Stargate SG-1: Every Season Ranked Worst To Best

Stargate SG-1 was off to a slightly uneasy start, having to both alter the darker tone of the 1994 Stargate movie into its slightly more TV-palatable alternative and convince us that Richard Dean Anderson was playing the same character as Kurt Russel. They aren't exactly dead ringers for one another! Fortunately Michael Shanks had more luck with his transformation into an approximation of James Spader.

The series begins somewhat like Star Trek but with more guns, with each week our team going to find an alien world whose native civilisation was either directly descended from Earth or was under threat by the Goa'uld. We learned a lot about the setup of the Galaxy in the first year, as well as how the Goa'uld were organised. The episode Bloodlines, for example, gave our first idea at Jaffa society.

Stand-out episodes include The Torment of Tantalus, where a single man has been stranded on a planet for nearly 60 years and discovered something truly incredible. The Enemy Within gave us a taste of what a Goa'uld is actually capable of, while Enigma and Solitudes took great strides in expanding what could be out there and also what has come before. This universe was starting to look bigger than we first thought.