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12 star trek actors who crossed over into stargate.

Many recognizable Star Trek actors made appearances in another iconic science fiction franchise: Stargate.

Star Trek and Stargate are two of the most prolific and beloved science fiction franchises, and it is no surprise that actors would overlap between the two series. Both Star Trek and Stargate had shows running throughout most of the 1990s and early 2000s, and many actors made appearances on both shows. Star Trek and Stargate often borrowed episode titles and even plots from one another. Each Stargate series follows a different team of adventurers as they explore various planets by traveling through a massive Stargate that was discovered in the ruins of Giza.

The Stargate franchise began with the Stargate feature film in 1994 and would continue with three television series and two made-for-television movies. The first of these was Stargate: SG-1 (which concluded with two movies ) , followed by Stargate: Atlantis , and Stargate: Universe . With ten seasons, SG-1 was the longest-running genre show until the CW's Supernatural claimed that honor with its fifteen seasons. While the Stargate franchise never quite achieved the level of pop culture saturation that Star Trek has, both franchises have a lot in common, including the following twelve actors.

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12 Tony Todd

Legendary actor Tony Todd had a three-episode arc in Stargate SG-1's ninth season as the leader of an elite force of Jaffa warriors. While most of the Jaffa act as warriors for the villainous Goa'uld, these Jaffa had rejected the belief that the Goa'uld were gods and formed their own community. Star Trek fans know Todd as Klingon Warrior Kurn, the brother of Worf (Michael Dorn), and Todd also played the adult Jake Sisko in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine classic "The Visitor. " Though his roles in Star Trek and Stargate were both relatively small, Todd is always a commanding presence on screen and both of these minor characters had major influences on the main characters they encountered.

11 Dwight Schultz

Dwight Shultz, known to Star Trek: The Next Generation fans as Lt. Reginald Barclay, made an appearance in Stargate: SG-1 season 2 episode, "The Gamekeeper." Shultz plays an enigmatic character known only as The Keeper who traps Colonel Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and his team in a simulation. With a plot that would not feel out of place on Star Trek , this episode has moments where the team (and viewer) think they have escaped their virtual reality only to find themselves still in a simulation. Shultz plays a much more sinister character here than on Star Trek, and the story plays out like classic science fiction.

10 Nicole de Boer

The actress behind Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Lt. Ezri Dax, Nicole de Boer, played Dr. Alison Porter in the season five Stargate: Atlantis episode "Whispers." In the episode, she and her team travel to another planet with Atlantis regulars Lt. Colonel Jack Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) and Dr. Carson Beckett (Paul McGillion). As they investigate the dark and foggy forests on the planet, their group is attacked by a giant bug-like creature. The rest of the episode plays out like a horror movie, with some of the group being picked off while the others fight to survive. De Boer's Dr. Porter survives the episode, and though potential romantic feelings between her and Dr. Beckett were teased, she never appeared again.

9 Armin Shimerman

Everyone's favorite Ferengi actor, Armin Shimerman, only shows up in one early episode of Stargate SG-1 . During his time as Quark on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Shimerman found time to join the cast of SG-1 to play a member of a mysterious and powerful alien race called the Nox. The SG-1 team, led by Colonel Jack O'Neill, visits the planet of the Nox looking for a creature that can supposedly become invisible. What they find is a race of extremely powerful aliens who refuse to get involved in the affairs of other species. Though Stargate does not have a rule exactly like Star Trek's Prime Directive, there are several situations like this one where a similar question arises.

8 Rene Auberjonois

With a plot that it seems every science fiction show attempts at some point, Stargate SG-1 season 4 episode "The Other Side" is Stargate's Space Nazi episode. In a character who could not be more different from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Odo , Rene Auberjonois plays the leader of a people who seek to wipe out those they see as "impure." Early in the episode, Stargate Command receives a message from a human colony on another planet requesting aid against their enemies in exchange for advanced technology. Initially, those at Command agree to help, but Dr. Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) questions the motives of the colonists and the lack of information about their supposed enemy. This leads to the revelation of the colonist's Nazi-like beliefs and ends any chance of an alliance with Stargate Command.

7 John Billingsly

In one of the most fun Star Trek crossovers with Stargate , Star Trek: Enterprise's John Billingsly plays Dr. Simon Coombs in a season 6 episode called "The Other Guys." A self-described nerd, Dr. Coombs is a scientist researching one of the planets accessible by the Stargate. Coombs and his friend, Dr. Felger (Patrick McKenna), rarely become involved in major Stargate missions, but this episode finds them trying to save Colonel O'Neill and his team. After the SG-1 team is captured by a villainous Goa'uld, Coombs and Felger attempt a rescue only to discover that O'Neill and his team had allowed themselves to be taken. Throughout the episode, Coombs makes several Star Trek references and at one point, a Klingon Bat'leth is visible in the background.

6 Jolene Blalock

In Stargate: SG-1 , Jolene Blalock got to play a much more emotional character than Star Trek: Enterprise's T'Pol . Appearing in two episodes of SG-1 , Blalock played a Jaffa warrior named Ishta who led a group of women warriors. The Jaffa did not typically allow women to become warriors and Ishta fought to keep her followers safe from those that would harm them. Over the course of the episode, she grew close with one of the members of the SG-1 team, Teal'c (Christopher Judge). Teal'c was also a Jaffa warrior and, though the two began a romantic relationship in this episode, Ishta would only make one more appearance in the series.

5 Marina Sirtis

Though Marina Sirtis only appears in one episode of Stargate , she does get to be the main character in it. In the Stargate: SG-1 season 4 episode "Watergate," Sirtis plays a Russian scientist acting as an envoy for the SG-1 team. When an active Stargate in possession of the Russians prevents Stargate Command from activating their Stargate, Jack O'Neill and his team must travel to Russia to uncover the problem. This episode includes some tense moments in a submarine on a planet entirely covered in water, and Sirtis gets to play a more commanding role than Star Trek: The Next Generation's Counselor Deanna Troi .

4 John de Lancie

Playing a character much less fun than Star Trek's Q , John de Lancie appeared in five episodes across two seasons of Stargate SG-1. Despite not having any interdimensional powers, de Lancie's character of Colonel Frank Simmons was still an annoyance for Jack O'Neill and his team. As an agent for the fictional National Intelligence Department, Simmons disagreed with most of the actions taken by Stargate Command and often tried to interfere. He claimed he was working for the greater good of all mankind, but clearly had his own personal agenda and had cemented himself as a villain by the last of his five episodes.

3 Connor Trinneer

After Star Trek: Enterprise ended , Connor Trinneer joined the cast of Stargate: Atlantis as a recurring antagonist named Michael. While trying to find a way to overcome their enemies known as the Wraith, the scientists on Atlantis attempted to turn a Wraith into a human. Despite being initially successful, the experiment ultimately failed and Michael was the result. Stuck somewhere between being a human and a Wraith, Michael then became a thorn in the side of Atlantis. Over the course of his ten episode appearances, Michael attempted various plots to get revenge on those at Atlantis who had wronged him and to create more beings like himself.

2 Colm Meaney

Another actor who portrayed a heroic Star Trek character but a villainous Stargate one, Colm Meaney played Cowen, the chief of the duplicitous military society known as the Genii. Though he only appeared in three episodes across seasons one and two of Stargate: Atlantis , Cowan was mentioned in several others and made quite an impression on the Atlantis team. This, of course, does not compare to Meaney's time as the "most important man in Starfleet history" Miles O'Brien , but his Atlantis character did manage to cause several headaches for Colonel Sheppard and his team.

1 Robert Picardo

The only major Star Trek actor to also play one of the main characters on a Stargate show is none other than Star Trek: Voyager's Doctor, Robert Picardo. Though his character of Richard Woolsey made a few appearances on Stargate: SG-1 , he would go on to become a series regular for Stargate: Atlantis season 5. In his earliest appearances on SG-1 , Woolsey was a bit of an adversary for Stargate Command, as he did not approve of the Stargate program. Over time, however, he came to understand and respect what they did, and would eventually become the leader of the Atlantis base. Woolsey became an integral part of the Stargate program, and was one of only eight characters to appear in all three Stargate shows. There are many crossovers between Stargate and Star Trek , and it is fitting that this list should end with an actor who played beloved and complex characters in both franchises.

10 Actors Who Have Been On Both Star Trek And Stargate

So how do you prefer to travel, Warp Speed or through an Astria Porta?

In the many years that the dozen or so iterations of Star Trek have been on our screens, hundreds upon hundreds of actors have been and gone through those production sound stages and donned the iconic uniforms. Similarly, in the fourteen years that concurrent Stargate series were on television, a few hundred more actors were running around in the woods with P90's, being chased by aliens with strangely deep voices and glowing eyes.

Given the incestuous nature of the television industry, is there any possibility that some of these actors were the same ones? Of course there is. Sometimes a show will make a big deal out of guest-casting a starring member of another franchise (as Babylon 5 did when they landed Majel Barrett for an episode), while on other occasions an actor will be a guest star on a number of shows before finally landing a permanent role on another franchise.

From Klingons to Goa'uld, the galaxies have it all to offer a hard-working actor. So here are ten actors who were in both our beloved Star Trek and Stargate franchises.

10. Colm Meany

Starting off as 'bridge officer' on Star Trek The Next Generation, charismatic Irish actor Colm Meany soon found himself in the recurring role of transporter chief Miles O'Brien, who then became Chief Petty Officer on Deep Space Nine. While his career was stellar over on Star Trek, Colm Meany also landed himself the side-gig of playing Chief Cowen (interesting rank, there) over on the spin-off to Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis.

Early in Atlantis' run, the expedition ran afoul of a human race called the Genii, who presented themselves as simple farmers at first. It was soon revealed that they had a series of large underground cities and were experimenting with nuclear technology as a method of striking at the Wraith while they slept. Unfortunately, the arrival of the Atlantis personnel threw all that plan out the window and the two factions were at odds.

While the loveable Chief O'Brien was always a reassuring sight on the Enterprise or on Deep Space Nine, the few times that we got to see Chief Cowen showed just how ruthless a character Colm Meany is prepared to play.

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Stargate SG-1: 10 Great Guest Performances

We salute 10 memorable guest roles on Stargate SG-1, featuring Seth, The Keeper and more...

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As with our previous features, this is a list designed to celebrate the very best performances by guest actors in Stargate SG-1 . However, we did come across a couple of challenges in compiling the list for this particular series. We’ve defined ‘guest performance’ as an actor playing a character who is not a regular or recurring character – so the actor must have played the character no more than twice in this particular series (though they may have appeared more often in other branches of the franchise). Stargate SG-1 liked to re-use its best guest characters as often as possible, frequently bringing back characters like Claudia Black’s Vala Mal Doran after what was initially a one-off appearance, which is great as the audience get to enjoy them again, but seriously reduces the number of eligible performances.

The other problem, meanwhile, relates to the nature of the show. Stargate SG-1 gave us a number of memorable guest characters over the years, but they were often played by members of the main cast – like the Tok’Ra Jolinar, for example, who was played for the entirety of their appearance by Amanda Tapping, since they were occupying Samantha Carter’s body the whole time.

Still, with all that said, there are still guest appearances that were memorable, whether because they were touching, dramatic or funny. These are ten of the best.

