Tony Todd
Tony appeared three times on Stargate SG1 playing Lord Haikon (Babylon, The Fourth Horseman & Arthur’s Mantle). Tony has also graced Voyager, Babylon 5, Chuck, Deep Space Nine, Smallville, Angel, TNG, Prelude to Axanar, Candy Man, Dead of Summer and The Flash (Voicing Zoom). IMDB Twitter
Paul Schiele
Paul played a Kelownan Soldier in the Stargate SG11 episode Shadowplay, it is his only acting credit. IMDB
Welcome to the twenty third seasonal bonus episode of the podcast, this week we are taking a look at the Sanctuary episode “Penance” which features Michael Shanks as the major guest star and a co-starring roles for Aleks Paunovic as “The Duke”. In this episode the Sanctuary team are meeting up with a courier who is transporting a very dangerous abnormal but they are intercepted by a criminal gang led by “the duke” who has laid claim to the abnormal. During the fire fight the team are split up and the courier Jimmy played by Michael Shanks escapes with Kate who is shot as they flee the scene in a car. The two hole up in an abandoned hotel with no communications while Helen and the rest search for them and deal with the Duke as he too looks for his prize.
Penance is the ninth episode of the second season of Sanctuary and as you would expect when you get Michael Shanks to guest star he is going to take center stage. The episode starts off action orientated but quickly evolves into a character piece with a lot of the scenes focusing on Jimmy and Kate as they deal with her injury and discover their shared history which leads to a rather serious standoff thankfully defused by the Big guy played by Christopher Heyerdahl under a lot of prosthetics. Aleks plays the bad guy to perfection and while the joke about the golf club was probably in bad taste it was funny and his choice of artwork was an added detail to the character and story that was noticed.
Overall Penance is an entertaining episode of Sanctuary which made good use of Michael and Aleks as well as mixing location shooting and the heavy green screen sets the show was known for. Our thanks to Brad for joining Mike on the show this week as Alan was busy and next week we are going to be look at the series opener of Dark Matter for another seasonal bonus show, join us for that and if you want to leave some feedback we would love to receive it.
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Rainbow Sun Francks
Rainbow played Lt. Aiden Ford Stargate Atlantis and Dev Clark in The Listener, he has also guest starred on The Bridge, Lost Girl, Defiance, Eyewitness, Love Song and Played. IMDB Twitter
Keegan Connor Tracy
Keegan was Dr. Redden in the Stargate SG1 episode Uninvited as well starring in Jake 2.0, Bates Motel and Once Upon A Time and guest starring on Battlestar Galactica, Garage Sale Mystery: The Art of Murder, Supernatural, The Magicians and Eureka. IMDB Twitter
Steven Culp
Steven played Henry Wallace in the Stargate Atlantis episode Millers Crossing as well as having recurring roles on 24, JAG, ER, Revolution, Enterprise, The Lottery, Perception, The West Wing, Bosch, Code Black, Arrow and Desperate Housewives. IMDB
Nick Wilder
Nick appeared in the original Stargate movie as Taylor and appeared on shows from his homeland including Das Traumschiff and S.O.S. Barracuda as well as The Wild Thornberrys and Lethal Orbit. IMDB
Joris Jarsky
Joris played Herick in the Stargate Atlantis episode The Ark and he has also appeared in The Dead Zone, Missing, Tilt, Saving Hope and Lost Girl. IMDB Twitter Behind The Voice
Colleen Rennison
Colleen played both Cassandra (Rite of Passage) & Ally (Bane) on Stargate SG1, she is also an accomplished musician with the band No Sinner and appeared in the feature Down River and on tv in Da Vinci’s City Hall, Aftermath and Poltergeist: The Legacy. IMDB No Sinner
Meghan Black
Meghan played Marta on the Stargate Atlantis episode Hide and Seek as well as appearing on Dead Like Me, ELF, Class of the Titans (Voice), The Collector and R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour. IMDB Behind The Voice
Michael Boisvert
Michael was a Lieutenant Stuart in the Stargate Atlantis episode The Intruder and guest starred on XIII: The Series, Flashpoint, Suits, Bitten and Hemlock Grove. IMDB
Alejandro Rae
Alejandro (Alex) played Alebran in the Stargate SG1 episode Metamorphosis as well as appearing on The Guard, Smallville, Blackstone, Sideshow Blotto, Elysium and Hell On Wheels. IMDB
Janelle Monae
Janelle is a singer songwriter who played herself in the Stargate Universe episode Earth, she was also named Billboard’s Rising Star for 2013 along with her many other awards and nominations for her music and voiced characters on American Dad! and Rio 2 and has music in The Equalizer. She has a role in the movie Moonlight and is the “mini mogul” behind Wondaland Records. Official Youtube Twitter
Guy Fauchon
Guy played Pullman in the Stargate SG1 episode The Scourge, he as also guest starred on Psych, Andromeda, Cold Squad, Once Upon A Time, Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, Supernatural and Motive. IMDB Twitter
Rebecca Lee
Rebecca was a makeup artist on Stargate Universe as well as working on Motive, Harper’s Island, Caprica, Tin Man, Watchmen, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, BSG Blood & Chrome and Travelers. IMDB Twitter
Diego Klattenhoff
Diego played the Team Leader of the bomb disposal squad in the Stargate SG1 episode Ex Deus Machina, he starred in Homeland and is currently starring as Agent Donald Ressler in The Blacklist and has been on Smallville, Mercy, Whistler and Longmire. IMDB Twitter
Christopher John Fields
Christopher played Lt. Freeman in the Stargate movie and he’s also appeared on episodes of The Closer, Zodiac, Sleeper Cell, NYPD Blue, Ally McBeal, ER, Alien 3 and JAG.
