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Stargate: Continuum (2008)

★ 7.1 · 583 ratings on TMDB

History may never repeat itself again.

Stargate: Continuum poster★ 7.1

Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.

DirectorMartin Wood
CastAmanda Tapping, Beau Bridges, Ben Browder, Christopher Judge, Claudia Black, Cliff Simon
GenresAction, Adventure, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

In Stargate: Continuum, consciousness is carried by aliens. The story fights on E8/E13 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

↷ aliensUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E13historythe Stargate program never existed, so the United States never built a Stargate and the timeline diverges from 1939 onward (history · universal)
Also inConsciousness hiding in aliensFilms that alter a rule of realityFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Also bends a rule of reality

Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.

Eternals (2021)alters at E13 · same rung · looseOnce Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)alters at E13 · same rung · looseThe Good Dinosaur (2015)alters at E13 · same rung · looseShrek Forever After (2010)alters at E13 · same rung · looseLook Who's Back (2015)alters at E13 · same rung · looseMy Name Is Vendetta (2022)alters at E13 · same rung · rigorous

Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)consciousness in aliens · mythic apocalypseGuardians of the Galaxy (2014)consciousness in aliens · space‑pirate crewAvengers: Infinity War (2018)consciousness in aliens · universal snapThor: The Dark World (2013)consciousness in aliens · nine‑realm cosmosZack Snyder's Justice League (2021)consciousness in aliens · heroic alliance vs alien empireThe Chronicles of Riddick (2004)consciousness in aliens · interstellar crusade

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)Amanda TappingPitch Black (2000)Claudia BlackMarathon Man (1976)William DevaneSpace Cowboys (2000)William DevaneMax Payne (2008)Beau BridgesHollow Man (2000)William Devane