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Because Babylon 5 ended in 1998 and the reboot isn't even in production yet. Also MGM doesn't have the faintest idea what it's supposed to do with Stargate.
They're doing a reboot?
It's not even some nebulous "they", JMS himself has been pitching it since 2021 and latest news is, well, that CW didn't cancel the project amidst ownership and direction change and the writer's strike.
Part of me thinks half of the reason Stargate did so well was because of the culture of the post-9/11 world. Westerners and Americans in particular got to watch SG1 fight people who looked what they thought terrorists looked like. Admittedly they're not Muslims they're more akin to Ancient Egyptians aliens. Insofar as Western culture in the early 2000s the early season villains are Muslim adjacent. I don't think it was intentional, the movie came out long before 9/11. It was just in the right place at the right time. The show got a lot better once the Gua'uld and the Jaffa weren't the villains of the week.
Stargate premiered 1997, it was already well-established in 2000. The Nox are introduced in s01e08, Asgard in s01e10. Season 5 is the first one which could have 9/11 influence, It's mopping up the Jaffa rebellion and Osiris and Anubis are introduced but there's plenty of non-Gua'uld episodes. Oh, and Wormhole X-Treme!.
Wormhole X TREME! I loved that episode