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Trevor Carroll
Trevor played Sgt. Graham on three episodes of Stargate Universe (Gauntlet, Alliances and Subversion). He has also appeared on Arctic Air, Fringe, Defying Gravity, Human Target, Blackstone and The Flash. IMDB
Janina Gavankar
Janina played Sgt “Dusty” Mehra in the Stargate Atlantis episode Whispers and also had recurring roles on True Blood, The League and The Gates. More recently she has appeared on the Arrow, The Vampire Diaries, The Mysteries of Laura and she will be starring in the new season of Sleepy Hollow. IMDB Official Twitter Youtube
In Memory of…
Robert Manitopyes (Nov 29th 1970 – Jan 16th 2005)
Robert played a guard in the SG1 episode Desperate Measures and also appeared in the movie The Core, Honey, Tom Stone, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show and on the US soap The Days of Our Lives. He was a father of two sons and passed at a very young 34 years. IMDB
Martin Cummins
Martin played Aden Corso in the Stargate SG1 episode “Forsaken” as well as appearing in DarkAngel, Smallville, Kyle XY, Eureka, V, Fringe, The Whispers, Shattered, When Calls the Heart and UnREAL. IMDB
Penelope Corrin
Penelope was Dr Lindsay in both Stargate SG1 ( Origin & Avalon ) and Atlantis (Coup D’etat) as well as starring on Royal Canadian Air Farce, Kingdom Hospital and guest starring on Masters of Horror, The L Word and The Collector. IMDB
Sasha Piltsin
Sasha was one of the Russian drivers in the Stargate SG1 episode Desperate Measures and has guest starred on Chaos, Cold Squad, Seven Days, Dead of Summer and Life with an Accent. IMDB
Jeremy Presner
Jeremy was an editor on twenty one episodes of Stargate Atlantis, he has also worked on Storm Chasers: Revenge of the Twister, Breaking Amish, Voyage of Terror and Touching Evil. IMDB
Bill Nye
Bill appeared as himself on the Stargate Atlantis episode Brainstorm, he has also hosted his own show called “The Science Guy” and has graced many other productions as an expert in his field as well as guest starring on Back to the Future, Numb3rs, Miles from Tomorrowland and The Big Bang Theory. IMDB Official Twitter
Sonia Gilmore
Sonia Gilmore (Henkel) was the Visual Effects Coordinator on six episodes of Stargate SG1, ten episodes of Atlantis and seventeen episodes of Universe. She has also worked on The Secret Circle, Final Destination 5, Ender’s Game and X-Men: Days of Future Past. IMDB Twitter
Ryan Robbins
Ryan played Ladon Radim on five episodes of Stargate Atlantis, he also starred in Sanctuary (Henry Foss) and has had significant recurring roles on Hell On Wheels and Falling Skies and guest starred on Caprica, Battlestar Galactica, Continuum, Van Helsing, Arrow and Ascension. IMDB Twitter
Adam Harrington
Adam played Khonsu in the Stargate SG1 episode The Other Guys and a Goa’uld in Children of the Gods, he has also been in The Secret Circle, Dexter, Supernatural, The Mob Doctor, NCIS New Orleans, Major Crimes, Castle and TURN: Washington’s Spies. IMDB Twitter
The question of what is the greater good is asked of many of the crew of Destiny in this episode as the ship comes across an alien derelict. Without a shuttle the decision is made to leap across the void (in the space suits) and employ a Kino as motive force and to string a connecting rope to aid the second person across. Colonel Young and Rush both volunteer and are probably both being a little paranoid but the unlikely couple do make it across safe and sound and enter the alien ship through a rupture in its hull. Rush is able to secure a compartment and bring power up and sends the Kino in search mode, they discover the alien pods they found previously on the Seed ship and unfortunately trigger an energy surge which propels the ship far away from Destiny.