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10. John Billingsley as Dr Simon Coombs in The Other Guys

The first of two Enterprise alumni to appear on this list, John Billingsley’s character in The Other Guys plays to his strengths – a socially awkward, rather clumsy, nerdy specialist in a narrow field (see also: The West Wing :  Somebody’s Going To Emergency , Somebody’s Going To Jail ). A number of actors were called upon to play such roles in SG-1 – James Spader’s Daniel Jackson in the original Stargate movie was the first, and in the early years Michael Shanks’ Daniel Jackson was played in a similar way. As the series went on, however, and Daniel became increasingly cooler and less caricatured, others were called upon to fill the role, especially in season 6, when Daniel was absent all together. Billingsley may be there primarily to make in-jokes about Star Trek in a rather daft comedy episode, but he does the job better than most.

9. Sean Patrick Flannery as Orlin in Ascension (character played by Cameron Bright in The Fourth Horseman Part 1 )

Discounting the torch she held for years for her boss Jack O’Neill, Samantha Carter had a type; quiet, sensitive guys, possibly aliens, generally hiding some terrible secret or burdensome knowledge, and almost certainly doomed. Orlin was only half-doomed, since he was able to ascend, but otherwise he fits the bill perfectly. Sean Patrick Flannery manages to deliver a performance that eases over the extremely creepy way Orlin treats Carter at first, basically sneaking into her house and stalking her, and creates a sympathetic, while markedly alien, character.

8. Robert Duncan as Seth/Setesh in Seth

Given the premise of SG-1 , that the Goa’uld pose as gods, including numerous Earth gods, it’s not surprising that they decided to do an episode centred around a Goa’uld posing as a cult leader. What makes Seth really fun, though, is the sort of cult leader he decides to be. No sackcloth and ashes for Seth; he is too cool for school, all black leather and floppy hair.

Robert Duncan’s performance perfectly blends the arrogance adopted by all actors playing Goa’uld (most of whom are ineligible for this list, as they tend to become recurring characters) with a truly Earthly sense of cool and style that would partly explain his appeal to his followers, even without his drugging and literally brain-washing them.

7. Jolene Blalock as Ishta in Birthright and Sacrifices

Birthright is not one of SG-1 ’s best episodes. It was written by Christopher Judge and clearly motivated partly by giving him an opportunity for a love story with a gorgeous co-star, not to mention drawing on that hokiest of concepts, the planet full of women with no men. However, the fact that it works at all is largely thanks to Jolene Blalock’s performance as the pseudo-Amazons’ leader, Ishta.

Embodying a male fantasy of a woman who combines a maternal gentleness with formidable fighting skills is not easy, and Blalock does it well. The episode was made during Star Trek: Enterprise ’s run and there are elements of the Vulcan about her performance, but these work well for the character, and there is a greater sense of ease and comfort in her own skin in Ishta that does not exist in T’Pol of Vulcan.

6. Jan Rubes as Nicholas Ballard in Crystal Skull

Jan Rubes, best known for his role as an Amish grandfather in Peter Weir’s Witness , gives a gloriously hammy performance as Daniel’s troubled grandfather here. While he never believed Daniel about the pyramids being spaceships, Daniel never believed in his encounter with giant aliens either – such a bizarre family rift requires some enthusiastic acting and Rubes delivers it. When he is finally reunited with his beloved giant aliens, his joy and wonder is equally heart-warming.

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5. Dwight Schultz as The Keeper in The Gamekeeper

Another Star Trek alumnus – SG-1 liked to hire Star Trek actors and did so often – Dwight Schultz’s character here takes all the highly strung aspects of Lt. Barclay, dials them up to eleven, and removes not only the stutter, but any sense of being a decent human being. His villain is both horrifyingly funny and supremely creepy, and watching him disintegrate as his carefully preserved lifestyle is brought down, having seen him subject our heroes to the worst kind of emotional torture, is extremely satisfying.

4. Megan Leitch as Ke’ra/Linea in Past And Present (character played by Bonnie Bartlet in Prisoners )

There’s a fascinating concept behind Megan Leitch’s Ke’ra – a character we have met before and known as a ruthless killer (indeed, a Destroyer of Worlds) becomes a completely different person when deprived of her memories. It’s a really interesting philosophical idea, and it requires a nuanced performance from Leitch, in which she must convince as a genuine love interest for Daniel Jackson, but hint at the possibility of a darkness underneath, were circumstances different. Her character has been a mass murderer, but without the memories that made her that way, she becomes a person willing to sacrifice her memories, to avoid going down that path again. It’s a tricky job, and Leitch pulls it off nicely.

3. Keene Curtis as Ernest Littlefield in The Torment Of Tantalus (character as a young man played by Paul McGillion)

The part of Ernest Littlefield in The Torment Of Tantalus is a really juicy one for an actor – stranded for 50 years without human company, separated from his fiancée, then reunited with her but still unable to grasp the answers he’s looking for, it’s the sort of role an actor can really get their teeth into. Keene Curtis does not waste the opportunity – his Ernest is equal parts weary, disillusioned, hopeful, romantic and emotional isolated, and thanks to him, the high concept of the episode works so well you won’t even wonder how his was able to refill his pens to keep his journal.

2. Dom DeLuise as Urgo in Urgo

Dom De Luise plays himself – but then, who could do it better? DeLuise’s son, Peter DeLuise, was a writer, director and producer on SG-1 , so it’s no wonder that he took advantage of his famous comedic actor father and featured him in the show (his two brothers also made smaller guest appearances). Urgo is an episode built entirely around DeLuise’s character, who literally gets into SG-1’s heads, and metaphorically into those of the audience as well. Comedy episodes were always a relative strength of SG-1 , and this is one of the best and fondest-remembered, not so much for its plot, but for the joy of watching DeLuise’s performance.

1. Robin Mossley as Malikai in Window Of Opportunity

Window Of Opportunity is one of the most beloved episodes in the entire Stargate franchise, and a serious contender for the best SG-1 episode overall. For the most part, its beloved because its a glorious comedy episode, featuring fruit loops, playing golf through the Stargate, Teal’c being hit in the face by a door and Jack trying to learn Latin. However, what raises it above SG-1 ’s other excellent comedy episodes is the climax. Suddenly, the episode turns on its head and becomes about grief and loss, and the lengths to which we might go just to see a loved one again, even knowing we couldn’t save them.

Richard Dean Anderson is great here, but the final act turn really depends upon Robin Mossley’s Malikai, the unwitting cause of all Jack and Teal’c’s problems. Malikai has done something selfish, but for such tragic, relatable reasons, and Mossley’s despair and desperation are beautifully portrayed. A perfect, tragic ending to a perfect episode.

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Stargate (franchise)

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The Stargate franchise is a series of science fiction television shows and films about a modern secret US Air Force unit exploring the galaxy through an interstellar network of ancient portals. The primary series, Stargate SG-1 , had a ten season run, longer than any individual Star Trek series, or, as of 2016, any other American science fiction series.

The franchise has made numerous references to Star Trek and has featured appearances by a number of actors who had previously appeared in various Star Trek series. In particular, Robert Picardo ( The Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager ) had a recurring role as Richard Woolsey beginning with the Stargate SG-1 episode " Heroes, Part 2 ". Woolsey later joined the main cast of Stargate: Atlantis for its fifth and final season.

Like Battlestar Galactica , the ancient astronaut idea is central to the plot of the franchise, if not more so. The idea that the basis of Human gods were originally powerful extraterrestrials was explored previously on Star Trek , as was the notion that various ancient cultures from Earth were exported to other planets.

Unlike Star Trek , Battlestar Galactica , or Star Wars , actual space ships play a diminished role in the series and most travel between planets is done by a series of artificial wormholes created through ancient metal rings large enough to easily step through that give the series its name. The action is also set largely within the present day, rather than the future, or the past, in the case of Star Wars.

• 1 Stargate (1994 film)
• 2.1.1 "Children of the Gods"
• 2.1.2 "Cold Lazarus"
• 2.1.3 "The Nox"
• 2.1.4 "Solitudes"
• 2.1.5 "Tin Man"
• 2.1.6 "Politics"
• 2.2.1 "The Gamekeeper"
• 2.2.2 "Holiday"
• 2.2.3 "1969"
• 2.3.1 "Point of View"
• 2.3.2 "A Hundred Days"
• 2.4.1 "The Other Side"
• 2.4.2 "Window of Opportunity"
• 2.4.3 "Watergate"
• 2.4.4 "The First Ones"
• 2.4.5 "Tangent"
• 2.4.6 "2010"
• 2.4.7 "Prodigy"
• 2.5.1 "Ascension"
• 2.5.2 "Wormhole X-Treme"
• 2.5.3 "Proving Ground"
• 2.5.4 "The Tomb"
• 2.5.5 "48 Hours"
• 2.5.6 "Last Stand"
• 2.6.1 "Redemption, Part 1"
• 2.6.2 "Redemption, Part 2"
• 2.6.3 "The Other Guys"
• 2.6.4 "Unnatural Selection"
• 2.6.5 "Disclosure"
• 2.6.6 "Prophecy"
• 2.7.1 "Fallen"
• 2.7.2 "Lifeboat"
• 2.7.3 "Enemy Mine"
• 2.7.4 "Avenger 2.0"
• 2.7.5 "Birthright"
• 2.7.6 "Evolution Part I"
• 2.7.7 "Grace"
• 2.8.1 "It's Good to Be King"
• 2.8.2 "Full Alert"
• 2.8.3 "Moebius, Part 2"
• 2.9.1 "The Ties that Bind"
• 2.9.2 "Babylon"
• 2.9.3 "Prototype"
• 2.9.4 "The Fourth Horseman (Part 2 of 2)"
• 2.9.5 "Ripple Effect"
• 2.9.6 "Crusade"
• 2.9.7 "Camelot"
• 2.10.1 "Flesh and Blood"
• 2.10.2 "Uninvited"
• 2.10.3 "200"
• 3.1.1 "Thirty-Eight Minutes"
• 3.1.2 "Poisoning the Well"
• 3.1.3 "The Storm"
• 3.1.4 "The Eye"
• 3.1.5 "The Defiant One"
• 3.1.6 "Sanctuary"
• 3.1.7 "The Brotherhood"
• 3.2.1 "Epiphany"
• 3.2.2 "Inferno"
• 3.3.1 "Irresistible"
• 3.3.2 "McKay and Mrs. Miller"
• 3.3.3 "Submersion"
• 3.4.1 "Doppelganger"
• 3.4.2 "This Mortal Coil"
• 3.4.3 "Quarantine"
• 3.5.1 "Whispers"
• 3.5.2 "The Lost Tribe"
• 3.5.3 "Inquisition"
• 3.5.4 "Vegas"
• 4.1.1 "Earth"
• 4.1.2 "Faith"
• 4.2.1 "Twin Destinies"
• 4.2.2 "Hope"
• 4.2.3 "Blockade"
• 5 Stargate Origins
• 6 Background information
• 7.1 Performers
• 7.2 Writers
• 9 External links

Stargate (1994 film) [ ]

The original film plays on the premise that the Ancient Egyptian civilization was created by aliens masquerading as gods, particularly a being called Ra , but that Humans were able to expel them and close off the Stargate which led to Earth. By the time it was re-opened, Humans had advanced by thousands of years.

Stargate performers who have also performed in the Star Trek franchise include Erick Avari , Erik Holland , Richard Kind , Leon Rippy , Scott Alan Smith , Derek Webster , and Frank Welker .

Stargate SG-1 [ ]

Season 1 [ ], "children of the gods" [ ].

Major Feretti gives a Vulcan salute

Arriving on Abydos , Major Feretti gives Daniel Jackson a Vulcan hand salute .

