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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
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
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
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
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
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