Feb 252017
 

Barclay Hope
Barclay played Colonel Lionel Pendergast in six episodes of Stargate SG1 and also guest starred on Smallville, Eureka, Hellcats, The Killing, Cedar Cove, Battlestar Galactica, Riverdale and Once Upon A Time. IMDB
Theresa Lee
Theresa played the Chinese interpreter in the Stargate SG1 episode Fragile Balance and has also appeared on Psych, Smallville, Hiccups, Son of the Dragon and many shows for her native language. IMDB

Daniel Boileau
Daniel appeared just the once on Stargate as a cocooned wraith victim in the Atlantis episode The Gift, he has also appeared on Dead Like Me, Eureka, The Dead Zone, iZombie, The Tomorrow People and Arrow. IMDB Twitter
Guyle Fraizer
Guyle played a technician on the Stargate SG1 episode Nemesis. He has also appeared on The X-Files, Monk, Dark Angel, Supernatural and Touched by Evil. IMDB

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Jan 202017
 

Crystal Lowe
Crystal played Mardola in the Stargate Atlantis episode Harmony and Nya in the SG1 episode Emancipation. She has also appeared on Almost Human, Psych, Smallville, Almost Human, Primeval New World and stars as Rita Haywith on Signed, Sealed, Delivered. IMDB Twitter

Rukiya Bernard
Rukiya was Airman Richmond in the Stargate Universe episode Space and appeared on Fairly Legal, Sanctuary, Breed, Proof, Primeval New World, Intruders, Van Helsing and features such as The Cabin in the Woods and Tooth Fairy. IMDB Twitter Official
Daniel Cudmore
Daniel played a Jaffa in the Stargate SG1 episode Homecoming, he’s also appeared in Alone in the Dark, Fringe, New Moon, Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, X-Men 2 Last Stand, Arrow, Days of Future Past and Warcraft. IMDB Twitter

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Oct 302016
 

Michael Beach
Michael guest starred on five episodes of Stargate Atlantis as Colonel Abe Ellis, he has also starred in Third Watch as “Doc” appearing in 104 episodes and guest starred on ER, Sons of Anarchy, Crisis and Under Suspicion. IMDB Twitter
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Chad Krowchuk
Chad played Gordie Lowe on the Stargate SG1 episode Citizen Joe and a student on the Stargate Universe first season episode Human, he has also been on Wayward Pines and Gracepoint. IMDB
Leon Rippy
Leon played General West in the Stargate theatrical feature and starred in Saving Grace, Deadwood, Under The Dome as well as guest spots on Leverage, TNG, Under The Dome, Rectify, The Blacklist and The Lone Ranger. IMDB Twitter
Jan Bos
Jan was Ambassador Sevarin in the Stargate SG1 episode Homecoming and has also appeared on When Calls the Heart, Psych, Reaper, Hellcats, Rogue, Cult and The 4400. IMDB Twitter
Daniel Bacon
Daniel was a Technician in Stargate SG1 & played Dr Watson in Atlantis. He’s also guest starred on The 4400, Psych, Arctic Air, Arrow, Continuum and Supernatural. IMDB
Peter New
Peter was a farmer in the Atlantis episode Off the Grid and has appeared on Fringe, Dead Like Me, Motive, Bates Motel and has voiced a number of animated shows. IMDB Twitter
Tabitha St. Germain (Paulina Gillis)
Tabitha played one of the native Byrsa women in the Stargate SG1 episode Cor-ai. She is however far better known for her voice work on shows such as Sabrina, Dragon Ball Z, Ed, Edd, ‘n’ Eddy, Action Man, Black Lagoon, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Krypto the Superdog. IMDB Twitter Behind The Voice
Paul Telfer
Paul played Airman Loder on the Stargate SG1 episode The First Ones (it was his first screen credit). He has since been on Spartacus, Hercules, NCIS, Day of Our Lives and Once Upon A Time. IMDB Twitter