"Cold Lazarus" [ ]

This episode features crystalline entities which try and communicate with SG1. Such beings featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation , but were far more dangerous.

One of the crystalline entities produces a double of Jack O'Neill which visits his ex-wife. The SG1 team must go out to find O'Neill's double, including Teal'c, who wears a baseball cap to hide the Jaffa mark on his forehead, much as Spock has to hide his ears on a number of occasions to travel undetected. This is the first time Teal'c does this, but it occurs a number of other times.

"The Nox" [ ]

This episode features Armin Shimerman in a major guest role as Anteaus .

"Solitudes" [ ]

"tin man" [ ], "politics" [ ].

This episode introduces the character of Senator Kinsey , played by Ronny Cox . His role as an antagonistic authority figure has similarities to Edward Jellico (as well as many other characters Cox has played).

Season 2 [ ]

"the gamekeeper" [ ], "holiday" [ ].

This episode has Jack O'Neill identifying himself as "Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise " when captured by the US Air Force, after traveling back in time.

Season 3 [ ]

"point of view" [ ].

"Evil" Teal'c in the alternate reality

"A Hundred Days" [ ]

Season 4 [ ], "the other side" [ ].

Rene Auberjonois plays a character called Alar , who shares his name with a background character from Star Trek: The Animated Series .

"Window of Opportunity" [ ]

"watergate" [ ], "the first ones" [ ], "tangent" [ ].

When asked if he could "beam" Colonel O'Neill and Teal'c out from the X-301, Jacob Carter retorts, " What am I, Scotty ? "

In the background of a shot, a tourist can be seen posing for a photograph while performing the Vulcan hand salute.

"Prodigy" [ ]

Cadet Hailey refers to zat'nik'tels as "those phaser things".

Season 5 [ ]

"ascension" [ ].

First appearance of Colonel Frank Simmons, a recurring antagonist in season 5, played by John de Lancie .

"Wormhole X-Treme" [ ]

The transporter effect as seen in Star Trek: The Original Series

When Tanner and the others beam up to their ship at the end of the episode, the beam pattern and color is the same as that of the transporter beam from Star Trek: The Original Series .

"Proving Ground" [ ]

"the tomb" [ ], "48 hours" [ ].

Another episode featuring the Colonel Chekov character, along with TNG's John de Lancie playing Colonel Frank Simmons.

"Last Stand" [ ]

Season 6 [ ], "redemption, part 1" [ ].

While Major Samantha Carter is performing a system's check on the prototype X-302 fighter-interceptor, she mentions inertial dampers . Colonel Jack O'Neill then asks for the report on phasers , in which Carter denies his request to his disappointment. Also features Tony Amendola as Bra'tac .

"Redemption, Part 2" [ ]

Appearance of Colonel Chekov. Also features Tony Amendola as Bra'tac.

"The Other Guys" [ ]

A Klingon bat'leth in Lord Khonsu's chamber

Doctor Simon Coombs (played by John Billingsley ), is an avid Trekkie .

Dialogue in the episode includes:

There was also a bat'leth visible above Lord Khonsu's throne.

"Unnatural Selection" [ ]

This season 6 episode features an exchange between Carter and O'Neill about the name of the first Earth spaceship:

"Disclosure" [ ]

Appearance of the Colonel Chekov character.

"Prophecy" [ ]

Featuring Thomas Kopache as Ellori . Kopache has the unusual distinction of having appeared in four Trek series.

Season 7 [ ]

"fallen" [ ], "lifeboat" [ ], "enemy mine" [ ], "avenger 2.0" [ ].

When Dr. Felger constructs a supposedly revolutionary weapon for use against the Goa'uld, Colonel O'Neill asks, " Phaser ? " Felger's assistant, Chloe , replies, " More like a photon torpedo . "

"Birthright" [ ]

Featuring Jolene Blalock .

"Evolution Part I" [ ]

When Colonel O'Neill and company are taken prisoner by a Goa'uld, a Jaffa approaches them. O'Neill says, " Greetings, " and makes a halfhearted Vulcan salute.

"Grace" [ ]

Season 8 [ ], "it's good to be king" [ ], "full alert" [ ], "moebius, part 2" [ ], season 9 [ ], "the ties that bind" [ ].

Featuring Wallace Shawn , as Arlos Kadawam , who plays Grand Nagus Zek on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine .

"Babylon" [ ]

After a Jaffa makes it appear that Colonel Mitchell has died and come back to life, the colonel says, " Well done, Bones . " This is a reference to " Amok Time ".

Tony Todd ( Haikon ) is best known for playing Worf 's brother Kurn in TNG. At one point he says " I hope you are prepared to die well ", which is also a Klingon motto.

"Prototype" [ ]

Featuring Robert Picardo , who also appeared in " Prototype ".

"The Fourth Horseman (Part 2 of 2)" [ ]

Another appearance of Colonel Chekov. Also features Tony Amendola as Bra'tac and Tony Todd as Haikon.

"Ripple Effect" [ ]

Colonel Mitchell concludes that members of SG-1 from an alternate universe aren't evil because they don't have beards.

"Crusade" [ ]

Colonel Chekov features. Michael Shanks also appears.

"Camelot" [ ]

Another appearance of Chekov. Also features Eric Steinberg .

Season 10 [ ]

"flesh and blood" [ ].

Named in homage to VOY : " Flesh and Blood ", in which Robert Picardo also stars. Also features Tony Amendola as Bra'tac, and Eric Steinberg as Netan . Final appearance of the Colonel Chekov character.

"Uninvited" [ ]

The mock-up Star Trek crew composed of SG-1

The 200th episode of Stargate SG-1 was planned as an homage to its many fans. It had many different references to other shows, and included one to TOS.

While pitching movie ideas to the crew of SG-1 , Martin Lloyd – the person from the studio – comes up with a brilliant idea. He begins to describe it and the scene shifts to the bridge of a Daedalus -class ship (as shown in the Stargate Universe). Mitchell is wearing command division red while acting like Kirk. Carter is shown wearing an earpiece like Uhura's. Teal'c is shown acting like Worf at a security station. Daniel is shown looking into a science monitor like Spock often did (and acting like McCoy). The episode even shows a Scottish engineer in the ship's engine room. Back in reality, Daniel spots the ripoff.

Stargate Atlantis [ ]

In a few episodes, Dr. Carson Beckett objects to physical labor by starting a sentence " I'm a doctor, not a... " similar to Dr. McCoy. In one episode, John Sheppard mentions Dr. McCoy, then explains, " That's the person Dr. Beckett plays in real life, " after realizing that residents of another galaxy didn't understand the reference.

"Thirty-Eight Minutes" [ ]

Dr. Carson Beckett says to Sheppard, " I hear you got yourself a cling-on. "

"Poisoning the Well" [ ]

"the storm" [ ], "the eye" [ ].

Dr. Beckett exclaims " I'm a bloody medical doctor, not a magician! "

"The Defiant One" [ ]

This is the first episode in which Rodney McKay describes John Sheppard as being similar to Captain Kirk. When a hostile alien known as the Wraith takes over his spaceship known as a Puddle Jumper, Rodney says " What are you, Captain Kirk? "

"Sanctuary" [ ]

"the brotherhood" [ ].

Dr. Carson Beckett says " For the last time, I'm a doctor, not a bloody fighter pilot! "

"Epiphany" [ ]

"inferno" [ ].

The team finds an ancient ship where Colonel Sheppard tells Dr. McKay that they cannot call the ship the Enterprise . They instead call it the Orion , at Sheppard's insistence.

"Irresistible" [ ]

"mckay and mrs. miller" [ ].

Rodney McKay calls Sheppard "Kirk" after Sheppard introduces himself to McKay's sister, Jeannie Miller.

"Submersion" [ ]

A member of the Atlantis crew talks with a co-worker and complains about the fact that Rodney McKay never remembers his name, or uses a false name for him. He said that when McKay ever does it again, he will call him "McCoy" instead of "McKay", a reference to Leonard McCoy.

The Atlantis expedition crew adopts a Star Trek -like uniform color code among the civilian staff, with the expedition leaders (Weir, Carter, and Woolsey, the latter of whom was played by Robert Picardo) wearing red and scientists wearing blue. Several references were made since Picardo's addition to the cast in the show's final season.

"Doppelganger" [ ]

Sheppard muses whether his evil self in a mirror universe has a goatee, referencing Spock's double in " Mirror, Mirror ".

"This Mortal Coil" [ ]

"quarantine" [ ], "whispers" [ ].

Featuring Nicole de Boer , and mentions Robert Picardo's character.

"The Lost Tribe" [ ]

"inquisition" [ ].

At the beginning of the episode, Richard Woolsey (played by Robert Picardo) compares the Coalition of Planets (an interplanetary government) to a Federation . Dr. Rodney McKay notes that the "Federation" had ships, which is a reference to Star Trek , in which Earth is a part of the United Federation of Planets. In the Star Trek universe, the "Coalition of Planets" is also a precursor to the Federation.

"Vegas" [ ]

In the episode "Vegas", Rodney McKay makes a remark about a Wraith getting a job as a Klingon at Star Trek: The Experience , but Woolsey (played by Robert Picardo) tells him that it's been shut down and Radek Zelenka was disappointed by the news telling them both that he wanted to see it.

Stargate Universe [ ]

"earth" [ ].

Upon being suggested that Eli should tell his mother the truth, he says she can barely follow an episode of Star Trek .

"Faith" [ ]

Upon encountering a planet that's not in Destiny 's database, and later revealed to be created artificially, Eli references the Genesis Device .

"Twin Destinies" [ ]

The plot device of the ship undergoing power fluctuations in the middle of a transplant procedure is reminiscent of " Journey to Babel ".

"Blockade" [ ]

When Camile Wray complains that there aren't enough seats on Destiny 's bridge, Colonel Young offers her his seat with all of the ship's controls on it. She refuses, saying it's his chair. He says " What am I, Captain Kirk? Sit in the chair. "

Stargate Origins [ ]

February 2018 saw a revival attempt of the Stargate franchise with the launch of the ten-episode, ten-minute Origins webisode series on the occasion of its 20th anniversary, in which the existing mythology of the franchise is further expanded upon. The low-budget production features Star Trek: Enterprise star Connor Trinneer as one of the main characters.

Background information [ ]

The Stargate live-action franchise was produced for the Sci-Fi Channel by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , ironically the very first Hollywood studio to turn down TOS back in 1964.

Long time Senior Illustrator Rick Sternbach , one of the most prolific production illustrators on the Star Trek live-action franchise, has stated on several occasions that he is an avowed fan of the Stargate franchise, remarking, " I’m a huge Stargate fanatic. Aside from the fact that a lot of our guys ended up on their show, including Bob Picardo, aside from that, they do Star Trek very well. I don't mean that in a snarky way. They learned, they understood what makes a fun, semi-serious, science fiction show. There were a number of very forgettable space science fictions shows and films, like, Space Ranger , I think it was. You've got all the standard elements, space ships, astronauts, aliens, and for some reason they didn't click. What they did with the Stargate concept was brilliant. The idea of a gateway to another star system is as old as science fiction, but what they did with the idea was tremendous. " [1]

As far as science fiction is concerned, Stargate , has as of 2016 been in format, popularity, and longevity, the third most successful franchise in American media history, after Star Trek and Star Wars . However, when counting the British-produced Doctor Who franchise, it has been the fourth for longevity, Doctor Who actually being the oldest of them all and still up and running (despite having a hiatus in the nineties). Despite attaining a cult status, after live-action production had been suspended in 2011, interest in Stargate as a franchise waned sharply and quickly, and while considerable, its longevity has not come anywhere near that of Star Trek , or Star Wars for that matter.

