History Trivia / StargateVerse

* TheWikiRule: [[http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Stargate_Wiki SGCommand]] and [[http://stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/Main_Page Stargate SG-1 Solutions]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: An outright crossover between ''Stargate'' and ''Series/DarkMatter'' (which shares the same showrunners) via the Blink Drive came '''very''' close to being made at MGM post-cancellation when MGM's new streaming service Stargate Command was launched.

* ChannelHop: The original film was produced by Creator/CarolcoPictures and France's [=StudioCanal=], with Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer distributing theatrically. Not long after, Carolco went under and [=StudioCanal=] purchased their library; the film was distributed on video by Live Entertainment, which became Artisan and then became part of Creator/{{Lionsgate}} (which continues to license the Carolco library for home release). The TV series and DTV spinoff films have gone through MGM exclusively; Carolco had sold them the rights to raise money for ''Film/CutthroatIsland'' (which wound up being [[CreatorKiller the movie that brought down Carolco]]).

* WildfireFranchise: The franchise began with a moderately successful feature 1994 film that spawned three TV series, several TV movies, a cartoon, audio plays, licensed novels, and two short-lived video games, all of which came to an abrupt halt circa 2010 with the cancellation of ''Series/StargateUniverse''. Creator/{{MGM}} was going through financial difficulties at the time, which were compounded by ExecutiveMeddling from the Sci-Fi Channel. Efforts to revive the franchise began with 2018's ''Series/StargateOrigins''.

* YouLookFamiliar: A few actors who played minor characters in the film would later turn up in the SpinOff series. Richard Kind (Dr. Myers) would later go on to play Lucius in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', while French Stewart (Ferretti) would later appear in ''Series/StargateUniverse'' as Dr. Covel.

