100: Stargate Atlantis Cast Reunion (Special)

[Music] hello everyone welcome to dial the gate my name is david reed i hope you're having a great summer and welcome to episode 100 the stargate atlantis cass reunion i know many of you have been waiting for this and i'm not going to belabor the point for much longer if you enjoy stargate and you want to see more content like this on youtube it would mean a great deal to me if you click that like button it makes a difference with youtube's algorithm and will really help the show continue to grow its audience please also consider sharing this video with a stargate friend and if you want to get notified about future episodes click the subscribe icon and giving the bell icon a click will notify you the moment a new video drops and you'll get my notifications of any last minute guest changes this is key if you plan on watching live and clips from this live stream will be released over the course of the next several days on the dial the gate and gateworld.net youtube channels my thanks to the cast of stargate atlantis for joining us for this episode david hewlett tory higginson paul mcgillian rainbow sun franks david nicholl and robert picardo start us off rachel luttrell comes in about 25 minutes so enjoy i hope you got 90 minutes for this because this is a wild ride welcome all of you to san diego comic con at home 2021 the stargate atlantis 2021 cast reunion how are you guys you doing good just like being there yeah i'd say it's about what it's about a 60 reunion going on right now right we've got a 60 chance of reunion with uh yeah who else are we waiting for uh so i maybe flanagan may stop in i'm not entirely sure rachel is definitely coming in flanagan will like call in from his phone on his surfboard i had no idea this was going on man if he doesn't i'll just play him all right there you go perfect so i wanted to go around the group and ask uh all of you uh how you're doing and what projects you're currently engaged in and what else is going on and david you're at my you're currently at my top left so i'd like to start with you david nichol oh me oh wow thanks thanks for throwing that one on me uh well you know hey lockdown end of lockdown that's that's nice looking forward to that so much we've been pretty lucky here in bc uh we got good first immunizations uh i got one uh we got one more coming up so that's going to kind of mark the big end of of everything i only had about two gigs it's been miserable i've been acting you know to a tripod and a tennis ball and some very good people have been reading for me including my wife and my kids and and everything like that so uh it's been it's been good i miss the conventions i miss my colleagues all of you it's such a treat to uh uh to see you all let me start off by saying that most importantly uh and it's just great to be getting out of this this this this whole thing so that's my general sort of state of mind i'm looking forward to the summer i've been doing a lot of construction projects outside of that here at the house and and uh and and elsewhere and uh i'm looking forward to getting working again i'm gonna call you for tips then i got like a million things gone wrong in this house right now we have a water feature in our living room right now whenever it rains yeah an inadvertent one right yeah no paul mcgillian yes how are you doing sir what's been going on i'm good thanks um i'm being a dad um which is great uh little kids are eight and six now you and rosie um and uh yeah doing good everything's good busy we just uh we're moving next month staying staying in vancouver though so staying inside kitsilano which is great and doing that and working on a bunch of different shows i'm doing the second season of um firefighter lane is coming up on netflix so yeah how cool congratulations thank you so we're looking forward to that starting up and uh yeah everything else is great you know things are good here it seems like restrictions are lifting like david said a little bit you know um that's exciting so yeah doing good happy to see all you guys even david there's there's three years do you have to be you have to call us out yeah tory higginson welcome to dial the gates hi hi how are you thank you for doing this i'm doing great you're the dolphin what oh my god flashback um i don't remember it i got to be drunk for that no i need a paycheck or a spotlight yeah or a bottle of tequila how's your show going um it's good it's good it's a really lovely easy gentle show it shoots in montreal which has seemed to become my home the last six years i've just worked there so much the last six years it's crazy and i love it i love that city so i kind of have a foot one foot in quebec and one foot in california and i weirdly find them kind of similar there's a real similarity between these two they're both provinces and states that live outside of the rest of their country you know they have a very different vibe than the rest of the country they have a different language they're all chill they don't want to work they want to be lazy they want to go to parks they want to hang out like it's kind of a very healthy nice balance so that's been great but the show's called transplant we're shooting our second season sorry abs go habs go oh they look good are you a canadian stan yeah you both