History Franchise / StargateVerse

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', SpinOff of ''SG-1'' taking place in... yes, [[Atlantis exactly there]]. Begins chronologically after season 7 of ''SG-1''.

* TheBattlestar: For bonus points, the human battlecruisers even bear a passing resemblance to the ''BattlestarGalactica'', 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.

->''"Stargate!\\

You can go quite far and you don't need a car\\
Or even a ship!"''[[note]]Eventually, though, they ''did'' get a ship.[[/note]]
--> --The writers of ''Series/StargateSG1'', singing [[WithLyrics the theme tune]]

Works set in the StargateVerse include:

** ''Stargate: TheArkOfTruth'', direct-to-DVD sequel to ''SG-1'' concluding the Ori [[strike:[[IncrediblyLamePun ark]]]] [[StoryArc arc]].

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', SpinOff of SG-1 taking place in... yes, exactly there. Begins chronologically after season 7 of ''[[{{StargateSG-1}} SG-1]]''.
* ''Series/StargateUniverse'', Continuation of the universe with a whole new cast trapped aboard an ancient spaceship. The plot is (vaguely) similar to ''BattlestarGalactica'' or ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. Cancelled after the second season.

* Goa'uld, a race of [[StarfishAliens snakelike parasites]] who, until recently, ran most of the galaxy by pretending to be [[AGodAmI 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 [[BackFromTheDead 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).

* Jaffa, a human-descended race genetically modified by the Goa'uld to serve as their [[SlaveRace soldiers]] and as [[BodyHorror 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.

* 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 -- however, it was revealed in Stargate Atlantis episode "The Lost Tribe" that the Asgard SG-1 is familiar with aren't the only Asgard...). 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 [[CantArgueWithElves smugly superior]]. I'm looking at you, the Nox.

* Furlings, an ancient and super-advanced race (notice the pattern?) who have, as yet, not bothered to show up. (A [[LampshadeHanging 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 SG1 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.
** Also parodied, like many other things, in the episode ''200'', where the furlings finally appear - and their first on-screen action is having their planet blown up. It was just an ImagineSpot, though.

* 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 [[HalfHumanHybrid 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 may also count as RubberForeheadAliens.

* 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.
* [[strike:An unnamed race of aquatic humanoids]] [[AllThereInTheManual Oannes]], who had visited Earth during Babylonian times appeared in one episode.

* The Oranians are another type of [[PeopleInRubberSuits 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 [[spoiler: finds out that he has been tricked into firing on his commanding officer and is about to die,]] he delivers the hilarious [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Kirkesque]] line [[SkywardScream "Damn you Cam Mitchelllll!"]]

* 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 [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler:apparently extinct.]]
* Berserker Drones, a type of mechanical drones that were created a long time ago with the unfortunately vague directions to "[[LiteralGenie 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.

Despite being one of the newer Sci-fi franchises (compared to, y'know, the [[Franchise/StarWars other]] [[Franchise/StarTrek 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 ''Series/StargateSG1''. It's a ''long'' way from either ''Series/DoctorWho'' or ''Franchise/StarTrek'', but those have been around since TheSixties, whereas the ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' movie was released in 1994.

To most of the earth-bound humans in it, the StargateVerse is [[PlausibleDeniability indistinguishable from the universe in which we viewers live]]. It's present-day, there isn't a whole lot of AppliedPhlebotinum 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.

Really, the defining element of the StargateVerse is the Stargates: a PortalNetwork allowing instantaneous travel between the various worlds. Upon finding Earth's long-lost Stargate, the US Military promptly went out into the universe, and, mostly through pluck and determination, set out to completely rewrite the status quo, despite the fact that the rest of the galaxy is a lot more advanced.

* ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'', TV series based on the movie.

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

The StargateVerse is rare even in ScienceFiction for having particularly [[CasualInterstellarTravel cheap and easy interstellar]] (and later, ''intergalactic'') travel.

The other defining element of the StargateVerse is that there are a ''lot'' of [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Godlike Aliens]], representing a wide range of concepts of {{God}}, degrees of Godlikeness, and degrees of friendliness.

Another relatively unusual feature of the StargateVerse 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:

* One minor race, the Serrakin, who appeared in just two episodes so far ([[{{Stargate SG-1}} ''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 [[HalfHumanHybrid 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.

* The Nakai, who are hunting after the protagonists of ''Series/StargateUniverse.'' They are vaguely humanoid, but with catfish-like faces, and [[PowerGlows glow neon-blue.]] They possess advanced starship technology and even devices that allow them to communicate with humans telepathically (although the only word they have said so far is [[AlwaysChaoticEvil "Surrender."]]) They appear to communicate to ''each other'' in the form of [[StarfishLanguage clicks and grunts.]]
* Ursini, about 1.2m (4') tall vaguely humanoid (seems like a recurring theme with advanced Series/StargateUniverse 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 [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler:apparently extinct.]]

