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The [[Stargate Command]] setting was transferred from the fictional military facility located in Creek Mountain, to the [[Cheyenne Mountain]] military complex.<ref name=bbc.co.uk /> The [[planet]] [[Abydos (Stargate)|Abydos]] from the film changed the distance from Earth from millions of [[lightyear]]s away (in an entirely different [[galaxy]]) to becoming the closest planet to [[Earth]] with 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, a central premise of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'').<ref name=bbc.co.uk />

Ra was the last of an unnamed race in the film, being of a humanoid species with large black eyes and a lack of facial features. In ''SG-1'' however, Ra is one of many "[[Goa'uld]] [[System Lord]]s," who are a race of parasitic snake-like creatures.<ref name=gwfaq /><ref name=nytimes /> . However a flashback in the film also implies that Ra's current form is a human that he picked up in ancient Egypt, which implies that he still uses host bodies. There were also changes to the Stargate. The film and novellizatonnovelization give the impression that Ra, through some technological means, invented the Stargate, but is intentionally vague on this matter. The unique set of 39 Stargate symbols in the film were replaced with the concept of 38 symbols that are the same for each Stargate (Earth's symbols based on Earth's constellations), plus a single point of origin symbol that is unique to that individual gate.<ref name=gwfaq /> While the [[kawoosh]] effect in the movie was created by filming the actual swirl of water in a glass tube, and looked like a vortex on the back of the Gate,<ref>DVD commentary for the ''Stargate'' film</ref> however on the TV series, this effect was completely created in [[Computer graphics|CG]] by the Canadian [[visual effects]] company ''[[Rainmaker Digital Effects|Rainmaker]].''<ref>''Stargate Magic: Inside The Lab.'' Special feature on [[Stargate SG-1 DVD]] Volume 37 (Lost City).</ref> At the beginning of Season 9, the original movie wormhole sequence was substituted by a new sequence similar to the one already used on ''Stargate Atlantis'', but being blue as it was in the movie and SG-1, whereas in Atlantis it's green.<ref>Audio commentary for "The Ties That Bind", SG-1.</ref>

Further, the original movie did not have Jaffa, but what appear to be normal humans. If Ra's entourage is interpreted as Jaffa (on the basis of the TV show) they have no place to hold a goa'uld larva. The movie's Ra rules entirely by fear and deception using only a small entourage who themselves pose as the various gods in the Egyptian pantheon, whereas SG-1 depicts Goa'uld as having large armies.