Crossover [ ]

Performers [ ].

Many (guest) actors from the Star Trek series have guest-starred on the Stargate series. They include:

• Tony Amendola as Bra'tac
• David Andrews as Se'tak
• Rene Auberjonois as Alar (a character called Alar also appears in TAS)
• Erick Avari as Kasuf
• John Billingsley as Dr. Simon Coombs
• Jolene Blalock as Ishta
• Frank Collison as Keturah
• Ronny Cox as Robert Kinsey
• Steven Culp as Henry Wallace
• Nicole de Boer as Dr. Alison Porter
• John de Lancie as Colonel Frank Simmons
• Louis Ferreira as Colonel Everett Young
• Robert Foxworth as Ashwan
• Willie Garson as Martin Lloyd
• Christopher Heyerdahl as Pallan, Halling, and Todd
• Elizabeth Hoffman as Catherine Langford
• Richard Kind as Gary Meyers and Lucius Lavin
• Robert Knepper as Simeon
• Thomas Kopache as Ellori
• Christopher McDonald as Senator Alan Armstrong
• Scott MacDonald as Golan Jarlath
• Dakin Matthews as Maz'rai
• Paul McGillion as Dr. Carson Beckett
• Colm Meaney as Cowen
• Anthony Montgomery as a mover
• Obi Ndefo as Rak'nor
• Robert Picardo as Richard Woolsey
• Claire Rankin as Dr. Kate Heightmeyer
• Leon Rippy as Major General W.O. West
• Saul Rubinek as Emmett Bregman
• Alan Ruck as Dr. Adam Fletcher
• Dwight Schultz as The Keeper (a character called The Keeper also appears in TOS)
• Wallace Shawn as Arlos Kadawam
• Armin Shimerman as Anteaus
• Marina Sirtis as Dr. Svetlana Markov
• Eric Steinberg as Netan
• Scott Alan Smith as Unnamed Officer (credited as "Scott Smith")
• David Ogden Stiers as Oberoth
• Marshall R. Teague as Col. Frank Cromwell
• Tony Todd as Haikon
• Tamlyn Tomita as Shen Xiaoyi
• Connor Trinneer as Michael Kenmore
• Musetta Vander as Shan'auc of the Red Hills
• Gwynyth Walsh as Kelmaa
• Derek Webster as Lt. Brown
• Doug Wert as Maj. Hadden
• Marc Worden as Ronan
• Rick Worthy as K'tano/Imhotep (a species called the Imhotep also appears in VOY)
• Vincent Hammond as Ruax, Unas Elder, and Big One

Writers [ ]

• Steven Barnes
• Alan Brennert
• David Bennett Carren
• J. Larry Carroll
• James Crocker
• Jonathan Glassner
• David Kemper
• Scott Nimerfro
• Ted Pedersen
• Katharyn Powers
• Ron Wilkerson
• David Niall Wilson

See also [ ]

External links [ ].

• Stargate.MGM.com - official website
• Stargate-SGC wiki at Fandom.com
• Stargate wiki
• Stargate at Wikipedia
• 1 Abdullah bin al-Hussein

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"Greetings from Earth, Dr. Jackson."

Star Trek was a science fiction television series created on Earth in the late 1960s by Gene Roddenberry . Though it achieved little success in its original run, it inspired several films and spin-off series years later.

The series has had a huge impact on Earth culture and jargon. For example, humans of the Tau'ri often refer to the act of using Asgard teleportation technology as "beaming." Dr. Simon Coombs , a scientist working at Stargate Command , is an obsessed fan of the series. ( SG1 : " The Other Guys ")

Martin Lloyd had plagiarized Star Trek as part of a plot for the proposed TV movie of Wormhole X-Treme! . ( SG1 : " 200 ")

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References [ ]

SG-1 members playing the crew of the Starship Enterprise .

• When arriving on Abydos , Major Louis Ferretti greets Dr. Daniel Jackson with the Vulcan salute. ( SG1 : " Children of the Gods ")
• When asked his name by Major Robert Thornbird , Colonel Jack O'Neill identifies himself as "Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise " before changing to "Luke Skywalker" of Star Wars . ( SG1 : " 1969 ") (Star Trek existed in 1969 -albeit it was an obscure show at the time. Star Wars was yet to be released)
• When asked if he could "beam" O'Neill and Teal'c out of the X-301 Interceptor , Jacob Carter asks "What am I? Scotty?" ( SG1 : " Tangent ")
• Cadet Jennifer Hailey referred to a Zat'nik'tel as a phaser. ( SG1 : " Prodigy ")
• The Russian commander, Colonel Chekov , is named after Original Series character Pavel Chekov, who was also of Russian descent.
• When going through the checklist for the X-302 hyperspace fighter , Major Samantha Carter lists Inertial Dampeners, which are a Star Trek technology. O'Neill looks surprised and replies "Cool! And check,". He then suggests phasers to which Carter replies "Sorry, sir." ( SG1 : " Redemption, Part 1 ")
• Dr. Simon Coombs makes various references to Star Trek . Additionally the Tok'ra agent, Khonsu , has a Klingon bat'leth on the wall behind his throne. ( SG1 : " The Other Guys ")
• When trying to settle on a name for the Prometheus , O'Neill suggests naming it the Enterprise . ( SG1 : " Unnatural Selection ")
• After waking from a drug induced state, intended to mimic death, Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell says to Jolan , "Well done, Bones", a reference to times Dr. Leonard McCoy used a similar technique. ( SG1 : " Babylon ")
• Mitchell concludes that an SG-1 team from an alternate reality is not evil because they don't have beards, a reference to Star Trek's mirror universe. ( SG1 : " Ripple Effect ")
• In a parody scene, the Odyssey was used as the Enterprise in an amalgam of The Original Series and The Next Generation . Mitchell was Captain Kirk, Teal'c was Worf, Carter was Uhura, Jackson was Dr. McCoy and the series' co-creator Brad Wright was Scotty. ( SG1 : " 200 ")
• When Mitchell took command of the Odyssey in 2007 , the first command he gave was "weapons to maximum". ( Stargate: The Ark of Truth )
• Whenever Teal'c is out of the SGC he wears a hat or headband to cover his head badge, just like Mr. Spock covers his ears when traveling to earth's past or a primitive people.

Atlantis [ ]

• When Major John Sheppard has an Iratus bug attached to him, Dr. Carson Beckett says to Sheppard: "I'm told you have something of a cling-on", immediately realising his reference to the Star Trek species Klingon . ( SGA : " Thirty-Eight Minutes ")
• Major John Sheppard compares Dr. Carson Beckett trepidation about going through the Stargate to Dr. McCoy's aversion to beaming. ( SGA : " Poisoning the Well ")
• Beckett makes comments similar to McCoy's famous "I'm a doctor, not a..." lines. ( SGA : " The Storm ", " The Eye ")
• Sheppard says "Alright -- let's remember where we parked," after activating a Puddle Jumper 's cloak . This is similar to a scene in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home , where Kirk tells the crew to remember where they parked a cloaked Klingon Bird of Prey in Golden Gate Park, in 1986. Later, after a Wraith takes their Jumper and Sheppard describes it as "his ship", Dr. Rodney McKay asks if Sheppard is Captain Kirk. ( SGA : " The Defiant One ")
• McKay compares Sheppard romantic behavior towards Chaya Sar to Captain Kirk's tendency to have romantic relationships with various alien women. After learning that Chaya does have feelings for Sheppard, McKay defeatedly proclaims that Sheppard is Kirk. ( SGA : " Sanctuary ")
• While thinking of new names for the Hippaforalkus , Sheppard immediately says that Enterprise will not be a name for the vessel. ( SGA : " Inferno ")
• While suspecting that Sheppard is hitting on his sister, McKay calls Sheppard "Kirk" to make him aware of what he's doing. ( SGA : " McKay and Mrs. Miller ")
• Dr. Graydon says that "One of these days I'm just going to call him Doctor McCoy" when talking about McKay. ( SGA : " Submersion ")
• Upon learning that he is the antagonist in several peoples' nightmares, Sheppard asks if he appeared with a goatee, again referencing Star Trek's mirror universe. ( SGA : " Doppelganger ")
• Richard P. Woolsey compares the Coalition of Planets (a new interplanetary government in the Pegasus galaxy ) to a Federation. McKay notes that the Federation had ships, which is a reference to Star Trek , in which Earth is a part of the United Federation of Planets. ( SGA : " Inquisition ")
• Richard P. Woolsey tells Dr. Beckett to "take her out" referring to the spacedock from the StarTrek films and series. ( SGA : " Enemy at the Gate ")
• In an alternate reality , Dr. Rodney McKay makes reference to Star Trek: The Experience , and its ending, in regards to the possibility that a Wraith took up a job as a Klingon there. Dr. Radek Zelenka was upset to hear of its closing, as he was keen on seeing the exhibit. Robert Picardo, who also appears in the episode, played the role of the Doctor in Star Trek: The Experience ( SGA : " Vegas ")

Universe [ ]

• Eli Wallace claims his mother "Can barely follow an episode of Star Trek ." ( SGU : " Earth ")
• Upon encountering the planet Eden not in Destiny 's database, Eli references the Genesis Device from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . ( SGU : " Faith ")
• Colonel Everett Young compared himself to Captain Kirk after offering to let Camile Wray sit in Destiny 's command chair. ( SGU : " Blockade ")
• In the episode " Twin Destinies " Season 2, Ep 12, Rush is accidentally sent back 12 hours into the past by a solar flare because of a failed attempt to dial earth inside a star, along with Destiny He took the opportunity to stop the crew from making the same mistake. They looted the Destiny from the future of it's supplies and power conduits because they needed to fix the ship and were running out of supplies.

Right before they went to gather supplies, Adam Brody shows the crew what the power conduit parts look like and Greer asks "What do ya call those things?" and Brody says "I don't know... things that make it go?". This is a reference to Star Trek:TNG, the episode "Samaritan Snare" Season 2, ep 17 where the Pakled's attempt to kidnap Geordi under the false pretense their ship the "Mondor" is broken, but they sabotaged their ship themselves. Riker inquired about what their needs are and their real purpose for sending a distress call to the USS Enterprise D, but all Pakled's said was "We look for things... things that make us go". This is indicating to the situation the crew are in being stuck on Destiny far from home, it was Brody's way of trying to express how he and the crew hate being stuck on Destiny and miss being home on earth.

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Stargate SG-1 Actors You Might Not Know Passed Away

Initially dismissed as a wan carbon copy of the 1994 science fiction adventure "Stargate," the syndicated series " Stargate SG-1 " blossomed into one of the most popular small-screen sci-fi efforts of the 1990s and early 2000s, netting multiple Emmy nominations, three spin-off series, and two direct-to-home video features during and after the course of its ten-season run. Much of the series' eventual success was due to the efforts of the producers, including creators Jonathan Glassner and Brad Wright, and star Richard Dean Anderson, who played Colonel Jack O'Neill, the no-nonsense leader of SG-1 — an Air Force special forces team that uses stargate technology to traverse the galaxy and defend Earth against various alien races. The show's producers and writers expanded the feature's premise to explore complex extraterrestrial civilizations and their influence on Earth's history, religion, and mythology.

