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| Stargate Infinity: The Complete Series | 
enlarge | Director: Will Meugniot Actors: Mark Hildreth, Bettina Busch, Cusse Mankuma, Kathleen Barr, Lee Tockar Studio: Shout Factory Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating: 14 reviews Sales Rank: 6875
Format: Animated, Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc Language: English (Original Language) Rating: G (General Audience) Number Of Items: 4 Running Time: 600 Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1 Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MCMDSF10812D UPC: 826663108125 EAN: 0826663108125 ASIN: B0015LPS1Y
Release Date: May 13, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 05/13/2008
Amazon.com All 26 episodes from Stargate Infinity's single season (2002-03) are included in this four-disc DVD package, and although it bears only a passing resemblance to the feature film, television series, and made-for-TV movies that share its name (in fact, it apparently isn't even considered an "official" member of the Stargate universe), the show boasts enough good qualities of its own to make for perfectly serviceable animated entertainment. Of course, the Stargate itself, the alien device that creates "wormholes" through which characters travel to different worlds, is still front and center; indeed, the visual effects used to depict the contraption are very similar in both animation and live action. But pretty much everything else about Infinity is different. It takes place years after the adventures chronicled in the long-running Stargate SG-1 TV show (in this world, the existence of the Stargate is now common knowledge), which means that all of that series' familiar characters are long gone. In their place are Major Gus Bonner (a salty, irreverent leader somewhat in the mold of SG-1 main man Richard Dean Anderson) and a team that includes a couple of teenagers, a half-human, half-alien brainiac, an empathic Native American, and weird creature who may or may not be one of the highly evolved "Ancients" familiar from the live action series. The villains have changed as well: principal among them are the huge, lizard-like Tlak'kahn, whose agenda, like all bad guys of their ilk, appears to be nothing less than total domination of the cosmos. Despite the inherent limitations of television cartoons (principally the lack of a big enough budget to animate both characters and settings convincingly), Stargate: Infinity has all of the elements designed to appeal to its young (and presumably mostly male) audience, like cool aliens (Gigantic bugs! Slimy monsters!) and constant high-energy action sequences. This being a children's show, it also has a mandated educational element (we learn about everything from the difference between stalactites and stalagmites to the kind of arches used in Roman architecture), as well as various life lessons (believe in yourself, don't judge others by appearance alone, etc.); to the show's credit, the latter tend to be laid on with a trowel instead of a shovel. Bonus features include an "Animated Stargate Effects Test" and original concept art. --Sam Graham
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General synopsis. April 22, 2008 99 out of 102 found this review helpful
Stargate Infinity is an animated television series produced for children as a spin-off from the popular science fiction series Stargate SG-1 (a series based on the 1994 film Stargate). The cartoon never found its audience and was canceled after one season.
The writers and producers of Stargate SG-1 and the main canon of the Stargate franchise were not involved with Infinity, and neither MGM (producers of the Stargate franchise), the production teams nor the fans of Stargate consider Infinity to be an official part of the Stargate universe.
The Stargate is an alien device discovered in Egypt, in 1928. Its purpose is to create wormholes to similar devices across the universe, allowing near instantaneous travel to distant planets and galaxies. Stationed at Stargate Command ("the SGC"), a top-secret military base located inside Cheyenne Mountain, teams of explorers (know as SG teams typically assigned numerical designations like "SG-1" "SG-3" "SG-12" etc) go on missions through the Stargate to find new technology and make allies to help defend Earth from alien threats.
Stargate Infinity is set 30 years after the Tau'ri (which literally means "the first ones" or "those of the first world" in the language of the alien race known as the Goa'uld) first used the Stargate. According to this show, by this time the Stargate has become public knowledge, and some aliens have become citizens of Earth.
In this series, a veteran member of the SGC, Major Gus Bonner, leads a team of young recruits through the gate after being framed by an alien infiltrator from a hostile race known as the Tlak'kahn (the Goa'uld having long since been defeated; this was written years before their defeat was even conceived on SG-1 TV series). The team must travel from world to world until they find the evidence to clear their names. While on their adventures, they learn many things about unique cultures in the galaxy as well as themselves.
Because the series was canceled before it's 2nd season, this plot arch was never resolved.
The show often featured an educational comment or summary about the moral lessons learned during the course of an episode.
Not like the SG-1 TV show June 12, 2008 25 out of 29 found this review helpful
As a fan of the TV show for the last 10 years I thought this would be related somehow. It isn't at all. As an adult I could barely watch the first 2 episodes -- then I put the box back on the shelf never to open again.
A really great show. Why only one season?? May 7, 2008 8 out of 23 found this review helpful
This was a really great addition to the stargate universe. It took place years after the movie and tv shows. There are lots of aliens and really cool action sequences. A must have for me.
Just not the same as the real thing July 1, 2008 7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Just doesn't compare to either stargate series that was on t.v. Cheesy doesn't even began to describe this animated show! I wish it was more of a continuation like the star trek animated series was for star trek. Oh well just keep in mind it has nothing on the original stargate or Atlantis.
Stargate Infinity June 19, 2008 6 out of 15 found this review helpful
Stargate Infinity is a total rip off.
There are not any of the characters from Stargate
The only thing from the original series is the gate itself. Do not waste your money.
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