Major Races of Stargate: SG-1

I got curious one day and did a search to see if anyone had done anything on the major races of SG-1. I came with nothing. While SG-1 and other teams have explored many worlds, there are only 7 that are commonly seen in SG-1.

1. The Tau’ri

The Tau’ri are the people of Earth. While not technologically superior to any of the other races, SGC teams manage to beat back any threat to Earth, including the Goa’uld. SG-1 manages to beat back any invasions of or attempts to destroy Earth on 2 occasions, and combined SGC forces beat back 1 attempt by Anubis to invade.

2. The Goa’uld

The Goa’uld are snake-like parasites who invade a sentient host and take control of the host body. 2 species are known to have been host to the Goa’uld: the Unas and the Tau’ri. They also believe they are gods and should be worshipped by those they have enslaved.

It is believed that the Goa’uld are also parasites of technology, although on several occasions we see technology that may have been invented by the Goa’uld themselves: the personal shield and the personal cloaking device. Apophis also manages to cloak an entire fleet in one episode. What is known is that the Goa’uld did not invent the stargate, as is seen when SG-1 visit a planet not charted on the Abydos cartouche found in the pilot episode.

3. The Tollan

The Tollan first enter SG-1 when they are rescued from their planet, which is in cataclysm. Unfortunately, the Tollan are not willing to help the SGC develop weapons that will help defend Earth from Goa’uld attack. They are concerned that the United States would use any advanved weapon technology to threaten or attack neighbouring countries

The Tollan are attacked by the Goa’uld when SG-1 help thwart a Goa’uld plan to send weapons of mass destruction through Earth’s stargate by bypassing the iris using Tollan phase shifting technology, the same technology used in a previous episode when it appears the Tollan refugees walk through the walls of the base. They are not seen again in the SG-1 series, and are presumed to be wiped out by the Goa’uld.

4. The Asgard

The Asgard are short, grey-skinned aliens, much like those described in alien abduction stories. The Asgard are enemies of the Goa’uld, and also become allies of Earth. Again, while not willing to share weapons technology, they do help in the form of adding Asgard shields to Earth’s first space battlecruiser in return for saving their home planet from the Replicators.  True allies of Earth and its people, the Asgard both give and receive help from SG-1 in several episodes, finally honouring Earth and it’s people by pronouncing them to the Fifth Race shortly before committing genocide.

5. The Tok’ra

The Tok’ra are a group of Goa’uld who do not believe that hosts should taken by force, rather that the host should choose whether or not to share his or her existence with them. The host can take control at any time he or she wishes, and may also relinquish control to the Goa’uld as he or she wishes. It is more of a symbiotic relationship, rather than the parasitic relationship of the typical Goa’uld. The Tok’ra operate within the ranks of the Goa’uld covertly, and would rather die than give up any information of the current whereabouts of Tok’ra bases and outposts.

While an alliance of sorts does exist between Earth and the Tok’ra, it seems the Tok’ra gain more benefit from the alliance than the SGC. This leads to strain relations and eventually, the end of the Earth/Tok’ra alliance. It is unknown as to whether the Tok’rs and Earth re-establish this alliance.

6. The Jaffa

The Jaffa are the soldiers of the Goa’uld. They also carry infant Goa’uld within pouches, much like a kangaroo does with a joey. In return, the Jaffa receives a longer life than the usual human life span, and superhuman strength. Some believe that the Jaffa have been enslaved by the Goa’uld using this method, but those that believe this are few and far between. It is only when Teal’c rebels against Apophis and helps to free SG-1 that other also start believing, although it takes some time for the movement to gain momentum and for a Jaffa uprising to overthrow the Goa’uld once and for all.

7. Replicators

Replicators are machines with the ability to recreate more of themselves. They recreate by finding and assimilating technology into their own. While not instantly hostile, any hostile act made toward a replicator is met with hostile force. A single replicator can turn into thousands in mere hours if materials to do so are available, usually metal such as the hulls of space ships. Many Replicators can link and form as one to perform various tasks, such as increasing the power to a ship’s warp drive and engines. Each replicator is made of tiny blocks, each block being linked through subspace. Replicators can reform if destroyed, however, if the subspace link between the blocks is disrupted, the blocks are rendered inert and cannot reform. It is worth noting that two blocks cannot form a single replicator.

It worth noting that I am no expert on the races of SG-1. What I have written here is merely from what I have observed throughout the ten series of SG-1. If there is anything that needs correcting or any information I have omitted, please feel free to leave a comment.

Until next time

Lord Yu

Please, just kill me now

So, Big Brother is back on the air in Australia, and I was really hoping that by sone niracle, it would be pulled. Like the ABA would some how manage to pull off an 11th hour miracle and have the bloody program banned, or at least delayed.

No such luck. The launch went to air, but I have better things to do with my time than watch a bunch of idiots in a house argue. If I want to watch people argue, fight and bitch, all I have to do is take a chair, a bottle of coke, and go into Fortitude Valley around the time the nightclubs close and watch the drunks stumble out the door and start fighting each other because they’re too intoxicated to know what they are doing.

Don’t get me wrong, BB was good when it first started. They had real people in the house. But over the last few series of BB, they’ve had nothing but attractive twenty something idiots who have the IQ of a housebrick. I mean come on, Krystal Foreskin (lol, thanks to my girlfriend for that one) might have tits bigger than a wheel of a Mac truck, but the girl has no brains whatsoever. (By the way, Krystal’s surname is actually Forscutt, that’s public knowledge). And then there was the controversy of the last few years. There was the turkey slap incident, and a male housemate giving a female housemate a massage with his pants down. I mean, hello, did you forget that the cameras are filming you 24/7 and that it’s streamed on to the internet? These people obviously have no brains let alone common sense. I’m talking about the people in the control room, but the people in the house obviously have less intelligence. Because if they had two brain cells to rub together, they might have thought that what they were doing was not such a good idea.

I think John Howard said it best when he said “Here’s a great opportunity for Channel Ten to do a bit of self regulation and get this stupid program off the air”.

It’s time to go…Big Brother