So I wanted to start a conversation about how Goa'uld are described in the "Gender" section on their pages. I don't think "Agender" is the correct descriptor and I say this as an agender person myself. I also think that "Male" or "Female" personality isn't correct either.

From what we know the Goa'uld don't really have sexual characteristics because the symbiotes don't reproduce sexually. This would mean they can't be male or female. Hermaphroditic or intersex wouldn't be appropriate either because both those labels require the presence of sexual characteristics. The best descriptor for their sex is in fact "sexless".

As for their gender it's clear that when they inhabit hosts they choose to present their gender in specific ways.

• Jolinar was said to take mostly female, women, human hosts. She was also described with she/her pronouns and other terms associated with women. So I would say that her gender would be "Woman".

• Selmak I would describe as gender-fluid, as they performed the gender of the host that they took. This is likely in part that Selmak's relationship with their host was consensual and allowing the host to maintain their gender presentation was probably a part of this agreement.

• Osiris is an interesting case. While Osiris as a historical god was a man and took male hosts, he took Sarah, a woman, as a host. They were still referred to as "he" in the series yet his clothing was arguably quite feminine. If I had to put a label on it I would say that Osiris is a gender-non-conforming man.

I was just musing on this as I continue my rewatch of SG-1. It's interesting to look back on all the missed opportunities to tell queer and trans stories in such an adventurous show. It doesn't dampen my nostalgia though.

[edit: obviously I know the meta reasons of why they weren't seen as trans or nonbinary in the show given the lack of awareness during the show's run. this post is more referring to how we look back on them and refer to them]

Went from rubber props

To something cooler and more terrifying

So this thought came to me having recently rewatched "Rite of Passage"

Stargate (TV universe) and Canadian favorite "The Littlest Hobo" occur in the same universe.

The year is 1949. Nirrti frustrated by her repeated failures to engineer a Hok'tar, began to conduct enhancement experiments on one of the few non human mammals to have also been transplanted to many worlds - Dogs. She reasoned that the shorter life span of dogs would allow her to make alterations over multiple generations without having to wait for adolescence to see if the changes she made were successful.

IN 1958 she would achieve success.

Having managed to create a Hok'doge Nirrti would abandon her work on canines and move back to humans using what she learned from her earlier work.

However Nirrti had done her work too well...

Her greatest success who would one day be known as the Hobo, escaped from her lab one night and dialed the Stargate address for Earth.

With the Gate found in Giza having been put into storage after the disappearance of Earnest Littlefield in 1945 the Hobo was transported to the Antarctic Gate and made it's way through a small opening in the ice to the surface.

Having been given enhanced speed, stamina, intelligence, resistance to damage and 10 times the normal lifespan for a German Sheppard, Hobo made it's way north to first South America and then after about 2 years North America. Being a good boy Hobo would spend the next 40 years travelling from place to place helping those in need.

At some unspecified point Hobo learned of the now operational Stargate program located in Cheyanne Mountain in Colorado and decided to infiltrate the installation disguised as a guard dog. Once inside he would aid SG-1 in several as yet untold adventures off screen and grow close to Te'alc whom he shared an unspoken bond of friendship. Eventually Hobo decided he could be of better use in the fight with the system lords if he left the SGC so one day he travelled off world and never returned. It is said though that there is a legend of a friendly German Sheppard that travelled from world to world making new friends but turn around and once again he would be gone again.

Notes: This idiotic idea is not completely out of nowhere -

The Littlest Hobo season 5 2 part episode The Genesis Tapes featured a plot involving a scientist learning of Hobo's existence and positing that he was some sort of unique advanced dog.

I think my brain having watched Rite of Passage recently and having this old useless knowledge of Genesis Tapes decided that Chocolate+Peanut butter = 4

No doubt, they made advanced technology, but they've been around for at least around 50 million years, and the zenith of their technology is kind of sucky. Sure they made city-ships and very advanced battleships, but compared to the Asgard, which have have a "recorded history of 200,000 years", they really seem to have had a very, very, verrry slow technological growth. For comparison, humanity literally evolved from rats to becoming an interstellar species in that time, yet the Ancients barely inched along their technological path for millions of years. Its honestly surprising that the Ancients havent just evolved quicker than their technological growth at the snails pace they advance at. Maybe the Ancients we know (human form) only evolved relatively recently (5-10 millon years ago), and had a different humanoid bodyplan beforehand, and technologically advanced and regressed due to wars multiple times before, but that would be the only logical explanation to why they cant seem to advance at all.

This is an theory that i have alone, we know when it comes to the milky way gates and the Pegasus gates that they are independently powered by the mineral known as nahquda.

but my theory of the SGU gates stems from how the destiny is powered, and i believe that the SGU gates are powered in the same way, except that they use the core of the planet they are currently occupying to power the gates through thermal power from the core of the planet, we know these gates are limited in comparison to the gates in the milky way and the Pegasus but noting the age of these gates and where they are found, usually on some planet, we don't see them floating in space and being used.

The gate onboard the destiny is also powered by the stars, so we do have proof that it's possible to power a gate with that kind of power source, although i do wonder if the gate that's onboard destiny has been modified to handle more as it seems to be the only gate that can connect to the other network of gate systems if enough power on the other side matches it's requirements.

Icarus base was an entire planet that was used as not only a power source for the gate that was tied to the planet, the stargate was an milky way gate that was powered by nahquda, but it also needed the extra power to make the connection to the destiny.

