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Stargate is a fictional universe inspired by the 1994 film Stargate directed by Roland Emmerich.

The universe continued in the television series Stargate SG-1, which premiered in 1997 and aired for ten successful seasons until its finale in 2007. It is the longest American sci-fi series ever, and has survived network and cast changes. It became the longest lived American sci-fi show when the 10th season started in July 2006, outranking The X-Files. In July 2004, the spin-off series Stargate Atlantis premiered on the Sci Fi Channel with great success, which began its fourth season in July 2007.

And it began...

In 1928, an archaeological expedition recovered a large metal ring at the Giza Plateau near the city of Giza, Egypt, which was confiscated by the U.S. military. 66 years later, Dr. Catherine Langford hired Dr. Daniel Jackson, a brilliant Egyptologist shunned from the academic world due to his theory that the pyramids were docking areas for alien spacecraft, to decipher the symbols on the metal ring. The ring turns out to be a Stargate, a device that allows for instant teleportation by creating a wormhole to a complementary device on another planet. Jackson steps through the Stargate with a military team led by Colonel Jack O'Neill to a desert planet called Abydos. There, they fight to free the enslaved human population from an alien called Ra. After he's defeated, O'Neill returns to Earth, but Jackson chooses to stay. Believing the Abydos gate is destroyed, the military closes the Stargate, but not for long...

One year later, a group of aliens step through the unused Stargate and attack the soldiers guarding it. Colonel O'Neill is forced to admit he disobeyed orders and didn't destroy the Abydos Stargate. He returns with a new team, and Dr. Jackson explains to him that there is a whole network of Stargates scattered throughout this galaxy. After Abydos is attacked, the team discovers that Ra wasn't the last of his race after all, and they find a new enemy, Apophis. They return to Earth, with new allies and a new battle to fight.

The rest, as they say, is history, and you can explore it below.