Adrian Holmes
Adrian appeared in two episodes of Stargate SG1, in Nightwalkers he was a Special Operations Sergeant and in Memento Mori he played Detective Ryan. He has also guest starred on Arrow, Continuum, Smallville, Cedar Cove, True Justice and many more shows and movies. He currently stars as Nick Barron in the crime drama 19-2 which is in its second season. IMDB Twitter Official
Well where do I start with the latest episode of the Canadian crime drama Motive?
In the latest episode The Glass House (S3E4) we have a couple of guest stars who have also appeared on Stargate and not forgetting the recurring character of Superintendent Boyd Bloom playing by Roger Cross and the series co-star Louis Ferreira as Detective Oscar Vega. In the latest episode we get to see Jodelle Ferland (SG1 & SGA) playing the sixteen year old Sophie Glass and Jennifer Spence (SGU) as her neighbour Melissa Dixon and for trivia John Cassini who played Peter has a brother who has guest starred on SG1, small world. This was an interesting episode which led you down a disturbing path but wasn’t all it appeared to be, a good episode with a satisfying conclusion and didn’t see until well into the story.
Kenneth Welsh
Kenneth played Jamus in the Stargate Atlantis episode The Ark. He has also guest starred on Twin Peaks, Witchblade, Tilt, Timecop, Due South, ReGenesis, The Divide, narrated Perfect Storms: Disasters That Changed the World and performed on stage. IMDB
Mili Avital
Mila played Sha’uri in the original Stargate movie and went on to appear on Damages, 666 Park Avenue, L&O: SVU and a number of productions in her native language. IMDB
Fraser Aitcheson
Fraser played a Jaffa commander in the Stargate SG1 episode Upgrades as well spots on The 4400, Smallville, Fringe and Arctic Air. He’s also a stunt performer with credits on Earthsea, Smallville, Arrow, Sanctuary and movies such as Elysium, Robocop and Man Of Steel. IMDB Twitter
Well I never quite expected to see Teryl Rothery in this position but her character “Olivette” played off Rowena played by Ruth Connell with a lot of dark humour in the recent episode of Supernatural “Paint It Black“. Looking forward to seeing Teryl return on the next season of Cedar Cove.
Marina Sirtis
Marina appeared on all seven seasons of Star Trek The Next Generation and the movies playing Counselor Deanna Troi and also guest starred on other Trek series, she appeared on Stargate SG1 in the episode Watergate as Dr. Svetlana Markov. She has recently guest starred on NCIS, Grey’s Anatomy, Family Guy and Young Justice. IMDB Twitter Official
Now isn’t this a thing of beauty, the Stargate Diorama Deluxe Version from Space – Art
Cam Cronin
Cam made his only appearance on Stargate as an Airman in the SG1 episode Window Of Opportunity and he made an impression on a certain member of SG1. He’s also been in The X-Files, Fringe, Psych and Supernatural. IMDB Twitter
Darcy Laurie
Darcy played Airman Dunning in nine episodes of Stargate Universe and also appeared in two episodes of SG1 first as a Cave Dweller in The First Commandment and then as Tass’an in Babylon. He has also guest starred on Cold Squad, Fringe, Supernatural and Continuum. IMDB
Brian McCaig
Brian played as tech in the Stargate Universe episode Alliances and has appeared on Moments, Supernatural, Some Assembly Required and Motive as well as doing stunt work and working as a stand in.
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The team explore what looks like an abandoned space station built within a small moon orbiting a devastated planet, Rodney of course can’t help but start pressing buttons and powering up the stations nuclear reactor. As the systems come alive he recognises an energy signature as belonging to the Wraith beaming device and they find a human looking individual who has been returned to physical form. Herick tells them the story of his world as it came under attack from the Wraith and this station was built to house and protect a few thousands people in storage until such time as they could return and rebuild their world but only one of the storage units is present. Jamus the leader of the project is awakened and explains that in the final hours the second shuttle never made it to the stations and Herick’s family perished, in his grief Herick commits suicide and cripples the station leaving it in a decaying orbit and now no jumper to escape either.
The Ark is another standalone episode near the end of a season which was strongly arc orientated but despite that works quite well even though you have to question the basic premise of the story and the decisions made by the people on this world. I can’t help but feel some deep underground havens would have been just as secure as an orbital hiding place for dozens maybe hundreds of these storage units for long term survival of the species and allow for more diversity. Oh well, we’ll never really know what ultimately becomes of the survivors but if the mixture isn’t 90% practical skills then no amount of art and poetry will prove the decision to obliterate their world was good let alone practical. The overall production based on pretty much two main sets worked very well, kept it claustrophobic and in your face but I don’t think any character really keep out looking good, even John’s choice to pilot the unpowered shuttle wasn’t a big deal since it should have smashed to pieces not matter how good a job he did. That said an easy to watch episode and The Ark is far from the worse of the season but not that memorable either but Kenneth Welsh did a fantastic job.
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Angelique Naude
Angelique caught Sheppard’s eye in “No Mans Land” playing a small role in that Stargate Atlantis episode. She’s also been on The 4400, Supernatural, Dream Gamblers, Blood Ties, Chaos and Scary Movie 4. IMDB
On the latest episode of David’s podcast “Out of the Blue” he chats with another former Stargate actor Alexis Cruz, many thanks to Geek Nation for allowing the embedding of the podcast and for some cracking shows in and out of our favourite genre 🙂
James McDaniel
James played General Francis Maynard in two episodes of Stargate SG1 ( Lost City Part 2 & Inauguration ). He has also guest starred on Taken, Life As We Know It, The Division, Detroit 1-8-7, The Following, Forever, Orange Is the New Black and starred on NYPD Blue as Lt. Arthur Fancy. IMDB
Michelle Harrison
Michelle played the Assistant in the SG1 episode Absolute Power and then returned as Rachel in the Stargate Universe episode Visitation. She has also appeared on Continuum, Arctic Air, Emily Owens MD and Endgame. IMDB Official Twitter
Haley Beauchamp
Haley played an Airman in the Stargate Universe episode Pathogen and was Sylvana in the SG1 episode Bad Guys. She has also been on Whistler as Feeney, The Collector, Smallville and The Dead Zone. IMDB Agency
Stephanie Shea
Stephanie played Solen in the Stargate SG1 episode Learning Curve and also did a some stunt work on the show notably in the episode Talion. She is the daughter of Dan Shea the shows stunt coordinator. IMDB
Jason Schombing
Jason was Dr. Robert Rothman in three episodes of Stargate SG1 (The First Ones, Crystal Skull and Forever in a Day) and appeared on Tin Man, Intelligence, Smallville, Alice, The A-Team and Sanctuary. IMDB
Finally Supernatural returned to the small screen with the episode “The Things They Carried” and it featured former Stargate actors Richard de Klerk and Michelle Morgan. Richard played Kit Verson and Michelle played his wife Jemma Verson in a story dealing with US military personnel returning from a mission overseas and bringing back an unexpected traveller.
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