Rush is extremely unwilling to reveal the secret of the bridge and his partial control of the ship so convinces Young that the only solution would be to bring Amanda Perry back on board. Ginn has been supplying Homeworld with intel so is swapped with Amanda and once she is onboard then Rush lets her onto his secret. She gains access to the bridge and is able to fly the Destiny towards the alien ship and attempts to bluff Eli and the others that she has been able to tweak the maneuvering thrusters. Eli digs deeper and sees the secret messages Rush was passing onto Amanda and tracks hers down to the bridge, no one is pleased to say the least. Young and Rush have a knock down drag out fight before clearing the air and coming towards a consensus which if they survive could allow Destiny to be unified and to pursue the great mission that Rush has been tantalised by. Young and Rush are of course rescued but Simeon who has been disturbed by how close Ginn is to the crew and learns of her visit to Earth pays Amanda a visit in her quarters with a glorious amount of foreboding…
The Great Good was an excellent episode, some of the CGI visuals where stunning more so because they were slow and deliberate allowing you to appreciate the detail the artists applied to their computer constructed models. The continued relationship between Ginn and Eli is fantastic and Amanda and Rush spark as you would expect. The highlight of the episode barring Eli getting seriously pissed when he discovers Rush’s betrayal is the dialogue heavy discussion between Young and Rush, two great actors performing with a good script and twenty six episodes of character growth behind them.
Our continued thanks to Brad for joining us this week and the featured promo was for Generations Geek. Next week since it will be December we will be dipping into this season’s bonus episodes recording over this last year. Up first will be the episode “Penance” from Sanctuary which guest starred Michael Shanks so we hope you can join us for that and of course we’d love to know what you thought of the episode.
Oh yeah, the Stargate Atlantis favourite episode poll is open for one more week, we would love to have your opinions:)
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Phoenix Ly
Phoenix played Yamato in the Stargate Atlantis episode “Suspicion”, guest starred on Cold Squad, Tru Calling, The 4400, Saved. True Justice and Painkiller Jane. He has also done stunt work on the movie War. IMDB
Danielle Nicolet
Danielle played Reese in the Stargate SG1 episode Menace and Caryn in Third Rock from the Sun. She has also appeared on Elementary, Family Tools, Born Again Virgin, Central Intelligence, The Game, The Flash and Warehouse 13 and has voiced characters on animated television. IMDB Twitter Behind The Voice
Dwight Schultz
Dwight was The Keeper in the Stargate SG1 episode The Gamekeeper but is known for his time on The A-Team and Star Trek (TNG & Voyager). He has also done a lot of voice work for shows and games such as Ben 10, Chowder, Dragon Age, Mass Effect and Avengers Assemble. IMDB Behind The Voice
Rhys Williams
Rhys is an actor and stuntman, he worked on Stargate Universe primarily as a stunt double and also worked on Arrow, Almost Human, Legends of Tomorrow, The 100, Deadpool and Godzilla. He has also acted on Arrow, Supernatural, The Flash, Fringe and Psych. IMDB Twitter Official
Lane Edwards
Lane played Matthew Wallace on the Stargate Universe episode Epilogue as well as guest starring on Supernatural, Arrow, The Whispers, Signed, Sealed, Delivered: One in a Million and Falling Skies. IMDB Twitter
Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Salli played Drey’auc in the first season Stargate SG1 episode Bloodlines and went on to star in Eureka as Allison Blake and has appeared in Mercy Point, I Am Legend, Family Law, NCIS, Castle, The Newsroom and now starring as Maggie Baptiste in Stitchers. IMDB Twitter Official
Adam Lolacher
Adam played a Genii in the Stargate Atlantis episode Harmony, he also appeared on Flash Gordon, Fringe, Smallville, Being Erica, The Killing, Supernatural, Claddagh, Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story and Once Upon A Time. IMDB Twitter
Vera Menoza-Cuadra
Vera played a US Airman Metner on the Stargate Universe episode Sabotage. IMDB
Richard Kind
Richard appeared twice in Stargate Atlantis playing Lucius Lavin in the episodes Irresponsible and Irresistible and was in the Stargate movie playing Gary Meyers.
He has also starred in Spin City and has guest starred on Scrubs, Leverage, Burn Notice and is currently guest starring on Gotham. IMDB Behind The Voice
Mackenzie Gray
Mackenzie voiced Pahk’kal in Stargate Infinity and has also appeared in Man of Steel, Spooksville, Bitten, Smallville, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Warcraft: The Beginning, Legion and Fringe as well as providing the voices for a number of animated shows such as Iron Man: Armored Adventures. Behind The Voice IMDB Official Twitter
Reece Thompson
Reece was the young Athosian Jinto in Rising the Stargate Atlantis premiere, he has also had some guest spots on Jeremiah, Final Girl, The 4400, Motive, Smallville, Almost Human and provided the voices for characters in shows such as Zixx and Trollz. IMDB Twitter Behind The Voice