Despite being one of the newer Sci-fi franchises (compared to, y'know, the [[Franchise/StarWars other]] [[Franchise/StarTrek franchises]] that start with "Star") The StargateVerse 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 ''Series/DoctorWho'' or ''Franchise/StarTrek'', but those have been around since TheSixties, whereas the ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' movie was released in 1994.

* GenreSavvy: Unlike in many settings involving interplanetary travel and fantastical conflicts, almost all the protagonists in the StargateVerse 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 DeadpanSnarker, characters frequently [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] bizarre events, and the intended plan for any situation is usually AwesomeYetPractical (it rarely ''succeeds'', but at least they ''try'' to be practical).

* MildlyMilitary: All the television series set in the StargateVerse 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 ''Series/StargateUniverse'' and ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', 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}}s.

** ''[[{{StargateContinuum}} Stargate: Continuum]]'', another direct-to-DVD movie centered around the former System Lord Ba'al and TimeTravel.

Or even a ship!"''[[hottip:*:Eventually, though, they ''did'' get a ship.]]

* ColonelBadass: The movie and ''SG-1'' have Jack O'Neill. ''SG-1'' later adds Samantha Carter. ''Atlantis'' has John Sheppard. ''Universe'' has Everett Young.

** The Goa'uld and Wraith are AbusivePrecursors. The Goa'uld kidnapped thousands of ancient humans from Earth and seeded the stars with us for use as slaves, turning others in to Jaffa to serve as warriors and walking incubators for their young. Meanwhile the Wraith [[ImAHumanitarian think our life force is crunchy and good with ketchup]].

*** Be fair: The Americans have lost more ships than the Russians so far. In fact, a WakeUpCallBoss in one of the later seasons of the show was a ''satellite'' that took down one of the American starships while proving impervious to counterattack. The first such ship lost by the Tau'ri.

* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: As a minor CallBack to [[Film/{{Stargate}} the movie]], by the beginning of ''SG-1's'' second season the SGC's strategic weapon of choice is a thermonuclear bomb enhanced with [[{{Unobtainium}} naquadah]]. By the final season, they've got bombs capable of destroying [[NighInvulnerability stargates]]. By ''Atlantis'', they've developed the Horizon, a starship-deployed MIRV tipped with six 280-gigaton warheads.[[hottip:*:For reference, that's over 13 million times the yield of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima '''''per warhead'''''.]]

Despite being one of the newer Sci-fi franchises (compared to, y'know, the [[StarWars other]] [[Franchise/StarTrek franchises]] that start with "Star") The StargateVerse 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 ''Series/DoctorWho'' or ''Franchise/StarTrek'', but those have been around since TheSixties, whereas the ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' movie was released in 1994.

Notable characteristics of the StargateVerse include:

* FlashStep: The [[{{Unobtainium}} naquadria]]-powered hyperdrive included in the F-302 fighter proved too unstable for travelling to other planets, but it works fine for hopping short distances. Such as in SG1: "Fallen" when [[spoiler:O'Neill and Carter use it to jump through a Goa'uld mothership's shields]].

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Three of the later-built ''Daedalus''-class battlecruisers. The Russian Air Force-crewed ''Korolev'' is named for Soviet-era rocket scientist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Korolyov Sergey Korolyov]], while the Chinese-crewed ''Sun Tzu'' is named for [[SunTzu pretty much whom you'd expect]]. The fourth American-crewed 304 is named after Maj. Gen. George Hammond, the SGC's founding general, who is FamedInStory.
* NighInvulnerability: 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.\\

* {{Precursors}}
** NeglectfulPrecursors, to be exact.
*** Just about all the subtropes live in one ancient race or another, actually.

* TransplantedHumans

* RammingAlwaysWorks: It's telling that the preferred ship-to-ship weapon of the Ancients is a [[ArmorPiercingAttack shield-piercing]] {{attack drone}} that kills by running into things very fast.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: American-built starships are usually named after figures or stories from GreekMythology not known to be Goa'uld. So far we have ''Prometheus'', ''Daedalus'', ''Apollo'', and ''Odyssey''. The fourth ''Daedalus''-class was supposed to be named ''Phoenix'', but it was changed to ''George Hammond'' [[NamedAfterSomebodyFamous after the SGC's]] [[FamedInStory founding general]].

* The Re'Tu 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 Ritou Rebels, a group of Re'Tu 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 is genetically inferior to normal human beings, and has to become a host for a Tok'ra in order to survive.

