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It's a crazy trip!<br />

You can go quite far and you don't need a car<br />

 

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.

Works set in the [[Stargate Verse]] include:

 

** ''Stargate: [[The Ark of Truth]]'', direct-to-DVD sequel to ''SG-1'' concluding the Ori <s>[[Incredibly Lame Pun|ark]]</s> [[Story Arc|arc]].

* ''Stargate: Revolution'' and ''Stargate: Extinction'', planned direct-to-DVD movies of SG-1 and Atlantis respectively, which will hopefully be made sometime.

 

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:

 

* 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.

* Jaffa, a human-descended race genetically modified by the Goa'uld to serve as their [[Slave Race|soldiers]] and as [[Body Horror|organic life support systems]] for juvenile Goa'uld. After the fall of the Goa'uld, the Jaffa attempt to form a democratic, egalitarian society despite the fact that their history consists entirely of killing one another over their masters' territorial disputes. It turns out about as well as you'd imagine.

* Nox, an ancient and super-advanced race of peaceful tree-huggers who keep to themselves. It is likely that many of Earth's various legends of "The Little People" or "[[The Fair Folk]]" are actually about the Nox.

* Furlings, an ancient and super-advanced race (notice the pattern?) who have, as yet, not bothered to show up. (A [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade is hung]] in the episode "Citizen Joe", wherein one of Joe's readers is annoyed that he keeps mentioning them even though they never actually appear.)

** Although this may be because they are dead, since [[SG 1]] did find a Furling colony once where they had created a paradise and lived in harmony with nature, until some plant that caused paranoia was introduced. The skeletons looked like short humans, although since they invited everyone to come join them, those skeletons might really have been human.

* The Unity, a race of crystalline energy beings who only appeared in one episode.

* The A't'trr, a [[Hive Mind]] race of microbes who only appeared in one episode.

* Then there's the unnamed "foothold aliens," a mildly humanoid, technologically advanced race that briefly conquered Stargate Command using devices that let each of them take on the appearance of a captured human individual. They were only seen in one episode, but their captured devices were used again later. It's not clear what these guys actually look like, as they seem to constantly wear armour or environment suits... unless ''that's'' just their normal appearance.

** For the record, the RPG calls them the Stragoth.

* <s>An unnamed race of aquatic humanoids</s> [[All There in the Manual|Oannes]], who had visited Earth during Babylonian times appeared in one episode.

* Another unnamed race of gill-faced humanoids possessed of shapeshifting and teleportation powers appeared as protectors to a dislocated tribe of Native Americans in one episode.

* 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.

 

 

Notable characteristics of the [[Stargate Verse]] include:

* [[Artifact Collection Agency]]: The SGC fills this role, among others

* [[Auto Doc]]: Sarcophagi.

* [[The Battlestar]]: For bonus points, the human battlecruisers even bear a passing resemblance to the ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', with a hangar bay mounted on each side of the main hull. The similarities end there, however. The Goa'uld ships instead look like flying pyramids, and the Asgard ships look vaguely like giant hammers or axes. Other ship designs vary widely.

* [[Continuity Overlap]]

* [[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).

* [[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.

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]