Collider argues that the largely forgotten animated spin-off Stargate Infinity failed to make effective use of the franchise’s potential for imaginative interplanetary adventures. The series followed Stargate Command officer Gus Bonner after he was framed for a crime and fled Earth through a Stargate with a mysterious alien chrysalis, but it lasted only one season and became a minor footnote in the wider franchise.

The article attributes much of the programme’s failure to production limitations at animation company DIC Entertainment, despite the involvement of experienced creators associated with X-Men: The Animated Series. Writer Eric Lewald later said the scripts envisioned large-scale Stargate spectacle that the animation budget could not support; Collider says the resulting flat designs and bulky power suits made the show look cheap and ill-suited to the franchise.