Stargate: The Ships of the Goa'uld Empire - Spacedock Short

Spacedock takes a look at the diverse and imposing starships of Stargate's Goa'uld Empire.
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[@Spacedock]

Credit to Stargate Invasion for the Cheops Class and Apohpis Mothership Images. www.moddb.com/mods/stargate-invasion

[@EmperorIC]

Spacedock please review the destiny from stargate universe please

[@321gman3]

Destiny!!! Yes Please!

[@FingerPrinces]

What with Warhammer 40000 space ships? for example Imperial Navy Gotika Class Battlecrusser?

[@luisjlopez8725]

Formic hive ship from ender's games please

[@stangundam01]

have you done the hyperion from starcraft 2 yet?

[@thegardenofesim1174]

I am really glad stargate is still beloved by many people

[@thefallenone50]

yup die hard fan since the first movie came out in 1994

[@MordorOrc59]

I finished SG-1 and started Atlantis few weeks ago..best series ever! :)

[@RinnosukeETQW]

Hell, I'm going to see the movie at the Alamo Drafthouse on tuesday. Snapped up a ticket the moment it was announced.

[@plummet3860]

Rinnosuke iam confused do they play old movies there or something?

[@RinnosukeETQW]

Sometimes they do. They have a Kurt Russell thing going right now.

[@chimalez2924]

I like how the walls of the Goa'uld Ha'taks absorbed the staff weapon shots like the designers had made the ships knowing the Goa'uld would shoot at their own walls.

[@chimalez2924]

@IJN Yamato yes that's true. I just think that, considering how badly aimed Goa'uld staff weapon shots are in SG1, it's rather funny. Of course that's the practical purpose but to me the Goa'uld warriors are like stormtroopers haha

[@Rikard_Nilsson]

The stargates are made of Naquada, the ships are made of naquada. The Stargate is a giant capacitor because of it's building materials able to absorb huge amounts of energy, so it goes without saying that the energy unleashed from the Staff weapons would get absorbed quite easily by the walls of their ships too.

[@belisarian6429]

@@Rikard_Nilsson If I remember correctly naquadah was used as power source/fuel for engines, weapons..... + it is extremely heavy/dense so I think hulls of their ships are from something else, that being said any conductive metal of decent thickness will be probably good enough to dissipate energy from hand held energy weapons.

[@Rikard_Nilsson]

@@belisarian6429 I believe you're thinking of Naquadria the radioactive isotope of Naquadah.

[@belisarian6429]

@@Rikard_Nilsson Nn goauld dont have Naquadria, that one can be found only on Jonah's(or whatever his name is) planet, Naquadria is just more potent version on Naquadah, so more powerful fuel. I distinctly remember things like "weapons grade naquadah", stuff that is exttra pure to power weapons and purity is needed so they are more compact(that I assume).

[@Fydron]

They reigned over 24 000 years over countless of worlds and kept billions as slaves and all gone down the toilet just because Apophis wanted some tail.

[@PtrkHrnk]

Oh 😮

[@linusorm]

Yeah, Apophis was the fucking idiot who started the destruction of the Goa'uld Empire. Fuckin' idiot, eh?

[@thefallenone50]

see that's what happens when you mess with the US military and Daniel Jackson

[@benbailey08911]

I forgot about that the stargate program was cancelled till Apophis came and kidnapped that airmen.

[@BagoPorkRinds]

Kneel before your god!

[@thomaskirkness-little5809]

Stargate was such a brilliant sci-fi universe. The stargates themselves gave the option of having so many stories. The Goa'uld, early Replicators and the Wraiths were super powerful but with sensible weaknesses. The Goa'uld had both really interesting and deep villains and huge armies of Jaffa at the same time. All the in-fighting made it believable that they'd ignore us unless we looked like a serious threat, then they'd work on a huge invasion or an explosive asteroid. I still think that a Stargate game similar to X-Com would be one of the greatest games ever, but we'll probably never know because MGM apparently don't play well with others.

[@AdamantLightLP]

I didn't know I wanted an X-COM like SG game... But now I do.

