Alex Ferris
Alex guest starred as Andy Spencer in the Stargate SG1 episode Citizen Joe. He has also worked on Supernatural, X-Men The Last Stand, The L Word, Sanctuary, Eureka and The Time Traveler’s Wife. IMDB
Zach Selwyn
Zach played a scientist in the Stargate Atlantis episode Tabula Rasa and also had roles in Greek, Battleship, Chicago Hope and Dragnet. He is also a musician and presenter. IMDB Official Twitter
Yes another week and another new episode from the third season of Motive which presented us with guest starring roles for two former actors from Stargate in the episode Pilot Error. We’ll begin with Jody Thompson who played the pilot Bridget Vinton who appeared just the once on Stargate SG1 in the episode Bounty and again on Atlantis in the episode Vegas. Sonja Bennett played Chelsea Richmond in Pilot Error and we last saw her on Stargate Atlantis as Dahlia Radim.
Pilot Error was a good episode, a few twists from the main story and some underlying menace from the arc with ongoing flirtation between Oscar and Betty and the question mark over Oscar and his condition.
Dominic Zamprogna
Dominic guest starred on two episodes of Stargate Universe (Life and Light) as Dr Boone and Aries in the Stargate Atlantis episode Childhood’s End. He also was in Battlestar playing Jammer and appeared on Smallville, Flash Gordon, 2012 and General Hospital. IMDB Twitter
Rod Loomis
Rod played Osric in the Stargate SG1 episode The Quest Part 1 and Freud in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, he has also appeared on The Next Generation, Matlock and Quantum Leap. IMDB
Warren Takeuchi
Warren appeared as a young doctor in the Stargate SG1 episode The Enemy Within. He has appeared on shows such as The X-Files, First Wave, Da Vinci’s Inquest, Babylon 5 Legend of the Rangers and True Justice as well as Godzilla and War. IMDB
Mary Jo Slater
Mary was the casting director for 65 episodes of Stargate SG1 and also worked with Eureka, Poltergeist: The Legacy, Babylon 5, Walker, Texas Ranger, Perception, Killer Women and Mistresses.
She is the mother of Christian Slater. IMDB
Vala gets an unexpected message from off world, her father long the bane of her life is offering the SGC a deal on the information he claims to have about the location of a cloaked cargo ship equipped with Naquadah and intended for a first strike against Earth. When this information proves reliable he is granted sanctuary on Earth but his inherent need to exploit and con people comes to the fore and faced with increasing displeasure he offers to deal with a band of Jaffa who have Naquadah and are still on Earth but he would have to be part of the operation as there is a failsafe built in and only he can disarm it.
Family Ties while not being written specifically for Fred Willard was tailored to his style once he came on board to play Jacek and it’s hard to imagine anyone portraying the lovable rogue who gave us Vala even if he is by no means a good father and it sounds even less of a good husband. The episode as with a few in the second half of the season feels like it would have served better if earlier in the run, it’s certainly not part of an arc but then I suppose with the ORI put to one side (for now) they really don’t have to go to extremes to set up a season finale since at this point they knew they were cancelled. The set designers get a lot of praise for this episode, they were allowed to a little over the top in presenting us with what Jacek considers high calibre home decoration and in many ways you can see where Vala gets her love of gaudy objects speaking of which it was touching to see that she did indeed treasure the little trinkets he often brought back to her from his travels.
