Goa'Uld - Science Fiction Report

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Goa'uld From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Goa'uld (pronounced [ɡoˑɑˈʔuːld] go-AH-oold; commonly shortened to /ɡoʊˈuːld/go-OOLD or /ˈɡuːld/GOOLD) are a fictional symbiotic race of ancient astronauts from the American-Canadian military science fiction television franchise Stargate. The Goa'uld are parasites from the planet P3X-888, integrated within a host, most of the time a human. The resulting creatures are a powerful race bent on galactic conquest and domination, largely without pity, compassion or remorse. In the first eight seasons of Stargate SG-1 they are the greatest extraterrestrial threat to Earth known to the Stargate Command (SGC). The Goa'uld are the main enemies of SG-1 for most of the show, until they are replaced in this capacity by the Ori in seasons 9 and 10. They also appear in the Stargate Atlantis episode "Critical Mass", and in the DVD movie Stargate: Continuum. They are pejoratively called "snakes" or "snakeheads" by Jack O'Neill. The Goa'uld were created by writers Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich for the 1994 movie, Stargate. Although the alien race in the film was never named, the pilot episode "Children of the Gods" (1997) established that the alien race seen in the movie are the Goa'uld. In the series it is confirmed that they are a parasitic race which uses hosts to survive. They were the dominant species in our galaxy. Stargate race A Goa'uld symbiote Goa'uld Type Parasitic race Affiliated with Goa'uld Empire Home planet P3X-888 First appearance Stargate (1994) Parasitic form outside of host Stargate SG-1 (1997) History Background In the Stargate universe, the word "Goa'uld" means "children of the gods".[8] The Goa'uld evolved on the planet P3X-888, where there are still populations of primitive Goa'uld.[9] Their original hosts were the Unas, also native to the planet. The Goa'uld largely

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