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Season 01
OPENING THE GATE: FOUNDATIONS OF THE STARGATE PROGRAM
The recovery of the Stargate, Project Giza, Abydos, the formation of SG-1, and the institutions and defenses that turn a buried artifact into a permanent secret program.
S01E01The Stargate Universe: A Military History of Humanity’s Secret WarOpen episode →S01E02The Ancients and the Building of the Stargate NetworkOpen episode →S01E03Ra’s Occupation of Ancient EarthOpen episode →S01E04The Rebellion That Buried the GateOpen episode →S01E05Giza 1928: The Stargate Is FoundOpen episode →S01E061945: Ernest Littlefield Goes Through the GateOpen episode →S01E07Catherine Langford and the Decades-Long SearchOpen episode →S01E08Project Giza: How the U.S. Military Inherited the GateOpen episode →S01E09Daniel Jackson and the Six-Point AddressOpen episode →S01E10The Abydos Mission: Humanity’s First Modern Off-World OperationOpen episode →S01E11Colonel Jack O’Neil and the Nuclear OptionOpen episode →S01E12The Battle of Abydos and the Death of RaOpen episode →S01E13Children of the Gods: Apophis Reopens the WarOpen episode →S01E14The Formation of SG-1Open episode →S01E15Stargate Command: Anatomy of a Secret BaseOpen episode →S01E16The SG Teams: Scouts, Scientists, Diplomats, and SoldiersOpen episode →S01E17Gate Addresses, DHDs, and How the Network WorksOpen episode →S01E18The Iris: Earth’s First Line of Planetary DefenseOpen episode →S01E19MALPs, UAVs, and Reconnaissance Through the GateOpen episode →S01E20Standard SG Team Weapons and LoadoutsOpen episode →S01E21Gate-Room Security: Defending the Most Dangerous Door on EarthOpen episode →S01E22Alpha Sites, Beta Sites, and Strategic DepthOpen episode →S01E23First-Contact Doctrine: Diplomacy Under FireOpen episode →S01E24Quarantine, Contamination, and Biological DefenseOpen episode →S01E25The Secret War: Why Earth Hid the StargateOpen episode →
Season 02
THE GOA’ULD EMPIRE: GODS, ARMIES, AND SYSTEM LORDS
The biology, religion, economy, command structure, warships, weapons, and rulers of the Goa’uld imperial system.
S02E01Understanding the Goa’uld: Parasites Who Built an EmpireOpen episode →S02E02Hosts, Symbiotes, and Genetic MemoryOpen episode →S02E03Queens, Larvae, and the Production of ArmiesOpen episode →S02E04The Jaffa: Warrior Caste and Living IncubatorsOpen episode →S02E05First Primes, Guard Orders, and the Goa’uld Chain of CommandOpen episode →S02E06Chulak and the Fortress Worlds of the System LordsOpen episode →S02E07Goa’uld Religion as Psychological WarfareOpen episode →S02E08The System Lords: An Empire Designed Never to UniteOpen episode →S02E09Ra: Supreme System Lord and Founder of the Old OrderOpen episode →S02E10Apophis: The Enemy Who Started the Modern WarOpen episode →S02E11Heru’ur: Conquest, Opportunism, and the Eye of RaOpen episode →S02E12Hathor: Infiltration, Mind Control, and Royal AmbitionOpen episode →S02E13Sokar: Terror, Hell, and the Army of NetuOpen episode →S02E14Cronus: The System Lord Who Broke Teal’c’s FamilyOpen episode →S02E15Yu: The Last of the Old GuardOpen episode →S02E16Nirrti: Genetics and Weaponized EvolutionOpen episode →S02E17The Goa’uld War Economy: Naquadah, Slavery, and TributeOpen episode →S02E18Minor System Lords: Bastet, Kali, Olokun, Morrigan, and SvarogOpen episode →S02E19Anubis: Ancient Knowledge in a Goa’uld WarOpen episode →S02E20Ba’al: The Survivor Who Outlived the EmpireOpen episode →S02E21Ha’tak Motherships: The Backbone of Goa’uld PowerOpen episode →S02E22Death Gliders, Al’kesh, Tel’taks, and Cargo ShipsOpen episode →S02E23Staff Weapons, Zats, Hand Devices, and Goa’uld Ground CombatOpen episode →S02E24Sarcophagi: Immortality, Addiction, and CommandOpen episode →S02E25Why the Goa’uld Ruled the Galaxy for Thousands of YearsOpen episode →
Season 03
THE FIRST INTERSTELLAR WAR: SG-1 AGAINST THE SYSTEM LORDS
Earth’s first sustained interstellar war, from Apophis’s attack through Anubis, Dakara, and the final defeat of the System Lords.
