Stargate Birthdays – September 18th

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Sep 182016
 

Christopher Heyerdahl
Christopher played Pallan on the Stargate SG1 episode Revisions and then appeared on Atlantis guest starring as Halling in five episodes and then returning as a generic Wraith and finally as the show stealing Todd the Wraith for a grand total of 22 episodes. He has also guest starred or had recurring roles on Caprica, Arrow, Supernatural, Smallville, Sanctuary, True Blood, Hell On Wheels and stars in the upcoming Van Helsing tv series. IMDB Twitter

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John Mann
John is an actor and musician, he appeared in the Stargate SG1 episode Smoke & Mirrors as Luthor and guest starred on Hit ‘n Strum, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Haunted and starred in Intelligence. John has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s, you can read more about John and his illness on his official website or check out his documentary. IMDB Twitter Official

Carrie Genzel
Carrie played Diana Mendez in the Stargate SG1 episode Desperate Measures and she has also appeared on Special Unit 2, Flash Gordon, Watchmen, Dead Rising: Watchtower, Supernatural, All My Children and Castle. IMDB Twitter
Andrew Airlie
Andrew played Dr Carmichael in the SG1 episode Avatar & Kalan in Learning Curve. He has guest starred on Cedar Cove and has starred in Reaper, Whistler, Saved, Intruders, The Fixer, The Romeo Section and The 4400. IMDB Twitter
Fred Willard
Fred guest starred as Jacek in the Stargate SG1 episode Family Ties and also guest starred on Roseanne, Mad About You, Ally McBeal, Everybody Loves Raymond and Modern Family.
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Gatecast 327 SGU Pain

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Sep 172016
 

Pain

This episode entitled Pain is pretty much standalone dealing with the unforeseen consequences of a recent visit to an alien world by some members of the expedition. The episode begins with a very dynamic sequence with Vanessa and Scott making sweet sweet nah going at it like rabbits which is confusing given Scott has pretty much staked his camp in the Chloe pasture. We then get a truly WTF moment when Scott ends up dead on the floor and we jump to a bemused Volker who can get out of his cabin and then Greer paranoia to the max spying Camille on the gate room computer. More slightly strange events occur before we get to see the outline of what is going on aboard Destiny which pays off pretty well I have to say. The cold opening really leaves the viewer in a confused frame of mind because nothing we are seeing is outside the bounds of probability or reason.

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You may notice the write up for this episode is fairly short that’s because while overall it has no real impact on the main story it should be experienced by the viewer as fresh as possible, if you haven’t seen it yet then you are for a treat, if it’s been a while then you should still enjoy it. For a veteran viewer some of the shine may have been lost and without plot elements meshing with episodes either side of it then it may lose some appeal. So short and sweet, our thanks to Mack for the feedback over on Google + and to Steve for joining us on the show, this weeks promo is for Nutty Bites and next week we are going to be taking a look at Subversion. We hope you join us for that and as always we’d enjoying hearing your thoughts on the podcast or Stargate in general.

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Stargate Birthday – September 17th

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Sep 172016
 

Neill Blomkamp
Neill has directed and written a number of critically acclaimed and successful productions which include District 9, Chappie and Elysium. He has also worked in the visual effects and graphic arena on television with credits on Stargate SG1, Dark Angel and Smallville. IMDB Twitter
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Stargate Birthdays – September 15th

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Sep 152016
 

Scott McNeil
Scott played Kefflin in the Stargate SG1 episode Company of Thieves and a Townsman in the SG1 episode Nightwalkers, he is a very popular and successful voice performer (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Supernoobs) in addition to his live action work on shows such as Cedar Cove, Psych, Falling Skies and Storm Hawks. IMDB Behind The Voice

Rob Boyce
Rob played a sniper on the Stargate SG1 episode Bounty and a Jaffa on Stargate Continuum movie. He has also appeared on Fringe, Caprica and Blood Ties as well as performing stunts on shows such as Flash Gordon, Whistler, Night At The Museum, Poker Night, Underworld Evolution, Watchmen and Godzilla. IMDB Official Twitter

