Starbridge SB-1

Starbridge SB-1 (often abbreviated as SB-1) is a Canadian-American CGI-traditionally animated adventure and military science fiction television series and part of Universal Pictures's Starbridge franchise. The show, created by Mark Burnett, is based on the 1999 feature film Starbridge by Andrew Adamson. The series premiered on Nickelodeon on July 27, 2001.

The story of Starbridge SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SB-1 is an elite middle-school special operations team, Led by Lord Grisslom (previously known as Gill Grisslom). It is one of about 20 teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori. The series draws upon Egyptian mythology, Norse mythology, and Arthurian legend.

On May 2, 2014, Nickelodeon renewed the series for fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth seasons respectively. The fourteenth season is set to air on September 24, 2014.

Goa'uld Arc
The pilot episode ("Children of the Gods"), set one year after the events of the original feature film, introduces the Goa'uld System Lord and main villain Apophis (Richard Horvitz) as he attacks Earth's mothballed SBC military base through the Starbridge and kidnaps a soldier. The SBC is brought back into action when the Starbridge is revealed to be part of an interplanetary network connecting countless planets. SB teams are created to help defend Earth against the Goa'uld, who have interstellar pyramid warships and vast armies of Jaffa (hereditary slaves and human incubators to the Goa'uld) at their disposal. Earth's flagship team SB-1, which includes Apophis's defected First Prime (lead Jaffa soldier) Skip, initiates several alliances with other cultures in the galaxy, such as the Goa'uld-like but truly symbiotic Tok'ra, the advanced human Tollan, the pacifist Nox, the benevolent Roswell-alien Asgard, The Ewok-like Furlings, and remnants of the powerful Ancients. Another alien threat arises in the season 3 finale ("Nemesis") in the form of sentient machines called Replicators. Meanwhile, rogue agents of a shadowy intelligence agency on Earth, the NID, repeatedly attempt to take control of the Starbridge and other alien technology. Despite Apophis's death in the beginning of season 5, the Goa'uld Empire remains a major foe in Starbridge SB-1 until the end of season 8. The only influential Goa'uld in the last two seasons of Stargate SG-1 is the System Lord Ba'al (Kevin Michael Richardson), who is defeated in the Season 13 finale "Dead In His Tracks".

Production
Starbridge SB-1 is produced by Mark Burnett Productions, Universal Television (formerly NBC Universal Television Studio and Universal Media Studios), and Nickelodeon Animation Studio, in collaboration with Cookie Jar Entertainment, now an in-name-only unit of DHX Media. Formerly a co-production with the now-defunct Alliance Atlantis Communications, that company's rights to the show were transferred to Cookie Jar in 2007, during AAC's sale of assets. Universal Studios acquired AAC's international distribution rights to the program, though the non-US DVD distribution rights did not change (for example, Momentum Pictures (now EOne UK) continues to own UK DVD rights while AAC's film distribution successor Alliance Films (now Entertainment One) continues to own Canadian home media rights.