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 and Supernatural. IMDBTwitter Susie Wickstead
Susie played the Kelownan Aide in the Stargate SG1 episode Shadow Play and has appeared on Five Days to Midnight, Supernatural, Just Cause, 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 and George of the Jungle. IMDBBehind 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. IMDBTwitterOfficial 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. IMDBWorkBookBehind The Voice
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 and in the US soap Days of Our Lives. IMDBTwitterOfficialFan Site 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. IMDBOfficial 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 and Continuum. IMDBOfficialTwitter
Sarah Strange
Sarah appeared 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 on the upcoming Kindergarten Cop 2. IMDBBehind The Voice
A biohazard warning is triggered in the city which seals every room to counter the contagion leaving a number of people trapped together and things continue to go spectacularly wrong as the day progresses leaving Radek to save the day. Yeah Quarantine doesn’t sound overly impressive but this episode is all about the characters and relationships built amongst the people of Atlantis. We do get some physical exploits from John and as mentioned Radek but these are just the icing on the cake of what turns out to be a very strong episode probably designed to save some money using the standard sets and main cast with one of two guest actors.
Short and sweet this week as I’m pretty much rushed for time but this was one episode that deserved some extra time devoted to it, it is perhaps one of the more understated episodes of the series especially coming towards the end of the fourth season when we’ve got a good idea of how the main characters think and would react to various situations. While we know what’s on the way it was a shame to see the ties being cut between Rodney and Katie, they were a good couple although I suspect she was enabling him more than allowing him to grow, good for him in some ways but also has it’s downside if he is to become more than he is at the moment.
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This weeks podcast promo is for Generations Geek a father/daughter show looking at tv, book and movies that are of interest to you and me and next week we are going to be joined by Thomas for the episode Harmony, we had a good time watching that.
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 and Psych. IMDB 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. IMDBTwitterOfficial
We don’t get to see a lot of Christopher Judge on television although he has made a few appearances in movies but he got a fun part in the latest Sharknado tv movie which aired on Syfy a month or so ago. He was playing Secret Service agent Vodel who was attempting to secure the President when well things didn’t quite go to plan:)
I’ve started watching the new series “Proof” which airs in the US on TNT. In the episode Showdown we had Ryan Robbins guest starring as Ryder Newburn and in the episode St. Luke’s we got David Nykl playing Father Donovan.
Ray Xifo
Ray played Ohper in the Stargate SG1 episode The Nox and has also appeared on Law & Order, Fallen, The Island, Ocean’s Thirteen, Voyager and Judging Amy. IMDB Kevin Kiner
Kevin composed music for nine episodes of Stargate SG1 as well as Enterprise, The Clone Wars, Hell On Wheels, Jane The Virgin, Wing Commander and Star Wars Rebels. IMDBOfficial
David Warry-Smith
David was a Director for eleven episodes of Stargate SG1 and a single episode of Atlantis. He’s also directed or worked second unit on Andromeda, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye, Paradise Falls, Due South, MacGyver and Connor Undercover. IMDBOfficial John Tench
John played Lizan on the Stargate SG1 episode Talion as well appearing on Intelligence, Blade The Series, The Collector, Supernatural, Blackstone and Gangland Undercover. IMDBBehind The VoiceTwitter Brendan Gall
Brendan produced and wrote for The LA Complex, played Kaleb Miller on the Stargate Atlantis episodes Miller’s Crossing and McKay and Mrs Miller. He also starred in Overruled!, Men with Brooms and Remedy. IMDBTwitter
Royston Innes
Royston played the system lord Moloc in the Stargate SG1 episode Sacrifices, he was also in Smallville, Farscape and All Saints. He has also produced/directed Valley of Death and directed and wrote episodes of Dead Men the Series. IMDB Michael Adamthwaite
Michael was the nasty piece of work Her’ak the first prime of Anubis in five episodes of Stargate SG1. He’s also guest starred on Psych, Reaper, Once Upon A Time, Strange Empire and Motive and is a prolific voice actor. IMDBTwitterWorkbookBehind The Voice
The long range scans from Atlantis picks up a Hive ship stationary in deep space well away from any planets, the tracker embedded in Todd is pinging from the ship and as it shows no sign of movement a team is sent to investigate. While John and company are gearing up he puts his foot down with Teyla and clearly states that her pregnancy negates her going on this mission, he points out she may be the last of her people and she and her child can not be put at risk, she disagrees. Upon arrival the team discover a damaged Hive with dead Wraith onboard and the tracker lying in a pool of organic goo on the bridge fall, it had been torn out of Todd either by him or by who ever attacked the Hive ship. They seem quite pleased, while the Hive is damaged it’s not a write off and well Ronon said he didn’t touch anything but hey presto the intended destination of the Hive is on screen and indicates a highly classified Wraith complex. John after returning to Atlantis approaches Teyla and asks her to return to the Hive and use her talents to pilot the ship, she agrees and finds that her pregnancy seems to have increased her ability to merge her mind with the Hive control systems and the ship is much less stressful to fly. They arrive at the system where the complex is housed and find that a Hive ship is in orbit and the planet has a space gate, they take a cloaked jumper down (Teyla and Lorne stay onboard the Hive) and the team infiltrate the base and discover the usual creepy corridors and a number of birthing facilities. They also discover a huge chamber full of what look like cocoons or pods each holding a Wraith, McKay tells them that there may be over a hundred of these chambers in the complex meaning potentially thousands of Wraith. It turns out that Todd (who they find in a cell) had stolen a couple of ZPM’s from the Asuran homeworld during the battle and the complex needs ZPM energy levels to power this complex which uses a Queen to create a template Wraith off spring which is then cloned on a massive scale. Todd had planned all this but had been betrayed by one of his own who now serves the Queen in this base and before they can sabotage the complex they are stunned and imprisoned yet Todd manages to escape and make his way to the Hive with Teyla on board. The Queen interrogates the team and just before she feeds off Rodney her mind is taken over by Teyla using her enhanced mental strength to control a Wraith yet the mind battle goes on, a duel of wills which continues as the Queen releases the team and then just before she regains her being John empties his clip into her and they flee. They get to the Hive just in time for the other Hive to commence attacking but they can not leave without destroying the complex, they get into the jumper and send their Hive plummeting into the surface of the planet vaporising the complex. Todd once again lives to complicate matters another day and Teyla realises that she can not be act as if she only has to look after herself and teammates, she has a duty to her unborn which slightly alters her opinion on how John had treated her both as a friend and colleague.
