Gatecast 228 SG1 Crusade

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Jun 142014
 

avatar Vala returns to the SGC although only her mind and she takes great delight in occupying Daniels body especially when her first port of call is the mens locker room. Anyhow when Sam realises what is happening and they get to debrief Vala (no not in that way) and she tells them of her appearance in the ORI galaxy in a small village, her friendship and romance with a native of that world and ultimately the bombshell that she is pregnant. If that wasn’t enough to drop on SG1 and the General she then reveals that the ORI ships are ready to go and filled with soldiers ready to fight and die in a religious war against the inhabitants of the Milky Way. Oh and in the meantime the Chinese have made their play for access to the Russian Stargate currently leased to the US.

The Will of the Ori

The Will of the Ori

Crusade marks the return to Stargate for Claudia Black and yes she was heavily pregnant at the time and that worked so well with the story the writers created around her return, the consequences of this story will play out in the tenth season but for now the structure of this episode allows Vala to take center stage without putting too much pressure on Claudia although there was no question that she was giving 100% with the scenes in the village and her acting opposite Tomin played by Tim Guinee. Once again the standing village set is redressed to provide a unique location without requiring huge investment which allows for strong guest actors including Tim as mentioned and of course Michael Ironside who can tick another genre show off his to act in list:)
I really enjoyed Crusade, Claudia was excellent as was Tim and the whole weaving of the Ori story which was basically clips/flashback and exposition was delivered to the viewers in a entertaining and fast paced manner, the threat of the ORI is now really becoming clear and puts pressure on the SGC to handle the local political fall out after the games the Russians were playing and the threat given that the ORI have proved to have weapons tech far in advance than even the Asgard.

Many thanks for the feedback this week and our Facebook, Google+ and Twitter have been very active and lets not forget that we are on a very gratifying number of listener lists over on Stitcher, wouldn’t say no to another itunes review though:)

This weeks promo is for the Sci-Fi Movie Podcast and next week we return to Atlantis for the episode Inferno with our guest Thomas once again joining us for an episode he asked to do a while back, hope you can join us for that and don’t forget we are keen to get more voices on the show, why not get intouch and join in watching and talking about an episode of Stargate SG1 season 10 and Atlantis season 3.

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Stargate Birthdays – June 13th

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Jun 132014
 

Tygh Runyan
Tygh played Dr Robert Caine in five episodes of Stargate Universe, he has also appeared on Recoil, Kingdom Hospital, Traffic, Still Life, BSG, Antitrust and has writing, producing and music credits in his resume. IMDB Twitter
Thomas Milburn Jr.
Thomas was a hazmat officer in the SG1 episode The Fourth Horseman Part 1 and a Jaffa in the SG1 episode Enemies. He has also appeared on Jeremiah, Taken, Out of Order, Andromeda and Dark Angel. IMDB

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Amanda Tapping

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Jun 132014
 

Here is Amanda Tapping accepting her honorary doctorate from Windsor University, many thanks to the original poster Kathrin Siegmund and Karen who tweeted the link to the video which leads us here:)

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Stargate Birthday – June 12th

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Jun 122014
 

James Ashroft
James played a Delegate in the Stargate SG1 episode Zero Hour, he’s also been in Battlestar Galactica, Eureka, Reaper, Chaos, Supernatural and Tin Man. IMDB

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Torment of Tantalus

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Jun 112014
 

The latest Stargate opinionated review from SFDebris is the classic Torment of Tantalus although always felt the title had a very Star Trek feel to it:)

 

Stargate Birthdays – June 11th

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Jun 112014
 

Clare Carey
Clare played the CIA rep Kerry Johnson on the Stargate SG1 episode Threads, she has also appeared on Charmed, Jericho, Chuck and NCIS. IMDB Official Site
Dean Aylesworth
Dean played the old Anubis in the SG1 episode Reckoning Part 1, he has also appeared on Supernatural, The X-Files, Ties That Bind, Dark Angel and Cold Squad. IMDB
Shane Meier
Shane played Garan in the Stargate SG1 episode A Hundred Days and then Nelus in the Atlantis episode Childhood’s End. He has also guest starred on Walker Texas Ranger, Call of the Wild, Psych and Intelligence. IMDB Twitter

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Stargate Birthday – June 10th

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Jun 102014
 

Mike Dopud
Mike has appeared a few times on Stargate, first as Odai Ventrell in the SG1 episode Bounty and then Colonel Chernovshev in Full Alert. He played Kiryk in the Atlantis episode Tracker and wrapped up his time on the show with the recurring role of Varro in fifteen episodes of Stargate Universe. Mike has also appeared on Smallville, Durham County, Arctic Air, Continuum,Mistresses, BSG and Man of Steel. IMDB  Twitter TVSA

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Stargate Birthday – June 9th