However i do believe that the destiny also took some part into the connection when it came to power reserves, we know from the show, that the destiny's power reserves were nearly depleted when they arrived onboard, and we also know that the destiny's power reserves were not holding as much power as the ship was once designed for, like an battery near the end of it's life in an smartphone, the destiny's ability to hold that power was significantly less capable and efficient at this point of it's life, and our arrival caused more stress on that battery's capability to store power.

The other part of my theory has to do with either restoring the ships battery, not really sure how to do this, or to find some way to dismantle the gate and find another nearby planet that has an working stargate and unplug that gate to it's power source that i assume is what i'm describing the power source is, i believe that all that is required is using this specific stargate and it being plugged into an outlet that is powerful enough to gate back to earth.

If the destiny was new it wouldn't have this issue, but it's been millions of years on it's journey and is falling apart the ship is soon to be scrap especially thinking back on that last episode of SGU when they were preparing for that jump across the gap of space between galaxies, they did the math in how long it would take for the destiny to make that jump and it was coming up short because of the destiny's issues with it's power reserves not able to hold enough power, the FTL drive could make most of the journey on it's own, but it would run out of power long before it could finish that gap and end up adrift instead, which is why they decided to put everyone within stasis pods at the end.

Now i didn't read the full comic, and i'm not interested in that ending at all, especially the part where they mention the ancient found in the stasis pods part.

Anyway, like it or don't like it. i just want to hear your thoughts on the subject, and i'm talking to anyone who comments on this wall of text of mine lol.

i have an theory that there are other stargate seeding ships similar to the SGU seed ships, still seeding planets and galaxies outside of their original perspective solar systems. for both the milky way styled gates and the Pegasus style gate systems.

they did this with SGU and the other seeding ships, why not with these other seed ships?

not to mention how many other galaxies could there be stargates within,

in SGU it was above 49 galaxies if i remember correctly, but the possibility's of the milky way styled gates as well as the Pegasus styled gate systems are more than likely seeded within many more galaxies. it would be silly for the alteran to only keep these gate systems only within their perspective galaxies and just stop right there.

if you look at an galaxy, there are all possible routs of an neighboring galaxy's that could exist in all directions. destiny and the seed ships that were sent before it were all sent on their path as predetermined based on the programmed rout of the seed ship or ships sent before it.

but there are galaxies all around our own within either direction, so it's possible that the second version of stargates are also still being seeded till this day, just like the seed ships that were sent out before destiny.

I would also consider that the Technology has advanced possibly a few thousand years since the first version of stargates existence, so the seed ships could be considerably faster and more advanced than the SGU seed ships, as well as the SGA seed ships.

the only example i know of that supports this theory points to the Asgard home world in the Ida galaxy, as it appears to be of the same model as the Milky Way network of gates.

I don"t know why scyfy ended stargate universe like they did. I see a possible reason why they did, though.Ending it with Eli the last one gives scyfy an opportunity to pick the series back up after the three year FTL jump. I just finally got to get to where they cut it off and I believe the story could be finished or expanded on after the conclusion of destinies trip. Spin-off after spin off could come at the relief of every scyfy/science-fiction/fantasy fan future and past. The journey that stargate escorts you on is one of wonder and amazement. For this reason scyfy should bring DESTINY back with new characters and a once tie in episode with the original crew being rescued by home command. Sounds like a good plan to me.

The window of opportunity episode establishes that earth is in the time bubble caused by that planets time device.

The ancients used it to try and cure themselves.

How long did they repeat the day? Earth has the potential to be far behind the rest of the galaxy timewise. The episode leaves the question on that time period as undefined, yet longer then months. Is earth a million years behind the rest of the galaxy age wise?

Am i just crazy thinking about these implications?

I just love the fact that when the options are laid out as

A) Temporal event

B) Jack has read a report (without a weapon to his head)

There is not the slightest whiff of doubt in the room as to what took place.

Kiernan Shipka looks like a younger Amanda T, from her eyes to her smile, I thought it was her daughter when I first saw her on Netflix. Just wondering if anyone else See the resemblance.

Notice

All UNSC and Halo stuff is from Halo 2

I do scenarios like these mostly with resident evil monsters on there wiki but I like to branch out. I hope to make these into more in depth YouTube videos. Please check out my othe= scenarios over on the RE wiki.

UNSC discover a Forerunner installation with a Stargate. They set up a research lad and put up defenses on the site.

The installation has 2 parts. Above and underground. The gate is underground. On the top portion 2 chain guns face outward. 12 marines with battle Riffles and snipers also guard outside. There are 8 scientists outside aswell with Magnums.

Down an elevator the underground is guarded by 24 marines equipped with assault rifles and SMGs.

Aswell as a bunch of unarmed scientists.

A group of covenant forces attack (3 phantoms worth from halo 2)

While this is happening the Stargate opens with 8 Unas and 30 Jaffa leaking out. All have staff weapons and zat guns.

Who will come out on top the humans, the Covenant, or the Unas?

I happened to be reading Robert Hoskins book "To Escape The Stars" and you might be surprised to know that it's about stargates placed on all habitable planets by an old human race that current humans have lost knowledge about, and one of the characters is Sam'l Carter.  An amazing coincidence?  Or did somebody else also read this book many years ago?