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Stargate Birthday – September 14th

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Sep 142016
 

Shirley Millner
Shirley is a voice performer who worked on Stargate Infinity (Decision) as well as Class of the Titans, Silverwing, Little Witch, ReBoot and Gadget and the Gadgetinis. IMDB Behind The Voice
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Stargate Birthdays – September 13th

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Sep 132016
 

Jonathan Walker
Jonathan played Ta’Seem in the Stargate SG1 episode Dominion, he also starred in Flash Gordon and appeared on Fringe, V, Continuum and Smallville and also writes and producers most recently for Continuum, Private Eyes and the upcoming Van Helsing. IMDB Twitter Official


Louise Lombard
Louise played Gloria Rush on four episodes of Stargate Universe and starred in CSI and Chancer as well as guest starring on NCIS, Hidalgo, Grimm, Perception, Starcrossed and Rogue. IMDB Twitter
Elizabeth Weinstein
Elizabeth played Emta in the Stargate SG1 episode Birthright, she’s also guest starred on Psych, Arrow, Smallville, The LA Complex, Fairly Legal, Bates Motel, Supernatural. IMDB Official Instagram

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Stargate Birthday – September 11th

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Sep 112016
 

Andrew Jackson
Andrew played Per’sus the Tok’ra High Chancellor in the Stargate SG1 episode Divide and Conquer, he also appeared on Dark Matter, Starfall, Warehouse 13, Copper, Starfall, Andromeda, The Collector, Nikita and Lost Girl as well as providing the voices for numerous animated features and tv shows. IMDB Official Behind The Voice Twitter
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Gatecast 326 SGU Sabotage

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Sep 102016
 

Sabotage

The Destiny is venturing into the void between galaxies when one of the drive units explodes, sabotage is not suspected despite the episode title, rather the simple fact of the age of the ship is considered to be cause. They decide to bring in an expert in FTL engines one Amanda Perry who has been developing the replacement for the Asgard hyperdrives currently installed in the BC-304 starships. Amanda is however a paraplegic and who ever swaps with her will have to spend maybe a month experiencing what Amanda has had to live with since she was a nine year old. Camille desperate to see Sharon again agrees to swap and the exchange is made allowing Amanda and Rush to be reacquainted after working together at the SGC.

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While the ship is adrift the gate activates, the defence crew rush to the gate room and behold Chloe, Scott and Eli walk through, everyone seem surprised even the three wanderers who have been saved by the explosion onboard. We then get a pretty good montage which covers the following three weeks and with the aid of one of the recently discovered robotic maintenance units the drive pod is ejected and bypassed which increases the efficiency of the engines making it possible for Destiny to reach it’s destination. Amanda now bids farewell to Rush and reveals that she has also loved him but knew he had not yet gotten over the loss of his wife and after the events in “Human” Rush is reliving the same feelings and is unable to reciprocate her feelings (at this time). To complicate matters further they discover that Lt. James after an aborted use of the communications stones has been taken over by one of the aliens and it was “her” who had sabotaged the engines and then the aliens arrive on the scenes. In a desperate do or die situation Young prepares to sit in the Chair but Franklin finally speaks and returns to the device which almost killed him. As the ship comes under attack and the shields weaken he merges with the ship and then she jumps to FTL, Franklin however is missing…

Sabotage once again deliveries on multiple fronts, we get some solid drama with Camille and Amanda from both perspectives and we get a little bit of action, plenty of humour and another mystery which may be explained or maybe not. This weeks promo is for the Babylon Project Podcast which is delivering my quota for B5 and our thanks to Ian for joining us for the podcast, we are also grateful to both Mack and Brad for the feedback as always. We hope you join for our next show which is going to be “Subversion” and Steve will be joining us for that.

