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Stargate

Stargate

27 8.1
A science fiction film and its related TV shows and books that began in 1994
  • proper noun
  • /ˈstɑrˌɡeɪt/
: Stargate
  • In the science-fiction series, characters use the Stargate to explore distant planets.
  • Stargate program
  • Stargate Atlantis
  • Stargate Universe

So today we are going to be making Stargate cookies.

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Examples

  • Another ambitious space opera—this show attempted to take the long-running Stargate series in a grittier, less heroic direction.

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  • For example, Stargate SG-1 lost viability as a series during the war with the Ori.

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  • Of course, in our case, you had the benefit of an operational Stargate Program for about seven years.

    Stargate: Continuum (2008)

  • "Contact" has not aged well, thanks to the "Stargate" TV series.

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  • All right, I write Stargate fan fiction, so I think I know what I'm talking about right now.

    Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)

  • Now I'm looking forward to Stargate Universe even more than I was before.

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  • I have a new gig as Creative Consultant for the upcoming Stargate: Universe television series.

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  • If they didn't cancel Stargate Universe, we might have found out.

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  • I look at other shows with similar but far lower ratings than this show, like Stargate and The A-Team.

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  • As much as I loved the movie Stargate Atlantis, it still had the pyramids built by aliens, right?

Synonyms

CSI
vsStargate
48 3.5

A TV show about investigators who use science to solve crimes

is a media series that began as a film and then added TV shows
Shrek
vsStargate
10 2.6

A series of animated movies and shows about a large green ogre and his adventures

is a science fiction franchise that began with one film then expanded to TV

Surface Forms

Stargate main

Morphology

Stargate = star + gate (semi-transparent) = star + gate

Formally a compound of 'star' + 'gate' so components are obvious, but the specific meaning as a fictional device/franchise is specialized and not fully derivable by general rules.

Etymology

The word Stargate combines star ('a bright point in the night sky') and gate ('a door or entrance') to create a clear image of a 'door to the stars'. It was chosen as the title for the 1994 film and the later franchise because it suggests a gate that opens to other worlds, which fits the story.