Michael Rooker
Michael played Colonel Edwards in the Stargate SG1 episode Enemy Mine and more recently starred as Merle in The Walking Dead quickly becoming a fan favourite. He has also guest starred on Archer, Psych, Burn Notice, Chuck, Thief, Cliffhanger and Jeremiah. IMDBTwitterOfficial Deborah Theaker
Deborah appeared once on Stargate SG1 in the episode Citizen Joe playing Charlene Spencer and has also appeared in Joey, Reno 911!, The Burbs, Maniac Mansion, ALF, Bones and Entourage. IMDB Kathleen Barr
Kathleen voiced Draga in Stargate Infinity and has a huge resume of voice work dating back to 1979 and her first work on Galaxy Express 999 through Spider-Man Unlimited to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. IMDBBehind The Voice
Mitch Pileggi
Mitch played Colonel Caldwell on twenty two episodes of Stargate Atlantis and Walter Skinner on The X-Files and it’s been announced he will be returning to the X-Files.He’s also appeared on both versions of Dallas and been in Supernatural, Sons of Anarchy, Medium and Grey’s Anatomy. IMDBTwitter Greg Anderson
Greg played an Ori and Prior in six episodes of Stargate SG1 as well as the tv movie The Ark of Truth, he’s also been in The 4400, Traffic and House Of Lies. IMDB
The leaders of the Jaffa meet at Dar Eshkalon to discuss the ongoing threat of the ORI military forces within the Milky Way galaxy but soon after Teal’c and Bra’tac arrive a bomb in detonated slaughtering virtually all in attendance. Teal’c was outside the immediate blast zone investigating some suspicious behaviour and thus wasn’t critically injured unlike Bra’tac who is currently sedated within the SGC infirmary. Teal’c shares his suspicions of the Jaffa Bak’al who he has seen at Dar Eshkalon and his master Arkad who has been gathering forces and has shown no honour or allegiance to the mainstream Jaffa nation. The SGC and IOA are not comfortable with Teal’c going on a mission of revenge so he departs on his investigation alone and begins to find the proof he needs to link the explosives used to Bak’al and Arkad while the SGC are visited by Arkad offering a gesture of peace through information of a plot against the Earth. The IOA are keen to take the road of appeasement and SG1 are ordered to track down Teal’c before he does something which could inflame tensions and force the hand of Arkad but they are too late, Teal’c takes SG1 and SG3 out of the equations and faces Arkad in one on one combat in a spectacularly blood thirsty fashion.
You’ll never walk alone, well….
Talion is a masterpiece for Teal’c and Christopher Judge and you’ve got to admit it may only have been possible at the end of the shows run on television, the violence is certainly ramped up and the liberal amounts of blood is splashed about with abandon. We see Teal’c turning down the off the books offer of help from members of SG1 and we wonder if that is not only to safeguard them but to allow him to do what he believes will be necessary, in essence we are going to see Teal’c as he was as the feared first prime of Apophis rather than the more restrained but equally effective member of SG1. Craig Fairbrass, Peter Kent and John Tench all play good characters if a little cliched but that’s exactly what this story requires, you can only do so much in under an hour of television.
A big thank you to everyone for listening to the show through March, that was the best month for downloads for quite a while and that doesn’t even include Stitcher but we are still not getting a lot of feedback and that normally always cheers us up and of course as most podcasts say reviews and ratings on itunes and Stitcher are pure gold if only to near the top when someone does a search for the topic they cover, in our case Stargate.
This weeks podcast promo was for The Batcave Podcast a show which deals mostly with the classic Adam West and Burt Ward series, lots of fun if you like me enjoyed the antics of the dynamic duo. Next week we are going to be looking at the Stargate Atlantis episode Sunday, get the tissues ready and our guest will be Thomas, hope you can join us for that.
Robin Mossley
Robin has been in two episodes of Stargate SG1 first as Malikai in Window of Opportunity and then as Dr. Reimer in the episode Morpheus. He has also guest starred on Andromeda, Reaper, About A Girl, Psych, Hope Island and Sanctuary. IMDB Lawrence Dane
Lawrence appeared just the once on Stargate SG1 as Major General Bauer in the episode Chain Reaction. He has also appeared on Sofia, Absolution, Queer As Folk, The Hunger, Flashpoint, Airwolf and Street Legal. IMDB Alessandro Juliani
Alessandro played Katep in the SG1 episode Moebius (1&2) and Eliam in the episode Scorched Earth. He also starred on Battlestar Galactica as Felix Gaeta and also appeared on Smallville, Fringe, Cedar Cove, Almost Human and recently on The 100 as Sinclair. IMDBBehind The Voice
Bob Frazer
Bob appeared just the once on Stargate SG1 playing an Airman in the episode Hathor. He has also been on Cold Squad, The X-Files, First Wave, Motive, Continuum and Supernatural. IMDBTwitter Jaime Ray Newman
Jaime played Lt. Laura Cadman in two episodes of Stargate Atlantis ( Duet and Critical Mass ) and has also guest starred on Eureka, Grimm, Veronica Mars, Bosch, NCIS and starred on Eastwick, Drop Dead Diva and Red Widow. IMDBTwitterOfficial
Tobias Mehler
Tobias was Lt. Graham Simmons in five episodes of Stargate SG1 and he played Zak Adama on the recent Battlestar Galactica. He has also appeared on Jeremiah, Robson Arms, The Icarus II Project, The Outer Limits, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Young Blades. IMDB
Michael Welch who played a young Jack O’Neill in the Stargate SG1 episode Fragile Balance made a guest appearance on “The List” the latest episode of NCIS New Orleans playing Kevin Heller whose life is threatened by an unknown gunman whose motive seems all to clear. Michael has recently appeared on Bones, Grimm, Scandal and Criminal Minds and starred on Z Nation.