are i guess there's nobody good in vancouver to root for no [Laughter] yeah which season are you working on we're working on season two and uh yeah yeah fingers crossed for you know and i spent most of the um the covid year in la and turning my garage into a guest house so i was doing the construction hammering too and that was fun lots of black nails lots of cursing yeah lots of turn the water off quickly right fast fast but really so lovely to see all your faces i just it's really lovely it's really really i was surprised at how much my heart went oh wow thank you thank you david for organizing this is great i'm absolutely happy to thank you for all for being here david hewlett what's going on my friend i i sometimes leave my basement sometimes that's basically what i've been doing um i've been yeah i've been i've i've i feel guilty in that i've really enjoyed the lockdown because baz and i have just got to geek out together you know he got me doing some more streaming and i started doing my tech bandits club online because the kids weren't allowed at school anymore so i've just been having a i've been having a blast and then toronto strangely i mean i was very nervous to go back to work and uh a job came up and and i said to jane look i think i'm gonna i don't think i could do this i'm feeling you know and she's like no no you can do it so off you go it's been you know eight months of not working you better go so i went off and did that and it's um uh it was departure and a bit of clarisse and some stuff so it's been it's been good there's been like you know just enough work to keep me i think slightly more social i think jane was jane basically forced us to get a dog because she was nervous that baz and i never left the house so we now have a new dog called so yeah so huzzah and i uh do a couple of walks a day and that's that gets us out that's it well you're following her health orders dave you're not supposed to leave the house you're allowed to the dog you're allowed you're allowed to walk all right their dogs at nighttime they're renting their dogs out after their curfews and other people i think these are like renting people's dogs are thrilled for ziggy really i was trying to yeah earn your kibble dog get out yeah exactly man that's really good actually i could i'll just put a for rent sign on her then yeah that's it a picardo i was kind of wondering which personality you would bring with you today bob uh well um i i'm now a clothing influencer for old navy as you can see i applied for arm uh let me see armani and zania but old navy was the only one interested so that's that's part of it um i have better than the dollar store you're referring to the dollar store is next believe me um i uh i have uh during lockdown with little to do and no one to act with i decided who's an actor that i loved working with me so i i decided to make videos with myself i play multiple characters i now have nearly 10 000 subscribers on youtube so if i get another 38 today from this it's going to be golden um i also do uh i still do shows where they pay me occasionally just because i'm nostalgic about you know the us dollar um so i i've just finished work on the third season of a show on apple tv called dickinson it's ostensibly about emily dickinson but it's the strangest kind of surreal mashup of emily dickinson with you know 21st century sensibilities with haley um haley steinfield playing emily who's just great and i play her father's best friend and political consultant so that's been fun wearing all those period clothes and the giant hats that i'm going to be able to see in this screen they go up well like that and uh and i also have been uh playing a character for two seasons on the black entertainment network because when you look at me you think black entertainment network and uh it's called the family business and i play of course an orthodox jewish drug dealer um life is absolutely eclectic and fun and you know when you wear a yarmulke you know you at least get to cover part of the dome so it's it's been a good considering it's a pandemic here i feel very blessed and can you play that piano behind you no not at all it's completely pretty it's actually just a green screen right here look it's okay no it's my wife's piano but i'm proud of it so anyway so here i am i'm proud of her for owning it you're probably prefer for owning it and knowing how to play it slightly rainbow sun welcome my friend how are you what's been going on hey everybody um what's been going on uh i've been i've been in my apartment for a year uh or more by myself and so i'm going early my only reprieve has been um since work has been slow this year i've been dealing and just renting people's dogs i got a nice scroll yeah it's a good hustle it's a good side hustle um i've just been literally alone and so i'm going crazy and that's no different than me normal but just a little more crazy uh that's what i've been doing i haven't really worked this year but i i did work a lot last year and a bunch of stuff's come out uh so uh um i got a little role in this movie called trigger point that came out about a month ago and with confiore and barry pepper and laura vanderbort and me and uh it's kind of fun and then uh an fx show called uh nine films about technology i'm in that that just came out a month or so ago