TV Series · 1997 · TV Series · 1990s
Stargate SG-1
Scored from 172 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 1990s (630 peers).
Summary
A sequel to the 1994 feature, this series follows SG-1, the flagship team of Stargate Command, a covert US Air Force programme buried under Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado. Colonel Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson), archaeologist Daniel Jackson, astrophysicist Samantha Carter and the alien warrior Teal'c step through an ancient ring-shaped gate to distant worlds, hunting technology and allies. Their chief enemies are the Goa'uld, parasitic beings who take human hosts and rule conquered planets as gods. Across ten seasons the show mixes military action, mythology-derived world-building and dry team banter.
Stargate SG-1 (1997) is a television series IMDb files under the action, adventure and drama genres. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is TV-14. Episodes run about 44m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 32 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s television series — 630 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 172 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 177 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Stargate SG-1 lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 1990s (630 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 172.
Cohort: TV Series · 1990s
