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Stargate SG-1 (alternately spelled STARGΛTE, and popularly abbreviated as SG-1) is a television series based upon the 1994 science fiction film Stargate. The premise of both is the existence of devices called 'Stargates', which allow travellers to cross the vast distances of space in seconds. The show focusses on a team called 'SG-1', who, under the top-secret U.S. military base the SGC, use the Stargate found on Earth to explore other worlds and defend Earth against alien threat. Thus unlike other science fiction franchises, SG-1 is set in the present day, is based on Earth, and primarily involves humans; contrary to popular misconception, it has no connection and no similarity to Star Trek.

MGM owns and licenses the show, and it is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The first episode was broadcast on July 27, 1997 on Showtime, which aired the series' first five seasons. Since season six, the show is aired on the Sci Fi Channel. Sci Fi maintains that it is a "Sci Fi original series," due to the later seasons being broadcast solely on Sci Fi. In July 2005, the Sci Fi Channel renewed SG-1 for a tenth season, making it the longest-running science fiction series on American television, surpassing The X Files's 202 episodes.

Created by Jonathan Glassner and Brad Wright, SG-1 originally starred Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge and Don S. Davis. The cast would change in later seasons. Actor Corin Nemec was a regular during the 6th Season, with Michael Shanks making only a few appearances as well as voicing Thor in several episodes. Davis moved into the background in the eighth season and Anderson in the ninth; the latter season added new regulars Ben Browder and Beau Bridges. For Season 10, Claudia Black will be added as a new regular, reprising her role as Vala Mal Doran.

A spin-off series, Stargate Atlantis
, began airing in July 2004. The two shows now run in tandem, with plots that are occasionally interconnected.

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:See Stargate for a general summary of this universe, or List of Stargate SG-1 episodes
for a detailed plot analysis.

The series follows the adventures of four explorers designated as SG-1, one team among at least twenty-two, who use an alien artifact called a 'Stargate' to travel the vast distances between planets, operating under the aegis of the United States Government's secret military base, Stargate Command (the SGC). The very existence of the SGC and all of its activities are covert and SCI-classified ("Sensitive Compartmented Information"). The official cover story is that the Cheyenne Mountain facility and its personnel are engaged in "analysis of deep-space radar telemetry," which provides the material for occasional jokes throughout the series--mostly regarding its implausibility.

The primary goal of the SG teams is to travel to other worlds through the Stargate and procure alien technology to help defend Earth against the Goa'uld, a galactically dominant alien race who became aware of this planet's now relatively advanced civilization after the recovery of Earth's Stargate and the subsequent destruction of Ra, a powerful Goa'uld System Lord (the events depicted in the 1994 movie). The Stargate teams were frustrated in initial efforts to acquire advanced technology to fight the Goa'uld from more advanced species and offshoots of humanity. Three attempts were made to reverse-engineer alien technology and build starships, leading to the production of the F-302 and BC-303 models. In recent seasons, other alien threats such as the Replicators and the Ori have appeared.

The four original members of SG-1 were Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neill, Captain Samantha "Sam" Carter, Dr. Daniel Jackson and Teal'c, an alien Jaffa. In Season 3, Carter was promoted to a Major. For Season 6, Jackson was replaced by Jonas Quinn, an alien human, but Jackson returned to the show for Season 7.

Originally led by Major General George Hammond, Stargate Command is based in the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, Colorado. The U.S. Air Force is in direct charge of the Stargate program, although from early on there was at least one SG team comprised of U.S. Marines. In later seasons, there was considerable participation in the Stargate program by civilians and non-Americans, including at least one Russian SG team.

At the end of Season 7, Hammond was promoted to Lieutenant General and reassigned to the "Office of Homeworld Security" in the Pentagon. Dr. Elizabeth Weir assumed temporary command of the SGC, after which she was reassigned to the Antarctic base and, subsequently, as leader of the "Atlantis" mission (depicted in Stargate Atlantis
). O'Neill was promoted to Brigadier General and he in turn promoted Carter to Lieutenant Colonel and team leader of SG-1.

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