The dating system of the show portrays events as taking place simultaneous, or at least in the same year as, the airdate of each episode. Furthermore, most of the story of Stargate comes from the TV shows, and so they take precedence.
Because the show is so well accepted as a canon continuation of the story, particularly by MGM (who own the rights to the franchise), the dating system described in the show is used in this article. A combined timeline of the story is given below, with the real-time dates of the portrayed events determined by extrapolation from temporal references within the productions.Īlthough the film was set in the ' Present Day', 1994 at its release, the subsequent TV shows provide an alternate dating system. The science fiction universe of Stargate, comprising a well-accepted canon of the film Stargate ( 1994), and the subsequent television shows Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, has an internal chronology that underlies all of the related media. This article provides a timeline of events in the story of Stargate, by date.