[@scottmurphy4946]

A Goa'uld told me if I put money in, and got others under me to invest in their shipbuilding programs I could become rich I knew it was a pyramid scheme

[@fazerhombus8565]

Nice

[@tylersoto7465]

Lmao 🤣 good there going to make us great again nlol

[@tuckhoichan6638]

I see what you did there.

[@dakariszulu]

Hammond from Texas likes that needle ship....

[@ThanTreeKull]

RIP

[@Rikard_Nilsson]

undomesticated equines couldn't keep him from flying it.

[@Swiftbow]

I never thought Anubis completely destroyed Abydos with his superweapon. He just laid waste to the pyramid structure and everything for a few hundred miles, destroying the Stargate and the Abydonian's settlements. But I guess it's never made explicit.

[@gabevietor3685]

A detonation like that might have left the surface uninhabitable as well, so you could count it as "destroying" a planet.

[@koshi6505]

Some people say that Starfleet's ships are overly empty. These people haven't seen inside a Ha'tak vessel.

[@Denazon]

Man, i love the Stargate universe.

[@RinnosukeETQW]

I miss it so much...

[@flow3278]

Rinnosuke you guys can join our stargate command organization in the upcoming space MMO dual universe! community.dualthegame.com/organization/stargate-command

[@gollesocto5008]

Denazon are you going to do this sort of thing for the tauri as well or other faction from stargate

[@flow3278]

i bet you ask me. yea our organization is based on the tauri but we build some ships from other factions like the jumper or atlantis. but we cant build everything because of the "level of detail" possibilities.

[@davecrupel2817]

Salute the aces of Razgris! o7

[@saltireskillz9809]

The gliders wing mounted staff cannons are 'indeed' powerful😂😂

[@mikevasquez1103]

They were even worse than the galactic Empire when it came to favoring intimidation over tactical prowess.

[@marsar1775]

Though their reason made more sense with no opposition for thousands of years. They grew complacent

[@mikevasquez1103]

@@marsar1775 That's true, but they didn't have to sacrifice tactical functionality. They had flying machines and weapons that could strike men down at great distance. Any significantly advanced technology would be indestinguishable from magic to the vast majority of their subjects. Even Daniel Jackson's wife Sha're thought his ball point pen was magic.

[@kirkbolas4985]

In some respects they remind me of the Rakatan Empire as there are several conceptual parallels...except that the Goa’uld relies entirely on technology to rule (which seemed like magic to the sentient aboriginals they enslaved), whereas the Rakatans used tech utilized and managed by the Dark Side of the Force...which for all intents and purposes is magic to a civilization ignorant of the Force, not only in what is apprehendable on an intellectual level by non-Force sentients but that the Force exists in the first place... for those who lived a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

[@mikevasquez1103]

@@kirkbolas4985 true. Too bad for them they relied solely on Bogen and neglected Ashla thus by extension could never comprehend Bendu. Perhaps then they could have averred the plague which severed their connection to the Force and lead to their downfall.

[@Joesolo13]

It's essentially the empire if it ruled for thousands of years

[@michealmeaden1300]

When I was young my father would watch this show and I always found it to be one of my favorites even until this day, I miss watching it with him. Amazing show many funny moments

[@hyperionalziz6858]

Very nicely done... thanks! :) Ha'tak was also widely used for planetary bombardment (nuke from orbit) to destroy civilizations that have gone too far on technology or posed serious threat to Goa'uld.

[@tylersoto7465]

What earth should of done was try secret way to hijack the goa'uld ships to have a fleet of our own and have dozens if not a few hundred ships to command to put us on the map and a way to defend ourselves and expand to other worlds colonizing them lol

[@fieldmarshalbaltimore1329]

I love the Stargate universe, and Star Wars of course. Think you could do Galactic Empire vs. Gou'ald Empire? Their weapons, tactics, and fleets have generally the same objectives and weaknesses. They are meant to inspire fear, crush unrest, and disperse small scale rebellion. However, they both have trouble against large scale insurgencies, and even other large space faring factions. I dont know about you guys, but it would be fascinating to see these two factions in a straight up galactic domination fight against each other.

