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Stargate is pretty good. Rotary phone ๐. It's an elegant way to minimize CGI costs for the show. Not only that, the concept that you don't know what's on the other side is also interesting.
Chevron 7 locked.
I was just watching that, it's still one of my favorite shows.
Admittedly the "don't know what's on the other side" bit is a little iffy. Sure, they've got that little wheeled robot they use a couple of times, but after a while you'd think they'd do something as simple as "stick a camera on a pole through the gate first."
As others have explained, this is covered, the Stargate creates a minuscule wormhole, all matter is disintegrated transported and then reintegrated. But the Stargate acts in continuous chuncks of matter, so the camera won't rematerializes until the entire stick crosses the event horizon, so you would need to attach the camera to a remotely controlled car, and you're back to the robot.
The camera wouldn't emerge through the other side until the whole pole is through though, the Stargates only pass matter to the other end once the full object has entered.
This is covered in the technobabble of the show. The gate is one way to anything bigger than radio waves, so the camera would see nothing until enough of it had dematerialized for the rest to be sucked through.
They had hyperdrives too but they were pretty boring in comparison.