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 and The Big Bang Theory. IMDB Official 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 and Battlestar Galactica and the scifi series Ascension. Also look out of his guest role on Arrow:) 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 and Castle. IMDB Twitter
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Phoenix Ly
Phoenix played Yamato in the Stargate Universe episode “Suspicion”. He has also guest starred on Cold Squad, Tru Calling, The 4400, Saved and Painkiller Jane. IMDB
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
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, The Game, The Flash and Warehouse 13 and has voiced characters on animated television. IMDB Behind The Voice Twitter
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 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 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 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 and Once Upon A Time. IMDB
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 and Fringe as well as providing the voices for a number of animated shows such as Iron Man: Armored Adventures. IMDB Official Twitter Behind The Voice
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, Almost Human and provided the voices for characters in shows such as Zixx and Trollz. IMDB Twitter Behind The Voice
Ronon and Teyla are off world when they come across a body in the woods, as they approach hidden traps are sprung and in the chaos they are both stunned, Teyla is left and Ronon abducted by an old friend who as is the norm came back to bite him. The tracker Ronon carries is not active so the suggestion is made to contact Solen Sincha another Satedan who may have some information on Tyre the man who kidnapped Ronon. They learn that his Wraith masters have abandoned him and maybe by giving them Ronon a former runner he will regain their favour and this is exactly what is happening. Ronon is given to the Wraith who begins the torture procedure in the effort to get Ronon addicted to the surge of life energy after they kill him, they succeed and Ronon pledges his loyalty to the Wraith. Information arrives about a Wraith lab on the planet Sarif Sur so Tyre and the team mount a raid but they are captured and it seems Tyre has betrayed them but it’s a ruse and when he gets the opportunity he breaks John, Teyla and Rodney out and the battle commences. The Wraith is captured and when threatened with the explosives planted earlier he agrees to release them when Tyre says he will stay behind and hand over the detonator when the team are free, however Tyre redeems his honour by destroying the lab and saving his friend Ronon who still has a long road ahead to purge his system of the enzyme and reverse the mental conditioning.
Broken Ties is an episode which quickly brings the talents of Mark Dacascos back to Stargate, an accomplished and well trained fighter he is more than capable of holding his own acting wise and bringing a level of reality to a staged action sequence, nothing quite beats being able to use the primary actor for the majority of a stunt. While the dynamic between Ronon and Tyre was certainly the focal point and allowed Jason to dig deep into his own talents to bring to the screen another facet of Ronon we also got the dilemma Teyla was having to deal with being a new mother want to remain at her childs side but having the drive to be the guardian for all. In an episode that had some strong themes it’s surprising we got the usual amount of comedic elements scattered throughout the episode, Woolsey is the major foil for such things as his character settles into the group dynamic and if you need that extra giggle then Rodney in a bubble bath serves it’s purpose.
We want to thank Tim for joining us for this episode, he replied to a tweet on the night of recording so we invited him to join us and he said yes so everything worked out great. You can hear Tim on Partial Nerdity and Unchartered Territories two podcasts that I listen too on a weekly basis. We also would like to thank everyone that has voted in the poll which at the time I write this is 94 people, if we get over 100 giving us their Stargate SG1 top ten episodes we’ll throw in another prize for the draw with our thanks. This weeks promo is for British Invaders a podcast that looks at old UK television shows with a scifi/fantasy/genre leaning and next week we are going to be taking a look at The Daedalus Variations with Thomas, we hope you can join us for that.
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Christian Bocher
Christian Bocher guest starred in the SG1 episodes Wormhole X-Treme, 200 and Shades of Grey and then on Stargate Atlantis in the episode Condemned. He has also appeared on The Dead Zone, Wolf Lake, Brimstone, The Collector and Andromeda. IMDB
James C.D. Robbins
James was the art director on Stargate SG1 and Atlantis and also the production designer on those two as well as Stargate Universe. He has also worked on Cedar Cove, When Calls the Heart, Painkiller Jane and Jingle All the Way 2. IMDB Official
Ming-Na Wen
Ming-NA played Camile Wray on Stargate Universe and Senator Michaela Wen on Eureka, she is now kicking ass and looking spectacular as Melinda May in Agents Of Shield.
