Roland Emmerich One of Stargate’s original creators says that he is done with the franchise for good — but for reasons that fans might find surprising. Stargate (1994) feature film director Roland Emmerich told JoBlo’s Chris Bumbray last week that he has given up on his efforts to revive his vision of Stargate. Bumbray caught … Read more

Stargate SG-1: “Window of Opportunity” “Window of Opportunity” rightly deserves its spot as one of Stargate fans’ all-time favorite episodes, filled not only with humor but a whole lot of heart. Jack and Teal’c are trapped in a time loop, forced to repeat the same day over and over and over again. Since no one … Read more

Stargate SG-1: “Revelations” Years before the Marvel Cinematic Universe brought Thor, Loki, and the rest of Norse mythology into the popular imagination, Stargate SG-1 was giving its own spin on these characters. Stargate’s Asgard were little gray aliens from another galaxy, benevolent toward humans, who would become friends to SG-1 and one of Earth’s most … Read more

Stargate SG-1‘s third season ended with a bang: the introduction of the Replicators, tech-bugs who have taken control of Thor’s ship and brought it to Earth. Colonel O’Neill and his team must beam aboard and figure out how to stop the critters from infesting Earth and gaining a foothold in our galaxy. But one member … Read more

Veteran actor Robert Picardo has a new gig — or maybe a new take on an old gig. He’s playing the Doctor once again. Before he was Richard Woolsey on Stargate, of course, Picardo enchanted science fiction fans as the Emergency Medical Hologram on board the U.S.S. Voyager. He recently returned to that role to … Read more

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