and i have a really fun netflix uh thing coming out but i can't talk about it because it hasn't been released yet but uh i'm excited for that as well other than that i'm waiting for the next job who knows i'm doing a thousand tapes because apparently now i uh my house is a casting room apparently they don't they don't have to pay a lease on but i'm at the free casting room yeah i was i was going to approach each of you with the question but i think i'd rather make it a free-for-all and just kind of see what happens here with the dynamic in the group um 17 years ago guys 17 years ago this summer don't do that atlantis went on the air um is that hard to believe is it hard to believe that the fans are still into it almost as fervently as when it was airing a whole new generation has been born since then that are now watching it they just won't no longer say people no longer say things like i saw you on you know you're in that show they say like oh you're on that show my parents used to watch yeah yeah yeah my grandfather introduced me to the show yeah literally grandfather come on it's a tough question to ask at the end of a pandemic here because literally apart from seeing you guys here on video screens i've done about two or three of these things where you see people on video screens and you kind of go okay there's someone in australia there's someone in in england but you don't get a sense of connection with the fans as you would normally when you when when you when you go to the events it's more sort of evidence online uh particularly since this is story breaking that there might mgm being bought by uh uh those guys the uh the monopoly guy with the amazonians yeah uh what is that true yeah amazon by buying mgm so there's always there seems to be this i'll just finish my point there's this noise going on online that there's uh there's stargate coming back so that's there's evidence of activity uh there but i haven't personally seen anything other than on screen right because we haven't been anywhere so the fandom thrives and survives though i believe it is amazing how it thrives and survives and i you know i think sg-1 that went for what 11 years 10 years 11 years like that did that that did a lot of the cementing of of that franchise and to me though it seems amazing that it's 17 17 years doesn't i mean it feels longer to me it feels like so much has happened like it feels forever ago there's another life ago yeah yeah feels like high school it kind of does and i look at pictures now and i go i remember i felt old then and i look at pictures and go i look like i was 12. i looked like i was 12 years old that's so true i felt like i felt like i was old then and i look back and go and i had no idea i wasn't i i actually was 12. yeah you were back rainbow how old were you when you started on this show were you twerking 20 20 23 22 david hewlett does it i mean do you uh you see um is it hard to believe that fans are still into it or is it like well you know it's it's evergreen it's it's always going to be like this it's funny it just becomes i i mean it's what i've always said it's like one of those great things where it's not all the time like it's not everywhere you go it's just certain places certain times people will sort of make that connection and you sort of see them do it um and as uh as as jewel would say don't make eye contact don't make eye contact um but but it's i always i really like it because you know it's it's always nice for the ego to have someone come up and say like oh hey i saw you know i you know i grew up with this or grew up with your character and stuff i mean and also now working with the kids it's just kind of neat because you suddenly realize that that you know people are you know people are doctors because of because of uh of beckett or you know they're they're um you know they're they're they're leaders in science because they saw you know amanda tapping and and stargate and stuff so it's just kind of neat from that perspective it's it's almost never a negative thing for me the weird thing for me is that this when you have a kid there's like a physical thing that grows have you also noticed that there's this kind of echo wave sort of reaction to it depending on where it goes like sometimes you start getting fans from germany and it's like oh sergey must be running in germany now or right right again yeah they do that in prague i started getting sort of like a bunch of fan letters from from czech fans and it's like you like you said it's the next generation and i'm kind of going what's going on and some tv station has brought it up and you know they're running it and and so like so there are those kind of reverberations of it but it's a show that's like 15 20 years years old now it's a historical you know we were around before the iphone and before any of this was was going right so it's uh it's and robert you've been through this before what's your like how do you find all of this well i um because i'm a man of of two allegiances because before because i spent seven years doing you know the star trek franchise before i was invited for a one episode heavy on the stargate franchise um i uh the great i just all i just remember that it qualitatively working on the show was so much looser than you know start star trek is very carefully controlled