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Line 8: \|The writers of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', singing [[With Lyrics\|the theme tune]]}} To most of the earth-bound humans in it, the [['''Stargate Verse]]''' is [[Plausible Deniability\|indistinguishable from the universe in which we viewers live]]. It's present-day, there isn't a whole lot of [[Applied Phlebotinum]] that you'd notice, and human history has unfolded just the way you remember, so far as you know. About the only difference is that there's about 80 billion dollars in the US military budget that no one can adequately account for. Oh, wait. In fact, human history unfolded in a radically different way than they teach in school. First, [[Ancient Astronauts\|the pyramids were built by aliens]]. Line 14: Many millions of years ago, aliens that looked exactly like humans evolved elsewhere in the universe, advanced to a stunning level, and filled the galaxy with really nifty [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]] before [[Energy Beings\|buggering off to a higher plane of existence]]. Some time later, a race of parasitic aliens called the Goa'uld invaded Earth, built pyramids, inspired (or assumed the personalities of) the various mythological gods, and created a human diaspora in order to serve them as slaves on other worlds, resulting in large populations of ''Homo sapiens'' throughout the galaxy. Really, the defining element of the [[Stargate Verse]] is the Stargates: a [[Portal Network]] allowing instantaneous travel between the various worlds. Upon finding Earth's long-lost Stargate, the US Military promptly went out into the universe, and, mostly through pluck and determination, set out to completely rewrite the status quo, despite the fact that the rest of the galaxy is a lot more advanced. Fortunately, we're really good at it. So, as of 2010, while to most of the people on Earth, it does not seem like anything interesting is going on, we actually have offworld colonies, two expeditions to distant galaxies, and ''five'' (intact) intergalactic starships (''Daedalus,'' ''Apollo,'' ''Odyssey,'' ''George Hammond,'' and ''Sun-Tzu''; two older intergalactic starships, ''Prometheus'' and ''Korolev'', have been destroyed). Works set in the [[Stargate Verse]] include: * ''[[Stargate (film)\|Stargate]]'', the movie that started it all. Line 27: * ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', [[Spin-Off]] of SG-1 taking place in... yes, exactly there. Begins chronologically after season 7 of ''[[Stargate SG-1\|SG-1]]''. * ''[[Stargate Universe]]'', Continuation of the universe with a whole new cast trapped aboard an ancient spaceship. The plot is (vaguely) similar to ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' or ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''. Cancelled after the second season. * ''Stargate: Revolution'' and ''Stargate: Extinction'', planned direct-to-DVD movies of SG-1 and Atlantis respectively. Scripts were written, ~~which~~but ''Revolution'' is on hiatus ~~will~~and ~~hopefully~~''Extinction'' behas ~~made~~been ~~sometime~~cancelled. * Some [[Big Finish]] audio plays. The [[Stargate Verse]] is rare even in [[Science Fiction]] for having particularly [[Casual Interstellar Travel\|cheap and easy interstellar]] (and later, ''intergalactic'') travel. The other defining element of the [[Stargate Verse]] is that there are a ''lot'' of [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien\|Godlike Aliens]], representing a wide range of concepts of [[God]], degrees of Godlikeness, and degrees of friendliness. Another relatively unusual feature of the [[Stargate Verse]] is the scarcity of aliens: aliens do indeed exist, and the universe is teeming with life, but the entire population of the universe seems to consist of no more than two dozen or so distinct races: * Humans, who --– thanks to the diaspora --– live everywhere in the Milky Way Galaxy. Those from Earth specifically are called the [[Humans by Any Other Name\|Tau'ri]]. Humans also inhabit the Pegasus Galaxy and the unnamed galaxy of the Ori due to being "seeded" through genetic engineering by the Ancients and Ori. * Goa'uld, a race of [[Starfish Aliens\|snakelike parasites]] who, until recently, ran most of the galaxy by pretending to be [[A God Am I\|gods]]. Goa'uld require an individual of another race or species to host them in order to survive, and most Goa'uld take full control over their host. They steal technology, filling their "parasite" role in multiple ways. Oh, and their sarcophagus technology, which they can use to heal themselves (or to bring their corpses [[Back from the Dead\|back to life]]). Unfortunately, this rejuvenation process is part of what makes them so evil (as revealed when Daniel becomes addicted to using a sarcophagus... and his personality