S03E01The War Begins: Apophis Targets EarthOpen episode →S03E02Klorel, Skaara, and the Assault Force Built for EarthOpen episode →S03E03The Battle Over Earth: Two Ha’taks Against SG-1Open episode →S03E04Chulak Resistance: Teal’c and the First Jaffa DefectorsOpen episode →S03E05The Tok’ra Alliance: An Intelligence War Against the System LordsOpen episode →S03E06Hathor’s Assault on Stargate CommandOpen episode →S03E07Sokar’s Rise and the Campaign for NetuOpen episode →S03E08The Fall of Sokar and the Escape From HellOpen episode →S03E09Apophis Versus Heru’ur: Civil War Among the System LordsOpen episode →S03E10The Tobin Minefield and the Capture of Heru’ur’s FleetOpen episode →S03E11The Battle of Vorash: Turning a Star Into a WeaponOpen episode →S03E12The Death of Apophis and the End of Earth’s First Great RivalOpen episode →S03E13Tanith, Zipacna, and the War of Double AgentsOpen episode →S03E14The Summit: SG-1 Strikes at the System LordsOpen episode →S03E15Anubis Returns to the GalaxyOpen episode →S03E16The Second Battle of AbydosOpen episode →S03E17The Eye of Ra and Anubis’s SuperweaponOpen episode →S03E18Abyss: Ba’al’s War Against One PrisonerOpen episode →S03E19The Kull Warriors: Anubis Builds an Unstoppable ArmyOpen episode →S03E20Lost City: The Race for the Ancient OutpostOpen episode →S03E21The Battle of Antarctica: Earth’s First Planetary VictoryOpen episode →S03E22The Free Jaffa Uprising and the Capture of DakaraOpen episode →S03E23Reckoning: Replicators Shatter the Goa’uld EmpireOpen episode →S03E24Anubis’s Last Offensive and the Battle of DakaraOpen episode →S03E25Ba’al’s Clones, Continuum, and the War’s Final EchoOpen episode →
Season 04
ALLIES, RIVALS, AND THE REPLICATOR WAR
The Tok’ra, Asgard, Tollan, Nox, rival human powers, and the Replicator war that reshaped the balance of the Milky Way.
S04E01The Tok’ra: Spies Inside the Goa’uld EmpireOpen episode →S04E02Jolinar and Martouf: The Human Cost of SymbiosisOpen episode →S04E03Jacob Carter and Selmak: General, Host, and DiplomatOpen episode →S04E04The Asgard: Protectors of the Milky WayOpen episode →S04E05Thor: Supreme Commander and Friend of EarthOpen episode →S04E06The Protected Planets TreatyOpen episode →S04E07The Nox: Pacifism in a Militarized GalaxyOpen episode →S04E08The Tollan: Advanced Technology and Fatal NeutralityOpen episode →S04E09The Tollan—Goa’uld Crisis and the Fall of TollanaOpen episode →S04E10The Aschen Confederation: Conquest Without InvasionOpen episode →S04E11The Reetou: Invisible Insurgents at War With the Goa’uldOpen episode →S04E12The Unas: First Hosts, Slaves, and Resistance FightersOpen episode →S04E13The Reol: Deception as a Survival StrategyOpen episode →S04E14Langara: Naquadria, Rival Nations, and Nuclear BrinkmanshipOpen episode →S04E15Hak’tyl: Female Jaffa Resistance and the Price of FreedomOpen episode →S04E16Foothold: The Alien Occupation of Stargate CommandOpen episode →S04E17The Replicators: Machines That Consume CivilizationsOpen episode →S04E18Reese: The Child Who Created the ReplicatorsOpen episode →S04E19The War in Ida: Asgard Against the Machine SwarmOpen episode →S04E20Fifth: The Replicator Who Learned to HateOpen episode →S04E21Human-Form Replicators and the New Machine WarOpen episode →S04E22Replicator Carter: A Perfect Copy Becomes a Strategic ThreatOpen episode →S04E23Time Dilation: Trapping an Enemy for MillenniaOpen episode →S04E24The Dakara Weapon and the Destruction of the ReplicatorsOpen episode →S04E25The Fifth Race: How Earth Earned a Place Among Older PowersOpen episode →
Season 05
EARTH BECOMES A GALACTIC POWER: FLEET, TECHNOLOGY, AND HOMEWORLD DEFENSE
The institutions, industrial base, fighters, battlecruisers, materials, and logistics behind Earth’s transformation into a galactic military power.
