History StargateSG1 / SToZ

* YouDONOTWantToKnow: In "Space Race", while acting as a co-pilot in an Alien Grande Prix, Samantha Carter hears some alien trash talk. Her pilot tells a competitor to "Eat Greeven!" When she asks what 'Greeven' is, he tells her "Don't ask."

* TheVoiceless: "Wormhole X-Treme!", deals with the making of an episode of Wormhole X-Treme!, a ShowWithinAShow. Douglas Anders, the actor who plays the role of of Grell the robot on Wormhole X-Treme!, does not speak, and, on a few occasions, is cut off just before he has the chance to do so. However, 100 episodes later, in "200", he is the one who delivers the episode's closing speech, where he quotes Creator/IsaacAsimov.

* TheVoiceless: In "Wormhole X-Treme!", the character of Douglas Anders, who plays the role of of Grell the robot on Wormhole X-Treme!, does not speak, and, on a few occasions, is cut off just before he has the chance to do so. However, 100 episodes later, in "200", he is the one who delivers the episode's closing speech, where he quotes Creator/IsaacAsimov.

* TheVoiceless: In "Wormhole X-Treme!", the character of Douglas Anders, playing the role of of Grell the robot in the fictional TV show, does not speak, and on a few occasions, is cut off just before he has the chance to do so. However, 100 episodes later in "200", he is given the closing speech, which has him quoting Creator/IsaacAsimov.

* TheVoicless: In "Wromhole X-Treme!" the character of Dougless Anders, playing the role of of Grell the robot in the fictional TV show, does not speak, and on a few ocassions, is cut off just before he has the chance to do so. However, 100 episodes later in "200," he is given the closing speech, which has him quoting Creator/IsaacAsimov.

* SpinoffBabies: In "200", the titular briefly imagine being replaced with younger, hipper versions of themselves. They aren't pleased with the result.

* UntranslatedCatchPhrase: "Jaffa, kree!" or just "Kree!" "Jaffa" is the name of the Goa'uld's servitor race, so that part makes sense. . . shouting "Jaffa" to get the attention of all Jaffa in the vicinity. But "kree" remained unknown until season three.
-->'''O'Neill''': Okay, I have to know: just what the hell does "kree" mean?
-->'''Daniel''': Uhhh... actually it means a lot of things... listen up, pay attention, concentrate.
-->'''O'Neill''': (incredulously) Yoo-hoo?

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: General Landry has a habit of quoting famous historical generals, and he is in turn occasionally quoted by Colonel Mitchell. In "Counterstrike", Mitchell repeats a quote Landry has given, explaining it came from [[Literature/TheArtOfWarSunTzu Sun Tzu]], but he then amended that Landry might have actually been repeating [[Series/DoctorPhil Dr. Phil]] that time. In the next scene, when Landy provides a different quote to Bra'tac, who praises the wisdom of the warrior who provided it, Landry said that that time he ''was'' quoting Dr. Phil.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: General Landry has a habit of quoting famous historical generals, and he is in turn occasionally quoted by Colonel Mitchell. In "Counterstrike", Mitchell repeats a quote Landry has given, explaining it came from [[Literature/TheArtOfWar Sun Tzu]], but he then amended that Landry might have actually been repeating [[Series/DoctorPhil Dr. Phil]] that time. In the next scene, when Landy provides a different quote to Bra'tac, who praises the wisdom of the warrior who provided it, Landry said that that time he ''was'' quoting Dr. Phil.

* SuperCellReception:
** The episode "Threads" has Carter's cell phone ring in the SGC briefing room. The briefing room is 28 floors underground inside a mountain. (See also RuleOfFunny, given that she thought she had it turned off.)
** In "200", Martin Lloyd complains that his cell reception is terrible in the SGC briefing room. As above, the fact that he gets any signal at all is a miracle. Again, RuleOfFunny may be in play given the mostly parodic nature of the episode.
** Justified. The real Cheyenne Mountain Complex has over 700 repeaters in it to enable cell phones to work. In-universe, the SGC is located on a fictional sublevel 28 of that complex, but the complex itself is real and cell phones do work there.

