Guy Fauchon
Guy played Pullman in the Stargate SG1 episode The Scourge, he as also guest starred on Psych, Andromeda, Cold Squad, Once Upon A Time, Supernatural and Motive. IMDBTwitter Janelle Monae
Janelle is a singer songwriter who played herself in the Stargate Universe episode Earth, she was also named Billboard’s Rising Star for 2013 along with her many other awards and nominations for her music and voiced characters on American Dad! and Rio 2 and has music in The Equalizer. She has a role in the upcoming movie Moonlight and is the “mini mogul” behind Wondaland Records. OfficialYoutubeTwitter Rebecca Lee
Rebecca was a makeup artist on Stargate Universe as well as working on Motive, Harper’s Island, Caprica, Tin Man, Watchmen, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters and BSG Blood & Chrome. IMDBTwitter
Christopher John Fields
Christopher played Lt. Freeman in the Stargate movie and he’s also appeared on episodes of The Closer, Sleeper Cell, Ally McBeal, ER, Alien 3 and JAG. IMDB Diego Klattenhoff
Diego played the Team Leader of the bomb disposal squad in the Stargate SG1 episode Ex Deus Machina, he starred in Homeland and is currently starring as Agent Donald Ressler in The Blacklist. IMDBTwitter Trevor Carroll
Trevor played (Gaunlet, Alliances and Subversion). He has also appeared on Arctic Air, Fringe, Defying Gravity, Human Target, Blackstone and The Flash. Trevor also owns Reverie Arts a media arts company. IMDBOfficialTwitter
Janina Gavankar
Janina played Sgt “Dusty” Mehra in the Stargate Atlantis episode Whispers and also had recurring roles on True Blood, The League and The Gates. More recently she has appeared on the Arrow, The Vampire Diaries and as Meredith on The Mysteries of Laura. OfficialIMDBYoutubeSoundcloudTwitter
In Memory of…
Robert James Manitopyes (Nov 29 1970 – Jan 16 2005)
Robert played a guard in the SG1 episode Desperate Measures and also appeared in the movie The Core and on the US soap The Days of Our Lives.
He was a father of two sons.
A starship appears in orbit above Atlantis, the early warning systems failed to detect its approach and to confuse matters they are getting the automated friend or for response indicating that the ship is the Daedalus, however they confirm that ship is days away from Earth on it’s return journey from Pegasus. The team take a jumper and they discover a carbon copy of the Daedalus however it shows signs of extensive battle damage and no one is onboard, well there are four bodies and they do look rather familiar.
A strange energy signature is detected and McKay discovers that the ship has an additional drive system, he realises it is intended to jump the ship between alternate realities and that this Daedalus is not from their universe. Alas the drive is in a loop and when it’s energy capacitors are fully charged it automatically jumps, who knows how long they “other” team were onboard or how far away from their home they were before conditions killed them. Each reality poses it’s own problems for the ship and the team including a sun eating it’s system, aliens hell bent on destroying another Atlantis and one where there is no live at all on the planet and not Atlantis either. McKay finally figures out that while he can not stop the ship from jumping he can reverse its course and if they survive the sun going nova and the aliens once again they can leave the ship when they reach their reality and let the ship do it’s thing, of course complications arise when the landing bay and jumpers are destroyed by those pesky aliens but not to worry they have a plan.
The Daedalus Variations is a well crafted episode which makes good use of story elements introduced on Atlantis earlier and certainly in the scifi genre as a whole. There is some excellent space combat sequences, really old school dog fighting in and around the Daedalus and again all the CGI done in house both for budgetary reasons as well as showing the talents of the Stargate artists. There is not a huge amount of pressure put on the actors in terms of what the story needs from the characters but we get some good humorous moments and some cheesy ones it has to be said but overall The Daedalus Variations is a solid episode early in the final season of the show.
Thank you very much to Thomas for joining us this week for The Daedalus Variations an episode he chose and he’ll be returning in 2016, this weeks promo is for Treks In Sci-Fi and next week we are back with Ghost In The Machine and the return of a character but in another guise. As always we’d love to hear what you think and don’t forget the Stargate SG1 top ten episodes poll is still open:)
Martin Cummins
Martin played Aden Corso in the Stargate SG1 episode “Forsaken” as well as appearing in DarkAngel, Smallville, Kyle XY, Eureka, V, Fringe, The Whispers and Shattered. IMDBOfficial Penelope Corrin
Penelope was Dr Lindsay in both Stargate SG1 ( Origin & Avalon ) and Atlantis (Coup D’etat) as well as starring on Royal Canadian Air Farce, Kingdom Hospital and guest starring on Masters of Horror, The L Word and The Collector. IMDB Sasha Piltsin
Sasha was one of the Russian drivers in the Stargate SG1 episode Desperate Measures and has guest starred on Chaos, Cold Squad, Seven Days and Life with an Accent. IMDB
Bill Nye
Bill appeared as himself on the Stargate Atlantis episode Brainstorm, he has also hosted his own show called “The Science Guy” and has graced many other productions as an expert in his field as well as guest starring on Back to the Future, Numb3rs and The Big Bang Theory. IMDBOfficialTwitter
Ryan Robbins
Ryan played Ladon Radim on five episodes of Stargate Atlantis, he also starred in Sanctuary (Henry Foss) and has had significant recurring roles on Hell On Wheels and Falling Skies and guest starred on Caprica and Battlestar Galactica and the scifi series Ascension. Also look out of his guest role on Arrow:) IMDBTwitter Adam Harrington
