r/Stargate

I've learned that the planet Erid from Project Hail Mary and planet Vulcan from Star Trek are both located in the same real star system, one that also happens to be easily observable with a small telescope irl, which makes it a fun target for our volunteer run observatory to show to visiting members of the public.

But that made me wonder whether in the entirety of Stargate there ever was a star system (other than Sol...) mentioned by name that would also have a real-world analog.

For some reason I remembered Abydos canonically being in the Alpha Centauri system but it looks like I made that up.

So the Antartic Gate.... it has the Pyramid symbol. We can safely assume this was accidently retconned, bit it was heavily implied in the first movie that was about pyramids in Egypt.

So is it still a Pyramid, but this time a Ancient one? Did they walk like a Egyptian? Or is it just a letter from their written script?

Bonus question: When O'Neill speaks Ancient, he reads out gate addresses as words. Does anyone know how the address for Earth was spoken?

I **love** the 40-50's retro futurism of them. Like if their visual identity was stuck for 50 years but they continued evolving (with the sick ass shotgun thingy)

I really like them.

They are assholes tho

Remember how Major Shepherd found Teylas necklace in the cave, and he had somehow activated something the Wraith had put inside of it? Then, the Wraith started showing up at the planets the team went on missions at. Well, if the Wraith used the necklace to track Teyla, how did they not find Atlantis

It was recently brought to my attention the Star Gate in Antartica has a different symbol for Earth than the Pyramid.

We really don't get too many closeups of the gates off world, but it seems to put a firm date of older gen vs newer gen gates. SG-1 seems mostly aquainted with the newer gen gates, those from AFTER the Ancients left Earth for Pegasus.

So a obvious need to update a Star Gate is if it is lost or destroyed. It has always bothered me most gates are not geologically locked deep beneath strata, Pompeii deep.

Let's say the ancients never solved the problem of sedimentry drift, or natural disasters. You can only do so much. Is the apparent lack of early generation gates evidence that most worlds just lose them over time?

Needs to be noted Ra did bring a gate to Earth, but also that the original Earth gate was still functional. Useful? No, but it could open wormholes.

This brings me into anotjer speculation. Since the Ancients were largely in Pegasus.... did/does the Milky Way have Destiny Seeder Ships, ships that just fly around plopping new Star Gates whenever a old gate goes offline on the network.

The Seed ships on destiny took on millions of alien species and survived, so I thibk they could survive in the milky way.

A additional question.... if we assume all the above is correct. When you move a gate to a new location, it can clearly work.... but would the old location be seeded with a new ship? I only ask because the plot of a few episodes was on moving Star Gates around. Seems like something that would trigger a ancient seed ship to appear above a Lucian Alliance corn world.

World the AI onboard decide which worlds were "Fixed Worlds" deserving of further service? Or would any world suddenly popping into the network be mapped, like the Tolland gate they built, with a new gate plopped down shortly after the Tolland Gate's destruction? Would gates on Ships mess with this AI? Would it try to seed empty space where any ship with a gate lingered, or would it only do this for planets?

In the case of Pegasus and space gates, we can assume the Wraith took care of any seeder ship (or the Ancients lost it in a battle against the Wraith). Hence why the Wraith can have orbital gates, whereas the Milky Way, everything is terreatrial.

It was said that it was used to kill the gould for the lady, so I assumed this was the episode they tealc would be cured, why didn't they use it to remove the gould from tealc I was very confused when they destroyed it instead was it explained why it won't work with him the same way it did for the lady?

I'll probably go for Asgard's Daniel Jackson class ship. Not too big, looks like it could work as a space RV for someone who doesn't want to stay in one place. Plus those double roll bars!

What ship would you love to claim?

It's so jarring(but great) seeing him as Major Davis and then seeing him as Pope in Falling Skies.

It is just so weird that even after we learn that earth is know as the tau’ri we keep saying earth, like why don’t we use the term most of the Jaffa and others know of our planet by and not the name we gave it.( By we I mean humans from earth)

I'm on a rewatch, and I've just got to Season six's Paradise Lost, where everyone's favourite villain Mayybourne provides SG1 with an address to an Ancient planet. The team goes for a quick visit, find a device/door that needs a key - and Carter scans the door with a hand-scanner that I can only describe as a tri-corder which reveals a power source within the door...

Is this a scanner i should have spotted before? What is it? How have I missed it?