Sci-Fi's Most Underrated Franchise Has The Best Starships 

Just wanted to chime in and say thanks! I was fortunate to have been a part of the design/build team (practical sets) on each and every ship and fighter. ❤

The best thing about Stargate is seeing the evolution of Earth from 90's tech to intergalactic superpower. Seeing each Tau'ri ship for the first time was a special event.

That was an excellent compilation! I just got back into re-watching the whole series from beginning. I still can't belive that it's been almost 30 years since SG1 came out.

I never realized stargate was underrated. I guess I'm still thinking of the days or yore when it was playing twenty times a week. It definitely gets the prize as the sci fi franchise with the fewest totally stupid episodes. That deserves some acclaim, especially with the Acolyte out.

Commenting before watching; I better see the Destiny. Edit: Ahh, the Destiny. One of my favorite Ancient ships.

I think the Travelers deserved a mention, they are the only humans besides Tau'ri we see with their own interstellar fleets based on their own designs. We know the Tollan also had interstellar ships, but we never saw them and the other humans we see with interstellar capability usually use ships designed and built by another race/empire. Talking about Ancient warships while only off-hand mentioning the Atlantis cityship and only showing but not even mentioning the Aurora class is almost sacrilege, they are both much more important starships to the Ancients than the Destiny and the Puddlejumpers, with the Puddlejumpers arguably not even being starships, since they do not have hyperdrives and have to rely on stargates or other ships to go anywhere. I also question the idea that Ha'taks can detach their inner pyramid from their outer parts, it's never seen or mentioned on show. If it happens anywhere it must be in secondary canon somewhere. That said the Ha'tak are notoriously inconsistent, more so than any other ships on the show, just look at the shots shown in this video, where the CGI shows them as three sided but the spec drawings shown off by Carter shows them as four sided. The show never seemed able to decide on their actual dimensions. Last little nitpick is calling the original Prometheus hyperdrive a reverse-engineered Goa'uld drive. It was really a brand new design only loosely based on the core idea of hyperspace travel, which the Tau'ri first saw in action on Goa'uld ships. The Naquadriah hyperdrive was unique in a number of ways, but was also a total failure of Tau'ri design. It was replaced by a drive straight up lifted from a Goa'uld Alkesh, and that drive was then replaced by an Asgard designed and built drive.

You didn't cover any of the more special dreadnought style ships like Anubis or the Wraith Super Hive. Or any of the smaller races.

I always thought the us navy should have operated the ships, or built their own in parallel to the air force.

It's still better than sesame street for colored shirts.

Question, where did the idea of the pyramid separating from the super structure come from? It was never shown in the show nor mentioned.

I know Stargate isn't that well known as some other sci-fi shows but calling in "most underrated" feels off...

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I never got into Stargate. Every time I came across it when zapping through channels, it was just a bunch of stereotypical looking 90s era TV actors walking around the same forest in their fake military gear and running into people wearing the same generic "burlap peasant outfits" and saving them from dudes wearing cheap LARP latex-ey looking versions of those Egyptian god themed masks from the movie. Every single episode seemed to look exactly the same and have basically the same plot. I gathered as much as that there apparently was space battle CGI stuff in later seasons of the show, but at that time I was already over it. I got enough of that from apparently better shows like Babylon 5 or the new Battlestar Galactica.