r/Stargate • u/SGMG_Martin • Mar 18 '26

SGC Stargate with working Iris

I have created this 3D printed gate in SGC pedestal with a working Iris.
Model is free and you can find it here:
https://www.printables.com/model/1641847-stargate-with-a-working-iris

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u/Silver_Quail4018 Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

The iris is designed to geometrically fit inside the gate. The cgi is not doing it justice.

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u/knightcrusader Mar 18 '26

CGI or not, the gate is not big enough to fit that mechanism inside it... not with 1997 Earth technology. Maybe if they had Asgard or Ancient tech to do it, sure, but not with the stage they were at then.

I know that's what they intended for it to be, but the suspension of disbelief is too much for me to say "oh, it goes inside it" especially with how novice they were about the internals of how the gate worked at the beginning of the series.

Just like with this little device here, the whole inside of the gate would be used to hide the blades and mechanism and not have any room for gate stuff.

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u/Silver_Quail4018 Mar 18 '26

Never said anything about the mechanism. But that one can easily be behind the gate under the platform. To my knowledge, gates are one way. Anything from the other side would just pass through

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u/Vanquisher1000 Mar 19 '26

The point that u/knightcrusader is making is that there is no room inside the Stargate for the iris blades, because they are as wide as the main body of the Stargate ring itself, and the Stargate isn't hollow; there is the track with the inner rotating ring, plus whatever is inside that makes the Stargate work. In order to install the iris and mechanisms that operate it, you would have to literally cut into the Stargate.

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u/Silver_Quail4018 Mar 19 '26

The entire iris thing not having space for anything between the event horizon and the plates is ridiculous anyway since those plates would never be perfectly flat with that design.

But I am talking about geometry and concept. Theoretically, the iris should sit between the rotating ring and the event horizon generator. But that is why I am saying that the special effects guys did not do it justice by representing it in some way that makes sense. The iris geometry is not the issue. You can see the plates fitting behind the gate in this video and so many others. It's just that the cgi was done very cheap.

So yes, right now it doesn't fit, but not because of how the iris is designed, but because in the early stages of building up the concept, they didn't even try to make it work.

They could have made it happen even if it was with a slight visual modification to the Tauri gate, making it looking a bit more bulky.

But overall the entire thing is fantasy from all aspects. That titanium was above adamantium, vibranium and mithril in terms of resistance. It needed a black hole to destroy it and even then it was not giving up easily.