: A military team led by Colonel Jack O'Neil (Kurt Russell) travels through the gate to the desert planet Abydos.
The story begins in 1928 with the discovery of a massive, ancient metallic ring in Giza, Egypt. In the modern day, linguist and Egyptologist (James Spader) is recruited by the U.S. Air Force to translate the hieroglyphs on the artifact's coverstones.
: The device is revealed to be a "Stargate," an interstellar portal that creates a wormhole to another world.
