This week followers of one other “Star” franchise acquired large information a couple of long-awaited return to tv. MGM and Amazon are bringing again Stargate, which ought to give followers of space-based sci-fi loads of trigger for celebration. Stargate’s absence from TV has Star Trek’s post-Enterprise hiatus beat, because it’s already been 14 years because the short-lived Stargate Universe went off the air on SyFy. The brand new tv present can be a “new chapter” set in the identical Stargate canon universe, and it apparently has been in improvement for over a 12 months, however no launch date has been but set for the worldwide premiere on Prime Video.
The upcoming Stargate collection is a continuation within the franchise that began with the 1994 Stargate function movie, which introduced the concept that all these Egyptian pyramids have been the work of aliens and there have been extra unfold across the galaxy, accessible through the eponymous “star gates.’ The Stargate SG-1 TV collection got here three years later, adopted by Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe , together with a handful of TV films. All in all, there are 17 seasons with 350 episodes, and like Trek, the franchise launched a richly crafted world with a sprawling solid of heroes and villains whom audiences got here to like and detest.
Alongside the way in which, fairly a couple of acquainted faces from the ultimate frontier made their method by way of the gate. Star Trek alumni turned up in roles starting from minor character to full-blown collection common—and maybe some might be again. We might fill a e-book greater than Daniel Jackson’s scholarly notes with each Star Trek actor that crossed over, so as an alternative, we’ll concentrate on those we will really see returning for the brand new collection. These characters are nonetheless energetic within the Stargate canon, and if the writers need them again, we might certainly see their cross-fandom faces as soon as extra.
Robert Picardo – Richard Woolsey
Let’s get the large one out of the way in which proper off the bat. Robert Picardo not solely performed The Physician in Star Trek: Voyager for its seven-season run and reprised the character (through his voice) on Prodigy, however he’s gearing up for a extremely anticipated homecoming by persevering with the position in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Picardo additionally performed an enormous half in SGverse, beginning in Stargate SG-1 2004 as Worldwide Oversight Advisory consultant Richard Woolsey. At first, Woolsey was a thorn within the protagonists’ facet, however over time, they got here to see him in a extra heroic mild. As a recurring character, Woolsey had a number of appearances on SG-1. Extra notably, he was ported over as the brand new head of the Atlantis Expedition within the fifth and closing season of Stargate Atlantis, giving Picardo collection common standing.
Jolene Blalock – Ishta
Regardless of her full-time standing as T’Pol on Star Trek: Enterprise, Jolene Blalock discovered the time to swing by for a pair of Stargate SG-1 episodes involving Ishta, a insurgent Jaffa who grew shut with Teal’c (Christopher Decide) amid making an attempt instances for his or her newly freed folks. Blalock appeared in simply two episodes between the seventh and eighth seasons, however there’s nothing within the franchise’s later years to recommend that her budding relationship with Teal’c would have ended. Even when it did, her character remains to be on the market, spearheading the development of a brand new colony for her fellow feminine Jaffa.
John Billingsley – Simon Coombs
What if a sci-fi present’s proverbial digicam tilted away from its protagonists and spent an episode by way of the eyes of the extra abnormal kinds? TNG did it with “Decrease Decks,” after which we acquired a complete animated collection out of the premise. And, certainly, Stargate SG-1 had “The Different Guys.” The wacky season 6 episode gave followers scientists Simon Coombs and Jay Felger, who acquired in method over their heads however finally saved the day. John Billingsley, Enterprise’s pleasant Phlox, performed Coombs. Maybe Simon Coombs might go to one other alien world, moving into much more hassle within the course of.
Nicole de Boer – Alison Porter
This one’s a protracted shot, however there’s nothing in-universe stopping it from taking place. Star Trek: Deep House 9’s Nicole de Boer, who performed newly joined Trill host Ezri Dax in season 7, made a single look in Stargate Atlantis within the horror-themed “Whispers.” Nicole de Boer introduced that very same sense of a hidden power lurking behind a cloud of hysteria that made Ezri work so effectively to her visitor position as Alison Porter, a scientist who fights alongside John Sheppard and the remainder of SGA’s foremost squad. Funnily sufficient, the creatures they battle are monstrous creations of a Wraith villain named Michael, who was performed by none apart from Star Trek: Enterprise’s Connor Trinneer…
Connor Trinneer – Lastlight/Michael Kenmore/Paul Langford
…who’s subsequent on our listing! Connor Trinneer is, after all, Journey Tucker in Star Trek: Enterprise. However he had a nice-sized position as Lastlight, or as John Sheppard liked to name him, “Michael,” from the second by way of the fifth season of Stargate Atlantis. Towards the tip of that collection, Michael’s darker ambitions lastly caught up with him and he met his finish. However Stargate, like Star Trek, usually revels in alternate-timeline shenanigans. Michael might serve up an encore efficiency because the nefarious hybrid, or we might even see Trinneer reprise his Stargate Origins position as mid-2oth-century swashbuckling archaeologist Paul Langford. (We’d wish to see Journey come again to life, too.)