Adam played Khonsu in the Stargate SG1 episode The Other Guys and a Goa’uld in Children of the Gods, he has also been in The Secret Circle, Dexter, Supernatural, The Mob Doctor, NCIS New Orleans, Major Crimes and Castle. IMDBTwitter
Phoenix Ly
Phoenix played Yamato in the Stargate Universe episode “Suspicion”. He has also guest starred on Cold Squad, Tru Calling, The 4400, Saved and Painkiller Jane. IMDB
Dwight Schultz
Dwight was The Keeper in the Stargate SG1 episode The Gamekeeper but is known for his time on The A-Team and Star Trek (TNG & Voyager). He has also done a lot of voice work for shows and games such as Ben 10, Chowder, Dragon Age, Mass Effect and Avengers Assemble. IMDBBehind The Voice Danielle Nicolet
Danielle played Reese in the Stargate SG1 episode Menace and Caryn in Third Rock from the Sun. She has also appeared on Elementary, Family Tools, Born Again Virgin, The Game, The Flash and Warehouse 13 and has voiced characters on animated television. IMDBBehind The VoiceTwitter Rhys Williams
Rhys is an actor and stuntman, he worked on Stargate Universe primarily as a stunt double and also worked on Arrow, Almost Human, Legends of Tomorrow, The 100 and Godzilla. He has also acted on Arrow, Supernatural, The Flash, Fringe and Psych. IMDBTwitterOfficial Lane Edwards
Lane played Matthew Wallace on the Stargate Universe episode Epilogue as well as guest starring on Supernatural, Arrow, The Whispers and Falling Skies. IMDBTwitter
Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Salli played Drey’auc in the first season Stargate SG1 episode Bloodlines and went on to star in Eureka as Allison Blake and has appeared in Mercy Point, I Am Legend, Family Law, NCIS, Castle, The Newsroom and now starring in Stitchers. IMDBTwitterOfficial Adam Lolacher
Adam played a Genii in the Stargate Atlantis episode Harmony, he also appeared on Flash Gordon, Fringe, Smallville, Being Erica, The Killing, Supernatural, Claddagh and Once Upon A Time. IMDB Vera Menoza-Cuadra
Vera played a US Airman Metner on the Stargate Universe episode Sabotage. IMDB
Richard Kind
Richard appeared twice in Stargate Atlantis playing Lucius Lavin in the episodes Irresponsible and Irresistible and was in the Stargate movie playing Gary Meyers. He has also starred in Spin City and has guest starred on Scrubs, Leverage, Burn Notice and is currently guest starring on Gotham. IMDBBehind The Voice Mackenzie Gray
Mackenzie voiced Pahk’kal in Stargate Infinity and has also appeared in Man of Steel, Spooksville, Bitten, Smallville and Fringe as well as providing the voices for a number of animated shows such as Iron Man: Armored Adventures. IMDBOfficialTwitterBehind The Voice Reece Thompson
Reece was the young Athosian Jinto in Rising the Stargate Atlantis premiere, he has also had some guest spots on Jeremiah, Final Girl, The 4400, Motive, Almost Human and provided the voices for characters in shows such as Zixx and Trollz. IMDBTwitterBehind The Voice
Ronon and Teyla are off world when they come across a body in the woods, as they approach hidden traps are sprung and in the chaos they are both stunned, Teyla is left and Ronon abducted by an old friend who as is the norm came back to bite him. The tracker Ronon carries is not active so the suggestion is made to contact Solen Sincha another Satedan who may have some information on Tyre the man who kidnapped Ronon. They learn that his Wraith masters have abandoned him and maybe by giving them Ronon a former runner he will regain their favour and this is exactly what is happening. Ronon is given to the Wraith who begins the torture procedure in the effort to get Ronon addicted to the surge of life energy after they kill him, they succeed and Ronon pledges his loyalty to the Wraith. Information arrives about a Wraith lab on the planet Sarif Sur so Tyre and the team mount a raid but they are captured and it seems Tyre has betrayed them but it’s a ruse and when he gets the opportunity he breaks John, Teyla and Rodney out and the battle commences. The Wraith is captured and when threatened with the explosives planted earlier he agrees to release them when Tyre says he will stay behind and hand over the detonator when the team are free, however Tyre redeems his honour by destroying the lab and saving his friend Ronon who still has a long road ahead to purge his system of the enzyme and reverse the mental conditioning.
Broken Ties is an episode which quickly brings the talents of Mark Dacascos back to Stargate, an accomplished and well trained fighter he is more than capable of holding his own acting wise and bringing a level of reality to a staged action sequence, nothing quite beats being able to use the primary actor for the majority of a stunt. While the dynamic between Ronon and Tyre was certainly the focal point and allowed Jason to dig deep into his own talents to bring to the screen another facet of Ronon we also got the dilemma Teyla was having to deal with being a new mother want to remain at her childs side but having the drive to be the guardian for all. In an episode that had some strong themes it’s surprising we got the usual amount of comedic elements scattered throughout the episode, Woolsey is the major foil for such things as his character settles into the group dynamic and if you need that extra giggle then Rodney in a bubble bath serves it’s purpose.
We want to thank Tim for joining us for this episode, he replied to a tweet on the night of recording so we invited him to join us and he said yes so everything worked out great. You can hear Tim on Partial Nerdity and Unchartered Territories two podcasts that I listen too on a weekly basis. We also would like to thank everyone that has voted in the poll which at the time I write this is 94 people, if we get over 100 giving us their Stargate SG1 top ten episodes we’ll throw in another prize for the draw with our thanks. This weeks promo is for British Invaders a podcast that looks at old UK television shows with a scifi/fantasy/genre leaning and next week we are going to be taking a look at The Daedalus Variations with Thomas, we hope you can join us for that.