Adrian Holmes
Adrian appeared in two episodes of Stargate SG1, in Nightwalkers he was a Special Operations Sergeant and in Memento Mori he played Detective Ryan. He has also guest starred on Arrow, Continuum, Smallville, Cedar Cove, True Justice and many more shows and movies. He currently stars as Nick Barron in the crime drama 19-2 which is in its second season. IMDBTwitterOfficial
Well where do I start with the latest episode of the Canadian crime drama Motive?
In the latest episode The Glass House (S3E4) we have a couple of guest stars who have also appeared on Stargate and not forgetting the recurring character of Superintendent Boyd Bloom playing by Roger Cross and the series co-star Louis Ferreira as Detective Oscar Vega. In the latest episode we get to see Jodelle Ferland (SG1 & SGA) playing the sixteen year old Sophie Glass and Jennifer Spence (SGU) as her neighbour Melissa Dixon and for trivia John Cassini who played Peter has a brother who has guest starred on SG1, small world. This was an interesting episode which led you down a disturbing path but wasn’t all it appeared to be, a good episode with a satisfying conclusion and didn’t see until well into the story.
Kenneth Welsh
Kenneth played Jamus in the Stargate Atlantis episode The Ark. He has also guest starred on Twin Peaks, Witchblade, Tilt, Timecop, Due South, ReGenesis, The Divide, narrated Perfect Storms: Disasters That Changed the World and performed on stage. IMDB Mili Avital
Mila played Sha’uri in the original Stargate movie and went on to appear on Damages, 666 Park Avenue, L&O: SVU and a number of productions in her native language. IMDB Fraser Aitcheson
Fraser played a Jaffa commander in the Stargate SG1 episode Upgrades as well spots on The 4400, Smallville, Fringe and Arctic Air. He’s also a stunt performer with credits on Earthsea, Smallville, Arrow, Sanctuary and movies such as Elysium, Robocop and Man Of Steel. IMDBTwitter
Marina Sirtis
Marina appeared on all seven seasons of Star Trek The Next Generation and the movies playing Counselor Deanna Troi and also guest starred on other Trek series, she appeared on Stargate SG1 in the episode Watergate as Dr. Svetlana Markov. She has recently guest starred on NCIS, Grey’s Anatomy, Family Guy and Young Justice. IMDBTwitterOfficial
Cam Cronin
Cam made his only appearance on Stargate as an Airman in the SG1 episode Window Of Opportunity and he made an impression on a certain member of SG1. He’s also been in The X-Files, Fringe, Psych and Supernatural. IMDBTwitter Darcy Laurie
Darcy played Airman Dunning in nine episodes of Stargate Universe and also appeared in two episodes of SG1 first as a Cave Dweller in The First Commandment and then as Tass’an in Babylon. He has also guest starred on Cold Squad, Fringe, Supernatural and Continuum. IMDB Brian McCaig
Brian played as tech in the Stargate Universe episode Alliances and has appeared on Moments, Supernatural, Some Assembly Required and Motive as well as doing stunt work and working as a stand in. IMDBTwitter
The team explore what looks like an abandoned space station built within a small moon orbiting a devastated planet, Rodney of course can’t help but start pressing buttons and powering up the stations nuclear reactor. As the systems come alive he recognises an energy signature as belonging to the Wraith beaming device and they find a human looking individual who has been returned to physical form. Herick tells them the story of his world as it came under attack from the Wraith and this station was built to house and protect a few thousands people in storage until such time as they could return and rebuild their world but only one of the storage units is present. Jamus the leader of the project is awakened and explains that in the final hours the second shuttle never made it to the stations and Herick’s family perished, in his grief Herick commits suicide and cripples the station leaving it in a decaying orbit and now no jumper to escape either.
The Ark is another standalone episode near the end of a season which was strongly arc orientated but despite that works quite well even though you have to question the basic premise of the story and the decisions made by the people on this world. I can’t help but feel some deep underground havens would have been just as secure as an orbital hiding place for dozens maybe hundreds of these storage units for long term survival of the species and allow for more diversity. Oh well, we’ll never really know what ultimately becomes of the survivors but if the mixture isn’t 90% practical skills then no amount of art and poetry will prove the decision to obliterate their world was good let alone practical. The overall production based on pretty much two main sets worked very well, kept it claustrophobic and in your face but I don’t think any character really keep out looking good, even John’s choice to pilot the unpowered shuttle wasn’t a big deal since it should have smashed to pieces not matter how good a job he did. That said an easy to watch episode and The Ark is far from the worse of the season but not that memorable either but Kenneth Welsh did a fantastic job.
Thanks to Mack and Brad for the comments over on Google+ and Facebook, this weeks promo is for The Scifi Diner podcast and next week we are back with Stargate SG1 and the Teal’c centric episode Talion so buckle up for that:)
Richard de Klerk
Richard was in two episodes of Stargate SG1 as Dominic in Rite Of Passage & Joe in One False Step, he has also guest starred in Sanctuary, Andromeda and The 4400 and can be seen in the latest season of Motive and Supernatural. IMDBTwitterOfficial
Angelique Naude
Angelique caught Sheppard’s eye in “No Mans Land” playing a small role in that Stargate Atlantis episode. She’s also been on The 4400, Supernatural, Dream Gamblers, Blood Ties, Chaos and Scary Movie 4. IMDB