Information on the different species present in the 'Verse:
* Humans, who — thanks to the diaspora — live everywhere in the Milky Way Galaxy. Those from Earth specifically are called the 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 snakelike parasites who, until recently, ran most of the galaxy by pretending to be gods. Goa'uld require an individual of another 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. Most prominent is their sarcophagus technology, which they can use to heal themselves (or to bring their corpses 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 at the time). Tok'ra live in voluntary symbiosis with their humanoid hosts. Usually. Also, they don't use the sarcophagus technology, believing it to be unnatural to prolong ones life in such a manner and that it damages the soul, hence why the Goa'uld are so evil. They do not take being called Goa'uld very well.
** Jaffa, a human-descended race genetically modified by the Goa'uld to serve as their soldiers and as 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 to be about as difficult as you'd imagine.
* Nox, an ancient and super-advanced race of peaceful tree-huggers who keep to themselves and live in seclusion, aided by the ability to render themselves and others invisible. It is likely that many of Earth's various legends of "The Little People" or "The Fair Folk" are actually about the Nox. They maintain an Actual Pacifist stance, refusing to defend themselves when threatened, (mostly because death is a minor inconvenience when you can resurrect the dead), although when pushed, they are perfectly capable of whisking away enemies back through the Stargate without their weapons. They were one of the Four Races, most likely The Heart of the group.
* Asgard, an ancient and super-advanced race with the classic "gray alien" appearance, who inspired the Norse gods, and occasionally bail our sorry backsides out when we get in over our heads, now supposedly extinct, (although Atlantis revealed that more ruthless offshoot called the Vanir live in Pegasus). Unlike most such advanced species the Asgard have proved to be friendly, helpful, (as much as they can), and all things considered actually decent and polite as well, capable of acknowledging humanity's flaws compared to themselves, (and acknowledging where humanity can help them), without coming across as condescending and smugly superior. A member of the Four Races, acting as The Lancer to the Ancients.
* The Ancients, an ancient and super-advanced race who built the Stargates and Atlantis, then most died from a plague and others evolved into Energy Beings. Their society shakes down, so far as we know, into the "Alterans", the original parent race which built the gates, the "Lanteans", who moved to the Pegasus galaxy and did more or less the same thing, and the "Ori", their evil cousins, and final SG-1 Big Bad. Though we evolved separately, humans and ancients are more or less the same biological species, and most of the population of the Pegasus galaxy evolved similarly. They are also non-interfering to the extreme, to the point of seeming like total jerks. The Leader of the Four Races.
* Furlings, an ancient and super-advanced race and member of the Four Races, who have, as yet, not bothered to actually show up. (A 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. Parodied, like many other things, in the SG-1 episode "200", where the Furlings finally appear... and their first on-screen action is having their planet blown up. It was just an Imagine Spot, though.
* Unas, big, scary, humanoid and reptilian creatures, who were the common hosts of the Goa'uld before they encountered humans and subsequently abandoned as hosts, since while being stronger and more durable, humans regenerate more readily and have nimbler hands for tool use. They are believed to have evolved on the same planet as the Goa'uld, where they maintain a Stone Age tribal culture and level of technology.
* The Wraith, evil, powerful vampiric creatures. The result of unfortunate genetic crossover between humans and a really nasty life-sucking bug. All but defeated the Ancients in the Pegasus Galaxy.
* The Replicators, self-replicating Lego bugs (who later evolve into "liquid metal" human-form androids) whose ultimate goal is to consume all other civilizations in the universe, which makes them a major threat to pretty much all of the above. A different kind of Replicators, the human-form Asurans, who were made by the Ancients, inhabit the Pegasus galaxy and are pretty much as hostile as the Milky Way Lego bugs. The Replicators in the Milky Way were created by an android named Reese, whose "father" was likely also an Ancient, and learned to produce human-forms after studying her dead body.
* The Reetou are invisible creatures that seem to fill the role of "token insectoid life". As could be expected, they were attacked by the Goa'uld, who apparently developed (read: probably stole) a weapon that not only kills them, it also makes them visible. Most notable for genetically engineering a human being to act as a go-between when they decided to warn Earth about the Reetou Rebels, a group of Reetou who decided that they'd stop the Goa'uld by killing every life form in the galaxy that could possibly be used as a host. Unfortunately, the genetically engineered kid suffers from multiple congenital defects, and has to become a host for a Tok'ra in order to survive.
* One minor race, the Serrakin, who appeared in just two episodes (SG-1 season 6's "The Forsaken" and season 7's "Space Race"). They are a vaguely lizard-like humanoid race who live in harmony (and interbreed) with a Celtic-descended human culture, whom they liberated from the Goa'uld millenia ago. In the present day, they have a highly industrialized and corporate-dominated society, with advanced technology and interstellar travel. It is unknown exactly how widespread they are, but they have clearly managed to avoid attracting sufficient attention for any Goa'uld system lords to attempt to reconquer them. Since they are humanoid aside from their skin, facial features and corrugated forehead, they count as Rubber-Forehead Aliens.
* Another minor race is the Re'ol, who were seen for but a few moments in a single episode. They can generate a chemical which, when injected into humans, causes them to see the Re'ol as a human being, or whatever the Re'ol wants to be seen as. The single Re'ol to appear onscreen used this to get SG-1 to help it escape the Goa'uld, since it was afraid to ask. When it is seen, it looks like a skeleton with leathery gray skin stretched over it, more or less.
* 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.
* The otherwise unnamed (in the episode at least) "GIANT ALIENS!" from the SG-1 episode "Crystal Skull." Not to be confused with the Indiana Jones movie of the same name. Almost nothing is known about the "GIANT ALIENS!" except that they are enemies of the Go'auld and live out of phase with the rest of the universe. Note: "GIANT ALIENS!" must be said with a Dutch accent for proper effect. Apparently, they're officially called the Omeyocan, but not only does that not show up in the one episode they appear in, saying "GIANT ALIENS!" is far more amusing and descriptive.
* 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.
* Oannes, aquatic humanoids 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.
* The Oranians are another type of Aliens in Rubber Suits, who are also vaguely reptilian. The species is primarily represented by the unscrupulous businessmen Jup and Tanat. If they are any indication, Oranians seem to be fairly hapless and stupid. When Tenat finds out that he has been tricked into firing on his commanding officer and is about to die, he delivers the hilarious Kirkesque line "Damn you Cam Mitchelllll!"
* The sulphur based some what reptilian looking Gadmeer who make their appearance in season four's Scorched Earth. A milky way native, they were wiped out by a superior military power who may or may not be the Goa'uld. They created a large terraforming ship to recreate their society.
* The silicon based Sekkari, who look somewhat like a cross between a skeleton and an anatomy model. Some tens of thousands of years prior, they realized they were going extinct, and spent the rest of their days creating over fifty seed carriers that would restart their evolution on new worlds in the Pegasus galaxy. The Atlantis personnel encountered the only still functioning device.
* The Nakai, who are hunting after the protagonists of Universe. They are vaguely humanoid, but with catfish-like faces, and glow neon-blue. They possess advanced starship technology and even devices that allow them to communicate with humans telepathically, although understand English well enough to issue the demand to "Surrender" and taunt Destiny with "No Escape", after crossing into another Galaxy in pursuit of them. They appear to communicate to each other in the form of clicks and grunts.
* Planet Builders, an extraordinarily advanced race of beings capable of creating entire star systems complete with fauna and flora. They can accomplish these feats in a minimum of 2000 years. The Destiny found one of thier created star systems and many cre wished to stay but were overruled. Those who did stay died and later were resurrected and returned to Destiny(via unknown means) in perfect health along with thier shuttle which was restored to perfect working condition. They were described by Eli as "the number one all-time advanced civilization" to Rush replied was an "understatement".
* Ursini, about 1.2m (4') tall vaguely humanoid (seems like a recurring theme with advanced Stargate Universe aliens) brown-skinned insect-like aliens with whom the crew of Destiny have first encountered on a derelict stargate-seeding ship. They also possess advanced spaceships, stun guns and other pieces of advanced technology. Their language is as for now incomprehensible, though it remains to be seen whether they will learn English from Telford or not. They aren't particularly hostile, but the first contact didn't end on good terms due to difficulties communicating. They are probably waging a war with something else. As of "Deliverance," they're apparently extinct.
* Berserker Drones, a type of mechanical drones that were created a long time ago for a war, with the unfortunately vague directions to "Destroy all advanced technology." This naturally backfired when their creators own technology advanced, causing the Drones to turn on them and wipe them out. Since then, their creations have been terrorising their local galaxy, driving races like the Ursini to the point of extinction. Most of the final episodes of SGU deal with Destiny's desperate attempts to avoid them.