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Feb 252016
 

Barclay Hope
Barclay played Colonel Lionel Pendergast in six episodes of Stargate SG1 and also guest starred on Smallville, Eureka, Hellcats, The Killing, Cedar Cove, Battlestar Galactica and Once Upon A Time. IMDB
Theresa Lee
Theresa played the Chinese interpreter in the Stargate SG1 episode Fragile Balance and has also appeared on Psych, Smallville, Hiccups, Son of the Dragon and many shows for her native language. IMDB
Daniel Boileau
Daniel appeared just the once on Stargate as a cocooned wraith victim in the Atlantis episode The Gift, he has also appeared on Dead Like Me, Eureka, The Dead Zone, The Tomorrow People and Arrow. IMDB

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Feb 202016
 

The Lost Tribe

The Lost Tribe is the second part of the mid-season two parter and the episode continues with Daniel and Rodney captives of this mysterious alien race whose reveal is rather surprising, yes we’ve met these guys before and in a twist the only thing that is missing is the goatee. The Vanir are an off shoot from the Asgard who fled to Pegasus to allow them to pursue lines of research which were banned by their brothers and sisters more ethical guidelines, it’s hard to deny that the Vanir had a point, they are under no immediate threat of total degeneration thanks to the experiments on other species. Meanwhile the Stargate in Atlantis when it blew left an awful lot of damage but the use of the cities shield mitigated probably 99.99% of the blast meaning no critical damage, a new gate is quickly sourced and the rebuilding process commences. However other gates have also exploded one in particular on one of the few Traveller world’s killing thousands, Katana Labrea a Traveller commander approaches Atlantis and Sheppard in particular and offers her ship since the Daedalus is currently running amok with Todd in command although Keller and Ronon and flies in the ointment. John gives Todd the location of the Ancient outpost where Daniel and Rodney are being detained and the chase is on to get to that world and destroy the device responsible for destroying stargates and denying the Wraith ships access to hyperspace.

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Ronon did a number on the Daedalus weapons system so before leaving the ship the Wraith pre-programme the computer with commands to turn the ship into a ballistic missile and while John and Katana battle the Vanir they have to find a solution to save the Daedalus and it’s crew as the ship slams into the atmosphere on course to vaporise the ancient complex. Unbeknown to everyone else at the time Rodney and Daniel have donned the alien armoured suits (very Ironman) and entered into the chamber to cripple the system, Daniel is hurt badly before Rodney can pull the plug. It’s a not a surprise that we get resolution which allows all the main characters to return the following week but to be fair the idea to use one ships hyperspace window to draw in a second was clever and obviously occurred to John after he had gone head to head with the Vanir. We also got a good closing scene with the two boys trading barbs and pudding and a rather awkward moment as Ronon learns that Jennifer’s interest in romance are focused on someone else.

The Lost Tribe was another excellent fifth season of Atlantis, we got more of the Daniel and Rodney dynamic, the return of the Travellers, Todd being well Todd and oodles of action and wonderful visual effects. Far fewer technical issues with this second recorded episode (not using bluetooth) but no denying we were all happy to wrap that night up so as always many thanks to Thomas for joining on the show. Thanks to Brad for the comment over on Facebook and this week podcast promo is for Flash Pulp an audio show which offers short stories and special movie features, I can heartly recommend their shows for pure creativity, production value and entertainment. Next week we will return with the Atlantis episode Outsiders, hope you join us and let us know what you think, we’d love to hear from you.