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Jun 092014
 

Many happy returns of the day to Chris Derochie who worked on the visual effects for the Stargate SG1 episode Scorched Earth, the Universe episode Air Part 3 and on a further twelve episodes of Stargate Atlantis. He has recently worked on Once Upon A Time and Falling Skies and has worked for Disney and Zoic Studios. IMDB Cobblestone

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Stargate Birthdays – June 8th

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Jun 082014
 

Lexa Doig
Lexa has had a very long and successful career in the scifi genre including starring as Romi in Andromeda and having recurring roles on Continuum, Arctic Air, The 4400, Eureka and more importantly for use playing Dr. Carolyn Lam in Stargate SG1. She is of course married to Michael Shanks so in between the acting she has been a wife and mother 🙂  IMDB  Twitter
Alan Scarfe
Alan played Chancellor Druhin in the Stargate Atlantis episode Poisoning The Well and has starred on Seven Days and Kingdom Hospital. He has also appeared on Andromeda, Voyager, MacGyver, Due South and Babylon 5. IMDB

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Gatecast 227 SGA Michael

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Jun 072014
 

avatar Lt. Michael Kenmore awakes not knowing who he is or how he came to be but is constantly reassured by Teyla and other Atlantis personnel that he was a member of  a unit attacked by the Wraith and was taken prisoner, upon rescue he was treated but is now suffering from amnesia. As he recovers in body and mind everyone treats him well with the exception of Ronon who is openly aggressive but Michael is unaware of anything he has to done to cause such behaviour and his curiosity is peaked. After suffering from a couple of nightmares Michael goes to the infirmary and as Carson sleeps he discovers the “kenmore” calendar and DVD records with his name on, on playback they show nearly two weeks of surveillance and Michael himself strapped to a bed ultimately screaming defiance as it’s revealed as the days go back to be a Wraith! Despite this revelation and learning of the retro virus he remains reasonably calm but eventually snaps after being confronted once again by Ronon and a minor war breaks out and a guard is killed, Michael is captured and taken to an off world base but uses his mind powers on Teyla and together they escape through the Stargate to a Wraith world but they are now being tracked by fellow Wraith with John and Ronon not far behind.

Quiet Contemplation

Quiet Contemplation

Michael is the opening episode to a long running if not overly used arc (for now) dealing with the consequences of using the retro-virus, yes the one that caused so many problems last time and you have to ask yourself if this is sort of some “ethically” acceptable method of genocide because when you get down to it the Wraith as they developed are going to be wiped from the face of the Pegasus galaxy. If you want to put it more simply then the very basis of this plan is awash with deceit and deception and from that would anything really good come to fruition? Now for the plus points, fantastic to see Conner Trinneer fresh from his four years on Enterprise returning to the scifi genre and handling a well written role and as we know a lot more to come but the challenge of more prosthetics is ahead, Rachel also got to push her character as well with some well written scenes between Teyla and Michael again a dynamic which they will exploit over the rest of the show. We had a couple of guests this week, given Conner was joining Atlantis we got Adam and Paul from the Star Trek Enterprise podcast Previously in The Alpha Quadrant to join us for the episode and we think a good time was had by all, let us know what you think and pay a visit to PITAQ and it’s host network Trekmate.

This weeks promo is for the Star Trek podcast Two to beam Up which is looking at the original series and next week we are going to be watching the Stargate SG1 episode Crusade and we will be joined by Thomas.

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Jan Rubes

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Jun 062014
 

In fond remembrance of Jan Rubes ( June 6th 1920 – June 29th 2009 )
Jan played Dr Nicholas Ballard in the Stargate SG1 episode The Crystal Skull. An accomplished television and movie actor in both his native and adopted language which began in 1950 with the Canadian feature Forbidden Journey and includes Due South, Witness and The X-Files.

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Stargate Birthdays – June 5th

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Jun 052014
 

Brian Jensen
Brian voiced Freyr in three episodes of SG1 and appeared as a Priest in the episode Bloodlines. He has also appeared on Smallville, First Wave, Dark Angel, Fargo and Hell on Wheels. IMDB
Sandy Sidhu
Sandy was Dr. Mehta in the Stargate Universe episodes Air Part 3 and Life as well as guest starring in Primeval New World, Intelligence, Arctic Air and Shattered. IMDB  Twitter
Marc Worden
Marc was Ronan in the Stargate SG1 episode Lost City and has had guest roles on Enterprise, Deep Space Nine, Space:Above & Beyond, The Mentalist and CSI New York. IMDB Behind The Voice

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Leo Awards 2014

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Jun 022014
 

Many congratulations to the following 2014 Leo Award winners who have spent time in the past within the Stargate family in front and behind the camera, congratulations to everyone else as well but we are kinda Stargate centric around here and apologies to anyone I’ve missed.

  • Lauro Chartrand 
  • Michael Eklund
  • Jennifer Spence
  • Michael Shanks
  • Andy Mikita
  • Kimani Ray Smith
  • Mackenzie Gray
  • Katherine Isabelle
  • Louis Ferreira
  • Lexa Doig
  • Carmen Moore 

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