Podcast: Download SSG268: The Travelers have kept their civilization alive for millennia by never landing — jumping through hyperspace while every planet-bound culture in the Pegasus galaxy was bombed back to the Stone Age by the Wraith. It’s the strongest idea in Stargate Atlantis Season 4, Episode 5, and Victor Lams, Lisa Jones, and Jeff Haecker spend this week’s … Read more

Podcast: Download SSG267: When Sheppard touches a glowing crystal on an alien world, a fear-feeding entity hitches a ride back to Atlantis — and spreads by touch alone, rewriting every sleeping crew member’s dreams with Sheppard as the villain. In Stargate AtlantisS4E4, “Doppelganger,” the most trusted face in the city becomes its most terrifying one. Lisa … Read more

Podcast: Download SSG266: When Ronon’s Satedan brothers-in-arms reappear, the reunion is the last thing it seems. “Reunion,” the third episode of Stargate Atlantis Season 4, delivers the season’s first real gut-punch: the comrades Ronon mourned as dead have become Wraith worshippers — broken by cycles of feeding and restoration, and finally addicted to the enzyme that kept them alive, … Read more

Podcast: Download SSG265: The Stargate reboot is dead. Amazon MGM cancelled Martin Gero’s new series on June 2, 2026 — after a November 2025 greenlight, a twenty-week writers’ room, and pre-production already underway in the UK. The news broke while Victor Lams, Lisa Jones, and Jeff Haecker were about to hit record. So Secrets of Stargate episode 265 became an Irish-style … Read more

Podcast: Download SSG264: The three-part season-four opener for Stargate Atlantis reaches its conclusion in “Lifeline” (S4E2), and the price of getting out is Dr. Elizabeth Weir. The mission looked contained: use Weir’s nanite connection to navigate the Asuran city, grab the ZPM Atlantis needs, and go. Then McKay finds a buried base code that can redirect the entire Asuran fleet … Read more

Podcast: Download SSG263: Atlantis is dead in space. After the Asuran attack in the Season 3 finale, the city drops out of hyperspace with its power draining fast, drifting straight toward an asteroid field — and its leader is dying in the infirmary. Stargate Atlantis Season 4 opens with “Adrift,” and the clock never stops ticking. Lisa … Read more

Podcast: Download SSG262: The Asurans have been watching. Hours after the Apollo destroys their shipyard, a satellite arrives over Atlantis carrying a stargate that fires a continuous laser beam at the city’s shields. There’s no way to attack it. There’s no way to dial out. There’s just a countdown. Jeff Haecker, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams work through … Read more

Podcast: Download SSG261: The Ori arc ran for two full seasons of Stargate SG-1, and when the show was cancelled before wrapping it, the producers had one shot to close the story: a direct-to-DVD film called The Ark of Truth. The premise is almost philosophically discomforting. The Ancients — who refused to interfere with lesser civilizations … Read more

Podcast: Download SSG260: The Asgard chose to end their civilization rather than let the Ori claim their technology. They gave SG-1 everything they knew, then blew up their planet and themselves. That’s the opening of the Stargate SG-1 series finale, “Unending,” and it sets the tone for what follows. Trapped inside a time dilation field … Read more

Podcast: Download SSG259: The Atlantis team investigates an abandoned Taranian settlement and walks into something far worse than an empty planet. Underground, they find a room full of bodies, hybrid creatures built from Iratus bug DNA, and Michael — the Wraith they remade and then abandoned — calmly explaining that this lab is one of many. Lisa … Read more