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Contents 1 Ori 1.1 Mythology of the Ori and the Ancients 1.2 References 2 Season 8 2.1 805 3 Timeline

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[edit] Mythology of the Ori and the Ancients

The Ori backstory is elaborate and is explained over Season 9 and 10 and the film Stargate: The Ark of Truth. Robert C. Cooper considered the backstory "pretty complicated" but felt the show gives the answers to the audience members who wanted to delve deeper.^[1]

Part of this backstory goes back to the Ancients, whose backstory began in the Season 1 episode "The Torment of Tantalus".^{[2][citation needed]} Early in Season 9, Brad Wright explained that the Ori are the original Ancients, who would disagree with the Alterans (later to relocate and be known as the Ancients of the Milky Way galaxy) that they shouldn't interfere because interference would mean playing god, which these beings hadn't quite achieved.^[3] The Ori behave like gods in their galaxy, are practically indistinguishable from gods, and are accepted as proof.^[3] Yet in their minds, they are being benevolent because they offer all the knowledge of the universe and way to get there.^[3] "There's a twist, and we're not going to reveal that part. But there's a real sinister, evil quality to what they're doing, and why."^[3]

As told in the series, the Ori and the Alterans (later known as the Ancients)^[4] formed one race millions of years ago and lived in one society on an evolutionary path to ascension.^{[episode needed]} However, a philosophical division emerged.^{[citation needed]} The Ori grew more and more fervent in their religious belief, while the Alterans adopted a more scientific/rational outlook to become a more progressive society.^[4] According to the Ancient Myrddin, the Ori had the best intentions when they first began.^[5] With the Ori outnumbering the Alterans,^[4] their viewpoints ultimately diverged so much that the two groups split apart and began to oppose each other, with the Ori attempting to kill the Alterans.^[1]

The Ark of Truth flashbacks to human Ancients coexisting with the people who eventually became the Ori. Their ultimately different beliefs in regards to science led to the Ori to threaten to kill the Ancient scientists so that the scientists chose to hide their level of scientific belief so that they would not get into a conflict. Eventually, the Ancients decided to build a space ship and leave rather than to use their technology like the Ark of Truth to beat the Ori,^[1] mainly because they thought it to be philosophically and morally wrong.^[4] The film thus addresses the non-interference policy of the Ancients under the Ori threat, and how they act since SG-1 did them a big favor by killing the Ori.^[4]

After much time, believed by Daniel Jackson to be thousands of years, the Alterans discovered the Milky Way, where they eventually built their empire.^{[citation needed]} However, even after the Ori had forced the Alterans to leave their galaxy, the two factions remained bitter enemies.^{[citation needed]} Eventually, the Alterans were afflicted with a terrible plague that wiped out most of their civilization.^{[citation needed]} It would later be discovered that what was known of this plague is very similar to the disease used by Ori Priors against non-believers, which had led Daniel Jackson to speculate that the pre-Ascended Ori might have been responsible for this plague.^{[6][citation needed]}

After millions of years, both the Alterans and the Ori learned how to ascend and evolved,^[1] forming two groups that continued to oppose each other, even at the higher planes of existence.^{[citation needed]} According to the Orici Adria, the Ori-Ancient war on the Ascended plane is due to the Ancients' intolerance for those who do not comply with their rules.^{[7][citation needed]} According to Orlin, the Ori ultimately wish to destroy the Ancients once and for all.^[8]{fact}} The Ori had thus become ascended gods without physical bodies in the human plane of existence. Still, they are a localized energy form that is not entirely omnipresent in the universe.^[4]

The Ancients are well known for their fierce belief in free will^{[episode needed]} and have a code to be "fairly non-violent".^[4] As such, they do not interfere on lower planes of existence at all, not even to save their own kind from being exterminated by the Ori.^{[9][citation needed]} In contrast, the Ori constantly interfere.^{[citation needed]} For example, their religion states that failure to share the secrets of the universe to those on the lower planes of existence is an evil act and that anyone not following it must be eliminated.^{[citation needed]} They also have no rules against taking direct control of living beings or completely changing them to behave as they desire.^{[10][citation needed]}

