Goa'uld Technology in Stargate - Other Technology

Other Technology

• Argosian nanocyte – A self-replicating microscopic devices created by the Goa'uld Pelops to experiment on the people of Argos. The nanocytes accelerate aging, such as that the Argosians live only 100 days. Jack O'Neill is infected by the nanocytes and appears to age rapidly, but since they are not designed to start the aging process in adults, the effect wears off after SG-1 deactivates the nanocytes' control signal.

• Blood of Sokar – A hallucinogenic substance used by Apophis in an unsuccessful attempt to extract information from SG-1 and Martouf on the prison moon Ne'tu.

• Brainwashing device - A device that allows the Goa'uld to brainwash their foes to believe what they wish them to believe and to act as agents for them. Used by Apophis to turn Teal'c on the Tau'ri, broken by the Rite of Mal'Sharan where Teal'c was brought to the brink of death and then back during which he viewed his life. Also used by Ba'al on the Jaffa High Council in order to take over the Free Jaffa Nation. One member managed to break the brainwashing, but died in the attempt, but left a clue that led to Ba'al. Ba'al tried to brainwash Teal'c but failed due to Teal'c being able to resist thanks to his previous experience and pretend to brainwashed. Afterwards, the brainwashing over the High Council was broken. Was later used to brainwash Malcom Barret as part of Ba'al's plan to get Stargate Command's gate list. Broken through an unknown method. The technology at some point fell into the hands of the Lucian Alliance who used it to brainwash Colonel David Telford into becoming a spy for them for about a year. Broken when the air was vented from his room, suffocating him and then he was revived. Victims of this technology seem to retain all of their memories of their actions when the brainwashing is broken.

• Brain interlink device – A small sphere with extending spikes, developed by the Goa'uld Anubis using Ancient knowledge. When implanted into a subject's brain, it allows the subject's memories to be directly downloaded into a computer. Anubis uses the device to download Thor's mind, gaining access to Asgard technologies. He also uses the device on Jonas Quinn and learns of Langara and naqahdriah.

• Drydock – A floating anti-gravity platform used to construct Goa'uld Ha'taks. SG-1 disables a drydock on Erebus, causing it to crash to the ground, as a distraction for liberating a Jaffa forced labor camp.

• The Eye of Ra – A powerful artifact shaped like a circular crystal. There are six Eyes in all, held by Ra, Apophis, Osiris, Tiamat, and others. Each eye is powerful individually, but combined their power increases tenfold, creating a weapon of mass destruction. The first Eye shown onscreen is the Eye of Tiamat, which is buried inside the Goa'uld Marduk's ziggurat. Anubis eventually collects five of the six Eyes and receives the Eye of Ra from SG-1 in exchange for sparing Abydos. Once he has the superweapon, Anubis defeats the combined fleet of the System Lords and then breaks the agreement and destroys Abydos. The weapon is later destroyed by a F-302 flown by Jack O'Neill and Samantha Carter.

• Healing device – A circular device worn over the palm that can heal most diseases and injuries. It requires naqahdah in the blood of the user to operate. Nirrti uses a healing device in conjunction with another instrument to return Cassandra's physiology to normal in "Rite of Passage". Jacob Carter unsuccessfully attempts to use a healing device to heal Daniel Jackson from naqahdriah radiation poisoning in "Meridian". Vala Mal Doran is proficient with the healing device and uses one to assist the SGC.

• Holographic projector – Small device that projects a three-dimensional image above it. It is first seen used by the Tok'ra in "Seth" and appears again in several episodes to provide a visual aid for important plot points. It was invented by the Goa'uld Nerus.

• Jaffa converter – A device that changes ordinary humans into Jaffa, rewriting DNA and creating a symbiote pouch. The conversion can be reversed with a sarcophagus if done soon enough.

• Long-range communications device – A featureless metallic sphere enabling communication over many light-years. When in use, the face of the other person ripples onto its surface. Introduced as a large sphere floating within an inactive Stargate, it has since appeared as a smaller, hand-held version. The Tok'ra do not use them because the system is not secure. Harry Maybourne obtains one with which to communicate with his rogue NID teams off-world. Jack O'Neill has variously called them "Goa'uld TV", "teleball dealies", and "Goa'uld communication balls".

• Mask – In the original movie, Ra wears a complex mask resembling an Egyptian pharaoh's death mask (also seen in "Moebius"), and his guards wear animal-headed masks evoking the Egyptian gods Anubis and Horus. The masks are made from many metallic plates that can be retracted into the collar, and serve to reinforce the perception that they are gods to Ra's slaves. In Stargate SG-1, Apophis and his Serpent Guards wear masks, as do Heru-ur and his Horus Guards. Some of Sokar's Jaffa wear demon-headed masks, and reference is made to a Setesh Guard in "Seth". The masks contain an internal HUD, and its eyes glow while the wearer is alive.

• Memory device – A disc-shaped device that stimulates and amplifies the memory centers of the brain, aiding in recall. It is applied to the temple, causing a moment of pain, and can be connected to a visual display to allow a person's memories to be viewed directly. The Goa'uld use memory devices for interrogation; Osiris uses one to gain access to Daniel Jackson's dreams. Jacob Carter uses a memory device on a Kull Warrior to learn its origin. A memory device is part of the Tok'ra za'tarc detector. The technology is able to accurately replicate superfluous visual details which the brains of typical human beings, who do not have particularly strong Eidatic memory like Stephen Wiltshire does, would not have ever stored to memory in the first place. Examples include the arrangement of trees in the background and the exact placement of structures in the Nox city. The basis for this technology is the false assumption that humans are in fact Camcorders. In addition, the memories displayed onscreen are from the point of view of the television audience, not from the point of view of the subject, because they are merely clips from previous episodes.

• Nish'ta – An artificial organism in the form of a green gas, that once absorbed into a body's tissues opens the subject to mind control. Apophis uses it to turn Rya'c against his father Teal'c, and Seth uses it to brainwash humans into loyal cultists. Nish'ta can only be killed by an electrical shock, such as from a zat gun, but once it has been eradicated a person cannot be reinfected. The breath of Hathor is a less potent version of nish'ta.

• Sarcophagus – A coffin-like chamber capable of vastly extending life, healing almost any illness, repairing grievous injuries, and even reviving the recently dead. However, frequent use of the sarcophagus becomes addictive and has a deleterious effect on the mind; This is a main factor in why the Goa'uld are evil, and why the Tok'ra refuse to use the sarcophagus. Sarcophagi are sometimes used to preserve individuals for thousands of years, although there is a limit to how long a sarcophagus can extend a person's life. The first sarcophagus was created by the Goa'uld Telchak, using a less potent version of the energy emitted by an Ancient healing device.

• Stasis jar – A container resembling a canopic jar, which in the show are primitive copies of these devices made by the ancient Egyptians. The jar is filled with fluid that contains a dissolved sedative, and has life support and a naqahdah power source sufficient to keep a single Goa'uld symbiote alive at minimal metabolism for thousands of years. Stasis jars were used to imprison Osiris and his queen Isis thousands of years ago. However, Isis died after the seal of her jar was broken.

• Tablet – A database storage and display device resembling a metal plate with raised letters. It is paired with a page-turning device, which changes the text to the next "page" when passed over the tablet. Ma'chello used a weapon hidden inside a page-turning device to assassinate the Linvris. The Tok'ra use a similar device but without the page-turner.

• Vocuum – A small, spherical Goa'uld device that projects an enormous three-dimensional hologram, used by the Goa'uld to issue public pronouncements. SG-1 encounters a vocuum at training camp of Apophis.