** StandardSciFiFleet: In later seasons Earth develops a nascent one composed entirely of [[TheBattlestar battlestar]] type battlecruisers carrying fighters. We also only see Asgard battleships, and the Goauld have several different sizes of their capitol ship that seem to fit several roles up to superdreadnaught and down to fighters and heavy bombers.

* StandardSciFiArmy: Typical for television, the military forces are limited to infantry. Considering the Stargate limits how much can go through, it's justified.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: In several episodes, the writers play with romantic tension between O'Neill and Carter, and two different AlternateReality versions of Carter are either engaged or married to O'Neill. The "won't they" wins out in the prime reality largely because for most of the show's run, O'Neill is Carter's direct superior and is thus barred from pursuing her by the Air Force's anti-fraternization rules.

* WhatWeNowKnowToBeTrue: The Tollan have studied quantum physics... "among other misconceptions of elementary science".
** This doubles as FridgeBrilliance. The Tollan didn't state that quantum mechanics was a "misconception of elementary science", they stated the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics was the misconception (Sam was explaining the Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment, which was designed to show that the Copenhagen interpretation was ridiculous, to a Tollan). What's one of the alternatives to the Copenhagen interpretation? The Many Worlds interpretation. What does SG-1 do only a few episodes later? Visit an alternate reality, when they find the Quantum Mirror.

** From season 2, ''Thor's Chariot'', after only ever having encountered low-tech, hostile or extinct civilizations, Carter and Daniel come face to face with the hologram of a Grey and assume the same thing is going on...
--->'''Carter:''' ''(to a local)'' It's a hologram. It was probably recorded a thousand years ago, it can't hear you.
--->'''Thor:''' [[FirstContact On the contrary. My image is a living transmission.]]

** Val Mal Doran is introduced in "Prometheus Unbound" in the armor of a Kull Warrior with an artificially-deepened voice. She has already taken the ''Prometheus'' and flirted with Daniel Jackson before the helmet is removed to reveal that she is a woman. Daniel finds it extremely disturbing even after the reveal.

** Val Mal Doran is introduced in "Prometheus Unbound" in the armor of a Kull Warrior with an artificially-deepened voice. She has already taken the ''Prometheus'' and flirted with Daniel Jackson before the helmet is removed to reveal that she is a woman. Which Daniel finds it extremely disturbing as long as he thinks she is an actual Kull Warrior.
* SanityHasAdvantages: The Goa'uld as a whole. Sure, they have an enormous technological advantage thanks to their genetic memory, but said memories as well as abuse of the sarcophagi mean they are all megalomaniacal cliché villains. Furthermore, most of them believe in their own propaganda about being gods, and act with the expected supreme arrogance. The System Lords spend most of their time and ressources fighting each other rather than dealing with their common enemies, which both Tok'ra and Tau'ri gladly take advantage of. They also [[WeHaveReserves waste their soldiers]] by [[BadBoss slaying them for the slightest failure]] or [[HonorBeforeReason insisting they always fight to the death]], even against disastrous odds, rather than withdraw to win another day. The Goa'uld were the dominant species of the Milky Way till season 8, but they would have been infinitely more powerful if only they had ''co-operated'' from the start, rather than being forced to by Anubis or the Replicators. Notably, the few System Lords that don't buy fully the godlike nonsense (like Ba'al, or Yu before he went senile) are portrayed as much smarter and dangerous than their brethren.

** The writers still messed up when describing an alien planet as being "several billion miles" away from Earth. The closest star to Earth (other than the Sun, obviously) is Alpha Centauri, which is several dozen ''trillion'' miles away. The planet they're describing is far more likely to be hundreds of trillions or even quadrillions of miles distant. It should be noted that the quote comes from Teal'c, who seems to be wildly inaccurate about scale, likely due to Goa'uld propaganda. The same guy who thought a Hatak could travel "ten times the speed of light".