This weeks promo is for the Game of Thrones podcast Tyrion’s Landing and next week we are going to be taking a look at the Stargate Atlantis episode Submersion. As always we would not say no to some feedback and comments on the show or an itunes review/rating, we’d be happy with a tweet if push comes to shove:)
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David Hewlett
David first appeared on Stargate SG1 as the annoying Rodney McKay and went on guest star on seven episodes before starring in Stargate Atlantis and then making one guest appearance on Universe in the episode Seizure. He has also written and directed his own work including the excellent A Dog’s Breakfast and Debug, his other work includes the original Cube, State Of Syn, Rage of the Yeti, Rise, Traders and Urban Legends. IMDB Official Twitter
Laura Mennell
Laura appeared twice on Stargate in the Atlantis episode The Brotherhood playing Sanir and the SG1 episode Demons as Mary.She also starred as Nina Theroux in Alphas and has guest starred on Smallville, Supernatural, Fringe and had recurring roles on Motive as Samantha Turner and Haven as Dr. Charlotte Cross. IMDB Twitter Official
Keith R.A. DeCandido
Keith wrote the short story Time Keeps on Slippin’ which was included in the Far Horizons Stargate anthology and he has a new SG1 novel due later this year. He has also written a number of Star Trek novels and has a collection of Precinct novels, comic books and novelisations. Official Twitter
Alaina Huffman
Alaina played Lt. Tamara Johansen in all forty episodes of Stargate Universe as well playing Dinah Lance on Smallville and Abbadon on Supernatural. She guest starred on Alphas, NCIS: LA, Painkiller Jane, Necessary Roughness. IMDB Twitter
Alonso Oyarzun
Alonso appeared just once on Stargate Atlantis as the leader of a punk gang in the episode Bane. He has also appeared in eight episodes of Battlestar Galactica as Socinus and also in The Plan and The Dead Zone. IMDB
Mylene Dinh-Robic
Mylene played Anika in the Atlantis episode The Kindred Part 2, she has also appeared on Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, The Listener, Being Human and 19-2. IMDB Twitter
Brendan Beiser
Brendan played Weaver in the SG1 episode Memento Mori and Tavius in the Atlantis episode The Tower. He has also been in the Murdoch Mysteries, Dead Like Me, Reaper, Dark Angel, Goblin and Supercollider. IMDB Behind The Voice
Carlo Rota
Carlo appeared twice on Stargate Universe as Carl Storm in the episodes Life and Earth. He also had a long running guest role on 24 (Day 6 and 7) as Morris O’Brian and appeared on Shark, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Jane the Virgin and Sanctuary. IMDB Twitter
Ilan Srulovicz
Ilan appeared twice on Stargate Universe as a Lucian Alliance Squad Member in the episodes Incursion 1 & 2. He’s been in Undressed, NCIS New Orleans, Secrets And Lies, Shattered and Smallville and has also directed and produced a couple of shorts. IMDB
Laurie Murdoch
Laurie played Administrator Calder in the Stargate SG1 episode Beneath The Surface a scifi cliche plot but not a bad episode. He has also guest starred on Cold Squad, Rookie Blue, Copper, Psych, Warehouse 13, Covert Affairs and Saving Hope. IMDB
Robert Carlyle
Robert starred in all forty episodes of Stargate Universe playing the highly opinionated Dr Nicholas Rush and is currently starring in Once Upon A Time as Mr Gold and his alter ego he whose name is often not said. He has also appeared on 24, The World Is Not Enough , Hamish Macbeth, Cracker, Ravenous, The Last Enemy and Trainspotting. IMDB Twitter
Another good episode of Motive the other night season 3’s “Fallen” with both the primary story and the season arc equally entertaining and we had two faces from Stargate days as guest stars, there was Simon Longmore who was playing the trucker Roy Biggs and then Patrick Sabongui who played Lance.
Erick Avari
Erick appeared in both the original Stargate theatrical movie and three episodes of SG1 as Kasuf (Absolute Power, Forever in a Day and Secrets). He has also guest starred on Heroes, Enterprise, The X-Files, Babylon 5, Warehouse 13, Grimm and TNG. His latest project is Chasing Eagle Rock. Official IMDB
Tom O’Brien
Tom guest starred as Brian Volger in the Stargate SG1 episode Covenant and has guest starred on Smallville, Supernatural, The Dead Zone and Timecop the series. IMDB
Ashley O’Connell
Ashley played the Fruit Stand Owner in the Stargate Atlantis episode Irresponsible & appeared in the movie Watchmen but spends more time on the stage than on television. IMDB
Cameron K. Smith
Cameron played the Jaffa warrior Re’Lo in the Stargate SG1 episode The Changling and has also appeared on Supernatural, Fringe, Smallville, Taken, Hitman 101 and Alcatraz. IMDB
Ty Olsson playing Tim Kelly in a recent episode “The Suicide Tree” of the Canadian crime drama Motive.
