Similarly, in the first episode, "Children of the Gods" Carter speaks of "MacGyvering" the Stargate into operation while O'Neill rolls his eyes.
After listening to each other's music, a songwriting session ensued and spawned in its second day the song "So Sick", which later topped the Billboard Hot 100 and ushered Stargate into American pop songwriting.
Picture the 24-year-old, philosophically-inclined, possibly zonked-out Malick seeing it for the first time in 1968, watching Kubrick vault, in a jump-cut, from the dawn of man and the invention of violence into meticulously realised space travel sequences, through the Stargate hallucination into a space beyond … uh, time and space.
Stargate broke into the American recording industry in 2006, with the release of the Billboard Hot 100 number-one single, "So Sick", produced and co-written by the team and performed by Ne-Yo.
Since Zelenka's first appearance, David Nykl's fluent Czech was worked into Stargate Atlantis as part of Zelenka.
Friday night's two-hour premiere includes a very quick video lecture covering this history, which we watch along with a young math whiz who has been forcibly enlisted into the stargate program.
Expanding on Arthur C Clarke's short story The Sentinel, this leaps from the dawn of mankind to the space-age (via one of cinema's most striking editing juxtapositions) and beyond, transporting viewers from the world of science into a stargate full of symbolism and spectacle.
Passing through the entrance was like walking from one gene pool to another – a class system Stargate that plonks you down into the world of velvet blazers, patronised toilet attendants and men called "Tobes".
Browder received story credit for his basic pitch for season 10's "Bad Guys", which Stargate Atlantis producer/writer Martin Gero developed into a teleplay.