She has also starred on ER, The Single Guy and Vanished. IMDB Twitter Official
Laura Harris
Laura played Nola in the Stargate Atlantis episode The Game and has also starred in Dead Like Me, Defying Gravity and appeared in The Dead Zone, Whole Day Down , Warehouse 13 and 24. IMDB
Charles Payne
Charles was a guard in the Stargate SG1 episode Cold Lazarus and has also appeared in Andromeda, First Wave, Life As We Know It, Highlander and The Dead Zone. IMDB
Kathleen Quinlan
Kathleen played Senator Michaels in the Stargate Universe episode Alliances and she has also starred in Family Law and had recurring roles on Chicago Fire, The Event, Prison Break and Blue. IMDB
Kristian Ayre
Kristian was Loran in the Stargate SG1 episode The Light and has appeared in Space Cases, The Dead Zone, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy and ELF. IMDB Behind The Voice
In Memory Of
Joel Goldsmith (Nov 19 1957 – Apr 29 2012)
The creative soul who composed the music for Stargate SG1, Atlantis and Universe as well as Sanctuary, Witchblade and many other television shows and movies, he passed too soon but left a legacy that will be enthralling millions for decades.
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Tim Guinee
Tim played Tomin in three episodes of Stargate SG1 (Line in the Sand, Flesh and Blood and Crusade). He has also guest starred on Revolution, Fringe, Elementary, Homeland, 24, Iron Man and Hell On Wheels. IMDB Twitter Official
Ocean Bloom
Ocean was a Jaffa and a worker in four episodes of Stargate SG1 and has appeared in Psych and I Spy. She is a renowned health and fitness instructor and she has done some stunt work and modelling. IMDB Twitter Official
who played Netan on Stargate SG1 appearing on the second episode of the new Supergirl “Stronger Together” as the fiendish Commander Gor.
Ona Grauer
Ona played Ayiana in the Stargate SG1 episode Frozen and returned as the same character for a brief cameo in the Atlantis pilot Rising, later she played Emily Young in four episodes of Stargate Universe. Ona also guest starred on Arrow, Archer, Smallville, The Whispers, Supernatural and starred in The Collector and Intelligence. IMDB
James Parks
James played Pharrin in the excellent episode Lifeboat in the seventh season of Stargate SG1. He has also guest starred on Enterprise, True Blood, Babylon 5, JAG, 24, Deadwood, Machete and Buffy. IMDB
Chilton Crane
Chilton played Sheila Jameson in the Stargate SG1 episode Ex Deus Machina as well as appearing on Shattered, The 4400, Fringe, Smallville and Signed, Sealed, Delivered. IMDB Twitter
A month after the events at Michael’s complex the new head of the expedition in Pegasus arrives via the Daedalus, Mr Richard Woolsey beams down and makes an awkward introduction, it doesn’t bode well. Dr Keller it sees is having some health issues and awakes at her desk to find her hand covered in goo but dismisses it, she is still looking into reviving Carson and when Woolsey is informed of her progress he simply states that at some point you’re going to have to gamble, her research pays off as Carson is unfrozen and the new drug injected into his system stabilizes it, things are looking up. The next morning Teyla is worried the no one has heard from Jennifer and when they access her room they find her in bed with some sort of alien growth covering part of her body. Carson tries to surgical remove it but it reacts and threatens the health of Jennifer so all they can do is attempt to divine its source as it looks like something Carson had seen Michael working with.
Things are going from bad to worse as this organic hybrid material spreads across her bedroom and buries itself into the structure of the city tapping into local power sources to increase its growth, as it approaches one of the main ZPM power conduites the question is posed in terms of sacrificing one for the benefit of all especially after Radek is attacked by a tentacle when investigating it’s growth in a support tunnel deep within the city. Carson identifies a virus in Jennifer’s system sourced from work undertaken by Michael however it does look like it was an accidental exposure and Carson has developed a counter agent but it has to be injected directly into her flesh and to get there someone has to get past the alien growth which they now know is a baby Hive ship.
Can Jennifer be saved, who will risk the gauntlet and has this been a good first week in the job for Mr Woolsey?
The Seed is considered (or so it seemed to me) to be a victim of some great episodes around it, in many ways it has the feel of an early season episode with a gimmick of the week and ultimately no real consequence but to be fair they are allowed to not hit the proverbial home room with every episode. For fans of Carson the episode pays off, a good example of his talents and commitment to his patients and of course John and Ronon get to do the hero thing, not demanding it has to be said but well produced as is the whole episode. The commentary on the DVD/Blu-ray goes into some of the issues with so much use of visual effects and practical elements for the alien growth and is well worth a listen and despite some negative opinions it was still a fun episode.
Thanks to Brad for joining us for this episode, we had some technical issues but didn’t lose any of the recording which is always the silver lining. We got some feedback over on our Facebook page so thanks to Brad and Steve for that. This weeks promo is for Generations Geek the father/daughter all things geek and genre podcast and next week we are taking a look at the third episode of the final season “Broken Ties”.
Don’t forget we also have the ongoing poll for your favourite ten episodes of Stargate SG1
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