Anyone who really knows me, knows I'm into Sci-Fi. This is a post about a recent observation in the TV shows.
The other day I was talking to a friend about the show "Stargate: SG1". If you don't know the show, Richard Dean Anderson ("Macgayver") played the lead character for most of the show's existence. Yeah, that show. Yvonne calls it "The show with the guy with gold silly putty on his forehead."
Indeed.
Most people don't really pay attention to the show, but I like it. The dialogue between the characters is funny and the special effects aren't too bad. And I like it's spin-off show too, "Stargate: Atlantis".
Anyway, my friend and I were discussing how SG seems to absorb other sci-fi shows' actors. For example, after "Farscape" ended, two of the main characters joined the SG team.
Farscape, check.
Then, we started breaking it down. OK, the hologram doctor from "Voyager" plays a government suit in a few episodes.
Star Trek, check.
It started to get funny. In fact, I noticed a wraith on Atlantis that looked a lot like Trip, from "Star Trek: Enterprise" after that show was cancelled. Yup.
Star Trek, double check.
When "Firefly" cancelled, the "Stargate: Atlantis" team found themselves with a new doctor. She went from being a natural mechanic to a full blown doctor. Only in Sci-Fi, baby.
Firefly, check.
So I was asking my friend, what other Sci-Fi shows were there? Who else can we include? We were stumped and the conversation ended.
Then I caught an episode last night of SG1 (Daniel Jackson was kidnapped by "Shaka" for a right of passage ceremony) and noticed a guard looked a lot like a Nietzchean from "Andromeda". I was right, but I can't find the actor's name. Then I remembered, another character of that cancelled show also became the new doctor in the SG1 series.
Andromeda, double check.
Editor's note: Major Coburn was played by Steve Bacic. See comments for all the hot nerdy details.
So, I ask you: What other shows are there?
10 comments:
you should come to Gatecon this summer in Vancouver and meet many of the SG cast -- and see how many shows you can tag them to! Bet it would be hundreds!
www.gatecon.com
thanks!
And clicking through that link, I found the Andromeda actor's name is Steve Bacic. and he is another character known as Camulus. when i saw him in "The First Ones" he played Major Coburn.
Got another one for you. On two of the SG1 episodes, Jolene Blalock played Ishta, the leader of a rebel group of free Jaffa. She also played T'Pol on Star Trek Enterprise.
A few more that I just remembered! John de Lancie, who played Q on Star Trek The Next Generation, played an Air Force colonel on several episodes of SG1. Also, Mitch Pileggi, who is the captain of the Daedelus on Stargate Atlantis, was also Walter Skinner on the X-Files. Lexa Doig, the "new" doctor and daughter of General Landry on SG1, was also on Andromeda.
yeah, i knew about Lexa. but i think i also jus saw the smoking man from X files as an ori!
Hmmm, i might need to make a real list here
we need BSG and Quantam Leap.
Hmm... Quantum Leap. Well, I always confuse Dean Stockwell with Beau Bridges, so there's SORT OF a connection there with both BSG and Quantum Leap, lol. I'm sure we could figure out some sort of six-degrees thing to connect all the shows :)
What about Sliders? Kari Wuhrer, who played Chick Team Member #2, was on Stargate Atlantis.
NEEEERDS!!!!
lol!!
yeah, we're nerds, but we sure can rock an electic violen.
haha.
Sliders is a good one, too. forgot about that show. What about battlestar?
Beau Bridges Stared in Village of the Giants...
Er, OK so it wasn't a TV show and its only Sci-Fi in the sense that the original story was by H.G. wells before being hacked to shreads...
I did hear that he visited his brother once on the set of Starman! : )
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