[@edwardaugustus9680]

I agree that both empires followed similar ship building designs and combat doctrines making them fairly comparable unlike most inter settling match ups with both sides ships being similar in power (The Ha'Tak was upgraded massively over the series so at least one version would have been of equal power). The main weakness of the Gou'ald in such a conflict would be that they lacked a large industrial base due to keeping pretty much all their worlds at pre feudal tech levels. But even with this they had the tech needed to still producer at least several thousand Ha'Tak class ships which based off what we are shown in some episodes could be built in a couple of months with little more than several thousand slaves and a sort of semi-organic growth (see the episode Thor's Chariot to see what i mean though in said episode they may not have been Ha'Tak class but another Cruiser style warship, they sort of grew or phased into existance).

[@jadonbill7136]

@@edwardaugustus9680 I believe they were like ra's ship from the first movie and could be using something like the tok'ra crystal cave things

[@phoenixx913]

Galactic Empire would decimate the Gou'ald sadly, the Empire had millions of warships and trillions of soldiers not to mention their empire had a million remember worlds.

[@tylersoto7465]

@@phoenixx913 True even the republic in clone wars could of done it lol

[@nihilityjoey]

@@phoenixx913 the empire would get stomped into oblivion by the goauld. Stomped.

[@karl810]

Missing my 2 favourites, (though one was the space station the system lords met in so probably doesn't count), the ancient Tel'tak Osiris escaped in looked good in all silver. They certainly do build them to last!

[@gn0015]

Needle Threader was awesome. I still remember that time when Teal'c as the pilot and Hammond controlling the weapons destroying Hathor's army. Yeehaa!!

[@Swiftbow]

The second part of that two parter really redeemed the clip show first part!

[@btyc]

Really like this series / format you're using. One of my favorite channels, thanks for the content

[@joshuaperrine2019]

NEED MORE STARGATE!!!

[@Daedalus-BC308]

The Needle Threader/Gate Glider is probably one of my favorite Goa'uld ship design. That and Apophis' mothership were almost like next generation versions of the Death Glider and the Ha'Tak, even if the Gate Glider was deemed a failure.

[@ledonnek1974]

Great work as always Spacedock...

[@tuscan9617]

I miss sargate Atlantis, sg1's time had come but Atlantis was just getting good. And universe, well it was kind getting good but it got canceled before it could explore the writers ideas.

[@nehorlavazapalka]

what are you babling about? Atlantis was barely watchable in the 2nd season, maybe tolerable in the 3rd, 4 and 5th season were absolute garbage and I regret watching them (except a few episodes). Atlantis was canceled mainyl because the plot and quality collapsed to the ground.

[@tuscan9617]

Actually, Atlantis was cancelled due to Stargates success in the movie industry, there was a movie planned, as sg'1 movies had made tones of money, but MGM had licensing issues and was going broke, again, the show had good views and ratings and you can actually find the movies plot on gate world, sg1 had 10 seasons! sure it could have continued to go, but without jack sg1 lost something that made it special.

[@badbeardbill9956]

Who would win: The Goa'uld Empire or One Blue Marbley Boi?

[@familylangens209]

@IJN Yamato nope. ITS ME

[@Chsae314]

Thanks again for another high quality video! I recently binged all of your other Star Gate videos and was happy to see this video get posted!

[@AlexGellel]

Huh. You were right, this is pushing the limits for something called a "short" haha :P

[@stevefelten1197]

Thanks, SG1 and Atlantis were my favorite sci-fi series.

[@ETHRON1]

Your videos answer so many questions I've never thought about until I watch your videos....😃

[@sealioncvn75]

I really enjoy the quality of your videos and in-depth detail in your description of various starships in science fiction franchises. Stargate-SG-1 is one of my favorite all-time T.V. shows. May I make a suggestion? Please do a series that explore the History and Culture of the Goa'ld. In particularly could you do a Character Profile of each of the Major Goa'ld System Lords. My favorite System Lord was Hathor: the actress who played her was beautiful. Too bad Hathor was killed after 3 episodes. Please keep the good work! Spacedock is definitely one of my favorite channels on You Tube,

[@Cheesusful]

Darth Sting-Ray they're great videos, shame they're highly inaccurate

[@xymaryai8283]

didn't know the surface only variant of the Death Glider was called an Udajeet, great vid!

[@0680jakLP]

Can you also do the Lantean and Ori (Empire)?