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Stargate Birthdays – September 10th

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Sep 102016
 

Elyse Levesque
Elyse played Chloe Armstrong on Stargate Universe and has a recurring role on Cedar Cove as Maryellen and also played Genevieve in The Originals. She has also guest starred on Smallville, Containment, Sons of Liberty, Flash Gordon, Motive and is Daisy on the upcoming Shoot The Messenger. IMDB Official Twitter Instagram

Lindsay Maxwell
Lindsay played La’el Montrose in the Stargate SG1 episode Space Race and has appeared on Special Unit 2, Blood Ties, Blackstone, Supernatural and Electra Woman and Dyna Girl. IMDB Official Twitter
Biski Gugushe
Biski appeared in four episodes of Stargate SG1 playing a SF Guard and SG11 leader, he was also on Battlestar Galactica and guest starred on Fringe, Smallville, Psych and Cedar Cove. IMDB Twitter

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Stargate Birthdays – September 9th

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Sep 092016
 

Brent Stait
Brent appeared just once on Stargate Atlantis playing the role of Michael, he also appeared on SG1 playing Major Louis Ferretti in Children of the Gods and Within The Serpent’s Grasp, he is better known for portraying Rev Bem on Andromeda and has also guest starred on Arctic Air, Fringe, Motive, Supernatural, Once Upon A Time and Legends of Tomorrow. IMDB Twitter
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Susie played the Kelownan Aide in the Stargate SG1 episode Shadow Play and has appeared on Five Days to Midnight, Supernatural, Just Cause, Haunted, Mysterious Ways and John Doe. IMDB
Colin Murdock
Colin played Ardal Hadraig in the Stargate SG1 episode Space Race, His primary occupation is voice acting for animated shows such as X-Men Evolution, The SoulTaker, Baby Looney Tunes, Dinosaur Train and George of the Jungle. IMDB Behind The Voice
John Novak
John was Colonel William Ronson in two episodes of Stargate SG1 (Grace & Memento), he has also appeared on Smallville, The Collector, Highlander, The Commish and Sliders. He also provides the voice for many an animated television show. IMDB Behind The Voice
Ryan Nicholson
Ryan was a prosthetic effects designer on Stargate SG1 as well as Cold Squad, Middle Men, The Dead Zone, Andromeda and Blood Ties. He has also wrote, produced and/or directed a number of independent horror features such as Gutterballs, Dead Nude Girls and Famine. IMDB Twitter Official
Woody Jeffreys
Woody played a SF Guard on the Stargate SG1 episodes In The Line of Duty and Enigma and a Bouncer on the Atlantis episodes The Hive and The Lost Boys. He has also been on The Outer Limits, First Wave, Arrow, Falling Skies and Strange Empire. IMDB

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Stargate Birthdays – September 7th

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Sep 072016
 

Cliff Simon
Cliff appeared on fifteen episodes as the charismatic System Lord Ba’al and also in the Stargate movie Continuum. He has also guest starred on 24, Nash Bridges, NCIS, The Americans, NCIS LA, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders and in the US soap Days of Our Lives. Author of Paris Nights: My Year at the Moulin Rouge. IMDB Twitter Official
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Chris Owens
Chris played Armin Selig in the Stargate SG1 episode Secrets, he has also appeared on thirteen episodes of The X-Files, LEXX, The Line, Baxter, Lost Girl and The Strain. IMDB
Bruce Gray
Bruce played Senator Fisher in the Stargate SG1 episode The Ties That Bind and also appeared on Enterprise, TNG, DS9, Crimson Peak, The West Wing and had recurring roles on Medium, Falling Skies and starred on Traders and Playmakers. IMDB Official
Colin Lawrence
Colin played the SG3 team leader, Sgt Warren and Maj Lawrence in a total of five episodes of Stargate SG1. He has also guest starred on Dark Angel, Andromeda, Jeremiah, Battlestar Galactica, Arrow, The Arrangement and Continuum. IMDB Official Twitter
Gabrielle Rose
Gabrielle made a brief visit to the world of Stargate playing one of the Alterans on The Ark of Truth, she has also starred on Robson Arms, R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour, Dark Angel, proof, Once Upon A Time, Continuum and The BFG. IMDB Twitter
Mark Pawson
Mark played a reporter and a Secret Service agent on Stargate SG1 (Chain Reaction & Lost City Part 1) as well as appearing on Atlantis (Trinity) as Collins and a Jaffa pilot on Stargate Continuum. He has also guest starred on Supernatural, Psych, The Philadelphia Experiment and the upcoming Cadence. IMDB

