10 Massive Stargate Plot Holes
Which Stargate moments stuck out for the wrong reasons?
Stargate began life as a stand alone film in 1994, starring Kurt Russell and James Spader. It was a wonderful idea about interstellar travel by means of a transportation device. Effectively, imagine if Star Trek was based entirely around the Transporter, and there's something of an idea as to the genesis of the idea. However, from this initial jumping off point, the Stargate universe has become both vast and dense.
Naturally, with a story as expansive as Stargate's, there are bound to be little gaps in logic from time to time. More often than not, these are easily ignored in the run of the show, or explained away. In the case of the movie, several of the points have been retconned out of existence. The idea of Abydos being on the other side of the known universe is quietly brushed away, centralizing all of the action in the series to the Milky Way galaxy (that is, until The Fifth Race).
There are some plot holes which niggle just enough to warrant their place here. Now, take everything with a pinch of salt and enjoy our list!
10. Magic Eyes, Magic Dialing Device
This is a plot hole that stuck for so long, that it was actually retroactively fixed in the show! In the opening scene of the pilot episode, Children of the Gods, Apophis arrives on Earth to take new potential hosts. They slaughter the airmen guarding the Gate, and then turn back around and enter - booting up the Gate without the use of a DHD.
For years, this particular plot hole stood out. The Goa'uld didn't possess the technology to open a Gate in such a fashion, whereas species like the Asgard, the Knox and, in one version of the future, Humans do. Therefore, by the laws that the show placed upon the Gate, Apophis should have been trapped in Cheyenne Mountain from the very first episode!
However, Children of the Gods was re-cut and re-edited before SG-1 finished airing. In this re-cut, there is an added moment of one of the Jaffa actually placing a makeshift dialing device on the Gate itself, thus creating the wormhole to get them all home.
While some plot holes on this list can be explained away this way or that way, this was the first example of actually going back to the episode and fixing a mistake!