10 Plots From Stargate That Were Just Dropped

10. The Furlings

In the first season of Stargate SG-1, Daniel Jackson discovers evidence that the Stargate was activated before 1994 and that a single man, Ernest Littlefield, stepped through it (in a diving bell). The team venture through the gate to locate Ernest (still alive after forty years of isolation) and find the lost outpost of Heliopolis.

Ernest had discovered that Heliopolis was a meeting place for Four Races. They were The Ancients (also known as the Lanteans, the Alterans or the Gate-Builders), the Nox (as seen in a few early episodes), the Asgard (frequent allies of Earth) and the Furlings. These four races had developed a universal language that was based on the elements of the periodic table and had catalogued a great deal of their knowledge together.

As humans progressed through technological knowledge, the Asgard decided that they were worthy of being considered The Fifth Race.

However, as the vast series progressed, we saw enough of the Nox to know that they didn't want to be involved in anything at all. We saw extensively of the Asgard and almost the entire purpose of SG-1, Atlantis and Universe is about inheriting the legacy of the Ancients. But what about the Furlings? Aside from a joke appearance in the parody-rich episode '200' and a sample of their text appearing in season 6 episode 'Paradise Lost', we never got to find out who the Furlings were.

Why were they considered worth of being one of the Four Races? What did they leave behind? Were they really small and fuzzy? So many questions...