History StargateSG1 / SToZ

* 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 Landry 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.

** 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''. 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.

** Also the climax of ''Film/TheArkOfTruth'' takes place in the City of the Ori, a place that Daniel and Vala visited early on in the ninth season. While not the start of the show itself, it was the start of the Ori storyline.

* StandardHumanSpaceship: The BC-303 and the BC-304 battlecruisers (but especially the latter) are very utilitarian, simple-looking, yet unusually powerful beneath the hood when compared to almost everything else but an Asgard Mothership and an Ori Mothership (and eventually the BC-304 even outdoes the latter thanks to the new Asgard beam cannons). They also have immensely fast hyperdrives thanks to the already fast Asgardian hyperdrives being integratable with ZPMs, incredibly powerful shields again thanks to Asgard shields being able to syphon the almost limitless ZPM energy... the only problem in the end is their rather prohibitivr cost and small numbers.

* ThemeTuneCameo:
** Carter is humming the ''SG-1'' theme song in the elevator in "Chimera". [[WhatCouldHaveBeen She was originally going to hum the theme to]] ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'', but neither she nor anybody else on set could remember how it went.
** During the wedding scene in "200", the organ is playing a combination of Mendelssohn's Wedding March (the "standard" wedding composition) and the show's theme.

** Ma'Chello devoted his entire adult life to creating "weapons to defeat the Goa'uld" including a sort of worm engineered to kill a Goa'uld parasite. Although the worm kills the host as well clearly Ma'Chello thought its was more precise than that as it informs the host of their freedom as it exits.
* WeatherControlMachine: The Touchstone was an Ancient artifact that kept the weather on one planet idyllic. When it was removed, the weather there quickly went out of control.

** Carter is humming the ''SG-1'' theme song in the elevator in "Chimera". [[WhatCouldHaveBeen She was originally going to hum the theme to]] ''Series/MacGyver'', but neither she nor anybody else on set could remember how it went.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Often, but a sterling example in "Crystal Skull," when Daniel's potentially-delusional grandfather is the only one who can see and hear the out-of-phase Daniel because of alien technology.

'''Jack:''' ''[surprised]'' [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay Daniel?]]

* {{Teleportation}}: Multiple, when they're not CoolGate or something:
** The Ring transport platforms inherited from the movie are the most common.
** The Asgard bring the ''Franchise/StarTrek''-style "beams" into play.

** The Goa'uld Maruk was spot-welded into his own sarcophagus (along with hungry animal).

* SealedEvilInADuel:
** [[spoiler:Oma vs. Anubis.]]
** [[spoiler:Morgan Le Fay vs. Adria.]]
* SeasonFinale

** Both the 100[-[[superscript:th]]-] and 200[-[[superscript:th]]-] episodes celebrate by spending the episodes poking fun at their own show general Sci-Fi clichés.

* SelfHealingPhlebotinum: Human-form Replicators can regenerate from damage dealt by virtually any weapon except the [[WeaponOfXSlaying anti-Replicator gun]]. Regular Replicators are also sometimes seen reforming after being blown apart, though there's apparently a critical mass of intact blocks that have to be within a certain distance of each other for this to work.

* ShirtlessScene: Frequently.

* SingleBiomePlanet: {{Deconstructed}}, as the characters often decree the nature an entire planet based only on a brief exploration of the area surrounding the gate. One member concluded that she was on an "ice planet" when she found herself in Antarctica by mistake, and many characters point out that a day of exploration does not come close to discovering what might be just out of visual range.

** The Canon on the medieval planet in "Demons" made use of ''creative'' interpretations of Literature/TheBible, the fear engendered by the Goa'uld System Lord Sokar's raids for hosts, and a [[AppliedPhlebotinum lightning-summoning ring]] in order to maintain control over his village. When SG-1 arrived, he accused Teal'c of consorting with demons.

* SkeletonGovernment: The Goa'uld.

'''Daniel:''' ''(muttering)'' Jack, don't be an ass.\\

'''Jack:''' ''(surprised)'' [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay Daniel?]]

* SpecialEffectBranding: The show gives each major player their own radically different ship design and weapon effects, ranging from Egyptian pyramids to Earth naval ships to bioships, though there is an exception: the minor races all use the same (Goa'uld) design of ship, having acquired them second hand. That said, the technology of both humans and aliens in the Pegasus Galaxy of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' looks quite different. Even the gates are of a different design. And despite their obvious usefulness, the Atlantis team does not appear to have brought any Zat guns or staff weapons with them, nor have they sent any Wraith stunners or (with one temporary exception) puddle jumpers back home.

* TechnologyUplift: A frequent dilemma for the more advanced races is whether or not to do this. Most races are reluctant to provide Earth any advanced technology due to either bad prior experiences, such as the Tollan who in the past gave a lower-tech planet an unlimited energy source only for them to blow themselves, or believing Earth is not yet mature enough as a civilization. The main exceptions are the Asgard, who owe Earth, and the Tok'ra, with whom Earth was in an alliance. A episode also features the Aschen, a race that ''appear'' to do this but are doing so for their own ends.

* BadassAdorable:
** The Nox, the race that inspired the fairytales of Earth, are the cutest, sweetest, nicest, committed pacifists you will ever meet. Throughout the series, anyone who messes with them is met with a resounding and unequivocal defeat.
** Heimdall of the Asgard is the friendliest of an already likeable species. She's cool as a cucumber while under siege by the Goa'uld, defending the very future of her species, and trying to rescue Supreme Commander Thor all at the same time.

