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- n. Plural form of stargate.
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Examples
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I'm also building a cycle of stories -- the first of which appears in Gardner Dozois 'imminent space-opera anthology -- which gives a good kick in the balls to all those novels and stories that rely on networks of FTL stargates conveniently left behind by long-vanished alien races.
MIND MELD: Who are Your Literary Influences in the Ongoing Conversation of Science Fiction?
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IE - There needs to be stargates on the planets for our heroes to get off the ship and onto the planets.
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Why bother to send out ships to seed galaxies with stargates and then send out another ship to follow up?
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The thing is, there is so much potential for the use of stargates (see Hamiliton's Pandora's Star for example) that I feel the writers/producers were wasting it on cliched ideas.
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Loyal Fan of all stargates you guys suck on stargate universe to many flashbacks, and for stoping the best show stargate atlantis bring it back.
INTERVIEW: Consulting Producer Joseph Mallozzi Talks About Plans for Stargate Universe
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When a new code is broken that reveals the location of stargates throughout the galaxy, Earth and its inhabitants are given the ability to travel through time to any point they wish instantaneously.
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If others have used the conceit before us then the conventionality it accrues also makes it easier to swallow, situating it in its own ersatz nomology (hence the acceptance of FTL as a tradition of how the world works within genre SF, and hence the growing popularity of tropes like wormholes, stargates and jump-points as a more recent tradition).
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I loved the story driven slow build nature of it because it was such a refreshing change to the usual alien of the week feel of the other stargates as fun as they were.
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Launch pads lined the edge of the floating island, and aliens of every shape, size, and color were hurrying back and forth between crowded stargates.
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| Reply they should make one more DVD after this is all over where SG1 stargates to a planet of peacekeepers and they are rescued by the farscape team and join up with firefly and go be awesome together …
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Stargate Atlantis canceled, kind of
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