S05E01From SG Teams to a Space Fleet: Earth’s Military TransformationOpen episode →S05E02The U.S. Air Force and the Secret WarOpen episode →S05E03The Pentagon, the SGC, and the Chain of CommandOpen episode →S05E04The International Oversight Advisory and Civilian ControlOpen episode →S05E05The NID: Oversight, Espionage, and Alien TechnologyOpen episode →S05E06Colonel Maybourne and the Rogue NIDOpen episode →S05E07The Trust: When the Shadow Government Took Goa’uld HostsOpen episode →S05E08Area 51: Reverse-Engineering an Alien ArsenalOpen episode →S05E09Homeworld Security and the Defense of EarthOpen episode →S05E10Alpha Sites, Beta Sites, and Off-World GarrisonsOpen episode →S05E11The Antarctic Outpost and Earth’s Ancient WeaponsOpen episode →S05E12The X-301: Why Earth’s First Hybrid Fighter FailedOpen episode →S05E13The X-302 and F-302: Earth’s First True Space FighterOpen episode →S05E14The X-303 Prometheus: Building the First BattlecruiserOpen episode →S05E15Prometheus in Combat: From Prototype to Lost FlagshipOpen episode →S05E16The BC-304 Daedalus Class: Earth’s Mature WarshipOpen episode →S05E17Daedalus: The Lifeline to AtlantisOpen episode →S05E18Odyssey and the Asgard Core: Earth’s Most Advanced WarshipOpen episode →S05E19Apollo, Sun Tzu, and George Hammond: The International FleetOpen episode →S05E20Korolev: Russia’s Battlecruiser and the Disaster at P3Y-229Open episode →S05E21Asgard Beams, Shields, and Weapons: The Final UpgradeOpen episode →S05E22Naquadah, Trinium, and the Industrial Base of Interstellar WarOpen episode →S05E23Cloaks, Kull Disruptors, and Other Captured TechnologiesOpen episode →S05E24Logistics Through the Gate: Ammunition, Fuel, Food, and ReinforcementOpen episode →S05E25How Earth Went From One Stargate to a Galactic FleetOpen episode →
Season 06
THE ORI CRUSADE: RELIGION, INVASION, AND THE SECOND GALACTIC WAR
The Ori intergalactic crusade, the weaponization of belief, the Supergate invasion, and the campaign against ascended rulers.
S06E01The Ancients and the Ori: One Civilization DividesOpen episode →S06E02Ascension, Noninterference, and the Rules of Higher BeingsOpen episode →S06E03Origin: Faith as an Instrument of Galactic ConquestOpen episode →S06E04The Priors: Missionaries, Governors, and Biological WeaponsOpen episode →S06E05The Doci and the Ori Chain of CommandOpen episode →S06E06Vala Mal Doran and the Accidental Opening of the WarOpen episode →S06E07The First Priors Arrive in the Milky WayOpen episode →S06E08The Ori Plague: Strategic Disease as a WeaponOpen episode →S06E09Gerak and the Conversion Crisis of the Free JaffaOpen episode →S06E10The Battle of Kallana: Creating the Supergate BeachheadOpen episode →S06E11The Supergate: Logistics for an Intergalactic InvasionOpen episode →S06E12The Free Jaffa Nation Faces the OriOpen episode →S06E13Camelot and the Search for Merlin’s WeaponOpen episode →S06E14The Battle of P3Y-229: Four Ori Ships Break the Allied FleetOpen episode →S06E15The Destruction of the KorolevOpen episode →S06E16Adria: Orici, Commander, and Living WeaponOpen episode →S06E17The Ori Occupation of ChulakOpen episode →S06E18The Destruction of DakaraOpen episode →S06E19The Anti-Prior Device: Winning Without KillingOpen episode →S06E20The Sangraal: Merlin’s Weapon Against Ascended BeingsOpen episode →S06E21The Odyssey’s Mission Into the Ori GalaxyOpen episode →S06E22The Replicator Gambit in the Ori GalaxyOpen episode →S06E23The Ark of Truth: Defeating an Empire’s Belief SystemOpen episode →S06E24Morgan le Fay, Adria, and the Final Ascended BattleOpen episode →S06E25Why the Ori Crusade Nearly Defeated the Milky WayOpen episode →
Season 07
THE ATLANTIS EXPEDITION: AWAKENING THE WRAITH WAR
The arrival at Atlantis, the awakening of the Wraith, the Genii challenge, and the expedition’s desperate first-year defense.
