 The episode also riffs on other science fiction shows . Early in the episode , Dr. Jackson asks why anyone would make a movie version of a TV series that lasted only three episodes — Teal 'c responds that it had strong DVD sales . This is a reference to the series Firefly , which Fox executives decided to cancel after airing only three episodes ( although 14 episodes had been filmed , and 11 of them were actually aired — 8 more after the cancellation announcement had been made ) . The high number of DVDs of these episodes that sold afterwards justified making a feature film based on the series , Serenity . ( Firefly is again referenced when Lloyd refuses to use footage from the Wormhole X @-@ Treme series for the movie , saying that " it 's a movie , not a clip show . " This is an allusion to Joss Whedon 's insistence that the movie Firefly would not use footage from the original series because it is " not a clip show " . ) In addition , one of the sequences is a parody of the original Star Trek series , with SG @-@ 1 standing in for the crew of the Enterprise . Brad Wright , the co @-@ creator of the series , fills in as the engineer Montgomery Scott . The episode also pokes good @-@ humored fun at the series Farscape , including its habit of inventing swear words . The Farscape sequence itself is an in @-@ joke , since the Stargate : SG @-@ 1 actors Ben Browder and Claudia Black had both starred in the earlier series ( and indeed Black reprises her original role of <unk> Sun , though Browder plays a different character , Stark , while Michael Shanks portrays Browder 's Farscape character , John Crichton ) . Several other shows and movies are parodied , including the The Wizard of Oz ( the story is re @-@ told with the members of the SG @-@ 1 team as the adventurers in Oz . The writers based the parody on a fan painting they had hanging in their office ) . The episode also makes fun of 24 's " ticking clock of jeopardy " , and an entire sequence is enacted with all the characters played by marionettes , in the style of Thunderbirds and Team America : World Police . 
