Alexander Siddig ) from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Doctor from Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: First Contact and Dr. Phlox from Star Trek: Enterprise all use variations of the line, which has also made its way into many other shows such as Stargate Atlantis, Robot Chicken, Terra Nova, and Friends.

After the creation of Stargate Command ( SGC ) in " Children of the Gods ", the pilot episode of Stargate SG-1, he is given command of the primary SG team, SG-1, which consists of Daniel Jackson, Teal ' c and Samantha " Sam " Carter.

He was presented with an award at the Air Force Association's 57th Annual Air Force Anniversary Dinner in Washington, D. C. on September 14, 2004 because of his role as star and executive producer of Stargate SG-1, a series which has portrayed the Air Force in a positive light since it first premiered.

In many science fiction worlds such as Star Trek and Stargate, there are cloaking devices, which provide a way to avoid detection or to make an object appear invisible.

* In 2006, the 200th episode of television show Stargate SG-1 includes a segment in which SG-1 and crew are featured as puppets in this same style.

Well known cinematic movies, which deal with Khufu or at least have the Great Pyramid as a theme, are Howard Hawks ' Land of the Pharaohs from 1955, a fictional account of the building of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, and Roland Emmerich's Stargate from 1994, in which an extraterrestrial device is found near the pyramids.

* In Stargate Atlantis third season episode " The Ark ", Colonel Sheppard's team discovers a facility inside a hollowed-out moon that turns out to be an ark created by the people of the planet around which the moon is in orbit.

In contrast a major plot element of the original Stargate movie was that Daniel Jackson had to learn the language of the people of Abydos in the common way, which turned out to be derived from ancient Egyptian.

In 2010, Shanks appeared in an episode of Sanctuary, which stars fellow Stargate actor Amanda Tapping.

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.

* A story within which that story ( or a story based on it ) is a work of fiction ( e. g. Stargate SG-1's " Wormhole X-Treme!

Similarly, in its spin-off show Stargate Atlantis, the explanation offered for the humanoid appearance of the Wraith is that the Wraith evolved from a parasite which incorporated human DNA into its own genome after feeding on humans, giving the Wraith their present form.