because it's set in the future and they don't want any hints of you know colloquial language you know expressions whatever but stargate felt so loosey-goosey that it felt like i it felt like i got out of prison in a way you know we could we could actually add live a line and and nobody you know nobody uh the office didn't visit the set and and you know and say well actually oh they visited oh they visited well i i remember feeling uh feeling kind of looser the whole experience was such a gift because normally we audition for every job we get and uh to actually have kind of come in the side door on stargate and get asked to do a guest star and uh to play a very unpleasant and unlikable character and then because that night i had dinner with the two producers and they sort of decided that they liked me enough to want to have me back then they had to figure out how to take this incredibly one-dimensional dimensional and unlikable character and sort of try to redeem him somewhat so that he could start coming back so for me i was obviously a johnny come lately to the experience uh everybody was so nice to me but i never got to work with rainbow for example when i had to become friends at a convention rather than you know on the set and you know and i came in just sort of on and off a few times and then was there just for the last season but to me so i didn't i don't have all the shared experience that all of my wonderful co-stars have here but as i said to me it was just total fun and uh and a uh just you know not that i didn't like my star trek years i did very much but it just seemed so much more relaxed and and because i was more relaxed i was able to literally laugh at every other thing david hewlett ever said on the set i mean well every other thing the the 50 of them were hilarious the other day that's it you talk enough something's going to be funny no but he he it was a great feeling to actually get cracked up all the time um so it was just uh i i remember the fun more than anything we had a lot of fun it was a it was a ton of fun it really and it was hard to keep a straight face yeah at all times in the space you know what i mean it was just like well and the other thing because it was set in because it was set in you know it was it's very sort of like it was it was of the time so like you didn't as you say robert you didn't have all the the techno stuff was all based on it would be our reactions to it if it was happening in the real world now anyways so i like to think that maybe that the the the producers realize that this is this is fairy tales these are stories for adults so why don't we at least have fun with it right humor as a part of the dna of stargate is is kind of what set it apart from those kind of more sort of soap opera you know deliver a line big feeling sort of uh sci-fi you know that to have sort of a sense of humor and and and at the peril that we're in is good when you guys came into atlantis uh for those of you who launched it um how did you feel about sg1 which had ran seven seasons how did did you think that this was going to work from the get-go we're going to be doing this for five years uh what were your impressions early on i thought i was going to be doing it for five years no i'm just joking i as soon as i saw the set i thought it was gonna be it was it was such a glorious set that atlanta said it was so beautiful as soon as i saw it i was like oh they upgraded from sd1 and i made fun of all the guys for their set because they had no ac it was all cramped and i was like look at this look at our high ceilings how beautiful is this i remember rainbow being there and you you're like oh this is amazing that's where i'm gonna dj up there at the park yeah i bro i was breakdancing in front of the gate when you got there you had the feeling the stink feeling i think all of us did that this is not going anywhere they're building stages like this for it to be one season you know exactly the exciting part and especially robert patrick being in you know in the pilot and it just had a real big energy of this is going to go a while so like it had almost like an epic feel like the certainly the two-parter that we started with you know just so many people involved so many moving parts so it just felt really special you know it was it was cool to be part of i always assumed we were gonna get canceled every time so that was i just i just assumed every year the only year i didn't think the only year i thought well this there is no freaking way they're not doing season six [Applause] the only time i was ever wrong so touring right you had your feet in both worlds you were shooting rising and you were shooting new order yeah it was fun it was it was i think i said this a lot of conventions but it was a really fun experience of seeing the one sort of you know the one set everyone was just relaxed and chill and farting and then our said everyone was nervous and like trying to get it right and frightened of being fired and it was these two completely different worlds um they were they're still farting but we didn't laugh about it we did it quietly and tried to like tighten our stinker and help nobody [Laughter] yeah but yeah for me i mean i didn't really know sg1 i had a snobby thing about sci-fi i didn't like sci-fi i didn't watch sci-fi i didn't think you know i