Differences between Stargate and Stargate SG-1: Difference between revisions

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==Other changes==

There are some differences between the film and the TV series that widened the story, and filming possibilities for episodic television, so some canon facts from the film were simply ignored by the TV series.

* In the ''Stargate'' film, Ra is the last of an unnamed race, which is a humanoid species with large black eyes and a lack of facial features, not very dissimilar to the [[Asgard]]. In ''SG-1'' however, Ra is one of many "[[Goa'uld]] [[System Lord]]s," who are a race of parasitic snake-like creatures.

* In the film, the [[planet]] [[Abydos (Stargate)|Abydos]] resides millions of [[lightyear]]s away in an entirely different [[galaxy]]. In ''SG-1'', Abydos is the closest planet to [[Earth]] that has a stargate, residing in the same galaxy as Earth. Also in ''SG-1'', stargate travel is limited to the stargate network in the [[Milky Way galaxy]] (unless a tremendous amount of power is used to lengthen the subspace wormhole of a stargate to another galaxy's stargate).

* The film used more complex special effects than the series. For example, the film's [[ring transporter]]s consist of nine rings that stack on top of one another, whereas only five more widely spaced rings are ever used in ''SG-1''. The film version shows the transported person or object dematerialize and the particles move towards the destination. In the television series, a yellow-orange light would vertically sweep through the interiors of the rings, usually sweeping upward, even when the destination is below.