[@willvonray]

Ori fleet would be a little short^^ But yes, a video about the Ori mothership and the Lantean fleet would be great too

[@musicalaviator]

The Ori Toiletship

[@darth368]

xSnOw I always thought same thing about those lolz

[@thestargateking]

xSnOw I’d like wraith and asguard as well

[@MonkeyJedi99]

@@musicalaviator Well yes, but they made great royal wedding hats in England.

[@NivekH420]

Man I really like these fleet videos. It gives a great perspective of the power of these empires

[@AnyOtherNamePlease]

Love your work - I think this is a fantastic idea for a series! :)

[@stepandanek6138]

The stealth cloaks were only rare modifications as far as I remember. Great video tho.

[@galbert117]

Anubis' Mothership vs the Death Star, considering both have a planet-killing weapon....

[@peterg3729]

Anubis shop hands down it could run rings around the death star.

[@galbert117]

Maybe in a "Who can destroy more planets faster" contest then? Would depend on the recharge rate of their respective planet-killing weapon & the possible defenses that may rise to defend each planet.

[@321gman3]

And technically Anubis' Mothership does not actually destroy the planet, it just kills all life in it.

[@Jokie155]

The Mothership was more or less a direct rip of the Death Star, Carter even lays out an identical plan on how to destroy it. My money is on the first in this case.

[@zeroraptor]

I would say Anubis would win in taking out more planets, as far as i can remember the Death Star does not have FTL(i could be wrong). Anubis would just jump in, shoot the planet and move on, only limit would be the recharge if any on the weapon/FTL.

[@martinleopard193]

More like a mini documentary :)... Keep up the amazing work!

[@mpittard21]

the Hatak is just a lovely design. Always loved the stylisation inside as well.

[@ajzebadua]

A Stargate video! Always glad to see Stargate getting some attention, I really hope to see the Lantean ship Destiny covered one day!

[@trekman8121]

would it be possible for you to do a breakdown of the Federation fleet during the Dominion War from star trek please.

[@AnyOtherNamePlease]

stephen hills Love this idea! It always annoyed me that the shields seemed to be non-existent during those battles though Dominion polaron weapons made short work of them

[@GamerX-lc9ht]

I would like to see your take on how you would do the battle of new caprica I am very curious of you take

[@ReasonablySkeptic]

FINALLY HISTORY LESSONS WE NEED!

[@ragael1024]

Man i love your vids. You make it sound like these ships are actually real, by providing so much insight on their design and functions. But what i like most of all is that finally i get to see the ship and glider variations from the Stargate Movie. Was beginning to think Ra just had weaker ships than the other system lords.

[@RenBR]

Wow...amazing video!!! keep up the good work!!!

[@jonathonpullon6582]

hell yes! this is the video ive been waiting for!

[@ElJorro]

Thank You Very Much for doing this...I love stargate

[@shadowzone2588]

6:09 imagine seeing three of these at the supergate battle.

[@ShatteredGlassUnicron]

I think this video needs to be updated to include the ships the klingons from star trek discovery made for the Goa'uld.

[@ShatteredGlassUnicron]

IJN Yamato Yes.

[@moronkiller4962]

I love that you do Stargate. Sadly it's a lesser known show

[@michaelesposito2629]

Moronkiller496 LOL what?

[@jgobroho]

What are you talking about? It was on tv for over 10 years with 3 different series and multiple movies.

[@veslar]

Well done, sir! Well done!

[@adamdownes4725]

I did not know about the needle threader! And I've been a massive fan of Stargate from the movie onwards! Haha

[@gregmcmahon124]

I really love this video.

[@RRW359]

I thought tel'taks usually didn't have cloaks. The ones that did were generally modified by bounty hunters or smugglers, not by the goa'uld themselves. That may have changed in later seasons though when we started seeing more of them with cloaks.

[@brianshindler4162]

I like the al kesh there is just something about a pyrmid on top of a flying saucer thst just screams syfy junk food for my sole. Combining the mystaries of ancient civilizations with the wonders of a highly advanced civilization is a very apitizing combination.