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Feb 132016
 

First Contact

In First Contact the mid-season finale of the final season of Stargate Atlantis the city is visited by Daniel Jackson. He is convinced that the ancient named Janus had a secret lab within the city, together he and Rodney discover it and it’s treasure trove of technology. One device begins to emit a signal which is picked up by a piece of ancient technology overseen by an unidentified alien species who then raid Atlantis stealing technology and kidnapping Daniel and Rodney. Meanwhile a diplomatic party onboard the Daedalus have met with a Todd and a small fleet of Wraith and discussions are ongoing to the use of the new retrovirus. The aliens holding the boys threaten their lives if they do not activate the ancient technology which Rodney has been able to identify as a means to negate hyperspace drives based on their specific energy signatures. Turning the systems on would mean the Wraith ships would be limited to sublight but a previous test over ten thousand years ago indicated a serious side effect which was probably responsible for the system not being deployed during the war. Rodney turns the machine on and two Wraith cruisers vaporise as they enter hyperspace, Todd recognises the technology being used and incapacitates the crew of the Deadalus and takes over the ship. It’s only later that Rodney discovers the side effect of the device, while it prevents the use of hyperspace it also causes a power build up in any Stargate attempting to access wormholes and Atlantis unaware of the threat begins to dial out. Radek sees the energy build up but can not prevent it so he wraps the gate in the cities shield but it can not dissipate the energy from the destroyed Stargate and a minimal amount breaches causing serious damage to the gate room and the tower.

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First Contact is geared up to provide a cliffhanger for the break over the holidays and more importantly introduce a highly advanced species from within Pegasus, the existence of such has been referred to by a number of space faring races and like the Asurans before them remained in the shadows. Of course at this point the Atlanteans are unaware of who they are dealing with and the technology presented offers no clue apart from being able to sidestep much of Ancient technology from ten thousand years ago. Interesting to note the Wraith who have continued to develop their sciences have found solutions to many of the threats offered by the Ancients which indicates this new race have not kept pace, the question is why.

First Contact even judged as a single episode is excellent, we have Daniel making it back to Atlantis again and of course things go wrong, Rodney is all upset as he sees Daniel as a rival more so than many others and we get award winning CGI/VFX in the episode, the sequence in the gateroom as the stargate is destroyed was truly gorgeous. I think it’s safe to say we were all on tenterhooks awaiting the second half of this story and in 2016 that means recording our take on it the same night as this episode and releasing the finished podcast a week later. This weeks podcast promo is for the Scifi Movie Podcast and next week we are going to be discussing The Lost Tribe and Thomas will be with us once again.

Thanks to Mack and Levi for the feedback and feel free to let us know what you think of Stargate and our coverage of the episodes:)

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Jan 202016
 

Crystal Lowe
Crystal played Mardola in the Stargate Atlantis episode Harmony and Nya in the SG1 episode Emancipation. She has also appeared on Almost Human, Psych, Smallville, Almost Human, Primeval New World and stars as Rita Haywith on Signed, Sealed, Delivered. IMDB Twitter
Rukiya Bernard
Rukiya was Airman Richmond in the Stargate Universe episode Space and appeared on Fairly Legal, Sanctuary, Breed, Proof, Primeval New World, Intruders and features such as The Cabin in the Woods and Tooth Fairy. IMDB Twitter Official
Daniel Cudmore
Daniel played a Jaffa in the Stargate SG1 episode Homecoming, he’s also appeared in Alone in the Dark, Fringe, New Moon, Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, X-Men 2 Last Stand, Days of Future Past and the upcoming Warcraft. IMDB Twitter

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Oct 302015
 

Michael Beach
Michael guest starred on five episodes of Stargate Atlantis as Colonel Abe Ellis, he has also starred in Third Watch as “Doc” appearing in 104 episodes and has had spots on ER, Sons of Anarchy, Crisis and Under Suspicion. IMDB Twitter
Chad Krowchuk
Chad played Gordie Lowe on the Stargate SG1 episode Citizen Joe and a student on the Stargate Universe episode Human, he has also been on Wayward Pines and Gracepoint. IMDB
Leon Rippy
Leon played General West in the Stargate theatrical feature and starred in Saving Grace, Deadwood, Under The Dome as well as guest spots on Leverage, TNG, Under The Dome, Rectify and The Lone Ranger. IMDB Twitter
Jan Bos
Jan was Ambassador Sevarin in the Stargate SG1 episode Homecoming and has also appeared on When Calls the Heart, Psych, Reaper, Hellcats, Rogue, Cult and The 4400. IMDB Official Twitter
Daniel Bacon
Daniel was a Technician in Stargate SG1 & played Dr Watson in Atlantis. He’s also guest starred on The 4400, Psych, Arctic Air, Arrow, Continuum and Supernatural. IMDB Twitter
Peter New
Peter was a farmer in the Atlantis episode Off the Grid and has appeared on Fringe, Dead Like Me, Motive, Bates Motel and has voiced a number of animated shows. IMDB Twitter Official
Tabitha St. Germain
Tabitha played one of the native Byrsa women in the Stargate SG1 episode Cor-ai. She is however far better known for her voice work on shows such as Sabrina, Dragon Ball Z, Ed, Edd, ‘n’ Eddy, Action Man, Black Lagoon, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Krypto the Superdog. IMDB Twitter