Armin Shimerman – Anteaus
One other lengthy shot, DS9’s very personal Quark swung by very early in SG-1’s run as Antaeus, one of many ruling members of the traditional race of beings often known as the Nox. Armin Shimerman ably demonstrated his considerable vary right here; Antaeus is nothing like Quark by any means. Peaceable and sort, Antaeus would by no means be seen on the dabo desk. Given the significance of the Nox as one of many 4 authentic superior races within the Milky Approach and the truth that not one of the Stargate exhibits ever did just about something with them after season 1, it’s not unfathomable that Shimerman might need extra knowledge to impart upon a brand new era of galactic explorers.
Marina Sirtis – Svetlana Markov
Marina Sirtis has introduced TNG’s Counselor Deanna Troi to so many episodes of Star Trek that her solo gig in season 4 of Stargate SG-1 is a veritable blip on her submarine’s radar by comparability. Svetlana Markov was the scientific mastermind behind Russia’s secret Stargate program, and he or she led our heroes to an underwater investigation as to what depraved destiny befell their model of Stargate Command. If Stargate’s future carries ahead Russia’s key position in intergalactic affairs—now that’s a sentence we’d by no means sort for Star Trek!—the writers might usher in a well-recognized face with Markov.
Ronny Cox – Robert Kinsey
The Stargate franchise left various doorways open in its waning years, with a number of unresolved plot factors. The destiny of Robert Kinsey, a scheming politician who was seen in ten episodes of Stargate SG-1 throughout its first eight seasons, is certainly one of them. The writers clearly left the door open for Ronny Cox’s villain to have survived an explosion that will in any other case have killed him. Cox, who performed the pugnacious Admiral Edward Jellico within the Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology two-parter “Chain of Command” and returned in eight episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy, might at all times come again for one final experience.
Honorable mentions and future prospects
A number of additional Star Trek stars made a noteworthy affect on Stargate earlier than their characters have been unceremoniously killed off. DS9’s Colm Meaney was Cowen, chief of the Atlantis Expedition’s Pegasus Galaxy rivals, the Genii. Very similar to O’Brien, he was even a chief! John de Lancie (aka Q) took a very human kind because the sociopathic NID agent Frank Simmons. And Dwight Schultz, who performed Reginald Barclay on The Subsequent Technology and Voyager, introduced his vibrant presence to the SG-1 episode “The Sport.” And sadly there are a couple of Star Trek actors who stepped by way of the gate into the nice past, like DS9’s René Auberjonois.
Merely put, Star Trek’s casting stream crossed with Stargate’s dozens upon dozens of instances, so don’t be shocked should you see a couple of Alpha Quadrant denizens within the at the moment untitled Stargate revival. We might even see actors unique to Trek’s fashionable period. Who wouldn’t take pleasure in watching Jack O’Neill crack a joke about Anson Mount’s luxurious hair?
However wait… there’s extra!
How a couple of reversal? Paul McGillion had a fast scene with just some sentences’ price of dialogue within the 2009 Star Trek film, however a lot has been remodeled Stargate Atlantis‘ beloved Dr. Carson Beckett making the leap between franchises from a Starfleet Academy barracks chief to the Atlantis Expedition’s kindhearted and pacifistic main doctor. McGillion was credited as a collection common for SGA‘s first three seasons; he returned within the season 4 finale after which 5 extra instances within the present’s fifth and closing season. Suffice it to say, he’s an enormous deal, and there’s ample cause for the writers to convey him again.
There’s additionally Louis Ferreira, who appeared in a single episode of Star Trek: Voyager (credited as Justin Louis) as Trevis, a pleasant picket fellow in younger Naomi Wildman’s holodeck fairy story. Ferreira is best identified for his position as Colonel Everett Younger on Stargate Universe. Provided that SGU ended on a cliffhanger, the Future is presumably nonetheless on the market, its crew in stasis, its mission unfinished.
And very similar to Svetlana Markov, Tamlyn Tomita’s Shen Xiaoyi supplied a window into one other nation’s involvement with the Stargate. The IOA’s Chinese language consultant appeared in a number of episodes of each SG-1 and Atlantis. Viewers of season 1 of Star Trek: Picard will acknowledge Tomita because the duplicitous Starfleet Commodore Oh. We’re undecided the place Oh ran off to, but when Xiaoyi remains to be part of the IOA, she ought to be simple sufficient to seek out.
Watch the announcement video
For extra tantalizing tidbits on the brand new Stargate present, try the official announcement video. We want our fellow galaxy-trotting TV followers nothing however one of the best as one other peak sci-fi franchise embarks on the subsequent chapter of its historic journey.