Spoils Of War is pretty much an unofficial third part of the mid-season two parter but then again this is serialised drama so it’s uncommon for episodes to be closely related just not quite this much. Not for the first time Todd is actually played by Brendan Penny and voiced by Christopher Heyerdahl and I’ll admit until doing the podcast that fact totally passed me by, in my defence first time around I wasn’t watching the show on a large tv or in HD and I was never big into forums and such like so a lot of trivia was passing me by. We got another Wraith Queen again played to perfection by Andee Frizzell who really got the malicious vibe on overdrive when she was confronting Teyla, that was perhaps more intense that her confrontation with John and Rodney. The sets and the visual effects were all good quality, not fall out from the high costs of recent episodes but it has to be said the Hive smashing into the planet could and should have been rendered to a much larger scale, this was a global killer not just a rather large boom. Mind you the look on the Wraith when he was told the Hive they were targeting was flying straight towards them was priceless:)
The episode is a very solid fourth season offering and it was good we got a little more balance to the Teyla situation, up to now it was all big bad John but as first Ronon gave her his support John had to admit he was perhaps a little too overprotective but on the flip side we did get to see Teyla also acknowledging her obligation to the child. All this had to be resolved as this aspect of the character and story is going to become very important as the season wraps and the fifth kicks off.
Many thanks to Jeff for joining us this week, we had a little technical hiccup about 9 minutes into the recording and I admit I panicked a little when I couldn’t find part of the recording but once I realised it had saved under a totally different naming format it all worked out ok. This weeks promo is for the SciFi Diner podcast and next week we are going to be talking about Quarantine which is a change of pace for the show, hope you join us for that and please let us know what you think, we want to know:)
Amanda Tapping
Amanda starred as Samantha Carter in way too many to mention episodes of Stargate SG1 and the two movies, she then went onto do a season of Stargate Atlantis and a guest appearance on Universe. Along with a few friends she then help create and star in Sanctuary playing Helen Magnus. A few guest appearances since then have included Supernatural, Motive, Package Deal and Killjoys as well as more time behind the camera directing. IMDBTwitterOfficial Katie Findlay
Kate appeared just twice as Ellie on Stargate Unviverse in the episodes Epilogue and Common Descent as well as starring roles on How To Get Away With Murder, The Carrie Diaries and The Killing. She’s also guest starred on Psych and Fringe. IMDBTwitter Kirby Morrow
Kirby played Tara’c and a Militia Man on Stargate SG1 (The Warrior and Cor-ai) and then a recurring role on Stargate Atlantis as Captain Dave Kleinman on eight episodes of Stargate Atlantis and finally a guest spot on Stargate Universe as a bridge officer in Incursion. He is also a prolific voice actor and also appeared on Arrow, Olympus, Cedar Cove, Human Target and Supernatural. IMDBTwitterBehind The Voice
Dean Devlin
Dean wrote and produced the 1994 Stargate theatrical feature film and is part of the driving force to bring the story back to the big screen. He has also wrote Independence Day, Universal Soldier, The Triangle and produced Leverage, Eight Legged Freaks, The Patriot and directed 16 episodes of Leverage. His latest feature Independence Day: Resurgence which he is producing just wrapped production and The Librarians which he produced and directed (2 eps) is returning for a second season. IMDBTwitter
Nicholas Podbrey
Nicholas was the Special Effects Makeup Coordinator for Stargate SG1 and Atlantis and works for MastersFX. He’s also worked on Slither, Fringe, Eureka, Sanctuary, Blood Ties, Bionic Woman and Caprica and in acting roles has appeared on Stargate: The Ark of Truth, Sanctuary, Slither and The Haunting in Connecticut. IMDBMasters FXVimeo