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Feb 212015
 

avatar Daniel was captured by Adria and now makes his return to the galaxy but he has been converted to a Prior of the ORI and is preaching Origin to a small community, SG1 are aware of this new non violent approach to gathering new worshippers but they are shocked to see that it is Daniel who is leading this new wave of spreading the gospel. They act quickly and beam him onto the Odyssey and immediately stun him and with the anti-prior device and begin to question him about his time with Adria and what exactly are his plans given only he has the specs to the device Merlin created to fight the ORI. Daniel claims this is all part of his plan and by convincing Adria that he has embraced Origin she would indeed change him into a Prior and the abilities that would give him would in turn be used to build and deliver Merlin’s weapon into the ORI galaxy but with the whole Milky Way at stake the SGC and the IOA are sceptical to say the least. A compromise is given with Daniel giving the location of the ORI starship and SG1 launch a raid to capture the weapon and finish it’s construction but as they battle for their lives it’s Daniel who escapes, kidnaps Jack, steals the Odyssey and rushes to meet up with Adria and the final act of his plan.

You can trust this face.

You can trust this face.

The Shroud is an excellent episode of Stargate SG1 with it’s action and drama all tied together with a number of what are talking head scenes but that’s all great character interaction and dialogue, if nothing else Richard Dean Anderson’s final episode of SG1 pays off big time as we get the old Daniel and Jack dynamic back as if the previous two years absence had never happened. In many ways it’s a gift to the fans, each member of SG1 at least those that spent most of the time with Daniel get to well interrogate and come to their own conclusions and while it seems very much like Daniel is Daniel the powers that be have certainly left enough of a hint that there is more going on. Of course as it turns out Daniel was not providing the whole story and we got the WTF moment when he finally met up again with Adria who then not quite got what she was expecting. The final scenes with the incursion of multiple ORI starships fit very well into the style of the later seasons of SG1 and the ORI arc, it’s a partial win at best and while the power of the ORI has a question mark against it the power of their believers is very real and here right now.

This weeks promo is for The Rusted Robot Podcast a show hosted by Shawn and Brigitte which has news, interviews, reviews and just a lot of entertaining chat about all things that entertain fans of science fiction and geeky things in general, you’ll enjoy it. Next week we are going to be looking at the Atlantis episode The Tao of Rodney you know the one where Rodney gets super powers and then looks like his brain will blow up, good times good times as Lucius would have said, hope you join us for that. As always we would love to hear from you, feedback wise it’s a little quiet but Facebook and Google+ are ticking over and the twitter feed is a madhouse for all things Stargate.

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Jan 202015
 

Crystal Lowe
Crystal played Mardola in the Stargate Atlantis episode Harmony and Nya in the SG1 episode Emancipation. She has also appeared on Almost Human, Psych, Smallville, Almost Human, Primeval New World and Signed, Sealed, Delivered. IMDB Twitter
Rukiya Bernard
Rukiya was Airman Richmond in the Stargate Universe episode Space and appeared on Fairly Legal, Sanctuary, Primeval New World, Intruders and features such as The Cabin in the Woods and Tooth Fairy. IMDB Twitter Official
Daniel Cudmore
Daniel played a Jaffa in the Stargate SG1 episode Homecoming, he’s also appeared in Alone in the Dark, Fringe, New Moon, Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, X-Men 2 Last Stand and Days of Future Past. IMDB Twitter