didn't recognize at the time that i actually had some movies in the past that i loved that were considered sci-fi like i had this very um yeah small-minded approach to science fiction so for me i had no idea what it was all about and i spent that first yeah filming the pilot of atlantis and then doing the episode of sg-1 at the same time i was going home and watching episodes of sg-1 just trying to understand this world and um yeah i don't think i really got the world i don't think i really got the world until about halfway through and that i didn't really understand and i think the conventions and the fans made me understand the value of it and made me look at it differently because i think i did have a little bit of a i studied shakespeare what is this you know like i didn't really think like this isn't theater this isn't real this is a paycheck and what is and then you start meeting these fans and you do meet people who say it changed their lives you meet people and you have that relationship with the audience the same way you have with theater and then that sort of makes it more immediate again and you start understanding the value and i remember having this great conversation with somebody one night and the conclusion was if shakespeare was alive now he'd be writing sci-fi he'd be writing something that was populous that was acceptable that was going to be able to create a world that you could talk about politics and you could have a fart joke and you can have like he would be probably writing that format so that was a really cool learning curve for me and i had to sort of look at my own prejudices my own sort of youthful arrogance he'd be putting together serial killer documentaries for netflix what were the films that were sci-fi that you didn't realize were sci-fi sorry oh my gosh can i even think of it now i now have dementia so it's really hard to recall um i loved you in storm of the century yeah is that considered sci-fi i've i think that no but i mean i just loved you in it that's that's stephen king yeah i didn't love that movie i enjoyed doing that i loved doing that that was super fun but that wasn't one of the things i looked at i'm trying to think of now what was it um oh my god i can't recall anything name a few classic sci-fi's like 2001 but 2001 absolutely that was when i watched you never saw blade runner i noticed the blade runner even though we had that that studio that was sort of shared right and we share blade runner in the studio and i know that was bleed no no that's blade i was oh okay also anything also slower tori has become quite a nerd obviously don't ask me that i have no idea sci-fi is one of those things that i think is seen as a sort of a legitimate genre in many other parts of the world but north america still struggles with it for some reason i don't know why but it's it's seen as a it's i think it's just still seen as wobbly planets and bad dialogues i think it's changing it's beginning to change now it feels like a change it feels like battlestar changed it to me it feels like i remember feeling this is not i mean this is probably not a cool thing to share to be honest about but i remember thinking this is not going to help my career i just moved to l.a and i thought doing sci-fi series is that going to help my career and i remember thinking it's not and and then bowstar came out and all of a sudden it became much you know and i i think that really helped shift the overall the north american perception that was also that was also right around the time when san diego comic-con started to tip into just being mainstream and all of these conventions got upgraded to just being huge and and yeah and mainstream and you started seeing a lot of companies starting to pour money into them and seeing how much money they could make out of it i don't think it was the perception as much as the the the perception of the industry they didn't realize how much money they could make and once they did everything sort of shifted this is totally legit absolutely yeah now it's now it's gone to like superheroes and uh and that i mean the space stuff isn't on that much anymore like but it's all the same genre it's all it's all what can they capitalize well they find new ways to reinvent it i mean you look at the mandalorian star wars i mean george lucas himself has said it is not science fiction it is space fantasy if you look at if you look at the mandalorian it is a western you know that is what it is it's uh it's lone wolf and cub it's actually uh japanese it's lone wolf and cub as soon as i saw it i was like oh slow for cup cool yeah come on but genius it's it's it's absolutely a splendid show to watch it's so well done i love it tori you absolutely anticipated my question because i was i was curious to know in terms of how you all feel about being remembered for this work um i'm interested in in some of your other folks thoughts how how did this affect your careers and as actors and as people did it interfere with work later did it help it it helped in some cases yeah i mean i think in some cases i mean my like i was told my manager told me just not to do it when i got it they were they they said unequivocally not to do it i was like but you're not a nerd so the series or 38 minutes of the episode that you were in the no the series the atlanta signing