According to a de-ascended Ancient, Orlin, ascended beings can be empowered by massive numbers of humans worshipping them. The Ori have fabricated an entire religion based on the false promise of ascension to drain power from their followers. The Ancients firmly resent using their powers this way, and therefore refrain from interfering in the lower planes of existence because manipulating and aligning lower life forms in some order could result in exactly this type of abusive corruption.^[8]

While the original ascended became the Ori and re-created humanity (the second generation of humans) to worship them in the Ori galaxy, and gave their followers the technology to essentially enslave others to enforce them to believe as the Ori wanted them to,^[1] the Ancients have shielded the second evolution of humans (i.e. current human culture) in the Milky Way from the Ori and still prevent the Ori from taking direct action in the Milky Way. However, as the Ancients will not interfere in the lower planes of existence, the Ori are allowed to send their human followers to the Milky Way in order to convert it, and anyone who wishes to worship the Ori will be allowed to do so.^{[10][citation needed]}

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- (16min) AM: "Here's the people that it takes to make this little rubber guy [Thor] work. Get a load of this: Todd Masters, Adam Beer, Jeff Rednap, Paul Hughson, Jenny Cassidy, Brad Proctor - puppeteers. Thats 1 2 3 4 5 6 people you got to pay to make that little guy go eeg-huwh-waaaargh. Plus the customized voice. [...] Little rods attached to the arm, there's motors that are in his mouth, there's motors in his face for the eye blinks, there's a whole other one in his neck to make his body or head turn, there's another guy down below getting some shoulder and body movement. He's the six in one [puppet]. Next to RDA, he's the highest paid actor on the show."^[1]

- Thor's voice is Michael Shanks's.^[1]

- (56min) AM: "Our model shop built [the anti-replicator weapon]. It's all piston-driven. It actually has this trigger device on it with all these little air cannons inside. And Rick was just having a ball with it. I remember when designing it, I told the guys, 'Okay, Rick's the guy who's gonna use it. So when he puts it on as a prop, he's gonna go, "Oh, I wanna play with it," and he's gonna run around the set.' [...] Anyway, they had to make this a Rick-friendly prop. [...] I mean, they just knew that he would be gonna play with it and he would probably break it within the first five minutes. Like a prop for your kid."^[1]

- (1:01) (scene where Eighth gets beamed onto Thor's ship) AM: "There's Bam-Bam. James 'Bam-Bam' Bamford. He's the stunt-coordinator for Stargate Atlantis. Because the show was new and they had only just shot the pilot when we were doing this, we were just trying to make him feel part of the family. So we said, 'Okay, put some little pod marks on him and jump into the can, little buddy boy.'"^[1]

(16min - Carter confronting RepliCarter) WW: "Now here, we're doing overs [of the two Carters]. You can see the jawline, and we use Cindy Peters, who has a perfect jawline for the overs, yet we use Sherri standing off-camera for the dialogue, because she has the timings. You see, Cindy's jawline is so perfect, you can do that."^[2]

The Puddle jumper dashboard, that was made out of plexi in Season 8, was changed before the beginning of season 9.^[3] (14min, after Carter got beamed onto Thor's ship) PDL: "Now, Michael Shanks does the voice of Thor. You know, I'm gonna be doing the voice of another Asgard character on Atlantis called... (finally remembering) Hermiod. Hermiod is a strange name. It sounds like hemorrhoid, I don't know. Hermiod is a grumbly version of..." GJ: "Well, when I get hemorrhoids, I wear my Ass-Guard." PDL: "That's nice to know. [...] I did the voice of Loki before, and then when I was working with Michael... I was recording the voice-overs for the video game, and Michael was doing the voice for Thor in the video game... This is Stargate Alliance that's coming up... that you are part of..." GJ: "That we worked on..." PDL: "I saw Michael doing it and I went, 'Okay, I see that you picked up your thing and you adopted this kind of accent as well. It's not just your (talking like Thor) "I'm talking like this", you've adopted some kind of an accent.' When he first did the first voice of Thor, (talking like Thor, *very* slowly) 'He talked really slowly', and he realized... He didn't think that that character was going to come back... But when he realized... 'I have to speed this up. They're not paying me by the hour. I get paid the same whether I finish it in an hour or two.' Right? So he sped up the... Also, he realized how boring it was. Plus, he just has a tendency to get rid of his dialog fast."^[4]

