A very happy birthday (Feb 25th) to Theresa Lee who played the interpreter in the Stargate SG1 episode “Fragile Balance” and has guest starred in Psych, Smallville and numerous Chinese/Hong Kong series. Theresa was born in Hong Kong but grew up in Canada and returned to her homeland and made a very successful tv career in both her native language and English language markets.
Vanessa Angel discusses her role on the audio drama Hothouse Bruiser, she plays Miss Power Tools which says everything you really need to know about the world the story takes place in:)
Vanessa played the Tok’ra Anise/Freya in three episodes of Stargate SG1 and generated quite a bit of back and forth over her costumes and the romantic intent given her Tok’ra half was attracted to Daniel and her human half to Jack.
Hothouse Bruiser can be found on itunes and on Apple and Android apps.
Hothouse Bruiser Website
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A very happy birthday on the 24th to Ona Grauer who played the ancient Ayiana in the Stargate SG1 episode Frozen and the same character in the Stargate Atlantis premiere Rising. She later went onto to guest star in Stargate Universe playing Emily Young. Ona is currently guest starring in Archer as Katya and recently made guest appearances in The bridge, Arrow, Fringe and V.
Ona talking to Demon FM about her role in The Bridge.
A surprise announcement from the head of Colson Industries who claims to have proof of alien interference with mankind and various governments collusion to cover it up. This shocking press conference has the US state department and the SGC attempting to put out the fire but with Alec Colson having his own fleet of satellites and his companies access to relabelled recovered alien tech he is certainly in a position to see the big picture. The SGC may be willing to play nice but the Trust made up of former NID operatives and backers are more decisive shall we say and if an accident can’t be arranged then there are
other means to remove a threat.
Covenant is a very well cast episode, both Charles and Tom play their roles exceptionally
well as the idealist and the realist clashing over what they should do with information that
could change the world. It’s great to see both Daniel and Sam working together out in the
real world and a call back to the Prometheus episode with the reporter being used to
glue everything together.
On or Off the record?
Thor of course is always a pleasure more so because they really have got the puppets
interaction down pat even to simple reaction shots and close in work with the actors.
I’m seriously impressed with the SGC’s creation of the base on the new Alpha site, that
would have taken a lot of work or maybe they had access to some Tok’ra crystals but
it looked man made. In hindsight it looks a lot like the Icarus base from Stargate Universe.
Don’t forget the door remote!
This weeks promo is from the Scifi Diner hosted by Scott and Miles, they talk about genre
tv and movies and gather countless excellent interviews from their many convention trips, well
worth a listen. Next week we return to Pegasus and meet for the first time the Genii in the
SGA epsiode “Underground” which stars Colm Meany and Erin Chambers.
We got some feedback from Colin our friend over at Trek News & Views as well as a little
bit of facebook feedback on last weeks episode but we always need more so if you fancy dropping
us a line then you can do so via Facebook, Google+, Twitter and this sites contact form. You can
also find us on Stitcher Internet Radio and on itunes.
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We have two Stargate related birthdays for February 22nd.
A Very Happy Birthday to Gillian Barber who played Ambassador Dreylock in three episodes of SG1 and in a separate episode “The Gamekeeper” a Resident of P7J-989.
She has also been in The Guard, 2012 and Smallville.
Many happy returns to Bryce Hodgson who played a youngster in the Stargate SG1 episode “2010”.
He’s appeared in Smallville, X2, Supernatural and Battlestar Galactica.
A couple of Stargate Birthdays for the 21st.
A Very Happy Birthday to Patrick Gallagher who played a Jaffa Commander in the Stargate SG1 episode “Abyss” & Vonos in the Stargate Atlantis episode “Inferno”. He’s also appeared in Glee, Battlestar Galactica, Endgame and True Blood.
Sharing the celebrations and many happy returns of the day to Larry Drake who was Burrock in the Stargate SG1 episode “Beast of Burden” and has guest starred on Firefly, Voyager and starred in LA Law.
We have four actors celebrating Stargate Birthdays today the 20th of February.
A Happy Birthday to Willie Garson our own Martin Lloyd from three episodes of Stargate SG1 as well as the erst while Mozzie on the USA series White Collar.
Many happy returns to French Stewart who was Ferretti in the original Stargate movie as well as Dr. Andrew Covel in Stargate Universe. He also played the wonderful Harry Solomon in 3rd Rock from the Sun.
Birthday Greetings to Louis Ferreira who played Colonel Everett Young in Stargate Universe and is the star of Motive and has had recurring roles on Primeval:NewWorld and The LA Complex.
Last but not least a Happy Birthday to Fred Applegate who was Elrad in the Stargate SG1 episode “Red Sky” plus The Producers, ER and Woops!
We have three former Stargate actors with birthdays on the 17th.