S07E01Pegasus Before Atlantis: The Ancients, Humans, and the WraithOpen episode →S07E02The Lanteans: Why Superior Technology Could Not Win the WarOpen episode →S07E03The Siege of Atlantis and the Ancient WithdrawalOpen episode →S07E04The Atlantis Expedition: An International Force With No Way HomeOpen episode →S07E05Elizabeth Weir: Civilian Command of a Military OutpostOpen episode →S07E06Major John Sheppard and the Accidental Command TeamOpen episode →S07E07Sheppard, McKay, Ford, and Teyla: The First Atlantis TeamOpen episode →S07E08The Athosians: First Allies of the ExpeditionOpen episode →S07E09Atlantis as a Forward Base: The Zero Point Module CrisisOpen episode →S07E10Puddle Jumpers, Drones, and Ancient Defensive TechnologyOpen episode →S07E11Wraith Biology: Feeding, Hibernation, and ImmortalityOpen episode →S07E12Wraith Society: Queens, Hives, and Factional WarfareOpen episode →S07E13Wraith Warriors, Darts, and Ground-Assault DoctrineOpen episode →S07E14Hive Ships, Cruisers, and the Wraith Way of WarOpen episode →S07E15The First Wraith AwakeningOpen episode →S07E16The Genii: A Hidden Industrial Power Beneath the FarmsOpen episode →S07E17Cowen, Kolya, and Genii Military DoctrineOpen episode →S07E18The Genii Assault on AtlantisOpen episode →S07E19Aurora-Class Warships and the Lost Lantean FleetOpen episode →S07E20The Ancient Defensive SatelliteOpen episode →S07E21The Siege of Atlantis, Part I: The Wraith Fleet ArrivesOpen episode →S07E22The Siege of Atlantis, Part II: Mines, Drones, and DesperationOpen episode →S07E23The Daedalus Arrives: Reinforcing PegasusOpen episode →S07E24The Battle of Atlantis and the Fake DestructionOpen episode →S07E25How Atlantis Survived Its First YearOpen episode →
Season 08
THE PEGASUS WARS: WRAITH, ASURANS, GENII, AND MICHAEL
The fractured Pegasus war among Wraith factions, Asurans, Genii, Travelers, Michael, and an increasingly powerful Atlantis expedition.
S08E01After the Siege: The Wraith Civil War BeginsOpen episode →S08E02Aiden Ford and the Wraith-Enzyme SoldiersOpen episode →S08E03The Wraith Retrovirus: Turning an Enemy HumanOpen episode →S08E04Michael Kenmore: Prisoner, Experiment, and WarlordOpen episode →S08E05The Hoffan Drug: Biological Defense With a Terrible CostOpen episode →S08E06Sateda, Ronon Dex, and the Wraith Runner ProgramOpen episode →S08E07Ladon Radim and the Genii Change of PowerOpen episode →S08E08Commander Acastus Kolya: The Genii’s Relentless RaiderOpen episode →S08E09The Travelers: Nomads, Warships, and SurvivalOpen episode →S08E10The Asurans: Replicators in the Image of the AncientsOpen episode →S08E11Niam and the Discovery of the Asuran ThreatOpen episode →S08E12Oberoth and the Asuran War MachineOpen episode →S08E13The Asuran Occupation of AtlantisOpen episode →S08E14First Strike: Earth Attacks the Asuran HomeworldOpen episode →S08E15The Battle of Asuras: Atlantis, Wraith, and Travelers UniteOpen episode →S08E16Todd the Wraith: Enemy, Ally, and Master ManipulatorOpen episode →S08E17Wraith Alliance Politics: Why No Queen Ruled PegasusOpen episode →S08E18Michael’s Hybrids: Building a New Species for WarOpen episode →S08E19The Kidnapping of Teyla and the Hunt for MichaelOpen episode →S08E20The Prodigal: Michael’s Final Assault on AtlantisOpen episode →S08E21The Vanir: Asgard Exiles in PegasusOpen episode →S08E22The Attero Device: Victory That Could Destroy the Gate NetworkOpen episode →S08E23The Super-Hive: A ZPM-Powered Wraith BattleshipOpen episode →S08E24Enemy at the Gate: The Wraith Assault on EarthOpen episode →S08E25Atlantis on Earth: The Pegasus War Without an EndingOpen episode →
Season 09
DESTINY: SURVIVAL AT THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE
Project Icarus, Destiny’s stranded crew, alien pursuit, Lucian Alliance mutiny, machine warfare, and survival across the universe.
