Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Stargate SG-1 is a decade-spanning military sci-fi series built around one central idea: a device that connects distant worlds through instantaneous travel. What drives it is the tension between institutional power — an Air Force team operating under government secrecy — and the vastness of a galaxy full of hostile civilisations. The taste it signals is for serialised adventure that mixes procedural mission structure with escalating mythology, where the threat keeps evolving and the stakes stretch across civilisations rather than just planets.
Stargate SG-1 is a military science fiction adventure television series within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 science fiction film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich. The television series was filmed in and around the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The series premiered on Showtime on July 27, 1997, and moved to the Sci Fi Channel on June 7, 2002; the series finale aired on Sky1 on March 13, 2007.
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Film
Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods
An alien emerges from the Stargate, soldiers die, and a new team forms to give chase.
Film
Stargate: The Ark of Truth
SG-1 races to another galaxy to find an ancient weapon before the Ori's warships reach Earth.
Film
Stargate: Continuum
Time travel erases the Stargate program entirely, forcing SG-1 to claw history back into existence.
Film
Stargate
The Egyptian-discovered portal that started everything — humans on a distant world worshipping a false god.
Film
Alien Invasion: S.U.M.1
Humanity reduced to underground bunkers as a soldier surfaces into an alien-occupied Earth.
Film
Scorpio One
A space station team makes a lethal discovery, then must fight for survival against time and enemies alike.
Game
Stargate
Alien marauders kidnap humanoids and convert them into mutants — defend your planet in a fast arcade shooter.
Game
Stargate (1995)
A side-scrolling action game directly adapted from the film that launched the Stargate universe.
Game
Stormgate
Real-time strategy against an alien invasion, with campaign missions and an evolving sci-fi conflict.
Game
Star Ocean First: Departure R
A Terran Federation crew lands on an alien planet and joins local heroes to stop a galactic war.
Game
STAR WARS Starfighter
Starfighter combat in a famous sci-fi universe, missions unfolding before a galaxy-shaping battle.
Game
Master of Orion 1
Colonise planets, trade with alien races, and conquer star systems before rival empires do.
Book
Brimstone
The Atlantis team finds Ancient descendants who have slid into decadence on a moon doomed to destruction.
Book
Star Trek - Into Darkness
Two officers with clashing personalities must unite their crew against an alien bent on exterminating all life.
Book
Star Trek - New Earth - Thin Air
The Enterprise guards an alien world whose resources could tip the balance of power across the galaxy.
Book
Star Trek - Log One
New animated missions for the famous starship crew, reviving the franchise for a new generation of stories.
Book
Across Billion Years
An archaeological team ventures deep into space hunting relics of a civilisation that once ruled the universe.
Book
Star Trek Deep Space Nine - Stowaways
Two kids stow away on a shuttle and end up rescuing a doctor from a camp of ruthless armed assassins.
Series
Stargate Universe
A multinational crew stranded billions of light years out on an Ancient ship, scrambling to find a way home.
Series
Stargate Infinity
Air Force cadets and a disgraced Stargate veteran travel alien worlds through wormhole gates in animated form.
Series
Stargate Atlantis
Scientists and soldiers explore an Ancient city in a new galaxy, immediately cut off and facing unknown threats.
Series
Dialing Home
Cast and crew retrospectives celebrating twenty years of the Stargate franchise's history.
Series
Stargate Origins
Young Catherine Langford, who witnessed the Stargate's discovery in 1928, embarks on her own adventure to save Earth.
Series
Star City
An alt-history space race told from the Soviet side — politics, sacrifice, and Cold War tensions in orbit.
The most direct next step is Stargate Atlantis, which follows a new expedition into the Ancients' city in the Pegasus Galaxy, or Stargate Universe for a darker, survival-focused tone aboard a stranded Ancient vessel.
Star Ocean First: Departure R shares the feel of a small crew touching down on alien worlds to prevent a galactic catastrophe, while Master of Orion 1 puts you in command of an interstellar empire facing rival species across the galaxy.
The series picks up roughly a year after the film's events and expands the gate network from one planet to an entire galaxy of threats, turning a single adventure into an ongoing military operation with escalating enemies and mythology.