The Aschen: Slow Conquest | Stargate Omnipedia

THE ASCHEN: An advanced race of humans in the Milky Way Galaxy, who have assembled a confederation of allied worlds. While they readily share their technology with their allies, the Aschen operate out of their own self-interest – and with sinister ulterior motives ...

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[samhart]

The Aschen were such good villains. Methodical, powerful and patient. A race of psychopaths who played the long game. Their episodes were some of the best in the whole series.

[Ptera_xd]

This is what you get for dealing with an entire planet of accountants lol

[hulmhochberg]

i couldnt entirely apreciate it at the time, but the aschen are one of the more interessting enemys in scify. their aproach to conquest is really cool and aparently succseful. they had to resort to timetravel to beat it.

[robertsmalls]

The Aschen were the most terrifying faction to me because of their methodical, calculating ways. They care only about advancement.

[DJMichelangelo]

The story arc of the Aschen was truly sinister, and enjoyed seeing how it popped up in different timelines. In the first, 10 years has past and the Aschen have allied themselves with us, all seems nice, diplomatic parties are thrown and enjoyed, and yet O'Neill and the team eventually realize the disastrous consequences impacting the human population via the virus the Aschen have introduce to our biosphere. Through some time travel gate science, SG1 manages to get a note sent back 10 years to convince the SGC to *erase* the last 10 years. DONE.

And yet, there they are years later, visiting a planet who has recently unearthed their gate, and *bam* it's a planet stuck in the Aschen Federation and so SG1 comes into contact with the Aschen once again from a tangent. This is great story--telling. Tasha Yar Romulan Commander / Nemesis level story-telling. I love this stuff.

[Spartacusse]

I believe the Aschen story line was my favorite, for many reasons, but mostly because we finally got to see what all those technologies the Stargate Program was amassing would look like in the real world, like they kept promising but never did.

[bradwolf]

The Aschen were always creepy to me. Their methodical, calculated, and patient approach were brilliantly executed to lull you into a false sense of security. This made them fantastic antagonists for the series. It is a shame they weren't utilized more.

[Hawkcam]

I wish they would’ve done a follow-up episode to 2001. A story of encountering the Aschen again, with the Aschen trying to get revenge for those bad gate addresses would’ve been great.

[sistakia]

2010 and 2001 were the best episodes about time travel.The Aschen were proof that true evil is patient. As we'd seen 2010 we knew the path Earth had taken and the pain that came from trusting the wrong ally. So later when we saw 2001 we couldn't help screaming, "NO! Don't believe them!' The bittersweet ending of 2001 was necessary to save the world from what 2010 would have become.

[bulldog]

If you think about it, it really is a logical way to conquer a civilization rather than guns and ships. You don't put yourself at risk the only trade off is it just takes longer.

[Reazzurro]

If a new Stargate series ever materializes, I hope they come back as a villain.

[sillyrabbit]

The Aschen remind me somewhat of the theory behind Author David Jacob's supposed grey aliens. They patiently craft alien/human hybrids who are loyal to the greys, then slowly introduce them to our society and with their enhanced intellect infiltrate our society, slowly taking over. No shots fired, no expensive military build-up, no scorched Earth.
One day, they simply take over.

[aurorajones]

I love the quiet malevolence imbued by the Aschen. We rarely if ever see that in our fictitious works.

[vitoriturriaga]

I don't know if it's considered canon but in the sg-1 novels it was revealed through Aschen survivors that the Aschen did dial up the black hole gate and they're homeworld was destroyed so all that's left of the Aschen as a people are a bunch of vengeful fringe groups.

[sarek]

Man they are really a good antagonist.

[margeryk]

Nicely done. Thanks for all your hard work on behalf of the Stargate community. Keep up the great work.

[Foebane]

The episodes "2010" and "2001" are among my ALL-TIME FAVOURITE SG-1 episodes, as the Aschen are so EVIL and INSIDIOUS, and above all, INTERESTING.

[specialnewb]

I like that this plot was later used for the Hartle SCP.

[ZemplinTemplar]

To anyone interested in a literary SF story that's similar in feel to the twists involving the Aschen, or similar to the episodes with the Langarans, or similar to the season eight and nine episodes Icon and Ethon (with the two warring factions), read Alastair Reynolds' novella Minla's Flowers. It's from a loose series of his short fiction, involving a wandering space traveler, where said protagonist stumbles upon a forgotten planetary colony, settled by humans long ago, but now technologically quite backward (an early 1900s style society, similar to Langara or Tegalus). He learns of a certain local issue that poses a threat and tries to convince some of the locals that the whole planet needs to cooperate on the effort. The plot thickens from then on.

[lazarus]

When I think of covid..I always think of this episode..top 5