The  main cast of "Stargate SG-1"  led by Anderson, Amanda Tapping (as military officer Samantha Carter), Michael Shanks (as scientist Daniel Jackson), and Christopher Judge (as Jaffa warrior Teal'c) was also instrumental to its popularity. The versatile crew of actors maintained a solid balance between action, drama, and occasional forays into self-referential humor. Their work was buttressed by a strong and diverse cast of supporting players and guest stars. Given that "Stargate SG-1" closed for good in 2007, many of the cast remain active on TV and in films, while others have either retired or died due to age or illness. What follows is a spoiler-heavy list of "Stargate SG-1" actors you might not know passed away.

Cliff Simon was SG-1's primary bad guy, Ba'al

Cliff Simon , who played a long-running antagonist, the System Lord Ba'al, began his career as an athlete with dreams of winning Olympic gold for his native South Africa. He came close to his goal by qualifying for the 1984 Summer Olympics as a member of the Great Britain national team at the age of 17, but the intense training forced him to pivot to different interests. Simon returned to South Africa, where he completed military training before finding his way to performing through dance and acrobatics.

Simon performed with the Moulin Rouge in Paris and worked as a model, which led to his win at the 1992 Mr. South Africa contest. Television producers took notice of his athleticism and screen presence and offered him a role on the South African series "Egoli: Place of Gold." After a seven-year stint on the program, Simon headed to the United States. TV guest spots led to his 15-episode run as Ba'al in "Stargate SG-1," as well as his appearance as the character in the series' companion TV-movie, 2008's "Stargate: Continuum."

After "Stargate SG-1" ran its course, Simon busied himself with guest roles on "NCIS" and "The Americans," and lent his distinctive voice to ADR work for features like "Avengers: Age of Ultron." In 2020, he hosted and co-produced " Into the Unknown ," a Travel Channel series which took him around the world to explore folk legends in various regions. The 58-year-old Simon died  following a kiteboarding accident on March 9, 2021.

Don S. Davis' Gen. Hammond led SG-1 for seven years

Air Force Major General George S. Hammond oversaw Stargate Command for the first seven seasons of "Stargate SG-1." He was relieved of that duty at the end of Season 7 and sent to head up the Homeworld Security department. Hammond was described as retired at the end of Season 10 and noted as deceased in the series finale of the spin-off, "Stargate: Atlantis."

Actor Don S. Davis , who played Hammond on "Stargate SG-1" and in "Stargate: Continuum," taught theater at the University of British Columbia and left education in 1987 to pursue a career as an actor. Minor roles in features like "Stakeout" and series like "MacGyver" led to recurring assignments on "Twin Peaks" and "The X-Files." Character turns in features like Steven Spielberg's "Hook" and "A League of Their Own" preceded his reunion with "MacGyver" star Richard Dean Anderson on "Stargate SG-1." While appearing on that series, Davis also continued to land roles in features like "Con Air" and "Best in Show."

Health issues forced him to retire from full-time acting in 2007, but he continued to work in features and television, including guest appearances on "Supernatural" and the 2009 horror film "The Uninvited." Davis died of a heart attack at the age of 65 on June 29, 2008. Archival footage of his "Twin Peaks" character was featured in 2017's "Twin Peaks: The Return," as well as 2014's feature-length deleted scenes collection, "Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces."

Carmen Argenziano was Jacob Carter and his Tok'ra symbiote

Faced with a terminal illness, Samantha Carter's dad, Air Force general Jacob Carter, accepted a unique proposal to extend his life — he became the human host for Selmak, a leader of the Tok'ra, a symbiotic alien race related to the reptilian and villainous Goa'uld. His new role made him both a sympathetic conduit between the Tok'ra and SG-1, as well as a more patient father to his two adult children.

Actor Carmen Argenziano played Jacob Carter in 25 episodes of "SG-1" between 1998 and 2005. A member of the esteemed Actors Studio, Argenziano began appearing in films and on television in the late '60s, and gave numerous character turns in low-budget and independent features produced by Roger Corman's New World Pictures, including "Caged Heat" and "Crazy Mama." Argenziano also enjoyed a minor role as an enforcer in "The Godfather, Part II," and amassed a wealth of TV credits on series like "Lou Grant," "The A-Team," and "L.A. Law."

In the late 1980s and early '90s, Argenziano began working in studio features, landing supporting roles in high-profile films like "The Accused," "Don Juan DeMarco," and "Broken Arrow." He worked tirelessly into the new millennium with recurring appearances on "The District" and "CSI: NY," and roles in "Angels & Demons," among other features. Argenziano died  at the age of 75 on February 10, 2019.

Soul legend Isaac Hayes was the Jaffa warrior Tolok

In Season 8's "Reckoning," Teal'c, Bra'tac, and a legion of rebel Jaffa launch a plan to reclaim the holy planet of Dakara. To foment their plan, they consult a high-ranking warrior, Tolok, who shows initial concern that the assault on Dakara will weaken the rebel forces. The attack proves a success, and Tolok returns in Season 8's "Threads" to honor the pair's valor.

A bona fide music legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member played Tolok in both the "Reckoning" and "Threads" two-parter, and later returned to the series, albeit in voiceover only, for Season 10's "200."  Isaac Hayes  began his career in the 1960s as the co-writer of dozens of hit songs, including Sam & Dave's "Soul Man," before embarking on his own career as an R&B artist. In 1971, he scored a massive hit with "Theme from Shaft," the title track from his soundtrack for the Black action film of the same name. The song netted Hayes an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a Grammy, and helped pave the way for his acting career, which began in the early '70s.

After a bankruptcy issue in the mid-'70s, Hayes shifted his focus to acting, where his action movie-adjacent background made him ideal for tough guy parts in films like "Truck Turner" and John Carpenter's "Escape from New York." He moved into guest roles on television in the 1980s and displayed a talent for comedy in Keenan Ivory Wayans' "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" in 1988. More comedy work, including Mel Brooks' "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" preceded one of his best-known showcases — voicing the well-intentioned but lascivious Chef on "South Park."

Hayes fell out with "South Park"  in 2006 shortly before suffering a stroke. Despite the health concerns, Hayes returned to performing his vast catalog of hits for music audiences. The comeback proved short-lived. Hayes died at the age of 65 on August 10, 2008.

Willie Garson was an enterprising extraterrestrial in three SG-1 episodes

One of the most unique recurring characters on "SG-1" is Martin Lloyd, who appears in three episodes between Seasons 4 and 10. A human soldier from another planet whose people are eliminated by the Goa'uld, Lloyd and a few survivors flee to Earth, where the other survivors force Martin to forget his past life. Their efforts are only partially successful, leaving Martin paranoid and haunted by past-life memories –- which draws the attention of SG-1. Together, they discover that Martin's home planet has been destroyed. However, he turns the experience into a corny sci-fi television series, "Wormhole X-Treme!"

Willie Garson played Martin Lloyd in all three of the character's appearances on "SG-1." Though best known as Stanford Blatch on both the original and revived "Sex and the City," Garson's credits began in the 1980s with teen roles on " Mr. Belvedere ," among other series. He graduated to more complex adult roles in the 1990s, including three separate turns as Lee Harvey Oswald — in the 1992 feature "Ruby," the series "Quantum Leap," and one episode of "MADtv," respectively — and character performances in features like "Mars Attacks!," "Groundhog Day," "The Rock," and "Being John Malkovich." His TV work from this period included guest spots on "NYPD Blue," "Boy Meets World," and "The X-Files."

In addition to "Sex and the City," Garson also played Neal Caffrey's (Matt Bomer) con man sidekick Mozzie on "White Collar." Garson  died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 57 on September 21, 2021.

Maury Chaykin was a devious Goa'uld scientist

A thorn in the side of SG-1, Ba'al, and the beings known as the Ori, Nerus is a Goa'uld scientist whose prodigious appetite for food, wine, and lavish praise eventually proves to be his undoing. He tricks SG-1 into bombing an Ori force in order to steal their tactical secrets (Season 9's "Beachhead"), which earns him a stint in solitary confinement in Area 51. Major General Henry Landry (Beau Bridges) later uses Nerus' gluttony as a cover to stop Ba'al's plan to steal various stargates (Season 9's "Off the Grid").

Maury Chaykin played Nerus in both of his "SG-1" appearances. Born to parents from the United States and Canada, Chaykin worked extensively in features and on television productions on both sides of the border. He played the detective Nero Wolfe in several A&E TV movies and a 2001-2002 series, and performed notable parts in " Dances with Wolves ," "WarGames," "My Cousin Vinny," and several films directed by Atom Egoyan, including "The Sweet Hereafter." Chaykin netted a Genie Award — Canada's equivalent of an Oscar –  in 1994 for the indie drama "Whale Music."

Chaykin's TV work included a recurring role on "Entourage" as a character based on Harvey Weinstein, and on series ranging from "Due South" to "La Femme Nikita" (which earned him one of his two Gemini Awards , the Canadian equivalent of an Emmy) and the popular Canadian comedy "Less Than Kind." Chaykin died on July 27, 2010 — his 61st birthday — from complications of a heart valve infection.

Comic Dom DeLuise became a curious AI component

The Season 3 episode "Urgo" takes its name from an artificial intelligence component of an implant embedded into the brains of the SG-1 team during a supposed pleasure trip to the planet P4X-884. Urgo was a childlike entity with a desire for new experiences that caused it to manipulate the team's senses in order to experience food, games, and other fun. To carry out these experiments, Urgo manifested itself in the form of the humorless scientist, Togar.

Both Urgo and Togar were played by actor and comedian Dom DeLuise, for whom "Stargate SG-1" was something of a family affair. His son  Peter DeLuise  was a frequent writer-director and performer on the show, while his two other sons, Michael and David , and his daughter-in-law Ann Marie  were all guest stars. 

DeLuise had been making audiences laugh in films and on television since the early 1960s. Best known for his collaborations with Mel Brooks (including " Spaceballs "), Gene Wilder ("The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother"), and Burt Reynolds ("The Cannonball Run"), DeLuise was also a prolific voiceover actor, contributing to numerous animated features and countless episodic cartoons.

DeLuise also directed a few feature films, authored numerous cookbooks and children's books  and performed in various Broadway and operatic productions . On occasion, he also gave capable dramatic turns, most notably in 1964's "Fail Safe" and in 1980's "Fatso," directed by Anne Bancroft. He died at the age of 75 on May 4, 2009.

Lawrence Dane nearly blew up Stargate Command

Major General Henry Bauer appears in Season 4's "Chain Reaction," which was appropriately titled considering his literally and figuratively explosive impact on SG-1. After assuming control of SG-1, the Air Force veteran breaks up the team, dismisses Jack O'Neill, and commissions a weapons test on a distant planet that destroys the target and comes close to wiping out Stargate Command. The foolish maneuver costs General Bauer his command and leads to the reinstatement of General Hammond, who had been removed by the nefarious National Intelligence Department.

Canadian actor Lawrence Dane , who played General Bauer, was a familiar face to film and TV audiences on both sides of the 49th parallel. Initially billed under his real name, Larry Zahab, Dane made his debut on Canadian TV in the late 1950s and soon headed to Los Angeles, where he guested on numerous stateside episodic series like "I Spy" and "Bonanza." Feature-length projects came calling in the 1970s, including David Cronenberg's "Scanners" and cult horror favorites "Happy Birthday to Me" and "Rituals." Later on, he made his directorial debut with the 1984 drama "Heavenly Bodies."