* StandardSciFiArmy: Typical for television, the military forces are limited to infantry and they don't have so much as a transport truck to tool around on alien worlds with. The MALPs that do initial survey can also carry supplies, and at one point a machine gun, but that's about it. Considering the Stargate limits how much can go through, most places they go are intentionally settled near a Stargate, and that Stargate Command elects to keep it hundreds of feet down a hole, it's justified. Every enemy generally lacking evident combined arms, less justified, except for the Jaffa, which are meant to be scary and flashy more than effective.
** StandardSciFiFleet: In later seasons, Earth develops a nascent one composed entirely of [[TheBattlestar battlestar]]-type battlecruisers carrying fighters. We also see Asgard battleships, and the Goa'uld have several different sizes of their capitol ship that seem to fit several roles up to superdreadnought and down to fighters and heavy bombers.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: In "Crystal Skull", O'Neill starts to believe that he really is talking to Daniel when Nicholas Ballard responds to one of his flippant remarks with "Jack, don't be an ass."

* UniquePilotTitleSequence: "Children of the Gods" imitates [[Film/{{Stargate}} the movie]] with a long pan over the mask of Ra. After that, they used cut-together clips from season 1, changing it only when the main cast changed. The DVD releases of seasons 4 and 5 use the "Children of the Gods" title sequence for some reason. Actually, when the show was originally on Showtime, it used the same opening as "Children of the Gods" throughout its entire run. However, like its fellow Sci-Friday shows, ''Series/{{The Outer Limits|1995}}'' and ''Series/PoltergeistTheLegacy'', it was put into syndication almost immediately (presumably to offset costs). (And by "almost immediately," we mean "Before the end of the first season".) The syndicated versions were edited for time and occasionally content, of course, but also replaced the credits with the TitleMontage mentioned above. For some reason, the [=DVDs=] for the first three seasons use the syndicated opening despite also using the original Showtime versions of the episodes. (These are the same [=DVDs=] that said SG-1 is the crew of a ship and listed General Hammond among the villains, remember)

* UniquePilotTitleSequence: "Children of the Gods" imitates [[Film/{{Stargate}} the movie]] with a long pan over the mask of Ra. After that, they used cut-together clips from season 1, changing it only when the main cast changed. The DVD releases of seasons 4 and 5 use the "Children of the Gods" title sequence for some reason.
** Actually, when the show was originally on Showtime, it used the same opening as "Children of the Gods" throughout its entire run. However, like its fellow Sci-Friday shows, Series/TheOuterLimits1995 and Series/PoltergeistTheLegacy, it was put into syndication almost immediately (presumably to offset costs).[[labelnote:*]]And by "almost immediately," we mean "Before the end of the first season"[[/labelnote]] The syndicated versions were edited for time and occasionally content, of course, but also replaced the credits with the TitleMontage mentioned above. For some reason, the DVD's for the first three seasons use the syndicated opening despite also using the original Showtime versions of the episodes. (These are the same DVD's that said SG-1 is the crew of a ship and listed General Hammond among the villains, remember)

* 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 a 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.

*** And just moments before that:
---->'''Gate Technician:''' Chevron seven is...encoded?
---->...
---->'''Gate Technician:''' Chevron ''eight'' is locked.

* StarfishAliens: Despite the fact that they are usually seen as humans (due to taking human hosts), the Goa'uld and Tok'ra are actually this. They are several foot long snake-like aliens with glowing eyes and jaws that open on all 4 corners that have the ability to [[PuppeteerParasite possess]] most humanoid beings.

* TeleporterAccident: "Solitude"; "1969"; "48 Hours"
* TeleportersAndTransporters: The Stargates and ring transport platforms inherited from the movie are the most common. The Asgard bring the ''Franchise/StarTrek''-style "beams" into play.

** Averted with Machello in "Holiday". He's technically not evil, but he ''is'' the antagonist of the episode. His attempts to blend into American society don't entirely work, with the homeless man he befriends convinced he's a Gulf War vet suffering from severe PTSD.

* TidallyLockedPlanet: The Planet of the Week in "The Broca Divide" was tidally locked with its sun so one side was always light, the other always in darkness. The civilization lived in the light side near the terminator, where it was temperate. A plague that made humans devolve into Neandertalesque creatures had broken out, and the infected were banished to the dark side of the planet. The gate happened to be in the darker parts of the terminator.

* TheThreeFacesOfAdam: Ry'ac, Teal'c, and Bra'tac have such a dynamic. Ry'ac is the Hunter, trying to define himself and live up to the fame of Teal'c, his father. Teal'c is the Lord, once a Jaffa in a lofty position as First Prime of a System Lord and now a lynchpin of their new society as the first jaffa to so brazenly defy their Goa'uld overlords and call out the fallacy of their divinity. Bra'tac is the Prophet, the one who instilled such beliefs in his protege, Teal'c, and sits back to watch Teal'c fundamentally change Jaffa society while still giving counsel to Teal'c when asked.

** The Salish Indians in episode "Spirits" take out SG-1 with blowpipes firing tranquillizer darts.

** Osiris is twice shot by a tranquillizer dart tipped with a Goa'uld-specific sedative. The second time, this leads to her capture.

* TranslationConvention: The episodes "Summit" and "Last Stand" are explicitly stated to be spoken in Goa'uld, but all the dialogue is in English for the convenience of the audience. Several other episodes have dialogue that is implied to be the same, particularly when aliens speak amongst themselves.