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Stargate Birthdays – September 6th

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Sep 062016
 

Sarah Strange
Sarah appeared just the once on Stargate SG1 (The Pegasus Project) playing the holographic Ganos Lal aka Morgan le Fay and reprised the role for The Ark of Truth, she also starred as Jill Langston on ReGenesis and has appeared on Motive, The Killing, Sanctuary, Endgame and will be playing Miss Sinclaire in Kindergarten Cop 2. IMDB Behind The Voice
Yvonne Myers
Yvonne played a technician at Area 51 in the Stargate SG1 episode Smoke And Mirrors. She has also been on Supernatural, Jeremiah, The L Word, The Collector, Eureka and Masters Of Horror. IMDB Twitter

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Stargate SG1: Hall of the Two Truths

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Sep 062016
 

STARGATE SG-1: Hall of the Two Truths (SG1-29)STARGATE SG-1: Hall of the Two Truths by Susannah Parker Sinard
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I’m a fan of the Stargate tv franchise but only dipped into the novels recently, I’ve read more of Atlantis than SG1 so it was time I jumped into the significant library of titles released since the shows went of the air.
In this case I picked up Hall Of The Two Truths by first time Stargate author Susannah Parker Sinard and with the usual trepidation always present when reading another’s viewpoint of favoured characters shared the journey of SG1 as described in the novel. The story is set during the fifth season of SG1 so the Goa’uld are still in a free for all after the demise of Apophis and the team are still in turmoil over “their” failure to save the inhabitants of K’tau (Red Sky). This allows the author to mix things up a little and read more into the chemistry of the team than was always the case on the television show. So let’s dip into the story a little but without any significant spoilers, after being approached by the Tok’ra the team are investigating ruins on a previously unknown world. Jack thinks it’s all a waste of time but allows Daniel and Sam to keep investigating and they do indeed find some alien technology which seems to only activate when Jack touches is (yes the reader is well ahead of the team at this point). Soon after their location is attacked and the team plus the Tok’ra representative are captured and soon after they awake in a sealed cavern only accessible by rings. They are then joined by two women named NebtHet a’Eshe and Aset a’Teneb who welcome them to “Duat” and after describing personal details of each member of SG1 proceed to zat them twice and so far away from home SG1 die.
Ok there you go, go buy the novel and get reading because this is just the beginning of an adventure that’s pretty much not like any other as the mythology of the ancient Egyptians gods and walking through the underworld facing tasks and obstacles for the soul to overcome before being judged are revealed to us through the eyes of our favoured explorers.
Hall Of The Two Truths was an enjoyable read, the concept was very interesting and the story complex enough to really hold my attention with the characters (regular and recurring from the show) all written well and believable in context. I quite liked the scenes with General Hammond dealing with the Tok’ra especially Anise but it was the exploration of the psyche and character of SG1 where the novel really hits its mark.

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Stargate Birthdays – September 5th

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Sep 052016
 

Peter Wingfield
Peter played Tanith/Hebron in three episodes of Stargate SG1 (Between Two Fires, Exodus and Crossroads). He was also the immortal Methos in Highlander and has guest starred on Sanctuary, 24, Touching Evil, Holby City and Caprica. He is currently serving his residency after leaving medical school. IMDB Twitter Official

William Devane
William was President Hayes on Stargate SG1 (Lost City 1 and 2 plus Inauguration). He was a star of the US soap Knots Landing and has appeared in 24 as President Heller and also Early Edition, Revenge, Crumbs, Interstellar, The Dark Knight Rises, The Grinder and Psych. IMDB

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Stargate Birthday – September 4th

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Sep 042016
 

Chris Beach
Chris was the art director on twenty episodes of Stargate Atlantis and for all of Stargate Universe as well as Ark of Truth, Continuum and a little SG1. He has also worked on High Moon, Percy Jackson Sea Of Monsters, Godzilla, Watchmen and Man Of Steel. IMDB
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