Dane maintained a tireless schedule of TV and films in the 1990s and 2000s, including recurring roles on "The Red Green Show" and "Poltergeist: The Legacy" and character turns in features like "Bride of Chucky," which cast him as the ill-fated Lt. Preston. His final credit came with 2017's "Undercover Grandpa," starring James Caan. Dane died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 84 on March 21, 2022.

After Quantum Leap, Dean Stockwell jumped to SG-1

Nearly a decade after completing his Golden Globe-winning turn as Admiral Al Calavicci on "Quantum Leap," actor Dean Stockwell returned to science fiction television in the Season 6 "SG-1" episode "Shadow Play." Stockwell's "SG-1" character, the Kelownan scientist Kieran, reveals to his former student Jonas Quinn (Corin Nemec) that he seeks to overthrow his government in order to prevent its destruction in a war with two hostile nations. Later, it turns out that the entire revolution is Kieran's hallucination brought on by mental degeneration caused by long-term exposure to Naquadria radiation. 

Though often associated with his "Quantum Leap" role, Stockwell was also a former child actor and Cannes Film Festival Award winner for the 1959 thriller "Compulsion." In the '80s, David Lynch helped re-ignite Stockwell's movie career with roles in "Dune" and "Blue Velvet," which led to an Oscar nomination for the Jonathan Demme-directed comedy "Married to the Mob," and multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nods for "Quantum Leap."

Stockwell kept busy throughout the 2000s with recurring roles on "Battlestar Galactica" and "JAG" and guest shots on "NCIS: New Orleans" and "Star Trek: Enterprise," both of which reunited him with "Quantum Leap" co-star Scott Bakula. He retired after suffering a stroke in 2015 and died at the age of 85 on November 7, 2021.

Comic actor Henry Gibson played it straight for SG-1

Though best known for comic roles on TV shows like "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" and in films like "National Lampoon's Vacation" and "Innerspace," actor Henry Gibson was also adept at dramatic performances, as evidenced by his appearance in Season 5's "Sentinel." Gibson played Marul, the kindly leader of the planet Latona, which wards off attacks by the Goa'uld with a powerful weapon known as the Sentinel. Marul's faith in the Sentinel never wavers, even after a rogue SG-1 team dismantles the device and leaves the planet open for attack.

Gibson amused TV audiences in the 1960s with his comic persona the Poet, who recited offbeat, satirical poems for nightclub crowds and "Laugh-In" viewers. He parlayed his popularity into guest roles in numerous features and episodic TV, most of which were comedies. The major exception would be Robert Altman's "Nashville," for which Gibson  earned a Golden Globe nomination for his turn as country singer and political aspirant Haven Hamilton.

Gibson reunited with Altman for "A Perfect Couple" and "HealtH," but remained busiest in comic character roles for directors like John Landis ("The Blues Brothers") and Joe Dante ("Gremlins 2: The New Batch"). Gibson also appeared in many TV episodes and voiced numerous characters in animated series like "The Wild Thornberrys." In the 1990s and 2000s, he remained active in features, most notably Paul Thomas Anderson's "Magnolia" and "Wedding Crashers." Gibson died of cancer at the age of 73 at his home in Malibu, California on September 14, 2009.

Stage star Keene Curtis was a lost Earth scientist

Season 1's "The Torments of Tantalus" introduces "SG-1" viewers to Ernest Littlefield, a scientist working on the Stargate project in 1945. Played in flashback sequences by Paul McGillion — who was later cast as Dr. Carson Beckett on "Stargate: Atlantis" — Ernest enters the gate and arrives on the planet Heliopolis, the meeting place of the Four Great Races. Unfortunately, he's unable to return to Earth and remains there for more than a half-century until SG-1 is dispatched to rescue him in 1997.

Actor and Utah native Keene Curtis played the elderly Ernest Littlefield in "Tantalus," which came nearly five decades after his screen debut in Orson Welles' 1948 adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth." A onetime stage manager for the Martha Graham Dance Company, Curtis branched out into acting on stage in the mid-1960s and won a Tony in the early 1970s for the musical "The Rothschilds." Television and feature films came soon after, including numerous guest roles on episodic series. The best known of these was as John Allen Hill, owner of the restaurant above Sam Malone's bar on "Cheers."

Noted for his regal-sounding voice, Curtis also lent his talents to numerous animated series, including "The Smurfs" and "The Pirates of Dark Water." He also voiced the Grand Moff Tarkin in NPR's radio adaptation of "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope." After making his final television appearances in 1998 on series like "The Pretender" and "Party of Five," Curtis died at the age of 79 from complications of Alzheimer's disease on October 13, 2002.

Character actor Paul Koslo toughened up SG-1

Captured in Season 4's "The Serpent's Venom," Teal'c is delivered to Goa'uld torturer Terok in order to break his spirit and, by extension, the Jaffa rebellion. However, Teal'c proves too strong an opponent, which upends the plans of Terok's boss, System Lord Heru'ur, and leads to Terok's death.

Paul Koslo , who played Terok, was born in Germany and raised in Canada, where he began his acting career before heading south to play tough guys in stateside action films. He co-starred with Charlton Heston in "The Omega Man" and stood his ground against actors like Clint Eastwood in "Joe Kidd," Charles Bronson in "The Stone Killer," and Paul Newman in "The Drowning Pool," while also making numerous appearances in TV series like "Police Woman" and "The Rockford Files."

Television remained Koslo's primary showcase in the '80s and '90s, though he occasionally returned to features like Stuart Gordon's "Robot Jox" and the Jean-Claude Van Damme actioner "Inferno." Koslo's "Stargate" appearance was one of his final screen roles. He  died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 74 on January 9, 2019.

The legendary Soon-Tek Oh led the Shavadai people

Season 1's "Emancipation" brought the SG-1 team to Simarka, a planet inhabited by the Shavadai — Earthlings descended from the ancient Mongol people and brought to the distant world by the Goa'uld Raiden. The Shavadai retain many of the tribal traditions of their ancestors, including the treatment of women as property. Through an intervention by Captain Carter, the leader of the Shavadai, Moughal, grows convinced that the ways of the past are not always the best ways.

Korean-American actor Soon-Tek Oh played Moughal in "Emancipation." A Broadway and television veteran, Oh was best known to small screen audiences for multiple appearances on "M*A*S*H," "Magnum, P.I." and "Hawaii Five-0." Moviegoers better-recognized Oh from features like the James Bond adventure "The Man with the Golden Gun" and two Chuck Norris films, "Good Guys Wear Black" and "Missing in Action 2." He was also a founding member of the groundbreaking Asian-American theater group East West Players along with such fellow notable character actors as Mako and James Hong.

In the 1990s, Oh lent his voice to Fa Zhou, the father of Mulan in the Disney animated feature of the same name, and instructed Chris Farley's character in martial arts in "Beverly Hills Ninja." He continued to act through the early 2000s until a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease forced him into retirement after his appearance in the 2006 action film "Les formidables." Oh died from complications of the disease at the age of 85 on April 4, 2018.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW: The cast of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation,' 36 years later

• "Star Trek: The Next Generation" ("TNG") aired from 1987 to 1994.
• It was the first live-action "Star Trek" show since the original series ended in 1969.
• The cast will reunite for the final season of "Star Trek: Picard," which premieres February 16.

The captain of the Enterprise, Jean-Luc Picard, was played by Sir Patrick Stewart for all seven seasons.

Stewart got his start as a theater actor and was a part of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1966 to 1982. He then had various roles on British TV series until he was cast as the newest captain of the USS Enterprise in 1987 for "Star Trek: The Next Generation," kicking off decades of debates on who the superior captain is .

Arguably, "TNG" would never have been as successful as it was without the grounding presence of Stewart and his Shakespearean sensibilities. Some of the best episodes and arcs in "Trek" history come down to Stewart's performance, such as the iconic Locutus storyline and its aftermath in "Family," or classic episodes like "The Measure of a Man" and "The Inner Light."

He was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance in 1995. He won a Grammy in 1996 for best spoken word album for children for his reading of "Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf."

Stewart, 82, will conclude Picard's story in 2023 after three seasons of "Star Trek: Picard" on Paramount+.

By the time "TNG" wrapped up in 1994, Stewart had already  solidified his place in the hearts of nerds everywhere. He'd go on to star in four more "Trek" movies — "Generations" in 1994, "First Contact" in 1996, "Insurrection" in 1998, and "Nemesis" in 2002 — but that wasn't his last iconic role.

In 2000, he starred as the iconic Professor Charles Xavier, aka Professor X, in "X-Men." He reprised the role in 2003's "X2," 2006's "X-Men: The Last Stand," 2009's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," 2013's "The Wolverine," 2014's "X-Men: Days of Future Past," and 2017's "Logan" — the latter of which got him some Oscar buzz . He reprised the role in 2022's "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness."

Stewart was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2010 for services to drama.

He's played various other roles throughout his decades-long career, returned to the stage many times, and secured a Tony nomination in 2008 for his performance in "Macbeth." But Picard wasn't done with him yet.

In 2018, it was announced that Stewart would be returning to the role of Jean-Luc Picard for a series on CBS All Access (now Paramount+) following the former captain 30 years after the events of "Nemesis." "Star Trek: Picard" premiered in 2020. The third and final season will premiere on February 16.

Commander William T. Riker, Picard's right-hand man and first officer, was played by Jonathan Frakes.

Riker was more of the classic "Trek" rogue, similar in some ways to William Shatner's Captain James T. Kirk, namely, his penchant for getting into trouble and getting women across the galaxy to fall in love with him. But he was also a trusted colleague and friend to Picard across seven seasons and four movies. Picking up Riker from Farpoint Station is actually one of the crew's first missions in the pilot.

Before "TNG," Frakes had appeared in various episodes of '70s and '80s shows like "Charlie's Angels," "The Twilight Zone," "Hill Street Blues," and more. But he quickly became best known for "Trek."

Like Shatner and Leonard Nimoy before him, Frakes also became interested in directing, and he was behind the camera for eight episodes of "TNG," as well as episodes of spin-offs "Deep Space Nine," and "Voyager." He also directed films "First Contact" and "Insurrection."

Frakes, 70, has appeared in "Picard" and "Lower Decks." He's also a successful director.

Soon after "TNG" wrapped up, Frakes began hosting the series "Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction?" from 1998 to 2002. A compilation clip of him saying things are false/fiction has since become a meme .

Frakes reprised his role as Riker in episodes of "Deep Space Nine" and "Voyager" in the '90s, the series finale of "Star Trek: Enterprise" in 2005, two episodes of "Star Trek: Picard" in 2020, and three episodes of "Star Trek: Lower Decks" in 2020 and 2021.

Over the last two decades, he's directed over 70 episodes of television, including shows like "Roswell," "Castle," "NCIS: Los Angeles," "The Librarians," "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," Seth MacFarlane's loving "Trek" homage "The Orville," and, of course, the new "Trek" shows like "Star Trek: Discovery" and "Picard."

Like the rest of the original "TNG" crew, Frakes has joined the cast of "Picard" for season three.

Marina Sirtis played Deanna Troi, the ship's counselor and an empath.

In some ways, Troi was like the exact opposite of Spock, a character from the original "Trek" who operated solely from a place of logic. Instead, Troi was a half-human, half-betazoid, which made her an empath (able to telepathically sense people's feelings and emotions). Her place on the ship was to counsel the captain and other members of the crew.

