The Furlings are an advanced alien race within the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. In the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, the alliance of four great races was an ancient alliance of four advanced species that was built over many millennia and existed before the rise of the Goauld and the Wraith. ... The Torment of Tantalus is an episode from the first season of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Stargate SG-1 (often abbreviated as SG-1) is a science fiction television series, part of the Stargate franchise. ...

History

Little is known about them, except that they were a member of the "Alliance of four great races", along with the Ancients, Asgard, and Nox. However, occasional artifacts attributed to the Furlings have been identified. Furling writing has also been seen in the show in the first-season episode "The Torment of Tantalus" along with the writings of the other great races (though only the Ancient and Asgard writings have been positively linked with their civilizations). In the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, the alliance of four great races was an ancient alliance of four advanced species that was built over many millennia and existed before the rise of the Goauld and the Wraith. ... The Ancients, also known as the Alterans and Lanteans, sometimes calling themselves Anqueetas in their language, are a humanoid race in the fictional Stargate universe. ... In the science fiction series Stargate SG-1, the Asgard are a benevolent, highly advanced and evolved race from another galaxy, called Ida, who have visited Earth on many occasions, giving rise to the Norse legends. ... The Nox are a fictional race on the television series Stargate SG-1. ... The Torment of Tantalus is an episode from Season 1 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ...

It has also been suggested that they are a pacifistic race, like the Nox, and somewhat unlike the Ancients and Asgard, who, while they did not like it, were more willing to use military force. In the sixth-season episode "Paradise Lost", it is discovered that the Furlings had set up an Utopian community without weapons or advanced technology. The colony was destroyed by a Goa'uld who was able to smuggle in seeds for a plant that produced a paranoia-inducing chemical, causing the inhabitants to go insane and kill each other, though the Goa'uld himself was also killed. Paradise Lost is an episode from Season 6 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... Left panel (The Earthly Paradise, Garden of Eden), from Hieronymus Boschs The Garden of Earthly Delights. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Harry Maybourne, who had discovered the key to reaching this colony, described them thus: In the science fiction series Stargate SG-1, Col. ...

"A long time ago, some people from an advanced alien society, well they chucked it all and they formed this small, isolated Utopian community. They sent out representatives to meet and evaluate people from all over the galaxy and offer them a chance to join them. The scroll and the stone were the invitation."

It is unknown whether any of the skeletons later found at that colony were actually Furlings, or if it had been a purely human community that had just been set up by them.

Several unnamed races have appeared in Stargate continuity who could, in fact, be the Furlings, such as the Giant Aliens seen in "Crystal Skull" or the Spirits seen in "Spirits". When Executive Producer Robert C. Cooper was asked "Will we ever meet the Furlings?", his answer was "Who says we haven't?"^[1] However, due to the fact that Stargate SG-1 is now cancelled, it is most likely that, if the viewers are to ever see the Furlings, the encounter will be in Stargate Atlantis or any future movies that will be made. It is possible that a new powerful alien race in the show or in one of the future SG-1 DVD movies will be them. Since Thor proclaimed the Tau'ri "The Fifth Race", this may have opened up the possibility of showing the mysterious Furlings and future interaction between the three last members of the great alliance. Crystal Skull is an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... Spirits is an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... Robert C. Cooper is a Canadian writer and producer. ... Stargate Atlantis is a Canadian-American science fiction television program, part of the Stargate franchise. ...

Jokes

A mock portrayal of the Furlings in "200"

The Furlings have yet to be explicitly identified. The length of time that their nature has remained a mystery in the series has provided opportunity to tease fans with a running gag. Image File history File links Furling. ... Image File history File links Furling. ... Episode chronology 200 is an episode from Season 10 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... The running gag is a popular hallmark of comic and serious forms of entertainment. ...

Jack O'Neill has concluded that the Furlings must be cute and cuddly creatures, based solely on their name. A man in the episode "Citizen Joe", who heard of the Furlings through a man who could recall O'Neill's memories, equated the Furlings to the Ewoks based on their name. Jonathan Jack ONeill is a fictional character in both the science fiction feature film Stargate and the subsequent television series Stargate SG-1 played by actors Kurt Russell in the former and Richard Dean Anderson in the latter. ... Citizen Joe is an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... Ewoks are a fictional species of hunter-gatherers in the Star Wars universe. ...

Joseph Mallozzi claimed that more about the Furlings would finally be revealed in Stargate SG-1's tenth season.^[2] In a Sci Fi Channel advertisement for the 200th episode, Cooper stated "We're finally going to get to to see the Furlings." What was actually shown was an imagined scene from a script for a movie based on the fictional television series "Wormhole X-Treme!", a parody of Stargate SG-1 within the Stargate SG-1 universe. Joseph Mallozzi (born October 16, 1965 in Montréal, Canada) is a Canadian writer and producer. ... SCI FI (originally Sci-Fi Channel, sometimes rendered SCI FI Channel when part of a longer phrase) is an American cable television channel, launched on September 24, 1992, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal programming. ... Episode chronology Wormhole X-Treme! is an episode from Season 5 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... In contemporary usage, a parody (or lampoon) is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ...

References

v • d • e Alien races in the Stargate universe
Alliance of four great races	Ancients (chars, tech), Asgard (chars, tech), Furling, Nox
Humans	Tau'ri (chars, tech), Tollan (tech), Aschen, Genii (chars, tech), Athosians (chars), Prior, Jaffa (chars): Sodan, Free Jaffa
Goa'uld	System Lords (chars, tech), Kull Warrior, Tok'ra (chars, tech)
Other	Ori (tech), Replicator, Unas, Wraith (chars, tech), Iratus bug, Asurans