[@jfoldger1184]

Basically the Illuminati

[@ebay242628]

Would love to see more videos cataloging all the ships from different races and franchises. Like all Asgard or Wraith Ships and Misc. Vessels. Also would love stuff from B5, BSG, Farscape, etc.

[@ParagonRex]

YEESSSSS, Thank you Spacedock!!!!!

[@B35A1]

Super video

[@ThePCguy17]

I think a lot of people forget that cloaking devices weren't installed in standard Tel'taks. We rarely saw a tel'tak without one, but that wasn't because the standard model had a cloak, it was because most of the time the main characters were dealing with the sorts of people who modified their tel'taks with cloaking devices. Also...where the hell did literally _any_ episode mention al'kesh having cloaking devices?

[@NATIK001]

The Al'kesh stolen by the rogue NID agents had a cloaking device and used it when ambushing the Prometheus and to hide near Earth.

[@ThePCguy17]

@@NATIK001 So in other words, just once?

[@NATIK001]

@@ThePCguy17 Pretty sure there are others, that one just stood out to me. That specific Al'kesh had cloaking as it was the one Osiris used when she was messing with Daniel in his dreams. Early show Al'kesh had no cloaking, but around the time of Ba'al and Anubis they start appearing as I remember it.

[@jakstrieder]

wow thank you, this was really cool.

[@gownerjones1450]

EVERY TIME I hear the battlezone 2 soundtrack, I am taken back to a very happy place in my childhood.

[@scelonferdi]

Strange I remember to have read somewhere, that the al'kesh was actually very inefective in defending against, and thus vulnerable to, fighters due to the poistion of it's turret (which only bears the firepower of a single deathglider).

[@weeman0724rm]

Would love to see a full break down of the UNSC dry naval fleet used during the Human-Covenant war. Or the the Fleet of the Covenant. Both would be awesome.

[@badkarma3059]

excellent!

[@Kvantovy]

Great video and "interface"! There were also Osiris Ship, Transport Glider from the pilot (later it was changed I think) and strange Ha'tak with silver ring above it, which Apophis was building but never finished due to sabotage by SG1.

[@Matracokura]

Can we have some Warhammer 40k Imperial Navy love?

[@feralprocessor9853]

Right off the bat, the Go'uld were a dominant empire.

[@Giliganism]

I like that you use music from battle zone 2 in your intro.

[@AWFarmer]

Stargate! I look forward to each factions fleet!

[@gtaivmostwanted]

Hey spacedock great work lover your vids and the effort you put in as an idea how likely would it be for you to do a video on a ship from the game Fractured Space i was thinking the Goliath would be a good one

[@ThomasMusings]

Very cool.

[@tall_black_man4998]

The way you describe these ships honestly makes me believe they exist in real life

[@mscheese000]

The thing I don't understand about the Goa'uld's complacency in military technology is the fact that they were often fighting against each other, not merely using their military forces to suppress rebellion. You would think they would try for any advantage they could get.

[@hankmessaros1835]

I love this channel , thanks. How about 1980s Buck Rodgers ships please

[@t3h51d3w1nd3r]

these vids are brilliant, quick pace and factual (for made up ships), good photos and vids in action, would love to see a vid on the Asuran cruiser from stargate atlantis or andromeda from gene roddenberrys andromeda

[@rmeddy]

Nice, I wanna see Ori next

[@upnorthrebuilds2124]

We need to start a massive fan petition to bring back star gate series it's there 20th anniversary and syfys 25th

[@zeroraptor]

Sadly, if i remember correctly, MGM no longer has the rights to Stargate, they went back the the original creator who wanted to remake the movie and make a trilogy. On top of that the original creator hated the TV shows and said they should have never been made.

[@upnorthrebuilds2124]

Ya the og creator is just jealous because the series did better than the movies and with that he basically is just holding the rights so no one can reboot or restart the series. That's how I see it

[@joshed]

zeroraptor oh how wrong you were.

[@freedomloverusa3030]

Hell Yeah!!!!!

[@Beachhead13]

before I even hear out what you say in the video, I hear a song file from Battlezone 2. instant like.

[@theodoreeliaseronsten5468]

can you do the wraith?

