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* 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. |
* 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. |
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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 [[ |
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]], but those have been around since [[The Sixties]], whereas the ''[[Stargate (Film)|Stargate]]'' movie was released in 1994. |
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Notable characteristics of the [[Stargate Verse]] include: |
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* [[Cukoloris]]: To avoid CGI costs, the open gate is in many shots offscreen but its flickering light -- produced by a stagehand warping a flexible mirror -- illuminates the rest of the scene. |
* [[Cukoloris]]: To avoid CGI costs, the open gate is in many shots offscreen but its flickering light -- produced by a stagehand warping a flexible mirror -- illuminates the rest of the scene. |
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* [[Fantastic Rank System]]: The Goa'uld have the rank of First Prime, which is comparable to a [[Real Life]] Field Marshal. |
* [[Fantastic Rank System]]: The Goa'uld have the rank of First Prime, which is comparable to a [[Real Life]] Field Marshal. |
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* [[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). |
* [[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). |
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* [[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 (TV)|Stargate Universe]] and [[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|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]]. |
* [[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 (TV)|Stargate Universe]] and [[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|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]]. |
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