Dr. Stan Beeler was one of the Co-Editors of “Reading Stargate SG-1.”
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Dr. Lisa Dickson was one of the Co-Editors of “Reading Stargate SG-1.”
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Michael Shanks and Christopher Judge act as the hosts of this special.
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A note included during the special:
The Goa’uld
Who
Parasitic race bent on conquering all planets. Take human hosts and pose as ancient Egyptian Gods.
Physiology
Larvae produced by Queens. Offspring are born evil with genetic memory and intellect of lineage.
Goa’uld Technology
Live thousands of years due to Sarcophagus.
- Cures diseases, heals injuries and revives the dead.
Side effects: negative psychological impact.
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A note included during the special:
System Lords
Who
Leaders of the Goa’uld. Assume personae of an Earth-based God and rule by force through armies of Jaffa warriors.
Balance of Power
The system lords rarely trust each other, and frequently battle amongst themselves.
Physiology
Most of the System Lords have inhabited the same host body for millennia. Yu, the Jade Emperor, was so old that he could not leave his host.
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A note included during the special:
The Jaffa
Who
Slaves of the Goa’uld bred to fight their battles. Incubators for Goa’uld young
Physiology
Carry Goa’uld symbiote that functions as Jaffa’s immune system. When symbiote reaches maturity in 7 – 8 years it must take a host
Jaffa Technology
Staff weapons – preferred weapon of Jaffa warriors. Uses Naquadah power and fires an energy plasma blast.
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A note included during the special:
The Asgard
Who
Benevolent and powerful technological Gods who protect, rather than enslave, peoples they believe as too simple to understand their science.
Physiology
A dying race that reproduces entirely through cloning.
Asgard Technology
Asgard Stones – Control functions in Asgard mothership including communications. Holographic projection, navigation and transport beams
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A note included during the special:
Replicators
Who
Technologically advanced “bugs” programmed by creators with only one objective: self replication
Created By
Android Reese as toys and protectors. Designed to replicate at all costs, she eventually lost control of them.
Physiology
Individual blocks exert a reactive modulating energy field on other blocks allowing them to reassemble in a new form.
Eventually evolved into human form replicators.
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A note included during the special:
The Tok’ra
Who
Highly advanced alliance of Goa’uld resistance. Main goal is the destruction of the System Lords.
Physiology
The Tok’ra take symbiotes by choice and share a mutual beneficial relationship.
Alliances
Tok’ra/Tauri alliance grew stronger when Colonel Carter’s father, Jacob Carter, became host to the Tok’ra symbiote Selmak.
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A note included during the special:
The Ancients
Who
Race of Ascended beings that exist in a state of enlightenment.
Alliance
One of the four great races of Ancient Alliance consisting of the Asgard, the Nox, the Furlings and the Ancients.
Ancient Technology
Ancient repository
- A device within a sealed chamber holding the archive of Ancient knowledge capable of downloading directly onto a subject’s mind.
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A note included during the special:
The Ori
Who
Ascended beings that use advanced technology and spiritual knowledge to deceive the non-ascended humans into worshiping them.
Great Divide
The division between the Ori and the Alterans was a result of the emergence of two different philosophies. The Alterans followed a more scientific/rational outlook, while the Ori developed fundamentalist religious beliefs.
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