mirrors that of a Goa'uld). ** Some Goa'uld, however, decided that this system of involuntary symbiosis was evil. They call themselves Tok'ra, which means "Against Ra" (who was the Goa'uld emperor [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil\|at the time]]). Tok'ra live in voluntary symbiosis with their humanoid hosts. [[Not So Different\|Usually]]. Also, they don't use the sarcophagus technology. Line 67 ⟶ 66: * Berserker Drones, a type of mechanical drones that were created a long time ago with the unfortunately vague directions to "[[Literal Genie\|Destroy all alien technology.]]" This backfired on their creators and got them destroyed, and they've been terrorizing their local galaxy ever since, specifically the Ursini. Most of the final episodes of SGU deal with ''Destiny'''s desperate attempts to avoid them. Despite being one of the newer Scifi franchises (compared to, y'know, the [[Star Wars\|other]] [[Star Trek\|franchises]] that start with "Star") The [[Stargate Verse]] is the third longest science fiction franchise in terms of hours. No single ''Trek'' series has more episodes than ''Stargate: SG-1''. It's a ''long'' way from either ''[[Doctor Who]]'' or ''[[Star Trek]]'' as a whole, but those have been around since [[The Sixties]], whereas the ''[[Stargate (film)\|Stargate]]'' movie was released in 1994. Not to be confused with poetry about stargates. {{Franchisetropes\|Notable characteristics of the [[Stargate Verse]] include:}} * [[Artifact Collection Agency]]: The SGC fills this role, among others Line 81 ⟶ 82: * [[Fantastic Rank System]]: The Goa'uld have the rank of First Prime, which is comparable to a [[Real Life]] Field Marshal. * [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]] * [[Genre Savvy]]: Unlike in many settings involving interplanetary travel and fantastical conflicts, almost all the protagonists in the [[Stargate Verse]] are people from the modern Western world who are well aware that their daily life resembles science fiction. It shows: every series has at least one [[Deadpan Snarker]], characters frequently [[Lampshade Hanging\|lampshade]] bizarre events, and the intended plan for any situation is usually [[Awesome Yet Practical]] (it rarely ''succeeds'', but at least they ''try'' to be practical). * [[Humans Are Their Own Precursors]]: The Ancients, at least those that haven't become or ceased to be [[Energy Beings]], look identical to modern humans, and many modern humans retain enough Ancient genetics to use their gene-locked technology. Atlantis is indeed their creation, though [[Stargate Atlantis\|it's a spaceship city]]. * [[Mildly Military]]: All the television series set in the [[Stargate Verse]] include active duty military characters, and all have a very loose approach to orders and discipline, but that has relatively rare and minor repercussions for them. In ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' and ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', that's because the expeditions were cut off from Earth and fending for themselves (at first, at least). In SG-1, it's because the titular team is the best in their respective areas and in some cases outside the military chain of command entirely, so their bosses have no choice but to put up with insubordination, making them [[Bunny Ears Lawyer\|Bunny Ears Lawyers]]. * [[Nigh Invulnerability]]: There are many examples of this trope in the verse - almost every category has an example: The Ori are ''Gods'', The Ori Priors have ''Divine Protection'', The Kull warriors are ''Made of diamond'', the Black Knights are ''Made of air'', Human-form replicators are ''The Blob'', the Wraith, the first Unas and the Replicators have ''Regeneration'', Anubis: ''Can only kill part of him'', Ba'al and the Replicators have ''Multiple bodies'' and Apophis had ''Extreme luck'' during the first four seasons.<br /><br />Daniel Jackson, while not actually invulnerable in any reliable or definitive way, has managed to recover from death on a frightening number of occasions, arguably placing him in ''Resurrection''. To the point where the fanon has him dying and recovering on an almost monthly basis. ** Daniel Jackson, while not actually invulnerable in any reliable or definitive way, has managed to recover from death on a frightening number of occasions, arguably placing him in ''Resurrection'' to the point where the fanon has him dying and recovering on an almost monthly basis. * [[Our Vampires Are Different]] * [[Plausible Deniability]] Line 113 ⟶ 116: {{reflist}} {{Stargate Franchise}} {{The Troper Board on Multiversal Travel}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] Line 119 ⟶ 123: [[Category:Trope Overdosed]] [[Category:The Verse]] ~~[[Category:index]]~~ ~~[[Category:Franchises]]~~ [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]] [[Category:TV Series]]