43 Facts About Stargate SG-1

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Story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets and in space.

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Stargate SG-1 is an elite United States Air Force special operations team, one of about 20 teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, the Replicators and the Ori.

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Stargate SG-1 was honored with numerous awards and award nominations in its ten-season run.

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Merchandise for Stargate SG-1 includes games and toys, print media and an original audio series.

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The SGC is brought back into action when the Stargate SG-1 is revealed to be part of an interplanetary network connecting countless planets.

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Earth's flagship team Stargate SG-1, which includes Apophis's defected First Prime Teal'c, initiates several alliances with other cultures in the galaxy, such as the Goa'uld-like but truly symbiotic Tok'ra, the advanced human Tollan, the pacifist Nox, the benevolent Roswell-alien Asgard and remnants of the powerful Ancients.

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The only influential Goa'uld in the last two seasons of Stargate SG-1 is the System Lord Ba'al, who is defeated in the direct-to-DVD film Stargate: Continuum.

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Human-form Replicators begin to conquer the System Lords, but Stargate SG-1 finds and adjusts an Ancient weapon to destroy all Replicators throughout the galaxy.

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

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Stargate SG-1 was filmed in and around Vancouver, British Columbia, mainly at The Bridge Studios and NORCO Studios, which offered Stargate SG-1 tax breaks throughout its run.

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All episodes were filmed in 16:9 wide-screen, although Stargate SG-1 was broadcast in 4:3 aspect ratio in its first years.

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Stargate SG-1 employed about 200 Canadian union workers, although that number could exceed 300 when new sets were built.

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The new Stargate SG-1 was engineered to turn, to lock the chevrons and to be computer-controlled to dial specific gate addresses.

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Since visual effects are sometimes faster and cheaper, a computer-generated Stargate SG-1 was occasionally used in on-location shoots in later seasons.

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Stargate SG-1's Egyptian look was reflective of the Goa'uld Ra from the feature film and was complemented with a forehead symbol and a gold skin tone, although his make-up process was simplified over the years.

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Stargate SG-1 was one of the biggest employers in the Vancouver visual effects market, spending $400,000 per episode.

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The main titles of Stargate SG-1 were a medley of several themes from the feature film, although Goldsmith wrote a unique end title for SG-1 to establish the show as its own entity.

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Goldsmith's reliance on Arnold's score decreased over the seasons when Stargate SG-1 departed from the Goa'uld theme and introduced new characters and races.

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Stargate SG-1 has had several opening title sequences, which are generally preceded by a teaser act.

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Some DVD versions of early Stargate SG-1 seasons have different opening credits from the television versions, as do the direct-to-DVD films.

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The Stargate SG-1 producers had run out of time before the premiere of Season 1 and simply re-used the accelerated opening title sequence of the feature film.

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Stargate SG-1 takes place in a military science fiction environment and employs the common science fiction concepts of strongly differentiated characters fighting an unequivocally evil enemy.

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Stargate SG-1 introduces new alien races less often than other science fiction television series and integrates newly encountered races or visited planets in stand-alone episodes into its established mythology while leaving the plotlines accessible for new audience members.

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Producers embraced humor and wanted Stargate SG-1 to be a fun show that did not take itself too seriously.

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Stargate SG-1 makes meta-textual references to the process of writing and filming a science fiction TV series in several episodes and alludes to the main actors' previous TV roles in the pilot episode and in a Farscape vignette in the milestone episode "200".

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Since Stargate SG-1 was expensive to produce, MGM arranged an agreement with Showtime that SG-1 could air in syndication six months after their premiere on Showtime.

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Since Stargate SG-1 ratings were good from a financial standpoint, the Sci Fi Channel picked up MGM's offer to continue the show into a sixth season, yet with a slightly reduced budget.

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Originally envisioned as a replacement for SG-1, the spin-off series Stargate Atlantis began airing in tandem with SG-1 eighth season in summer 2004, setting a series record of 3.

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Stargate SG-1 had a particularly fervent response in the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Australia.

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Stargate SG-1 aired in the United Kingdom on Sky One with repeats on Sky Two, Sky Three and Channel 4.

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31.

Brad Wright found it "almost embarrassing" that Stargate SG-1 was much more popular in the United Kingdom than in Canada, where the show aired on Space, Citytv, A-Channel, Movie Central and French-language channels TQS and Ztele.

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Stargate SG-1 aired in Australia on Sci Fi Australia and Channel Seven.

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33.

The second film, Stargate SG-1: Continuum, is an alternate time-line time travel story and was released in July 2008.

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Stargate SG-1 was first released on DVD in some European nations in volumes of typically four episodes each, beginning with "The Best of Season 1" as Volume 1 in the United Kingdom in 2000.

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New episodes of Stargate SG-1 were first released on iTunes in the US in August 2006, each time one day after their premiere on the Sci Fi Channel.

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All ten seasons of Stargate SG-1 were available on iTunes and Amazon Unbox by January 2008.

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Free access to all Stargate SG-1 episodes continued until July 31,2011, when the episodes were finally removed.

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In 2003, after spinoff series Stargate Atlantis was greenlit, SG-1 enjoyed more mainstream exposure.

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Stargate SG-1 was included in the list of "17 All-Time Great Cult TV Shows You Say We Missed" by Entertainment Weekly in 2009.

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Stargate SG-1 was nominated for numerous awards during its ten-season run.

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Stargate SG-1 won two Gemini Awards, twelve Leo Awards and five Saturn Awards out of over thirty nominations each.

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Stargate SG-1 was nominated for two VES Awards in 2003 and 2005 and for two Hugo Awards in 2005 and 2007.

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Stargate SG-1 spawned the animated Stargate Infinity, and the live-action spin-off TV series' Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe.

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