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

Devlin and Emmerich gave the rights to the franchise to MGM when they were working on their 1996 film Independence Day ( the rights to the Stargate film are currently owned by StudioCanal, with Lions Gate Entertainment handling most distribution in terms of international theatrical and worldwide home video releases ); however, MGM retains the domestic television rights.

** Aurora class battleship, a ship in the Stargate franchise

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 ).

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.

* Stargate: Continuum, a 2008 direct-to-DVD movie of the Stargate franchise

* Stargate, a Canadian-American military science fiction media franchise running from 1994, 1997 – 2011

* Wraith dart, a starship in the Stargate franchise

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

* Goa ' uld, a fictional race in the Stargate franchise

Stargate Infinity ( often abbreviated as SGI or just Infinity ) is an American animated science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ( MGM ) Stargate franchise, but is not considered official Stargate canon.

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.

It is also a story line in the Stargate franchise with the ascension of Daniel Jackson and the Ancients.

the supreme ruling entity of the Asgard race in the fictional Stargate franchise

Sky2's programming mostly features sci-fi programming such as Futurama, the Stargate franchise and Star Trek Enterprise.

The Goa ' uld ( pronounced ; commonly shortened to or ) are a fictional symbiotic race of ancient astronauts from the American-Canadian military science fiction television franchise Stargate.

) is a fictional character in the Stargate franchise.

Davis turned towards painting and sculpting, but continued to work in the film and television industry including the Stargate franchise, continuing to appear in every season of Stargate SG-1.

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

* 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.

* NID ( Stargate – TV series )

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

* " 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

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.

He also requested Stargate SG-1 to be more of an ensemble show, so that he would not be carrying the plot alone as on MacGyver.

* 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.

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.

He has played a minor recurring role as Cowen, leader of the Genii on the Sci-Fi Channel ( now Syfy ) series Stargate Atlantis, guest-starred on Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and appeared as Bob O ' Donnell on the ABC show Men In Trees.

MacGyver has become a verb, as in " The car broke down but he MacGyvered a fix to get home ", and was even used in Stargate SG-1, a later show featuring Richard Dean Anderson as a protagonist.

In the first episode of Anderson's later show, Stargate SG-1, Amanda Tapping mentions that the Air Force had to " MacGyver " a Dial Home Device for the Stargate, and a split-second shot following this shows Anderson twitching an eyebrow.

Shanks played archaeologist Dr. Daniel Jackson throughout the first five seasons of Stargate SG-1 before leaving the show, citing creative differences concerning the under-use of his character and the direction of the show as a whole.

), the show or film's theme song ( e. g. the final scene of " Homer's Triple Bypass ", from The Simpsons ; when Sam Carter hums the theme from Stargate SG-1 during the episode " Chimera "; the second Collector from Demon Knight ; when Mr. Incredible whistles theme music from The Incredibles ; when all the characters in the film Magnolia begin to sing the background music-" Wise Up " by Aimee Mann ; in Almost Famous, when one character begins to sing the background music-" Tiny Dancer " by Elton John-and all of the other characters around him immediately pick it up and sing along as well ; the moments when Sam Lowry of Brazil hums / listens to / sings the film's self-titled theme song ; when Daryl Van Horne whistles theme music from The Witches of Eastwick ; in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone when Rubeus Hagrid is briefly heard playing the main theme on a recorder ); when Quinton ' Rampage ' Jackson ( as B. A.

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.

* 46 is the number that unlocks the Destiny spaceship on the popular Sci-Fi TV show Stargate Universe.

The show was created by Eric Lewald and Michael Maliani, as a spin-off series of Stargate SG-1 created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner after the release of Stargate ( 1994 ).

Showtime's announcement to not renew Stargate SG-1 after season 5 coincided with Shanks's decision to leave the show for concerns of being underutilized.

After Stargate SG-1 was canceled, Judge began writing a script for a show called Rage of Angels that he intended to be " the lead in an hour formatted show and prove that a black lead can be commercially viable and sustainable in overseas markets.

The Atlantis Project as seen in Stargate Atlantis is part of the Stargate Program but works independently during season 1 of the show.

Stargate Universe in 2009 became the first space-based science fiction show to feature an openly gay character in its primary cast, which was " Camille Wray " played by Ming-Na.

In the show Stargate SG-1, the DNA Resequencer was a device built by the Ancients, designed to make extreme upgrades to humans by realigning their DNA and upgrading their brain activity.