** In the first season finale "Within the Serpent's Grasp", the whole of SG-1 disobeys orders to launch a first strike against Apophis and his assault upon the planet after the [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Obstructive]] and CorruptBureaucrat [[WhatAnIdiot Senator Robert Kinsey]] shuts down Stargate Command.

* ShowWithinAShow: ''Wormhole X-Treme!'', used twice to great comedic effect, including the celebrated 200[-[[superscript:th]]-] episode. Its original run was cancelled after airing three episodes, but it sold so well on DVD that the studio decided to give it a movie adaptation. The production of the movie was then fraught with issues and the studio decided to cancel production, but decides to relaunch the series again and it airs for ten years, with the movie greenlighted (again) after the two-hundredth episode of the series.

** The Nox, introduced in the self-titled episode "The Nox", possess the ability to raise the dead, teleport from point to point, activate a Stargate with a wave of the arms (no DHD needed) and become intangible/invisible at will. They accomplish these feats with woodland rituals, symbolic gestures and a philosphy which emphasize nature and pacifism. The end of their introductory episode reveals that they do ''have'' a technological city, but their skills and abilities do not visibly derive from it.

** The first is the energy weapon for killing [[BigBad Anubis']] [[SuperSoldier Kull warriors]], which is of indeterminate use against anything else but will kill Kull in a couple shots by negating the Ancient phlebotinum that brought them to life in the first place.

** The most impressive one, though, is certainly the Sangraal (the HolyGrail itself), designed by Merlin to wipe out ''all the ascended beings from a galaxy''. [[spoiler:It is finally used on the Ori in season 10 episode "The Shroud", but it isn't before the movie ''Film/TheArkOfTruth'' that its efficiency is confirmed.]]

* WhamEpisode: In the episode "Heroes", the [[spoiler:death of Dr. Janet Fraiser]]. To add extra oomph, KilledOffForReal is played with in this episode, as two characters (including an RedShirt) receive potentially fatal wounds before it is revealed quite shockingly that [[spoiler:Janet]], whom the viewer does not even know got injured, is the one who actually died.

* TerminallyDependentSociety: Jaffa carry a larval goa'uld symbiote in their stomach pouches, which grants them an increased lifespan and immunity from disease, but suppresses their own immune system. If the symbiote is removed, they grow ill and die within days. In season six the SGC discovers the medicine tretonin, which can replicate the healing effects of the Goa'uld, but this simply transfers the dependency to an artificial chemical. However, tretonin is a manufactured substance, and the means of production aren't hung over them as a means of control like the Goa'uld's use of them as incubators was. Means of production could easily be taught to them to put that aspect of their liberty in their own hands.

* TheWatson: Jonas Quinn joined the cast in season six from an alien planet, requiring him to be filled in on past SGC missions and esoteric parts of Earth history. This was particularly helpful since season six was the season where they began connecting and expanding on a lot of previously introduced continuity, primarily the concepts of Ascension, the Ancients and the greater society of the Goa'uld, so he could help bring new viewers up to speed. Season six is also when the show [[ChannelHop hopped]] to [=Sci-Fi=], making it more important to fill in viewers who hadn't seen it on Showtime.

* TheWatson: Jonas Quinn joined the cast in season six from an alien planet, requiring him to be filled in on past SGC missions and esoteric parts of Earth history. This was particularly helpful since season six was the season where they began connecting and expanding on a lot of previously introduced continuity, primarily the concepts of Ascension, the Ancients and the greater society of the Goa'uld, so he could help bring new viewers up to speed.

* ThatManIsDead: At the conclusion of "Cor-ai", Hanno, who has spent the episode trying to get Teal'c executed for killing his father, allows him to go free after Teal'c had helped save him and his people from the Goa'uld. When Teal'c asks why, since he ''did'' kill his father, Hanno explains the he did not, as the Jaffa who did is dead.

* YouHave48Hours: "48 Hours"