Rae Allen
Rae played Dr Barbara Shore in the original Stargate feature film, she has also been in Seinfeld, The Sopranos, Soap, NYPD Blue, Reign Over Me, The Fearing Mind and Grey’s Anatomy. IMDB Rick Morwick
Mitch was an uncredited stuntman in the SG1 pilot Children of the Gods and played an Unas in the SG1 episode Demons. He has also worked on The Sentinel, First Wave, True Justice and Masters of Horror as well as acting on Slither, Unthinkable and The X-Files. IMDB Scottie Watson
Scottie is a Graphic Novel and Comic Book Artist and has worked on the Stargate Atlantis Return To Pegasus which is an ongoing series. He has also worked on Dead Reckoning and his own Talon. OfficialTwitter
It took me a while but I am finally watching the second season of iZombie and two episodes in we have two good Stargate spots, in the first episode Grumpy Old Liv we have a small guest spot for Carmen Moore who played the wife of the recently deceased Suzuki and in the second episode Zombie Bro we have Robert Knepper as Angus DeBeers.
The Destiny continues it’s journey though out the Universe with the rag tag bunch of inhabitants who now find their precious water stores being rapidly depleted with no obvious cause. Suspicion of each other soon develops and the water is locked down and searches of personal cabins and possessions begin generate ill will amongst some. Destiny drops out of FTL and a planet appears on the DHD which seems to be ice bound, two space suits are in good condition so Scott and Young gate to the planet and begin small scale mining operations, at this point any water is a bonus. It does however take them some time to find clean good quality water ice and in an area subject to tremors it’s no surprise Scott falls into a crevice leaving Young with the dilemma to get the ice back to the ship or attempt to rescue Scott as their air supply dwindles. Meanwhile on Destiny TJ has encountered an alien entity, they believe it is the same on that Scott met on the desert planet and it enjoyed a drink, the explanation of the missing water is revealed but not how to prevent further loss. They trap the life form and then tempt it into secure storage and throw it through the gate to the ice world where Rush and Scott are attempting to return before they lose their air and the alien surrounded by water recognizes Scott and then departs.
Water is perhaps the beginning of serious dissatisfaction between the military and civilian components of the Destiny crew and the lack of information and military viewpoint begins to grate. Spencer is discovered to have been hoarding food and water which doesn’t help the them and us mentality developing and of course Rush stirring things up as usual makes matter worse. The episode however was entertaining, some incredible set design for the alien world (see the behind the scenes features on the DVD/Blu-ray) and very clever writing to bring back the alien life first encountered by Scott. It was also gratifying that the solution did not require any wholesale destruction and maybe the alien itself considers it’s choice to board Destiny worthwhile with a whole new world to explore with plenty of water.
Many thanks to Mack for the feedback over on Google + and to Ian for being our guest on this episode, he will return next week when we are going to be taking a look at the episode Earth. This weeks promo is for The Sci-Fi Movie Podcast so pay them a visit and if you have the inclination we’d love to hear what you thought of the show or the episode and Stargate in general:)
Saul Rubinek
Saul was the main guest star in the excellent Stargate SG1 two parter Heroes, he played the documentary film maker Emmett Bregman to perfection. For fives years he also starred as Artie in Warehouse 13 and has guest starred on shows such as Fraiser, Eureka, TNG, Psych, Leverage and Person Of Interest. IMDB
Alan Ruck
Alan appeared just the once on Stargate Atlantis as Dr Fletcher in the episode “The Real World”. He is one of the most recognised actors on tv and movies having starred in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Fringe, Spin City, Bunheads and was the Captain of the Enterprise B. He was Alex Myers in The Whispers and Gordon Bailey in The Catch. IMDB Jelmer Boskma
Jelmer is a Creature/CG Modeler & Texture Artist and worked on Stargate Universe as well as Game Of Thrones. He has also worked on the theatrical features Thor, TRON Legacy, Sucker Punch and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. IMDBKropTwitter
Terry David Mulligan
Terry guest starred as the US Secretary of Defense Mr David Swift on the Stargate SG1 season 1 episode The Nox. He has also appeared in 21 Jump Street, Millennium, The Outer Limits, Defying Gravity, The Music Teacher and Supernatural and hosts Mulligan Stew and Tasting Room Radio. IMDBTwitterMulligan StewTasting Room Radio Jesse Emery
Jesse was a lighting technician for Stargate Universe and worked as the Gaffer on Momentum and chief lighting technician on The Whispers for the episode What Lies Beneath. IMDB
Aleks Paunovic
Aleks guest starred on three episodes of Stargate SG1 and Atlantis (Shaq’rel in Redemption 1&2 and Rakai in Reunion). He has appeared in Continuum, Battlestar Galactica, Arctic Air, Flash Gordon, Psych, iZombie, Supernatural, The 100 and Hell On Wheels. IMDBTwitter Mar Andersons
