Play Audio Duration: 0:39:36 | 54.4MB Being cast on the third TV series in the Stargate franchise was like a dream come true for David Blue. A lifelong science fiction fan, he took on the role of the audience surrogate character — the young genius and video game slacker Eli Wallace. Eli is swept up … Read more

Elizabeth Weir gave her life to the Atlantis expedition, in more ways than one – and even more than one time. In the first-season episode “Before I Sleep,” the team discovered an aged Dr. Weir in stasis, and heard her tell the story of another timeline when the expedition was wiped out, and Elizabeth found … Read more

The great city of San Antonio will play host to something of a Stargate SG-1 reunion, with several of the show’s original cast members set to appear at the Spacecon pop culture convention this fall. Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, and Amanda Tapping are all among the headliners for the event, scheduled to take place … Read more

MGM Television Today marks twenty years since Stargate Atlantis made its debut. (Yes — like me, you really are that old!) The series premiere, “Rising,” aired as a 2-hour movie on July 16, 2004. It was what many of us consider to be a Golden Age of science fiction television, with SCI FI Channel (back … Read more

Stargate Atlantis: “The Shrine” One of our favorite episodes of Stargate Atlantis is “The Shrine,” an emotional episode that frequently makes best episode lists. Written by series co-creator Brad Wright, this remarkable hour saw Dr. Rodney McKay contract an alien disease that robbed him of his mental faculties. Known in the Pegasus Galaxy as the … Read more

Photo: Lisa Smith Stargate’s Vala Mal Doran is headed for the ancient Roman empire. Actress Claudia Black has been cast in Starz’s new sequel series Spartacus: House of Ashur, which will see the return of actor Nick Tarabay in the lead role of Ashur. The Farscape and Stargate SG-1 veteran will play Cossutia, described as … Read more

The eighth season of Stargate SG-1 brought what felt like a natural conclusion to the show. Earth’s major foes were defeated, the Jaffa were finally free, and General Jack O’Neill was moving on (as series lead Richard Dean Anderson entered retirement). But Syfy Channel wanted the hit show to continue, and the writers definitely had … Read more

BlueBrixx Here’s a new way to enjoy Stargate (and maybe share it with your kids): a buildable Zero Point Module, coming later this year from BlueBrixx alongside the company’s previously revealed S.G.C. Gate Room set. The German toy brick maker has unveiled the box art for the Z.P.M., including the final look of the device … Read more

Stargate SG-1: “Nemesis” The third season of Stargate SG-1 proved that the show had plenty more tricks up its sleeve than just the Goa’uld. Even the powerful Asgard were under siege by a grave threat in their own galaxy. The Replicators were spider-like techno-bugs, made up of small blocks programmed to assemble themselves, self-replicate, and … Read more

Beware of SPOILERS for Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis in this article! There is perhaps no alien race more recognizably “Stargate” than the Asgard, Earth’s allies from a distant galaxy who occasionally flex their technological muscles against the Goa’uld … when they can momentarily break away from their war with the Replicators, that is. Their … Read more