Lou Diamond Phillips played Colonel David Telford in Stargate Universe & Henry Standing Bear in the current series Longmire, he made his name as Ritchie Valens in La Bamba and has also appeared in Wolf Lake, The Triangle and Numb3rs.
Garry Chalk played Colonel Chekov in ten episodes of Stargate SG1 as well as starring in the US version of The Killing and has had guest spots on Psych, Smallville, Eureka and Alcatraz.
Last but not least birthday hugs in a non creepy way to Sasha Pieterse who played the young “Grace” in the Stargate SG1 episode Grace and has had recurring roles on Heroes and Pretty Little Liars.
A nice selection of lines chosen for this Stargate Quotes top 10 and many thanks to @GoffRokkit for posting the link on twitter and of course marktrade88 for creating the video:)
With the new season almost upon us (Feb 27th) I watched the pilot of Psych and there were a few familiar faces beginning with Don S. Davis himself (SG1, SGA), Christopher Heyerdahl (SGA) in an early role and Pascale Hutton (SGA). Also small roles for Chelan Simmons (SGA), Artine Brown (SG1), Ian Robison (SG1) and Jocelyne Loewen (SG1).
Uncredited appearances by Calum Worthy (SGA), Lucia Walters (SG1, SGA) and Peter Kelamis (SGU, SG1).
Poisoning the Well tells the story of a once strong civilisation which had been decimated time and time again by the Wraith but had secretly and with much sacrifice been able to maintain their historical and scientific records through each culling. Armed with this developmental leg up the survivors rebuild quickly and while never reaching the levels they originally scaled the grand design of developing a medical defence to the Wraith has been maintained throughout the centuries.
We join the episode as the Hoffans get access to Dr Beckett who brings Atlantis technology and human experience to the problem and a breakthrough is achieved and even better they have Steve the Wraith to test the compound on. The big problem is that to deliver the drug a live host is required but they get a volunteer and within limits the experiment is a success so much to the Hoffans fling themselves into large scale trials on a global scale despite strong and realistic objections from Carson. Sheppard is capable of seeing the big pictures and realises the Wraith while taking an initial hit would figure out the cause and simply nuke the planet from orbit thus removing the problem and then go to another world to feed.
Not exactly a tourist spot.
Perhaps this approach would have had merit if the Wraith were not already on the rampage, if in hibernation a safe drug could have been devised and spread throughout the Pegasus galaxy but ultimately the delay between infection and reaction would probably always allow a good portion of those on board the hives to take steps.
In the real world there are no weapons that can kill an invading force at a stroke, Hollywood with Avengers and ID4 really took the easy way out.
Steve!
The huge bonus from Poisoning the Well is that the writers really give Beckett something to do and Paul McGillion just ran with it and this episode may with the already growing fan approval of Carson could have secured the actor with a full time first season role rather than simply recurring.
This weeks promo is from Nuchtchas and her Nutty Bites and next week we’ll be covering the Stargate SG1 episode “Covenant”. As always continued thanks for listening to the show and keeping the Stargate family busy with news and conversation plus lots of cat pictures.
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News from this years Shore Leave 35 is that Amanda Tapping is scheduled to attend the August 2nd through 4th convention along with William Shatner and Julie Caitlin Brown. Other guests include some very big authors from the Trek and Scifi genres which includes Keith R.A. DeCandido, A.C. Crispin, Aaron Rosenberg and Michael Jan Friedman.
We have a couple of Stargate Birthdays today but alas one of the gentlemen left this mortal coil a decade ago but certainly left his mark in the Stargate mythology.
A happy birthday to Christopher McDonald, he played Senator Alan Armstrong in Stargate Universe and had recurring roles on Boardwalk Empire and Harry’s Law.
In memoriam, Keene Curtis (Feb 15th 1923 – Oct 13th 2002)
Keene played our beloved Ernest Littlefield in the Stargate SG1 episode The Torment of Tantalus as well as appearing in other genre shows such as Voyager and The Pretender.
We have a foursome of Stargate Birthdays today.
Up first a very happy birthday to Enrico Colantoni who was fantastic as Burke in the Stargate SG1 episode Evolution part 2. He also starred in Veronica Mars, Flashpoint and is currently a recurring character in Person Of Interest.
Many happy returns today to Kristen Dalton who played Anna in the SG1 episode Resurrection and Dana Bright in The Dead Zone television series. She has also appeared in Sliders, Profit and JAG.
Birthday greetings to Frank Collison who played Keturah in the Stargate Atlantis episode Seteda. He had also appeared in Carnivale, My Name Is Earl and Hitchcock.
Last but but not least a happy birthday to Graham Kosakoski who was a guard in the Atlantis episode Aurora. He’s had a recurring role in Intelligence and guest spots on Smallville and Da Vinci’s Inquest.
TMZ have pictures and news from Corin who is now having issues with the insurance company and production company over medical insurance and liability, probably the last thing you need to be worrying about.