PDL: "You know, Martin Wood and Brad Wright were invited by the Air Force to go on a test ride in the trainer jets." GJ: "Right along?" PDL: "Exactly. And they jumped at the chance, got their flight suits on, did all the training, put the gravity outfit on - the thing that squeezes you to make sure that the blood stays in your head? [...] Well, Martin goes up - and the plane conks out." GJ: "What - not in mid-air?!" PDL: "In mid-air. It conks, and he goes, (with a bored voice) 'Okay, we're going to have to do an emergencey landing, and this is very dangerous, and I hope you understand that this is bad...', and the pilot had to go through his check list. So he actually told Martin, 'Take the stick, stabilize the airplane while I go through my check list." GJ: "I never heard this. You can't be serious." PDL: "It's absolutely true. And you know what Martin was doing the whole time? He was video-tapping. He had no fear. (imitating Martin) 'Oh yeah, no problem.' He was video-tapping.^[4]

(31min - Kinsey is on board the Prometheus) AM: "Prometheus is a fun set to shoot in. There's lots of layers and textures and flashing lights and..." PM: "The Prometheus going back was our answer to the Goa'uld ships. We wanted to build something that was exactly the opposite of Goa'uld ships, which are basically big empty rooms. You know, we were always complaining becuase we were flying those Goa'uld ships and there's nowhere to sit, there was no screens, no buttons to press. So when we came up with the idea of the Prometheus back in whatever season that was, season 5 or whatever, Brad was like, 'I want buttons! I want switches! Lots of buttons and switches and flashing lights!' I think the original sort of concept was like an air craft carrier. it's supposed to look like an air craft carrier. And it does! God, it's so much fun to go in there. I love, like you said, the texture of it."^[5]

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PW, JL

• Stargate used on location - > oval from reuse
• Riverview mental institute, no longer in use, fake trees, heavily extensively by motion picture, also shot there "Underground"

1. The casting of this episode went fairly quickly. From the get-go, Robert Cooper already had Steve Bacic in mind for the part of Camulus, as he was already familiar with his work (some of you may remember Steve as Major Coburn from "Maternal Instinct"). Kira Clavell's audition for the role of Teyla in Atlantis caught our attention. Although she wasn't quite right for Teyla, we knew we had to find a way to use her -- and did, much sooner than we'd expected.^[6]

1. When writing science fiction, you have to walk a fine line between fact and fantasy or, more to the point, what is contextually credible and what is just plain implausible even within the sci-fi framework we've created. For instance, why are the planets we visit almost always populated by humans rather than more exotic alien life forms? Well, two reasons: 1) We're descendants of the Ancients who seeded this galaxy; and 2) When they left Earth, the Goa'uld brought many of their slaves with them, transporting them to other worlds.^[7]

1. The super soldiers were created in Season Seven as a means of providing guilt-free cannon-fodder for our heroes. With the Jaffa rebellion gaining in strength and past storylines geared toward humanizing these noble warriors (after all, they were fighting for the Goa'uld not because they were evil but because they honestly believed they were serving their god), we needed to find a new enemy that we could essentially "kill with gay abandon."

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1. One actress originally considered for the role of Krista was Farscape's Claudia Black, who was busy shooting the "Peacekeeper Wars" mini-series in Australia at the time. As it turned out, things worked out perfectly in the end. Erica Durance (soon to join the cast of Smallville as Lois Lane) did a wonderful job as Krista, while Claudia did an equally terrific job in the later "Prometheus Unbound." ^[9]

1. They were the N.I.D., then "rogue elements within the N.I.D.," then "former rogue elements of the N.I.D." Eventually, they became completely disassociated from the N.I.D. and we needed a new name for them. Easier said than done, of course, because it turned out every name we thought of had been used on Alias. Eventually, we came up with the Trust -- and it wasn't until weeks later that we learned it, too, had been used on Alias. In the end, it was either stick with the Trust or go with our back-up: The Former Rogue Elements of the N.I.D. Now Working for Private Interests Bent on Global Domination. Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.^[9]

For "Zero Hour", the SGC set was decorated with various plants and vines. Some plants were plastic, but for the torching scenes, real plants were used to not burn the whole set. Everything was sprayed to be flame retardant.^[10][11]

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