Notably, Troi and Riker were in a relationship before the events of the show, and they eventually get married during the movie "Nemesis," before moving to the USS Titan, where Riker would finally become captain.

Her mother, Lwaxana Troi, was a beloved "Trek" side character played by Majel Barrett, "Trek" creator Gene Rodenberry's wife and "Original Series" cast member. Barrett also played Christine Chapel.

Before "TNG," Sirtis had appeared in bit parts in films and was mainly doing theater in her native UK.

Sirtis, 67, reprised the role for one episode of "Picard" with her on-screen husband, Riker.

Sirtis appeared in all four "TNG" films," and she also reprised her role as Troi in "Voyager," "Enterprise," "Picard," and "Lower Decks." She also appeared in an episode of "The Orville."

She's steadily worked in TV over the last two decades, appearing in shows like "Without a Trace," "Make It or Break It," "Grey's Anatomy," "NCIS," and "Scandal."

Sirtis has also had a steady voice-acting career, lending her voice to "Gargoyles," "Adventure Time," and perhaps most famously, as Queen Bee in "Young Justice."

Sirtis will don her Starfleet uniform yet again in 2023 for the final season of "Picard."

LeVar Burton played the engineering genius Geordi La Forge.

Besides Stewart, Burton was easily the most well-known member of the cast. Ten years prior, he had played Kunta Kinte in the 1977 ABC miniseries "Roots," which was nominated for 37 Emmy Awards, winning nine, including a nomination for Burton . The series finale is still the second most-watched series finale of all time, garnering at least 110 million viewers. He reprised the role in the 1988 TV film "Roots: The Gift."

When he was cast as La Forge, the chief engineering officer who happened to be blind — a big step forward in disability representation at the time — Burton had already been hosting "Reading Rainbow" on PBS since 1983. "Reading Rainbow," which Burton produced, won a Peabody Award and 12 Daytime Emmys.

From 1990 to 1996, Burton also voiced Kwame on "Captain Planet and the Planeteers" for over 100 episodes. In 1999, he directed the Disney Channel Original Movie classic "Smart House."

Burton, 66, was recently at the center of a campaign to take over as the new host of "Jeopardy!"

Like the rest of the main cast, Burton appeared in "TNG's" four feature films . He also appeared as La Forge in an episode of "Voyager."

He will reprise his role for the first time on TV since 1998 during the third and final season of "Picard" — and he'll be joined by his daughter, Mica Burton, who will play La Forge's daughter Alandra, an ensign in Starfleet.

Burton has had a successful career in Hollywood since, appearing as Martin Luther King Jr. in 2001's "Ali," playing himself in iconic appearances on both "Community" and "The Big Bang Theory," and hosting "Reading Rainbow" until its end in 2006.

Like Frakes, Burton is also a successful TV director. He's directed numerous episodes of "Star Trek" and its spin-offs, as well as episodes of "Charmed," "JAG," and "NCIS: New Orleans." He made his movie directorial debut in 2008 with "Reach for Me," starring Seymour Cassel.

After the death of Alex Trebek in 2020 , fans began campaigning for Burton to take over as the new host of "Jeopardy!" Almost 300,000 fans have signed a petition to that effect. However, after a brief stint as guest host, Burton said he wouldn't be interested in taking over as the permanent host.

In October 2021, he was named next year's grand marshal of the Rose Bowl Parade.

Gates McFadden played the chief medical officer Dr. Beverly Crusher for six seasons — she was replaced briefly in season two.

Dr. Crusher was introduced as the chief medical officer of the Enterprise with a long relationship with Picard — her late husband, Jack, and Picard were close friends, and Picard even brought back Jack's body after death.

However, as the show progressed, Dr. Crusher and Picard's relationship evolved into love and they even got married (and divorced) in an alternate timeline. We want to see Beverly in "Picard," please — and it seems like we're finally getting our wish.

After the first season, McFadden was written out of the show due to issues with head writer Maurice Hurley and replaced with Diana Muldaur, who played Dr. Katherine Pulaski. Muldaur's character did not gel with the rest of the cast, and McFadden was subsequently brought back for season three (and Hurley was ultimately replaced with Michael Piller).

Before "TNG," McFadden was a choreographer and a puppeteer involved with the Jim Henson Company, in addition to her career as an actress . She appeared in and choreographed 1984's "The Muppets Take Manhattan" and choreographed "Labyrinth" in 1986 . McFadden directed an episode of "TNG" in 1994.

McFadden, 73, has appeared in episodes of shows like "Franklin & Bash," "NCIS," and "The Practice."

McFadden appeared in all four "TNG" films , though she didn't have a huge role in them, considering how her relationship with Picard was left in the series finale. She even joked during a screening of the season three premiere of "Picard" that she didn't remember being in the films.

Hopefully, their bond will be addressed in season three of "Picard," which McFadden will return for, especially since season two of "Picard" seems very concerned with the lack of love in his life.

Since the end of the films in 2002, McFadden has mainly appeared on TV. She was in four episodes of "Franklin & Bash," an episode of "NCIS," and a TV movie called "A Neighbor's Deception." She was also in a 2009 holiday rom-com called "Make the Yuletide Gay."

Michael Dorn played Worf, the first Klingon in "Trek" history to be a main character.

Worf was the first Klingon to be a main character in "Star Trek" — in three of the original films, Klingons were, if not the main antagonists, one of the secondary foes.

By the events of "TNG," Dorn's character Worf had enlisted in Star Fleet and slowly became one of the series' best and most beloved characters, as well as the chief security officer. He went on to star on "Deep Space Nine" for four seasons, from 1995 to 1999.

Before the show, Dorn had appeared in shows such as "CHiPS," "Knots Landing," and "Days of Our Lives."

Dorn, 70, has been in more episodes of "Star Trek" than any other actor. He'll add to his lead by appearing in "Picard."

Overall, Dorn played Worf for 277 episodes and four films, making more appearances than any other actor in "Trek" history. The character was so popular that there were even talks to continue his story in his own show, called "Star Trek: Captain Worf" in 2012, though they never came to fruition.

He'll continue his reign, as Dorn was announced with the rest of the cast of "TNG" to be returning to "Trek" in season three of "Picard."

Besides acting in "Star Trek," Dorn also directed three episodes of "Deep Space Nine," as well as an episode of "Enterprise."

Like many of his co-stars, Dorn has had a successful voice-acting career . He used his voice in "Dinosaurs," "Superman: The Animated Series," "I Am Weasel," "Kim Possible: A Stitch in Time," "Regular Show," and "Arrow," among others. Most recently, he voiced Battle Beast in "Invincible."

Dorn appeared in two of the "Santa Clause" movies as the Sandman, and he was also in "Ted 2." In real life, he's also an accomplished pilot.

Wil Wheaton played Wesley Crusher, Dr. Crusher's son and a controversial character.

Poor Wesley. It couldn't have been easy losing your dad at such an early age, only to be dragged onto a spaceship with the man who survived instead ... a man who pointedly hated kids to boot. But that was Wesley's plight, and it didn't make for a very enjoyable character. He was written off as a regular after season four, at which point he went to Starfleet Academy. Wesley reappeared in the final season for a send-off.

The year before Wheaton began appearing in "TNG," he starred in the classic '80s film "Stand by Me" alongside River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland, and John Cusack, all future stars in the making.

Wheaton, 50, made a surprise cameo at the end of season two of "Picard."

As Wesley wasn't a  hugely  beloved character, he only appeared in one scene of one film , "Nemesis." He didn't even speak.

But Wheaton hasn't let the haters stop him from having a successful career. He's appeared in dozens of TV shows and movies, and he hilariously played himself across 17 episodes of "The Big Bang Theory." He also had a recurring role on "Eureka," another recurring role on "Leverage," and a talk show on SyFy called "The Wil Wheaton Project."

Wheaton has also acted in many web series, including "Welcome to Night Vale." He's also had great success in voice acting, most recently voicing the Flash in "Teen Titans Go to the Movies."

He also hosted the web series "TableTop," in which he and guests play a game (like Settlers of Catan or Pandemic) each episode, which aired from 2012 to 2017.

Currently, he hosts "The Ready Room," the official "Star Trek" aftershow that features interviews with the cast and crew. He also made a brief, surprise appearance at the end of season two of "Picard."

Brent Spiner played Data, an android who was on a quest to become more human.

While most of the characters on "TNG" were almost entirely original, Data was clearly conceived as this show's version of Spock , another character who struggled with the concept of humanity.

However, as the show went on, Data solidified himself as his own character with his own fascinating backstory (Lore and Dr. Noonien Soong, anyone?) and a heartwarming desire to become human.

Before the series, Spiner enjoyed a successful career in theater , originating the role of Franz/Dennis in "Sunday in the Park with George" and starring as Aramis in "The Three Musketeers." He also appeared in six episodes of "Night Court."

In 1996, he appeared in the huge sci-fi blockbuster "Independence Day."

They keep finding ways for Spiner, 74, to stay in the "Trek" universe, even 21 years after Data's death in "Star Trek: Nemesis."

Spiner appeared in all four "TNG" movies . In fact, his character might have had the most complete arc, when you take in his sacrifice at the end of "Nemesis." He also played an ancestor of his character's creator, Dr. Arik Soong, in four episodes of "Enterprise's" fourth season.

In 2016, Spiner reprised his role as Dr. Brackish Okun in the sequel "Independence Day: Resurgence." Over the years he's appeared in dozens of TV shows, including "Friends," "Star Wars Rebels," "Ray Donovan," "The Goldbergs," and "Warehouse 13."

Spiner has also voiced two iconic Batman villains. He played the Joker in an episode of "Young Justice," and he voiced the Riddler in "Justice League Action."

In 2020, Spiner reprised his role as Data in "Picard," appearing as the character in dream sequences and as a virtual consciousness throughout the first season.

He also appeared as a descendant of his creator, Dr. Altan Inigo Soong, and as a similar android named B-4 who was originally introduced in "Nemesis." In season two, he played another one of Noonien Soong's ancestors, Adam Soong.

Spiner was announced, like the rest of the cast , to be part of "Picard's" third season, this time playing Data's evil "brother," Lore.

Denise Crosby only starred in one season of "TNG" as Natasha Yar.

Yar's death was one of the biggest shocks of "TNG" and proved this wasn't going to be like the original show — deaths weren't just reserved for "red shirts" here. No one was safe.

In actuality, Crosby asked to be written off the show , as she "was miserable. I couldn't wait to get off that show. I was dying." And so, her character was killed in the season one episode "Skin of Evil" by a malevolent tar-like creature. Yar would reappear two more times, in a season three episode called "Yesterday's Enterprise" (an all-timer), and the series finale.

Crosby also appeared in three episodes as a character called Sela, a future half-Romulan daughter of Yar's from an alternate timeline.

Before the show, Crosby, the granddaughter of Bing Crosby, had appeared in films like "48 Hrs.," "Pet Sematary," two "Pink Panther" films, and multiple episodes of "Days of Our Lives."

Crosby, 65, recently appeared in a few episodes of "General Hospital."

Crosby didn't appear as Yar in any of the "TNG" films, but that doesn't mean she's totally stayed away from "Trek." She produced and presented a 1997 documentary about "Trek" fandom called "Trekkies," and its 2004 sequel "Trekkies 2." As of 2017, there were plans for a third installment.

She's also appeared in multiple direct-to-video movies , in addition to her roles in "Southland," "Ray Donovan," "The Walking Dead," "Suits," "Creepshow," and most recently "NCIS" and "General Hospital."

