# Was Stargate SG-1 Ever ... Nekkid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274 "2008-10-10T02:19:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/1 "2008-10-10T02:19:40Z")
OK, the Stargate SG-1 tv series (not the movie) was originally broadcast on the Showtime premium cable channel, and my wife watched it then and says she remembers it had naked nudity on it. I don’t remember any nudity, and I’m sure if Amanda Tapping had ever appeared nekkid on the show, there’d be about a million sites online with the pics and half of them would have a cutline saying, “I’d be tapping that ass!” So, anybody got any input on this question of such great moment? ---
**Author:** ![mrpayday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@mrpayday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrpayday)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/2 "2008-10-10T02:29:33Z")
There was some female full frontal nudity in the pilot. A woman getting a parasite thingy implanted. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/3 "2008-10-10T02:29:40Z")
Yup. Recently watched the pilot episode. Daniel’s wife got all nuded up. Amanda Tapping? No. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/4 "2008-10-10T02:39:33Z")
There was nudity but it wasn’t Tapping > [@](#): > > it was FFN with a woman. > > It was the scene where the gauool goes into Jackson’s wife. > > You see here breast for over 30 seconds, very clear image…very nice :eek: > > And you also see her pubes while shes standing, a good 3-4 seconds worth. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/5 "2008-10-10T03:03:58Z")
Amanda Tapping did appear naked in a later episode and Repilicator-Carter, but this was after the movie to SciFi so we didn’t actually see anyting. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/6 "2008-10-10T09:28:46Z")
> [@astro](#): > > There was nudity but it wasn’t Tapping Was there a lot of nudity or just the one scene in the premiere? Anyway, I stand corrected. Thanks guys. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/7 "2008-10-10T09:31:10Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Amanda Tapping did appear naked in a later episode and Repilicator-Carter, but this was after the movie to SciFi so we didn’t actually see anyting. Yeah, I’ve seen that ep. It INVOLVED nudity, but it was the same kind of “nudity” you get whenever TV cop shows go to a strip club – you never see anything. For that matter, in “House of Wax” the 1950s version, the heroine is nude when she’s covered in wax, but she’s covered with a sheet so you don’t actually SEE anything naked. Showtime would undoubtedly have handled that scene differently than the SciFi Channel did. ---
**Author:** ![Atrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/8 "2008-10-10T15:04:40Z")
That always amused me about that episide. I remember in an interview Amanda Tapping said something about how nervous she was because it was her first nude scene. Then after I saw the episode I was like “Why the hell were you nude for **that**?”. She could just have easily kept the private parts covered in that scene and we would never have known. Closer to nudity for her is the Atlantis episode with McKay trapped in the jumper underwater. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/9 "2008-10-10T15:41:15Z")
> [@Atrael](#): > > That always amused me about that episide. I remember in an interview Amanda Tapping said something about how nervous she was because it was her first nude scene. Then after I saw the episode I was like “Why the hell were you nude for **that**?”. She could just have easily kept the private parts covered in that scene and we would never have known. It’s the thought that counts. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/10 "2008-10-10T17:50:17Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Was there a lot of nudity or just the one scene in the premiere? > > Anyway, I stand corrected. Thanks guys. Pretty much just the one scene. http:/ /copycap.iespana.es/vaib.htm (NSFW) Collection of stills from scene. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/11 "2008-10-10T18:00:23Z")
That Michael Shanks is a major playa! He was with both [Vaitaire Bandera](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0051710/) AND [Lexa Doig](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0230693/)! Those stills of Vaitaire’s scenes from the pilot ep… man… ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/12 "2008-10-12T09:30:12Z")
Yep, premiere episode "Children of the Gods. There was some language too. In a recent interview, co-creator Brad Wright [talked about](http://www.gateworld.net/news/2008/04/special_edition_of_isg-1i_pilot_.shtml) a current project to re edit the pilot: > [@](#): > > But the two-part episode is not without its flaws – most prominently a scene with full frontal nudity. In 1997 the decision was insisted upon by the Showtime network, which planned to air SG-1 at 10 p.m., but vocally opposed by Wright. > > Apophis (Peter Williams) subdues a woman from Earth in the opening moments of “Children of the Gods.” > “It doesn’t belong in Stargate,” Wright said. “I’m not a prude, [but] this is a family show. It has violence, there’s no question it has violence, but it is almost always some sort of ‘just’ violence as opposed to random or gratuitous.” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/13 "2008-10-12T11:10:05Z")
I remember the first episode of _The Highlander_ TV Series had naked nudity and sex, but that’s all they were brave enough to attempt, and 'twas never tried again. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/14 "2008-10-12T12:51:06Z")
While I’m a big fan of nakedness and nudity, I don’t think it was a necessary part of Stargate, whose basic cheese was exotic alien worlds and peoples. There could have been an episode about a gate leading to a planet of naked hotties who defend themselves from alien invaders by having sex with them a lot, andf I would have been fine with that, but it’s just not important to the show in general. On the other hand, Lexx could have used license for nudity and sex in MANY episodes, and it would have added a lot Xev Bellringer’s character and the general opportunities for randy humor on the show if they had. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/15 "2008-10-12T19:22:16Z")
Can anyone explain to me the difference between _nakedness_ and _nudity_? ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/16 "2008-10-12T19:24:02Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Can anyone explain to me the difference between _nakedness_ and _nudity_? A shaved face or an unvarnished rocking chair can be naked, but not really nude. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/17 "2008-10-12T22:16:02Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Can anyone explain to me the difference between _nakedness_ and _nudity_? Nude (usually) implies some sort of confidence whereas, more often than not, naked implies coyness. The post above works as well for another difference. ---
**Author:** ![Szlater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Szlater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Szlater)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/18 "2008-10-12T22:16:20Z")
> [@Atrael](#): > > I remember in an interview Amanda Tapping said something about how nervous she was because it was her first nude scene. Didn’t she do T&A in the film _The Void_? ---
**Author:** ![Pimms\_o\_clock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bb73d2/32.png) [@Pimms\_o\_clock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pimms_o_clock)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/19 "2008-10-12T22:22:22Z")
Don’t take this the wrong way - it isn’t criticism - but you do strike me as something of a pervert. Your opinions on such? ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274/20 "2008-10-12T22:25:43Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Can anyone explain to me the difference between _nakedness_ and _nudity_? Humorist Lewis Grizzard used to say that “nude” means you’re not wearing clothes, and “nekkid” means you’re not wearing clothes and you’re up to something. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-stargate-sg-1-ever-nekkid/467274.md?page=2)