[@illusiveman1613]

Stratoship lee he did a video on the wraith dart fighter

[@theodoreeliaseronsten5468]

i mean the fleet assessment

[@freedomloverusa3030]

Good one, wow, the wraith make look the empire like the saviors, not only good guys, but Heroes. Even the bugs from Starship Troopers(the novel, not those terrible movies) are better.

[@zachparker9711]

I'm still upset the Anubis flagship didn't make the cut for top 5 dreadnoughts but 2 kinds of Super Star Destroyers did.

[@Stealthwilde]

I’d love to see more of these fleet overviews for series that maybe don’t have quite as much technical details on individual ships. One of these for the Earth Federation or the Principality of Zeon from Gundam wouldn’t go amiss. ;)

[@damonstr]

Indeed!

[@mir3877]

Can't believe the pyramids were landing sites for these ships. That's incredible

[@starwarspug7004]

you should do a video on the arc 170 and/or the naboo n1 straighter

[@AlteraLin]

Wasn't there 2 version of the Ha'tak? I remember the design changing in the show for a sleeker, darker and larger variant.

[@redriddler1231]

Jack: "How long till we get this pyramid open?" Daniel: "It's a ziggurat." Jack: "What?"

[@HeroicASF]

Finally!!

[@JRexRegis]

Crazed Archeologist tears down galactic power network in search for his wife, only to have his best friend murder her 2 seconds after he's found her instead

[@lordanubis5076]

YES !

[@feralprocessor9853]

The more you know. The first Go'uld ship seen in the movie is called a Cheops

[@kerianhalcyon2769]

If there's one thing that sci-fi writers/creators have proven, it's that if you combine a real-world mythology/ancient culture with science fiction and awesome spaceships you are sure to make an awesome show/game.

[@satanlover134]

Ha'taks fit excellently in the hexagon of a city ship, the ancients are travelers and their ships look like ship docks

[@vaos3712]

Have you made a video about the gunstar from the last starfighter? Im looking and can't find one. If you haven't made one yet I'm looking forward to the day when you do.

[@czarpeppers6250]

Kree! Bow down before your God!

[@hansolo4017]

kree also means ''yooo hooo''

[@RinnosukeETQW]

YOU HEARD ME! KREE!

[@czarpeppers6250]

Kree has to be the most versatile word ever.

[@jamesyap8364]

I don't think so

[@JChang0114]

Eat a Stinger.

[@Heffsta02]

Were there ever any cheops ships in SG-1? I only recall it in the movie.

[@thoughtfortheday7811]

Great overview of the ships, thanks. Maybe I'm a tad late with this question but, are the ships, transport rings, staff weapons designed by the Ancients, by the Goa'uld, or are they some kind of synthesis?

[@thoughtfortheday7811]

@IJN Yamato thanks for taking the time, helpful reply.

[@glitterboy2098]

one thing i've noticed is that anytime the 2000 jaffa troop capacity is mentioned in the show in regards to earth everyone gets all worried. and i'm like. "there were 6 *billion* people on earth when this episode was made. something like 30 million of them are uniformed military troops." the characters talk about the danger to earth of a Goa'uld fleet "a few hundred ships combined" in regards to troops, but the only real danger is the orbital bombardment. as far as ground troops the Goauld would get some footholds early on but once the shock value wore off, they'd probably get slaughtered through attrition.

[@patrickmccurry1563]

You don't think more than a few Earth nations wouldn't ally with the Goa'uld out of foolish short sighted self interest?

[@nihilityjoey]

Earth would stand no chance, ground troops and all. It was shown that in multiple universes and on a few occasions that the goauld stomped humanity, the Jaffa decimating ground troops. Their plasma weapons would simply burn through any armour, easily.

[@kreigdernier9553]

The cheops can attach in a linear fashion and create an interstellar Toblerone bar.

[@YouTubez57]

well done. Can you do a piece on the Stargate Wraith Hive ship and/or Starwars Clone Wars low altitude assault ship. thanks keep up the great work

[@RyanBLKST]

Your theme make me think of battlezone II zomehow

[@stormlord819]

Great video ,Great Channel ,If your taking suggestions ,would you consider the Warhammer 40k Furious Abyss or The Phalanx.

[@SalvatoreEscoti]

Still I like those Mother Ship the most!