Colm Meaney had a recurring role as the transporter chief Miles O'Brien.

Meaney appeared in over 50 episodes of "TNG" as O'Brien before he switched over to "Deep Space Nine," which he starred on from 1993 to 1999. His character got much more to do on the spin-off, though he did get married in a season four episode called "Data's Day," and he eventually had a child in the season five episode "Disaster."

During his run on "TNG," Meaney also appeared in a 1993 film called "The Snapper." He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance. 

Meaney, 69, continued to play O'Brien in "Deep Space Nine" through 1999.

After wrapping up his role in "Deep Space Nine," Meaney went on to be nominated for a Gemini Award in 2002 for his role in Canadian series "Random Passage." He also appeared in three episodes of "Stargate Atlantis," the miniseries "Alice," two episodes of "Men in Trees," and more.

Meaney was also nominated for a Saturn Award in 2013 for his role in "Hell on Wheels," appeared in 10 episodes of "Will" and in British series "Gangs of London" and "The Singapore Grip."

In 2021, he appeared in the 15th season of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" as the father of Charlie Day's character.

He's had success on the big screen, as well. He was nominated for the Irish Film and Television Award for best actor in 2007 for "Kings," and he has been in other films like "Law Abiding Citizen," "Get Him to the Greek," "Tolkien," "Seberg," and "Pixie."

He recently starred in "The Serpent Queen" as King Francis I on Starz.

Whoopi Goldberg won an Oscar for "Ghost" as she was recurring on "TNG" as Guinan, an alien bartender who was hundreds of years old.

Goldberg had already been nominated for an Oscar (for "The Color Purple" in 1985) and had won a Grammy for Best Comedy Album in 1985 (Whoopi Goldberg: Original Broadway Show Recording), and had been nominated for an Emmy  for her performance on "Moonlighting" in 1986, when she was asked if she wanted to appear in "TNG" as Guinan, an alien bartender in the ship's lounge who acted as a sounding board for many characters.

She actually asked to be on the show due to her "Trek" fandom, which stemmed from seeing Uhura, a Black woman, in a position of power in the first "Star Trek" series. Goldberg appeared in 28 episodes across seven seasons.

At the same time, Goldberg was becoming a true A-lister. In 1990, she starred in "Ghost," which eventually won her an Oscar. In 1992, she starred in the classic "Sister Act" and its sequel the following year.

Goldberg, 67, accepted a personal invitation from Stewart during "The View" to return as Guinan in season two of "Picard."

Goldberg appeared in two of the "Next Generation" films, "Generations" and "Nemesis." During that time, she also appeared in films like "The Lion King," "Girl, Interrupted," "Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella," and "How Stella Got Her Groove Back."

In 2002, Goldberg secured her Tony Award win for producing "Thoroughly Modern Millie." That same year, she completed her EGOT by winning an Emmy for outstanding special class series. She's also hosted multiple award shows, including the Tonys and the Oscars. 

Goldberg has consistently acted in both TV and movies in the 2000s, appearing in "Glee," "The Middle," "Toy Story 3," "Nobody's Fool," and more.

Since 2007, Goldberg has hosted "The View," which won her her second Emmy — she won outstanding entertainment talk show host at the 2009 Daytime Emmys.

During an appearance on "The View," none other than Patrick Stewart extended an invitation to Goldberg to reprise her role as Guinan during season two of "Picard," which she emotionally accepted.

Both Goldberg's version  and  a younger version played by Ito Aghayere of Guinan appeared during the show.

John de Lancie played Q, a mischievous, omnipotent being throughout all seven seasons of "TNG."

In many ways, it would've been impossible to bring back Picard without bringing back Q. The Enterprise's captain meets Q in the very first episode of "TNG," and for almost every season after he pops back in to check in on the crew (and usually antagonize them a little bit). "TNG's" highly lauded series finale is also a Q episode, with Q attempting to conclude the trial of humanity he began in the first episode.

John de Lancie played Q in eight episodes of "TNG," along with one episode of "Deep Space Nine" and three episodes of "Voyager."

Throughout the '80s and '90s, de Lancie also appeared in "Days of Our Lives," "Trial and Error," and had small roles in films like "The Fisher King" and "Multiplicity."

De Lancie, 74, returned for season two of "Picard."

De Lancie has continued to work frequently on TV, with arcs in shows like "Breaking Bad," "Charmed," "The Librarians," "The Secret Circle," and more.

The actor returned to the "Trek" universe to play Q once again on the first season of the animated series "Lower Decks" in 2020. Two years later, it was revealed that Q would play a major part in season two of "Picard" since, as Q would later say in the season, " even gods have favorites ."

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How Stargate Universe Would Have Continued

S targate Universe was the third Stargate show, and whilst the original series Stargate: SG-1 and the first spin-off Stargate: Atlantis were pretty similar in terms of humor and setting, Stargate Universe had darker, more character-driven storytelling, which was obviously inspired by the critically acclaimed Battlestar Galactica and also a bit by Star Trek: Voyager (resulting in some people calling it Battlestargate Voyager ).

The main story of Stargate Universe follows a team of soldiers, scientists, and civilians who are stranded on an ancient spaceship called the Destiny, several billion light years away from Earth. The Destiny is on a pre-programmed mission to explore the universe, and due to a lack of energy, the team is unable to return home. The protagonists face many challenges as they try to survive on the ship, including limited resources, malfunctioning technology, and hostile alien threats.

Stargate Universe was cancelled after two seasons, with the final episode "Gauntlet" airing in 2011. One major issue was the show's ratings, which were lower compared to the previous Stargate series. The show also received mixed reviews from critics and audiences, with many people criticizing it being too slow-paced and lacking the action and adventure of SG:1 and SG:A.

Stargate Universe: Season 3 Unlikely, But New Hope For The Franchise

Let's be clear on this: It is very unlikely that Stargate Universe will ever be continued. Besides the fact that it happens very rarely that cancelled shows get renewed (but it can happen, as The Expanse and Lucifer proved), it is even more unlikely for shows that stopped several years ago, since the actors not only turn older but are also usually busy with new projects, which makes it almost impossible to get them all back at the same time.

A possible solution for that would be to bring the show back as an animated series, but it just doesn't look like this is ever going to happen.

Anyway, there is good reason to be optimistic about the future of the franchise. In 2021, Amazon bought MGM, the studio which currently owns the rights to the Stargate franchise. There have already been some rumors about Amazon planning a new Stargate project recently , and it would just make no sense for Amazon to ignore one of the biggest sci-fi franchises in history, so in the end it will be more a question of when there will be a new Stargate movie or series than a question of if it's gonna happen at all.

Furthermore, it's been more than a decade since the last Stargate series (to be honest, we don't count Stargate Origins here and everyone who's seen it will know why), so it would be a great timing for a reboot or a new show.

Stargate Universe Season 3: Possible Story Continuation

If you watched Stargate Universe and you liked the show, you'd probably be interested in how the story would have continued and ended. As you remember drone ships guarded every star in the galaxy, which is why to get to the next power source, the crew of the Destiny had to move to another galaxy, which is three years away.

Therefore, the crew put themselves into stasis pods, hoping to wake up in said galaxy, safe and sound. Unfortunately, this ending was left open and fans never got to find out what the crew's fate would really be.

Though there is no official information about what would have happened in season 3, SG:U writer Joseph Mallozzi once revealed some ideas that he and the writer's team had to solve the critical situation of Eli and the Destiny crew. Here are some of the mentioned scenarios:

• Eli fixes a pod, gets in stasis just like everyone else and the crew wakes up between three and a thousand years later.
• Eli manages to extend the life support, so he can stay awake for the whole three years until the Destiny reaches the new galaxy.
• Eli survives by uploading his consciousness to Destiny's computer.
• An outside force (either a squad from earth or an alien species would have been an option) enters the Destiny, eventually resulting in the crew's rescue.

When it became clear that season 3 wouldn't happen, the idea for two SG:U movies came up, with the first one to focus on the crew's rescue and the second one on the completion of Destiny's mission. But, as we all know, that remained a pipe dream until today.

Side fact: Thanks to an interview, we also have an idea about how the other Stargate spin-off, Stargate Atlantis, would have continued – more on that here .

Although a third season of SG:U is basically off the table, there is a realistic chance that a future Stargate show or movie will somehow pick up the story of Stargate Universe as part of a side plot and let us know what happened to the Destiny and its crew. Besides that, our fingers are crossed as we hope to finally get new stories from the Stargate franchise sometime soon.

‘Star Trek’ Origin Story Movie Will Be Set Decades Before 2009 Film

CinemaCon 2024: The new project will be produced by longtime “Star Trek” steward J.J. Abrams

Paramount Pictures is ready to boldly go (again).

After rumors circulated earlier this year, Paramount officially announced a new “Star Trek” prequel film on Thursday, this time taking place decades before the original 2009 “Star Trek” feature.

“Andor” director Toby Haynes will direct from a script by Seth Grahame-Smith (who is also writing another hotly touted CinemaCon title, the third “Now You See Me” film). J.J. Abrams is returning to produce.

But then again, we’ve heard about a new “Star Trek” movie before.

During the run-up to “Star Trek Beyond” in 2016, it was revealed that a fourth film would reunite Chris Pine’s Captain Kirk with his deceased father (played, once again, by Chris Hemsworth). A year later, Quentin Tarantino approached Paramount about doing a “Star Trek” movie – this time as an R-rated gangster movie (based, in part, on the 1968 episode of the original series “A Piece of the Action”). In 2018 S.J. Clarkson, a TV vet who would eventually direct “Madame Web,” was hired to direct the fourth film in the Abrams-verse, but salary disputes led to Pine and Hemsworth leaving the project. That version was canceled in 2019 and Tarantino stated in 2020 that he wouldn’t be making his “Star Trek” either.

In November 2019 “Fargo” creator Noah Hawley was hired to write and direct a new “Star Trek” film based on his version of the series. A year later, this movie was canceled by new Paramount Pictures president Emma Watts. In 2021 “Star Trek: Discovery” writer Kalinda Vazquez was hired to write a version based on her original pitch, but a separate script was being developed by Lindsey Beer and Geneva Robertson-Dworet. The studio even set a summer 2023 release date for a new “Trek” (which “Trek” was the question).

In 2021 that release date was pushed to Christmas 2023, under the direction of “WandaVision” director Matt Shakman. Josh Friedman and Cameron Squires were brought on to retool the script. In early 2022 it was announced that the stars of the three previous “Star Trek” installments in the Abrams-verse would all be returning, although it was later reported that the actors had not entered negotiations to return.

In 2022 Shakman left “Star Trek” to join Marvel Studios’ “The Fantastic Four.” But just last month Steve Yockey was hired to write a fourth “Star Trek” movie.

Now, we are finally getting word of another film in development, with another writer/director team. But it’s not the first time that a “Star Trek” prequel script has been floated, as Erik Jendresen, cowriter of “Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning,” had submitted a script for “Star Trek: The Beginning” before J.J. had taken over and pitched his 2009 version. It depicted the Earth-Romulan War.

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An international team of scientists and military personnel discover a Stargate network in the Pegasus Galaxy and come face-to-face with a new, powerful enemy: The Wraith. An international team of scientists and military personnel discover a Stargate network in the Pegasus Galaxy and come face-to-face with a new, powerful enemy: The Wraith. An international team of scientists and military personnel discover a Stargate network in the Pegasus Galaxy and come face-to-face with a new, powerful enemy: The Wraith.

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