Peter Stebbings
Peter played the Tok’ra Malek in two episodes of Stargate SG1 (Cure and Allegiance). He has also appeared on Relic Hunter, The Outer Limits, Mutant X, Jeremiah, The Listener, The Borgias and Crossbones. He’s also directed Empire of Dirt and episodes of Saving Hope and The Listener. IMDB
Adam Baldwin
Adam appeared in the excellent two part Stargate SG1 episode Heroes as Colonel Dave Dixon. He played Jayne Cobb on Firefly, John Casey on Chuck as well as lead and guest roles on The Inside, Angel, Day Break and The Cape. His latest show The Last Ship is returning for a second season this year. IMDB Twitter
James Bamford
James performs in front and behind the camera including being the stunt co-ordinator for Stargate Atlantis and Arrow. He has also worked on Halo 4, Elysium, Stargate SG1, Eragon, Stargate Universe and Fantastic 4 Rise of the Silver Surfer. IMDB Twitter
Currie Graham
Currie played James Marrick in the Stargate movie The Ark of Truth and has appeared on many US tv shows including Desperate Housewives, Men In Trees, Suits, Total Recall, Grimm and Fringe. IMDB Twitter
Mark Dacascos
Mark played Tyre in two episodes of Stargate Atlantis (Broken Ties & Reunion) as well as starring in The Crow Stairway to Heaven, Hawaii 5-0, The Middleman, Chicago PD and Iron Chef America. IMDB Twitter
Ona Grauer
Ona appeared in all three live action Stargate shows, first in the Stargate SG1 episode Frozen as the ancient Ayiana then reprised that role in a small cameo for the Atlantis premiere Rising and finally she had a recurring role on Stargate Universe playing Emily Young in four episodes. She has also guest starred on V, The Bridge, Arrow, Intelligence, Motive, Elysium, The Collector and voiced Katya on the excellent Archer. IMDB
Helen Shaver
Helen directed the Stargate Universe episode Seizure and since moving from in front of the camera she has also directed episodes of Elementary, Person Of Interest, Castle, The Unit and Special Victims Unit. As an actor she starred in Poltergeist The Legacy, Hill Street Blues, The 4400, The L Word and Down River. IMDB Twitter
Gillian Barber
Gillian played Ambassador Dreylock in three episodes of Stargate SG1 and a Resident of the machine in the episode The Gamekeeper. She has also appeared on Cold Squad, Smallville, Cedar Cove, Endgame and Witches of East End. IMDB
Bryce Hodgson
Bryce played the “kid” on the Stargate SG1 episode 2010 and also guest starred on Jeremiah, The Dead Zone, The Santa Clause 2, Supernatural, Smallville and The Tomorrow People. IMDB
Nicole Oliver
Nicole played Leedora in the SG1 episode Broca Divide and has also appeared on Welcome To Paradox, The Falling, The L Word, Rogue, Seed and voiced many more characters on animated shows such as Max Steel, Storm Hawks and jPod. IMDB Behind The Voice Twitter
Daniel was captured by Adria and now makes his return to the galaxy but he has been converted to a Prior of the ORI and is preaching Origin to a small community, SG1 are aware of this new non violent approach to gathering new worshippers but they are shocked to see that it is Daniel who is leading this new wave of spreading the gospel. They act quickly and beam him onto the Odyssey and immediately stun him and with the anti-prior device and begin to question him about his time with Adria and what exactly are his plans given only he has the specs to the device Merlin created to fight the ORI. Daniel claims this is all part of his plan and by convincing Adria that he has embraced Origin she would indeed change him into a Prior and the abilities that would give him would in turn be used to build and deliver Merlin’s weapon into the ORI galaxy but with the whole Milky Way at stake the SGC and the IOA are sceptical to say the least. A compromise is given with Daniel giving the location of the ORI starship and SG1 launch a raid to capture the weapon and finish it’s construction but as they battle for their lives it’s Daniel who escapes, kidnaps Jack, steals the Odyssey and rushes to meet up with Adria and the final act of his plan.
You can trust this face.
The Shroud is an excellent episode of Stargate SG1 with it’s action and drama all tied together with a number of what are talking head scenes but that’s all great character interaction and dialogue, if nothing else Richard Dean Anderson’s final episode of SG1 pays off big time as we get the old Daniel and Jack dynamic back as if the previous two years absence had never happened. In many ways it’s a gift to the fans, each member of SG1 at least those that spent most of the time with Daniel get to well interrogate and come to their own conclusions and while it seems very much like Daniel is Daniel the powers that be have certainly left enough of a hint that there is more going on. Of course as it turns out Daniel was not providing the whole story and we got the WTF moment when he finally met up again with Adria who then not quite got what she was expecting. The final scenes with the incursion of multiple ORI starships fit very well into the style of the later seasons of SG1 and the ORI arc, it’s a partial win at best and while the power of the ORI has a question mark against it the power of their believers is very real and here right now.
This weeks promo is for The Rusted Robot Podcast a show hosted by Shawn and Brigitte which has news, interviews, reviews and just a lot of entertaining chat about all things that entertain fans of science fiction and geeky things in general, you’ll enjoy it. Next week we are going to be looking at the Atlantis episode The Tao of Rodney you know the one where Rodney gets super powers and then looks like his brain will blow up, good times good times as Lucius would have said, hope you join us for that. As always we would love to hear from you, feedback wise it’s a little quiet but Facebook and Google+ are ticking over and the twitter feed is a madhouse for all things Stargate.