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!! Trivia for [[Franchise/StargateVerse the franchise in general]]:

* Berserker Drones, a type of mechanical drones that were created a long time ago for a war, with the unfortunately vague directions to "Destroy all advanced technology." This naturally backfired when their creators own technology advanced, causing the Drones to turn on them and wipe them out. Since then, their creations have been terrorising their local galaxy, driving races like the Ursini to the point of extinction. Most of the final episodes of SGU deal with Destiny's desperate attempts to avoid them.

* [[ChannelHop Production Company Hop]]: The original film was produced by Creator/CarolcoPictures and France's [=StudioCanal=], with Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer distributing theatrically. Not long after, Carolco went under and [=StudioCanal=] purchased their library; the film was distributed on video by Live Entertainment, which became Artisan and then became part of Creator/{{Lionsgate}} (which continues to license the Carolco library for home release). The TV series and DTV spinoff films have gone through MGM exclusively; Carolco had sold them the rights to raise money for ''Film/CutthroatIsland'' (which wound up being [[CreatorKiller the movie that brought down Carolco]]).

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: An outright crossover between ''Stargate'' and ''Series/DarkMatter'' (which shares the same showrunners) came '''very''' close to being made at MGM post-cancellation when MGM's new streaming service Stargate Command was launched.

* [[ChannelHop Production Company Hop]]: The original film was produced by Creator/{{Carolco}} and France's [=StudioCanal=], with Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer distributing theatrically. Not long after, Carolco went under and [=StudioCanal=] purchased their library; the film was distributed on video by Live Entertainment, which became Artisan and then became part of Creator/{{Lionsgate}} (which continues to license the Carolco library for home release). The TV series and DTV spinoff films have gone through MGM exclusively.

[[ChannelHop Production Company Hop]]: The original film was produced by Creator/{{Carolco}} and France's [=StudioCanal=], with Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer distributing theatrically. Not long after, Carolco went under and [=StudioCanal=] purchased their library; the film was distributed on video by Live Entertainment, which became Artisan and then became part of Creator/{{Lionsgate}} (which continues to license the Carolco library for home release). The TV series and DTV spinoff films have gone through MGM exclusively.

* BackedByThePentagon: Which has resulted in Richard Dean Anderson (Jack O'Neill, two Ls) to be made an honorary Brigadier General.

* YouLookFamiliar: A few actors who played minor characters in the film would later turn up in the SpinOff series. Richard Kind (Dr. Myers) would later go on to play Lucius in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', while French Stewart (Ferretti) would later appear in ''Series/StargateUniverse'' as Dr. Covel.

* BackedByThePentagon: Which has resulted in Richard Dean Anderson (Jack O'Neill, two Ls) to be made an honorary Brigadier General.