Despite being one of the newer Scifi franchises (compared to, y'know, the [[StarWars other]] [[Franchise/StarTrek franchises]] that start with "Star") The StargateVerse 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 Series/DoctorWho or Franchise/StarTrek, but those have been around since TheSixties, whereas the ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' movie was released in 1994.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: The three later-built ''Daedalus''-class battlecruisers. The Russian Air Force-crewed ''Korolev'' is named for Soviet-era rocket scientist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Korolyov Sergey Korolyov]], while the Chinese-crewed ''Sun Tzu'' is named for [[SunTzu pretty much whom you'd expect]]. The fourth American-crewed 304 is named after Maj. Gen. George Hammond, the SGC's founding general, who is FamedInStory.

** This is also how the [[spoiler: Aschen]] conquer planets: by mixing sterility-inducing drugs into "miracle medicines". This winds up backfiring when [[spoiler: (thanks to time shenanigans) SG-1 finds out and slips them a list of suggested Gate addresses. That start [[UnrealisticBlackHole with a black hole]] and "[[ItGotWorse get progressively darker after that]]".]]

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* NamedForSomeoneFamous: The three later-built ''Daedalus''-class battlecruisers. The Russian Air Force-crewed ''Korolev'' is named for Soviet-era rocket scientist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Korolyov Sergey Korolyov]], while the Chinese-crewed ''Sun Tzu'' is named for [[SunTzu pretty much whom you'd expect]]. The fourth American-crewed 304 is named after Maj. Gen. George Hammond, the SGC's founding general, who is FamedInStory.

* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: American-built starships are usually named after figures or stories from GreekMythology not known to be Goa'uld. So far we have ''Prometheus'', ''Daedalus'', ''Apollo'', and ''Odyssey''. The fourth ''Daedalus''-class was supposed to be named ''Phoenix'', but it was changed to ''George Hammond'' [[NamedForSomeoneFamous after the SGC's]] [[FamedInStory founding general]].

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

* OurVampiresAreDifferent

* PortalNetwork

** Note that this is the only time one has ''apparently'' appeared on screen. They may be all but extinct, but given their biological advantages, there's no reason they can't pass for any other race.

* ''Series/StargateUniverse'', Continuation of the universe with a whole new cast trapped aboard an ancient spaceship. The plot is (vaguely) similar to ''BattlestarGalactica'' or ''StarTrekVoyager''. Cancelled after the second season.

* The Oranians are another type of [[PeopleInRubberSuits 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 [[spoiler: finds out that he has been tricked into firing on his commanding officer and is about to die,]] he delivers the hilarious [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Kirkesque]] line [[SkywardScream "Damn you Cam Mitchelllll!"]]

Despite being one of the newer Scifi franchises (compared to, y'know, the [[StarWars other]] [[StarTrek franchises]] that start with "Star") The StargateVerse 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 Series/DoctorWho or StarTrek, but those have been around since TheSixties, whereas the ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' movie was released in 1994.

* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: As a minor CallBack to [[Film/{{Stargate}} the movie]], by the beginning of ''SG-1's'' second season the SGC's strategic weapon of choice is a thermonuclear bomb enhanced with [[{{Unobtainium naquadah]]. By the final season, they've got bombs capable of destroying [[NighInvulnerability stargates]]. By ''Atlantis'', they've developed the Horizon, a starship-deployed MIRV tipped with six 280-gigaton warheads.[[hottip:*:For reference, that's over 13 million times the yield of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima '''''per warhead'''''.]]

* MildlyMilitary: All the television series set in the StargateVerse 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 Series/StargateUniverse and Series/StargateAtlantis, 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}}s.

* Finally, the Oranians are another type of [[PeopleInRubberSuits 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 [[spoiler: finds out that he has been tricked into firing on his commanding officer and is about to die,]] he delivers the hilarious [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Kirkesque]] line [[SkywardScream "Damn you Cam Mitchelllll!"]]

* 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 ([[spoiler:who just happen to have been made by the [[NeglectfulPrecursors Ancients]]]]), inhabit the Pegasus galaxy and are pretty much as hostile as the Milky Way Lego bugs. The Replicators may or may not have acquired their human-form technology from the Asurans.
** They didn't get that tech from the Asurans, they developed it independently whilst trapped in the Asgard time-dilation field. Remember how SG-1 left Reese's body there to "call them out"? They studied it over what was, at least for them, a very very long time and learned how to become humanoid.

* The Wraith, evil, powerful vampiric creatures. The result of unfortunate cross-breeding between [[strike:the Ancients]] humans and a really nasty bug. All but defeated the Ancients in the Pegasus galaxy.

* Humans, who -- thanks to the diaspora -- live everywhere in the galaxy. Those from Earth specifically are called the [[HumansByAnyOtherName Tau'ri]].

->''Stargate!\\

Or even a ship!''[[hottip:*:Eventually, though, they ''did'' get a ship.]]
--> --The writers of ''StargateSG1'', singing [[WithLyrics the theme tune]]