The modern sci-fi genre space is filled with its fair share of epic stories that have the ability to truly and utterly captivate its audience. The mind-bending Netflix series, 3 Body Problem, based on novels by Liu Cixin, jumps straight to mind, as does Apple TV hits in Silo and Severance. However, a generation or two ago, in the ’70s and ’80s, some huge stories were being told within the big science fiction franchises like Star Trek and Star Wars. Before the San-Ti ever threatened Earth, these two franchises made it abundantly clear that the universe was both an uncharted and strange place, with levels of dangerwhich are sometimes unfathomable.
In the modern era, these franchises have gone on to hold iconic status, but there is one franchise of the same era that is often forgotten despite its immense contribution to the genre — Stargate. The 1994 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer filmStargate launched the franchise, with Roland Emmerich directing. Kurt Russell,James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Alexis Cruz, Mili Avital, and Viveca Lindfors all featured in the film, which explored how humans traversed the cosmos via an alien wormhole device as Earth’s representatives seeking new alien allies and weapons of defense. Within two years, a sequel series, the iconic Stargate SG-1, would launch and run for 10 seasons while attracting an incredibly loyal fan base.
Despite the passage of time, the popularity of the Stargate franchise has not waned, extending into spin-offs such as Stargate Atlantis, which starred Jason Momoa and Joe Flanigan, Stargate Universe, and Stargate Origins. Prime Video had extensive plans to reopen the franchise for the first time in fifteen years, but development on the new Stargate series has been cancelled, according to reports. Despite the disappointing news, according to data from FlixPatrol, the iconic Stargate SG-1 series has resurged on streaming, cracking the Top 10 slots in some European countries such as France on the streaming platform 6play.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
02
In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
03
What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
04
How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
06
Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
07
Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
08
What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
Is There a Future for ‘Stargate’?
The now-cancelled reboot was headed by Martin Gero (Blindspot), a veteran of all three previous Stargate TV series. The rights to Stargate are held by Amazon after its acquisition of MGM Studios in 2022, so what does that mean for the future of the franchise? For one, it means that the franchise could be revisited at a later date. While plot details from Gero’s Stargate reboot were never revealed, Prime Video’s reason for pulling the plug on the reboot stemmed from concerns that it would only appeal to the existing Stargate audience and not to broader audiences. So, should the creative direction change, there is a chance that a Stargate reboot might come to our screens.
The planned Stargate series was to have been executive-produced by Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell for Safehouse Pictures, as well as by Dean Devlin and Emmerich. Serving as consulting producers would have been longtime Stargate veterans Brad Wright and Joe Mallozzi.
Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
Release Date
1997 – 2007-00-00
Showrunner
Brad Wright
Directors
Martin Wood, Andy Mikita, William Waring, Bill Gereghty, David Warry-Smith, Brad Turner, Mario Philip Azzopardi, William Gereghty, Peter F. Woeste, Dennis Berry, Ken Girotti, Charles Correll, Jonathan Glassner, Robert C. Cooper, Allan Eastman, Bill Corcoran, Jeff Woolnough, Jim Kaufman, Allan Lee, amanda tapping
Writers
Dean Devlin, Damian Kindler, Katharyn Powers, Alan McCullough, Jeff King, Christopher Judge, Terry Curtis Fox, Martin Gero, Carl Binder, Hart Hanson, James Tichenor, Jarrad Paul, Tom J. Astle, Ben Browder, Corin Nemec, David Rich, Jacqueline Samuda, John Sanborn, Michael Shanks, Sam Egan, Alex Levine, James Taylor Phillips
