Picard and Samantha Carter
Summary Very few series have as much in common with Star Trek as the Stargate franchise. With three television series and three films, Stargate may not have quite as much content as Star Trek, but the two franchises have many similarities. The Stargate franchise began with the 1994 feature film starring Kurt Russell as Colonel Jack O'Neill and James Spader as Dr. Daniel Jackson.
5 Stargate Explores Strange New Worlds & Civilizations Stargate's Characters Also Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before. Close Rather than traveling throughout the galaxy in powerful starships, the teams on Stargate travel through a portal on Earth that leads to a countless number of distant planets. On Stargate SG-1, Colonel O'Neill and his team travel to various planets and encounter numerous alien species.
Set on a station in the distant Pegasus galaxy, Stargate Atlantis has a setting similar to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Expanding on the mythology established in SG-1, Atlantis combines episodic and serialized stories, along with the occasional two-part episode. The final spin-off, Stargate Universe, follows a group of characters who find themselves stranded on an alien ship billions of light years from home.
2 Stargate Has Lots Of Familiar Star Trek Faces Several Actors Crossed Over Between The Star Trek & Stargate Universes. Close As both franchises had shows running throughout much of the 1990s and 2000s, it's not surprising that several actors popped up in both series. Star Trek: Voyager's Robert Picardo plays Richard Woolsey, who initially appears on SG-1 as a bit of an adversary as he investigates the Stargate program for the US government.
1 Stargate Plays With Many Of The Same Sci-fi Tropes As Star Trek Both Franchises Incorporate Numerous Genres & Classic Sci-fi Stories. Close Like many science fiction television shows and films, Stargate plays with many classic sci-fi tropes. The various Stargate teams save Earth numerous times, preventing alien takeovers and galactic disasters. There are god-like beings and primitive civilizations and references to ancient mythologies.
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