Was it ever explained how all the aliens spoke english?

[BenRoethig]

Mallozzi on the other hand says that in his head the gate implants you with translator nanites.

I would say that is the most likely explanation. With the original abydos mission, the gate system had not encountered english yet and needed time to decipher.

 

[el Chalupacabra]

And the show would suck if they spent half the episode learning the language instead of having a storyline. And unfortunately Stargate didn't have a magical universal translator.

But they could have had one, look at all the other technology they got. It wouldn't have been that hard to let them find some language translating artifact on Abydos or in the first episode after the pilot.

They could have done that, but it would scream Star Trek to throw a universal translator device in there imo.

Yeah, and you surely wouldn't want any Star Trek actors on Stargate, either!

...oh wait...

 

[JoeFromEarth]

Didn't they try to have different languages on each planet for the first few episodes of SG-1? All the languages were based on old earth languages. Anyways, the in-universe reason that everyone speaks english is that they were all transplanted from earth in the distant past... Even though that past was before english existed.

Also, they called the Asgard Beaming Technology beaming because of Star Trek - at least that's why Col O'Neal called it that. Same reason he wanted the first spaceship to be called Enterprise.

 

[The Wormhole]

Didn't they try to have different languages on each planet for the first few episodes of SG-1? All the languages were based on old earth languages. Anyways, the in-universe reason that everyone speaks english is that they were all transplanted from earth in the distant past... Even though that past was before english existed.

No, they only did that in Children of the Gods. After that everyone spoke English. The only other exception in season 1 was the Fishman that captured Daniel and brainwashed everyone else into believing he'd been killed. But even he eventually learned English.

 

[KJbushway]

I wouldn't call SG-1 not real science fiction. Sep for the whole ring travel and hyperdrive thing, is more similiar to star trek.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Mallozzi on the other hand says that in his head the gate implants you with translator nanites.

I would say that is the most likely explanation. With the original abydos mission, the gate system had not encountered english yet and needed time to decipher.

That works as good as any explanation. It's not like any show has used a translator in a way that totally makes sense (why don't lips get out of sync, or hearing the native tongue and the translation, etc. etc.).