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Oct 292014
 

Leon Rippy
Leon played General West in the Stargate theatrical feature and starred in Saving Grace, Deadwood, Under The Dome as well as guest spots on Leverage, TNG, Under The Dome, Rectify and The Lone Ranger. IMDB
Jan Bos
Jan was Ambassador Sevarin in the Stargate SG1 episode Homecoming and has also appeared on Psych, Reaper, Hellcats, Rogue, Cult and The 4400. IMDB Official Twitter
Michael Beach
Michael guest starred on five episodes of Stargate Atlantis as Colonel Abe Ellis, he has also starred in Third Watch as “Doc” appearing in 104 episodes and has had spots on ER, Sons of Anarchy, Crisis and Under Suspicion. IMDB Twitter
Daniel Bacon
Daniel was a Technician in nine episodes of Stargate SG1 & played Dr Watson in Atlantis. He’s also guest starred on The 4400, Psych, Arctic Air, Arrow, Continuum and Supernatural. IMDB
Peter New
Peter was a farmer in the Atlantis episode Off the Grid and has appeared on Fringe, Dead Like Me, Motive, Bates Motel and has voiced a number of animated shows. IMDB Twitter Official

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Feb 252014
 

Theresa Lee 
Theresa played the Chinese interpreter in the Stargate SG1 episode Fragile Balance and has also appeared on Psych, Smallville, Hiccups and Son of the Dragon. IMDB
Barclay Hope  
Barclay played Colonel Lionel Pendergast in six episodes of Stargate SG1 and also guest starred on Smallville, Eureka, Hellcats, The Killing, Cedar Cove, Battlestar Galactica and The Killing. IMDB
Daniel Boileau 
Daniel appeared just the once on Stargate as a cocooned wraith victim in the Atlantis episode The Gift, he has also appeared on Dead Like Me, Eureka, The Dead Zone, Alice and Intelligence. IMDB

Jan 202014
 

Many happy returns of the day to Crystal Lowe who played Mardola in the Atlantis episode Harmony and Nya in the SG1 episode Emancipation. Crystal has also appeared on Psych, Smallville, Almost Human and Primeval New World. IMDB  Twitter
Birthday best wishes to Rukiya Bernard who was Airman Richmond in the Stargate Universe episode Space. She has also appeared on Fairly Legal, Sanctuary, Primeval New World and theatrical features such as The Cabin in the Woods and Tooth Fairy. IMDB  Official Site  Twitter
Happy Birthday to Daniel Cudmore who played a Jaffa in the SG1 episode Homecoming, he’s also appeared in Alone in the Dark, New Moon, X-Men 2, Last Stand and Days of Future Past. IMDB  Twitter

Oct 302013
 

A very happy birthday to…
Leon Rippy who was General West in the Stargate theatrical feature and starred in Saving Grace, Deadwood, Under The Dome as well as guest spots on Leverage, TNG and The Lone Ranger. IMDB

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Jan Bos played Ambassador Sevarin in the Stargate SG1 episode Homecoming. Jan has also appeared on Psych, Reaper, Hellcats and The 4400. IMDB  Official Site
Michael Beach who guest starred on five episodes of Stargate Atlantis as Colonel Abe Ellis. He also starred in Third Watch as “Doc” appearing in 104 episodes as well as spots on ER and Under Suspicion. IMDB  Twitter
Daniel Bacon who was a Technician in Stargate SG1 & played Dr Watson in Atlantis. He’s also guest starred on The 4400, Psych, Arctic Air and Supernatural. IMDB
Peter New who was a farmer in the Atlantis episode Off the Grid and has appeared on Fringe, Dead Like Me, Motive and a number of voice roles. IMDB  Twitter  Official Site

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Dec 122012
 

As modelled by the Gatecast founder and current host is this seasons new t-shirt with design by Daniel (listener and guest). The shirt was made by Timeline Design & Print a local small business one of whose owners I work with.

A Right Said Fred ditty springs to mind:)

A Right Said Fred ditty springs to mind:)