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Patrick Gallagher
Patrick played Vonos in the the Stargate Atlantis episode Inferno and appeared on Battlestar Galactica, Glee, Smallville, Endgame, Suits, NCIS LA, True Blood and Almost Human. IMDB Twitter
Larry Drake
Larry guest starred on the Stargate SG1 episode Beast of Burden playing Burrock, he has also guest starred on Voyager, Firefly, Prey and starred on LA Law. Larry also provides voices on shows such as Johnny Bravo and Justice League. IMDB Behind The Voice
Jim Byrnes and Peter Wingfield perform at a Highlander convention back in 2008, both have have featured on Stargate SG1, thanks to Keith R.A. DeCandido and Andante023.
Willie Garson
Willie played Martin Lloyd in three episodes of Stargate SG1 ( 200, Wormhole X-Treme! & Point of No Return).He has also appeared on Sex and the City, Special Unit 2 and John From Cincinnati. He made his tv directorial debut on the White Collar episode Quantico Closure. Twitter IMDB
French Stewart
French made his name as Harry on the comedy Third Rock From The Sun, he also played Lieutenant Ferretti on the Stargate Theatrical feature and later Dr. Andrew Covel on Stargate Universe episode Alliances. Twitter IMDB
Louis Ferreira
Louis starred on Stargate Universe as Colonel Everett Young and has recently had recurring roles on Breaking Bad, Motive, The LA Complex, 24, Primeval: New World, Missing and Rookie Blue. IMDB Twitter
Fred Applegate
Fred appeared as Elrad on the Stargate SG1 episode Red Sky and also had guest spots on Once and Again, Touched by an Angel, Will & Grace, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, The Producers and Person Of Interest. IMDB Official
Quinn Lord
Quinn played one of the kids on the Stargate SG1 episode “The Quest Part 1” and he has appeared on Smallville, Supernatural, Fringe, Eureka, Once Upon A Time, Arctic Air and RL Stine’s The Haunting Hour in an episode we covered for a recent bonus show. IMDB Twitter Official
Garry Chalk
Garry played Colonel Chekov on ten episodes of Stargate SG1 and more recently had recurring roles on The Killing, Cedar Cove, Rogue and Blackstone. He has also done a number of voice roles for animated shows and has musical ambitions. Behind The Voice Twitter IMDB
Lou Diamond Phillips
Lou played Colonel David Telford on twenty episodes of Stargate Universe and is currently starring in the excellent Longmire. He had his big break in La Bamba and followed that with Young Guns and shows such as Numb3rs and Wolf Lake. IMDB Twitter
Sasha Pieterse
Sasha appeared as Grace in the Stargate SG1 episode of the same name and went on to star on Pretty Little Liars and has had guest roles on Heroes, House, Hawaii Five-0 and Medium. She now has a success with her music career. IMDB Twitter
Lachlan Murdoch
Lachlan as a youngster played Tomin in the Stargate SG1 episode Learning Curve, he went on to appear on Millenium, Taken, Copper and starred in ninety episodes of the Murdoch Mysteries. IMDB
Jasmine Chan
Jasmine played a young girl in the Stargate Universe episode Human and also a girl on Masters Of Horror and Samurai Girl. She has recently been in the tv movies Attention Students and Aliens in the House. IMDB
Christopher McDonald
Christopher played Senator Alan Armstrong in three episodes of Stargate Universe however he is much better known for both his theatrical roles such as Happy Gilmore and Grumpy Old Men and tv work on Boardwalk Empire and Harry’s Law. He’s also done voice work for a number of animated tv shows like Beware the Batman. IMDB Behind The Voice
In Memory of…
Keene Curtis (Feb 15th 1923 – Oct 13th 2002)
Keene had just the one guest role on Stargate SG1 but it was epic when he played Ernest Littlefield in The Torment of Tantalus.
He also guest starred on shows such as MASH,The Magician, Quincy, Hart To Hart, Voyager and The Pretender.
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The Flash is the latest hit tv series that has transitioned from comic books and you’ll see plenty of familiar faces from similar genre shows appearing in guest spots and recurring roles, on the latest episode “The Nuclear Man” episode 13 of the first season we had Chase Masterson, Clancy Brown, Victor Garber and Michelle Harrison (SG1 & SGU) as Nora Allen. However lets concentrate on the all too brief appearance of the Stargate fan favourite Bill Dow playing Dr. Quentin Quale.
Tales of a mighty hero and defender of a community reach Atlantis and the team go to investigate but it turns out to be not quite as advertised and they are greeted by a previous acquaintance who once again proves to be a bit of a handful until another old friend turns up and the stakes escalate to a life and death scenario. Yes folks the return of Lucius played by Richard Kind is greeted with dismay by John and the rest of the team but it seems at least on the surface he has earned his reputation and the support of the people of the community he protects but a little digging reveals while it may have initially been above board Lucius is manipulating events to maintain his position. Things start to go badly wrong when the Genii mercenaries Lucius is paying off turn on him and call in Kolya who with Atlantis in plan is only to happy to stir things up and after expertly negating the Ancient shielding technology used by Lucius he engineers a trap and captures everyone except John and once again the duel between the two men plays out but this time to the long awaited conclusion, blood has to be spilt.
Irresponsible is an episode which relies on the audiences attraction to a guest star and in this case two guest stars with Richard Kind bringing the comedy with Lucius and Robert Davi the threat with Commander Kolya. While the episode goes for the western feeling the loss of the primary shooting locations meant that the scope of the episode was reduced with much of the action focused on a very small piece of real estate. I think a lot of shots would have benefitted from a more open plan location in which to emulate the good guy versus bad guy showdown which was used to put the episode to bed. That aside it looked great and was most satisfying but this more than many episodes will live or die on your own view of Lucius and/or Kolya.
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