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Stargate: SG-1 (television series)

Introduction
Galar
Goa'uld
Jaffa
Kelowna Hierarchy
Ori
- Origin
- Unidentified flag or ensign
Stargate Command

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Introduction

The sci-fi series "Stargate" concerns travel through an ancient network of gateways that connect habitable planets all over the galaxy, most of them ruled by a race of parasitic aliens, the Goa'uld, who have been snatching humans from Earth for ages for use both as host bodies and as slaves (to whom they represent themselves as gods.)
Eugene Ipavec, 17 october 2005

Galar

by Eugene Ipavec, 15 April 2006

by Jorge Candeias, 1 April 2007

The flag of a planet called Galar appears in the episode, "Collateral Damage." It is is a horizontal tricolor of red-white-light blue, with a black emblem in white stripe, resembling a spiked ball with a white X inside it. Looks rather Dutch.
Eugene Ipavec, 15 April 2006

I just saw the episode "Collateral Damage" of the Stargate SG-1 series Eugene talks about and which features several times a red, white and blue flag with a black device centered. I'm afraid, however, that I don't agree with his claim that the flag is a horizontal tricolour. In fact, the flags (there are two of them visible in a setting that appears several times throughout the episode) are hanging from indoor poles, and they do appear with the red on top. That, however, is entirely consistent with the way *vertical* tricolours (such as the french one) show up in similar displays. The hoistmost stripe seems to be on top simply because it's the one that's attached to the pole.
Jorge Candeias, 1 April 2007

I was not entirely sure about the orientation of the stripes at the time, so I'll defer to expert opinion. ;)
Eugene Ipavec, 2 April 2007

Incidentally, Wikipedia has an image of the Galar flag too here; it is in agreement with Jorge's orientation but they got the color of the spiked-ball deadly wrong, though..
Eugene Ipavec, 17 May 2007

Goa'uld

This race is not a united front; the most powerful of them, who hold the title "System Lord," spend most of their time at war with one another, using their vast armies of human worshippers to contend for resources, territory or simply ego. There is a weak ruling body, a semi-formal conclave of System Lords, but the only Goa'uld flags in evidence in the series are those of the individual Lords. The banners of three of them (Cronos, Nirrti, and Yu) appear in the season 3 episode "Fair Game" but not clearly enough to reproduce, though. They are vertical and bright-red, one bears a gilded representation of a snake-like Goa'uld symbiote.
Eugene Ipavec, 17 october 2005

Jaffa

by Eugene Ipavec, 17 october 2005

In the season 9 episode "Origin, Part 2" there is a formal summit between Earth and a leader of the Jafaa, once the human soldiers of the Goa'uld aliens, who had recently revolted and overthrown them. The leader is preceded by heralds with a banner, either his or that of the Jaffa collectivelly, which is vertical and hangs from an elaborate armature in the shape of an upside-down 'L', exactly like the banners used earlier in the series by the Goa'uld System Lords. It is a lighter shade of blue, with some curvy gold calligraphy, probably thicker than I have it here, and a horizontal line near the bottom.
Eugene Ipavec, 17 october 2005

Kelowna Hierarchy

The flag of the Kelowna Hierarchy, a nation-state of the planet Langara, appears in a goverment bunker in an episode at the end of season 6. It is black, with a odd-looking irregular silver crescent--resembling the head of a wrench--in its center, and a downward-aimed golden dagger superimposed over it.
Eugene Ipavec, 17 october 2005

The Stargate races, "Kelownans" and "Langarans" are named for real places in British Columbia (the show is filmed there).

Apparently, the Kelownans in the show were written as 'bad guys' after the City of Kelowna was uncooperative to the show's film crews.

Langara is probably best known as the name of a college in Vancouver, which includes courses in film and acting (so there are bound to be Langara grads working on the show).
Dean McGee, 2 september 2006

Ori

Origin

by Eugene Ipavec, 17 october 2005

By the end of season 8, the Goa'uld have been badly weakened and demoted to the level of a nuisance, clearing the way for a new set of heavies, the Ori, who are, in a novel touch, not fake gods, but the genuine article. Being the disembodied descendants of the ancient Stargate-builders, they are nearly omnipotent, demand worship from humans, and rule over billions of faithful. They inhabit an adjacent galaxy, from whence they dispatch missionaries to this one as a prelude to a crusade-type invasion force.

Their flag, or more accurately, the flag of their religion called "Origin", can be seen hanging off the facade of the temple in the village of Ver Ager in the season 9 episode "Origin, Part 2". It is dark blue with a black border and black symbol of Origin, which recurs constantly in the Ori's domains.
Eugene Ipavec, 17 october 2005

Unidentified flag or ensign

by Eugene Ipavec, 31 august 2006

In the series' current plotline, the malevolent and godlike Ori have created a young woman whom they call "The Oreci" to serve as an intermediary between them and their human worshippers and lead their expeditionary forces in this galaxy.

In the episode "Counterstrike," the flag was shown hanging on a low armature standing on a balcony next to the Oreci while she was giving a proselytic speech to the denizens of a newly converted planet.

This could make it the overall "national" symbol of the followers of the Ori, or a special flag of the crusade to convert the Milky Way; however, the two emblems of the Ori on it make it seem almost like a rank flag of some kind, leadind me to suspect it may have been meant to be the personal flag of the Oreci herself.
Eugene Ipavec, 31 august 2006

Stargate Command

by Eugene Ipavec, 27 july 2005

In a recent episode, a character gets teleported into the briefing room sans his clothing. He is forced to improvise a kilt--sarong?--out of the flag. In the process we get a good shot of the graphic--a rather garishly-colored version of the SGC logo on a white background. The logo is a stargate--the ring-shaped thing--superimposed with a dialing chevron--the "V"-shaped thing--superimposed in turn with the address-symbol for Earth: the crossbar-less "A" thing.
Eugene Ipavec, 27 july 2005