Stargate

Plot: The Stargate, discovered on Earth, is used to travel to a planet in another galaxy. A team of Airforce personnel, lead by Colonel Jack O'Neil must battle an Egyptian God to free a group of humans from slavery and return safely home to Earth.


Immediately, the differences between the film and SG-1 become quite apparent. Most notable is the fact that Abydos exists in a different galaxy to Earth in the film, while it is within the same galaxy in SG-1. Indeed, travel to another galaxy is not possible in SG-1 without an insane amount of power.


You can read more about the inconsistencies on the 'Differences between Stargate and Stargate SG-1' wiki page.

That aside, Stargate still proves itself to be a fun, action science fiction film. Kurt Russel makes a fine Jack O'Neil (one 'l'), while Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin work to set up a plot that was intended to be strung out in to a trilogy.

Fortunately, that never went ahead and we got SG-1 a couple of years later. Although there are some rumours that Devlin still wants to get those sequels off the ground, continuing the Stargate canon, rather than tieing in to Sg-1. Groan.

Jonathan Glassner and Brad Wright were eventually given the chance to re-develop the conceptas a TV series. I plan on kicking that off tomorrow, with the pilot episode, 'Children of the Gods'.