S09E01Project Icarus: Dialing the Ninth ChevronOpen episode →S09E02The Lucian Alliance Assault on Icarus BaseOpen episode →S09E03The Evacuation to DestinyOpen episode →S09E04Destiny: The Ancient Ship With an Unknown MissionOpen episode →S09E05The Seed Ships and the Stargate Network Beyond the GalaxiesOpen episode →S09E06Colonel Everett Young: Command After CatastropheOpen episode →S09E07Dr. Nicholas Rush: Genius, Secrecy, and Strategic ControlOpen episode →S09E08Matthew Scott, Ronald Greer, and Tamara Johansen: Destiny’s Military CoreOpen episode →S09E09Camile Wray and Civilian Authority Aboard DestinyOpen episode →S09E10Eli Wallace: The Civilian Who Solved the Ninth ChevronOpen episode →S09E11Life-Support Failure: Air, Water, and the First Survival CrisisOpen episode →S09E12Power and the Dive Into a StarOpen episode →S09E13Ancient Communication Stones: Command Across the UniverseOpen episode →S09E14The Nakai: The Aliens Who Hunted DestinyOpen episode →S09E15Boarding Actions and the Defense of DestinyOpen episode →S09E16The Lucian Alliance: From Criminal Network to Military PowerOpen episode →S09E17Commander Kiva and the Mutiny Aboard DestinyOpen episode →S09E18The Battle for Destiny: Divided Command in a Boarding CrisisOpen episode →S09E19Simeon, Ginn, and the Intelligence WarOpen episode →S09E20The Ursini: A Brief Alliance Against the DronesOpen episode →S09E21The Berzerker Drones: Machines That Destroy CivilizationsOpen episode →S09E22Twin Destinies: Time Travel and the Novus ColonyOpen episode →S09E23The Descendants of Destiny: A Civilization Born From One CrewOpen episode →S09E24The Long Sleep: Stasis and Destiny’s Unfinished EscapeOpen episode →S09E25Was Destiny’s Mission More Important Than the Stargate Program?Open episode →
Season 10
COMMANDERS, WEAPONS, AND GREAT BATTLES
Command studies, weapons comparisons, warship analysis, strategic technologies, and the decisive battles of the Stargate wars.
S10E01Jack O’Neill: Special Operations Commander of the Gate WarOpen episode →S10E02Samantha Carter and Rodney McKay: Scientists Who Won WarsOpen episode →S10E03Daniel Jackson: Archaeology as a Weapon of WarOpen episode →S10E04Teal’c and Bra’tac: The Soldiers Who Broke the Jaffa EmpireOpen episode →S10E05George Hammond: Commanding the ImpossibleOpen episode →S10E06Cameron Mitchell and Vala Mal Doran: Rebuilding SG-1Open episode →S10E07John Sheppard: Airman, Expeditionary Commander, and Coalition BuilderOpen episode →S10E08Teyla Emmagan and Ronon Dex: Warriors of the Pegasus ResistanceOpen episode →S10E09Elizabeth Weir and Richard Woolsey: Civilian Command of AtlantisOpen episode →S10E10Everett Young and Nicholas Rush: Divided Command on DestinyOpen episode →S10E11The P90 and the SG Team LoadoutOpen episode →S10E12Staff Weapon Versus P90: Terror Weapon or Weapon of War?Open episode →S10E13Zats, Wraith Stunners, and Energy SidearmsOpen episode →S10E14F-302 Versus Death Glider Versus Wraith DartOpen episode →S10E15Ha’tak Versus BC-304 Versus Hive ShipOpen episode →S10E16Stargates as Strategic Weapons: Black Holes, Supernovas, and Planetary DestructionOpen episode →S10E17The Battle of Abydos: A Small Team Against a GodOpen episode →S10E18The Battle Over Earth: Sabotage Against Two MothershipsOpen episode →S10E19The Battle of Antarctica: Ancient Weapons and Planetary DefenseOpen episode →S10E20The Battle of Dakara: Revolution Under Replicator AttackOpen episode →S10E21The Battle of P3Y-229: Why the Allied Fleet Was OverwhelmedOpen episode →S10E22The Siege of Atlantis: Defense in Depth Across a CityOpen episode →S10E23The Battle of Asuras: Coalition Warfare Against the ReplicatorsOpen episode →S10E24The Battle for Destiny: Mutiny, Boarding, and Split CommandOpen episode →S10E25Who Really Won the Stargate Wars?Open episode →
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