Mar played Major Green on two episodes of Stargate Universe (Air Part 3 and Earth) and appeared on three episodes of SG1 (Bob on Wormhole X-Treme! and Point of No Return and an Air Force Officer on Avalon Part 1). He has also guest starred on Supernatural, Shattered, Masters of Horror and The X-Files. IMDB Bradley Stryker
Bradley guest starred in three episodes of Stargate Universe (Air 1, 2 & 3) as Curtis and also appeared on Fringe, Psych, Angel, Smallville, Arctic Air, The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, Drone, Supernatural and Red Widow. IMDBTwitterOfficial Soon-Tek Oh
Soon-Tek played Moughal in the first season Stargate SG1 episode Emancipation. He has had a long career in television which includes roles on Babylon 5, MacGyver, Airwolf, M*A*S*H, Hawaii 5-0, Magnum and Charlie’s Angels. IMDB Behind The Voice
Toren Atkinson
Toren played Scott Dempster on the Stargate Atlantis fourth season episode Midway. He also appeared on the shorts The Veil, Graveyard and has voiced animated shows such as Sword of the Stars, Fort Zombie and has also worked within the art and VFX fields. IMDBPodcastTwitter Donald Adams
Donald guest starred in the Stargate SG1 episode Beachhead as Latal and has also appeared on Once Upon A Time, Olympus and is in the upcoming Power Rangers movie. IMDBTwitter Corey Turner
Corey played the helmsman of a BC304 on Stargate Continuum. He has also been in The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, Ambulance Girl and The Elizabeth Smart Story. IMDB
Emma Lahana
Emma played Ava Dixon on the Stargate Atlantis episode Outcast and has appear on Power Rangers DinoThunder, Hellcats, The Guard, After Party, Arctic Air and Haven. IMDBTwitter Paul Koslo
Paul guest starred as Terok in the Stargate SG1 episode The Serpents Venom and in his long tv and movie career he has been in Hunter, Robot Jox, Falcon Crest, The Flash, Hart to Hart and Roots The Next Generation. IMDB
Ian Tracey
Ian played Smith in the Stargate SG1 episode Prometheus and had recurring roles on Sanctuary, The Commish, The 4400, Bates Motel and Continuum. He also starred in Rogue, Intelligence and Da Vinci’s Inquest and more recently guest starred on Heartland, The 100 and Killjoys. IMDB Robert Davi
Robert had a recurring role of Commander Acastus Kolya on six episodes of Stargate Atlantis and also starred on The Profiler. He was a great “realistic” Bond villain in the movie License to Kill and was rocking in Die Hard, he’s now combining his musical career particularly singing the tunes of Sinatra with his tv and movie work. IMDBTwitterOfficial
Light is the second part of this two part story and continues with the Destiny making a beeline for the primary of the solar system the ship found itself in when it came out of FTL. Of course at this point they are not aware that this was a deliberate choice by the AI of the ship so faced with imminent death extreme measures need to be taken. The sensors pick up three planets in the solar system, the first two are not suitable for human life and the third is behind the sun and impossible to get accurate data on. However to reach the planet in good time the shuttle will have to leave before confirmation of suitability is obtained so the choice is bad to try to save 17 people. Colonel Young picks Scott and TJ to be on the shuttle as pilot and medic and the remaining 15 places are determined by a lottery, Young and Rush remove themselves from the draw. The shuttle departs with the chosen few and the remainder of the crew spend their last few hours, some read, some just walk and some take comfort in their faith or simple companionship. Time ticks by and the planet is scanned by the shuttle and proves to be unworthy for life and back on Destiny there seems to be some confusion as to why they are still alive. Rush figures it out and with a burst of joy (yes he smiles and laughs) takes in the wonder of the Destiny as is cruisers through the photosphere of the star and gathers in the energy rich plasma the ship needs to power her systems.
The call the shuttle and order them to return home but they are unable to rendezvous with Destiny, Rush and Eli do some quick calculations and project a course for the shuttle around the planet building up speed and slinging them out of the system along the same path as the Destiny. Of course they make it back intact and all seems right with the world now they know the method Destiny has been using to power herself for these millennia but for Young the question of did Rush know or suspect this was the case….
Light is another good episode of Stargate Universe and a worthy second part to this story which as we know was originally a single episode called “Fire”. It was great to see Rush smile and be rather civil to more of the people on board but at the end we get the conflict within the character come to the forefront, Rush is always going to be that chaos element in this show. This week podcast promo was for Treks In Scifi a very long running show which was mostly Star Trek specific but has branched out into all aspects of Scifi over the years. We also want to thank Thomas for the long recording session he put up with to record this and last weeks episode and he will return later in the season. Next week however we are going to be joined by Ian for the episode Water, we hope you just us for that and feel free to let us know what you think and spread the word on Stargate.
Nicole Muñoz
Nicole played Hedda in the Stargate Atlantis episode Epiphany, she has also been on Jeremiah,Tru Calling, Defying Gravity, Hemlock Grove, Once Upon A Time, Defiance and Chupacabra vs. the Alamo. IMDBTwitter
