I was cracking up the other day watching some SGA episodes. You have Robert Picardo from Voyager, Connor Trinneer from Enterprise and Jewel Staite from Firefly.
I half expected Michael Dorn or Jeffery Combs to show up.
Then of course in SG1 you have Claudia Black and Ben Browder from Farscape...
Am I missing more? I know there were a bunch of cameos on SG1 as well.
How is having a recurring role in one of the best sci-fi series, "out of work" in your book?
shareI don't mean it in a derogatory way. I just think it is kind of interesting how Robert C. Cooper and Brad Wright make a habit of hiring known faces from other sci-fi series.
I was also kind of curious if anyone nerdier than I had spotted some other guests from other series.
It makes sense really. If you know they have been in sci-fi already and that they were good then it seems like a no-brainer to cast them (providing they can get the part right).
I don't know of any others though, I never really paid that much attention.
That's basically what I think. It takes something a little different to be a good sci-fi/fantasy actor. They have to make us believe that they believe in whatever crazy stuff is happening or CGI monster they're fighting.
No Sitcoms! No Sports! No Reality!
There's Colm Meany (Star Trek: TNG), who plays Cowen of the Genii, and Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files) who is Colonel Caldwell.
And since I never saw this show during its original run, I noticed Christopher Heyerdahl while he was starring in Hell on Wheels.
Others who may or may not have been in sci-fi, or who had a guest appearance on another show that I noticed for whatever reason, are:
Jodelle Ferland - the little girl from the pilot episode of Dead Like Me who George Lass saves from the train crash, and who is now one of the stars of Dark Matter - played the girl who had to take a rite of passage trip to some ruins deep in the woods to become Queen of her people
Laura Harris - a Dead Like Me regular who I think was in the episode where Sheppard and MacKay are playing a game that actually directs the inhabitants of two villages to attack each other
Dave Foley - former Kid in the Hall who invites MacKay to a special scientific event on Earth that naturally goes awry
Christina Cox - one of a team of four elite female soldiers who help the Atlantis team battle Wraiths in the "fog", was one of the stars of F/X: The Series
Robert Davi - the bad guy from The Mask, was Kolya of the Genii <-- this has been pointed out to me as being incorrect. Oops!
Richard Kind - from Spin City, played that guy who everybody loves
There are others I know I've missed but I would have to scroll through the cast list to find them.
I guess that makes me a nerd. :)
and that same episode with Dave Foley also featured Bill Nye and Neil Degrasse Tyson.
shareRichard Kind - from Spin City, played that guy who everybody loves
Adam Baldwin from Firefly played a collonel in the two-part episode Heroes in Stargate SG 1
Don't forget Morena Baccarin in SG1 from Firefly. Voyager had Tim Russ and Robert McNeill that were totally different characters in TNG. Diana Muldaur (Dr Pulaski) from TNG was in the original Star Trek. Cube probably put David Hewlett (Rodney) info the Scifi fan zone. Also from Cube was Nicole de Boer from Deep Space 9. I guess they know familiar faces can get viewers.
shareKavan Smith acted on the show Jeremiah and True Calling before SG-1 and SGA. After that he has worked on Eureka and Supernatural. So I wouldn't call it out of work. Now that I think of it a lot of characters from SGA have appeared on Supernatural. I remember seeing Jewel Staite (I can always spot her) and Robert Picardo as well. It's almost as if these shows were filmed in the same location. Weird.(sarcasm)
shareDon't forget John De Lancie (AKA Q from Star Trek) was a recurring character in SG1.
I think it's nice - sci-fi fans tend to pick up on those details, so having those actors involved is a treat.
jolene blalock in a couple of sg1 episodes
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The captain of the Apollo drove the doomed sub in the Abyss. I think it's fun to see the familiar faces.
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Robert Patrick (T2, X-Files) was in the SGA pilot.
shareI hate regular sci-fi, especially when man-hating feminazism is involved like in this junk program.
Horror sci-fi is the only sci-fi I dig. PHANTASM!
HARLEYS R4 YUPPIES
(my bumper sticker)
Phantasm is one of my favorite horror movies. Especially the car!
However, Stargate a feminist program? I think you are crazy. There are a couple female characters. But it's mostly a bunch of guys going to far off planets and using CQB tactics to subdue lizardy aliens. That is pretty much guy stuff in my book.
Feel free to prove me wrong, which epidsode is the 'Man hating' episode?
As far as this word 'feminazi'. Feminists are annoying. I'm not going to start spelling woman 'womyn' to make anyone happy. But they hardly deserve comparison to genocidal pagan fascists from the last century.
Perhaps you should grow up.
This is certainly not a guys' show. ~60% of the episodes consist of utterly pointless soap opera-style melodramas in which absolutely nothing happens other than 3 or 4 characters are stuck in a room (or a series of rooms) together and babble at each other about trivial hogwash for 43 minutes.
Watching paint dry is literally more fun than watching this show in any of the many dozens of times when it repeats that mind-numbingly boring [non-existent]"plot."
Guys don't go for that kind of crap.
Feminists are annoying...But they hardly deserve comparison to genocidal pagan fascists from the last century.
wait, so you hate the show, but you've watched it enough to know what plot points it repeats? I can only assume you are some kind of psycho masochist. I mean did someone force you to watch SGA? Were you stuck in an abusive relationship with some other alt right hair farmer?
Abortion isn't feminist by the way. It's a medical procedure. One your parents probably wished was free, accessible and legal when you were born.