on to atlantis they thought was a terrible idea and i and i and honestly it was the best there's the best thing for me i mean it worked out beautifully i've been getting you've been getting good advice haven't you dave this is the funny thing i've discovered about the industry is nobody has a clue it is lightning in a bottle things happen by accident some things take off some things don't even more now than even more than before you have no idea what's going to go viral because absolutely the shows that have become smash hits i'm like what and yet it's an industry full of people who will tell you they know what they're talking about and that's the other thing i've that i've decided i found the actual content of working on it to be an incredible technical education like the terms like hitting your mark and uh and the way scenes needed to be done and the way you do eight pages in the day and and how you actually get that done and and what actually creativity is when you when you are on a on a schedule so the sort of technical education as an actor of that was i took that into all the other projects i did uh since then and still do it's it's it was how to get two of those breakfast burritos in your mouth at the same time quickly before that first scene yeah studio because the dogs are everywhere so i didn't throw that out to the producers like it was crazy our hair and makeup trailer had like eight dogs in it sometimes yeah you guys wouldn't you guys wouldn't really yeah you guys wouldn't recognize it i live about like two kilometers away from the studio everywhere it's all it's all parking lots and built-up garages now where the uh where our trailers used to be and they put in extra studios the bridge has completely been transformed because studio space is such a premium here in the city so they've they've tripled the the capacity of that uh facility [Music] hey it's good to see you rachel hi rachel oh my god you don't look different at all not at all okay stop talking about her guys she's here paul wants to continue oh hi rachel oh hello it's so great to see your faces sorry to jump in anyway welcome to the party what are you talking about ah thank you bob i'm gonna come to you in just a second i i do i do have a question for you and then paul rachel how is ridley how are the auditions going oh uh ripley's my little girl is blowing my mind um she's currently working on her second feature of the year um yeah yeah yeah yeah she just wrapped up a movie with john malkovich a month and a half ago and now with alice and janie and she's higher in the past list than i've ever been she's number three on the call she so i'm freaking yeah so she's doing great that's why yeah so i'm up here in support of my baby girl um yeah yeah so it's great it's really good it's good i'm glad you could make it to the party thank you are you you're in vancouver are you inventing i am i'm in vancouver oh so great yes i'm gonna get to see paulie and whoever else is up here are you done your quarantine no yes thank goodness yeah we finished on monday it was hell we're all still alive yeah bob did bob did you know what you were getting into with with this thing coming in for the fifth and potentially a sixth season of of another established sci-fi franchise did you be like were you was part of you like do i really want to be known for science fiction and only science fiction at this point because that will really cement it uh i think that it's uh i think it's good to have had um a number of credits before you start in science fiction it was for i think it's tougher on actors that um and i'm not speaking about anyone here in particular but if you if it's your first major credit um you know in your uh in your late teens or early twenties but i had i had um already done uh china beach and other kinds of you know sort of regular ceiling attacks straight on dramatic dramatic cowling yeah but look at the bright side you're also you're also 25 years younger now i'm sorry yeah no i had i had i had some i had other credits and i think that that helps you from getting but but let's face it after seven years on star trek in my 40s i was pegged as i was a science fiction guy there was no there's no turning it around after that you're you have a dedicated audience that really only knows you from that so i had no illusions about that i had already you know i i and i to me the interesting thing was to see how the science fiction fandom because most star trek fans watched our gate and i think the other way around i mean there's certain i i i'm always surprised when i meet a star trek fan who's never seen stargate and vice versa because normally there's a certain amount of crossover they may have their preference and i meet plenty of fans that love stargate and are kind of you know iffy on star trek so it go it certainly goes both ways for me the odd part was just playing a character as i said who was introduced it was so unpleasant and then when they said they wanted to turn me into a leader i thought everyone hates me i'm i have no personality i'm a coward i have no leadership skills and i'm a douche bag it sounds perfect it worked for me perfect politician i wasn't necessarily describing my personal characteristics it was the character i'm speaking about thank you for that thank you for the clarification yeah we made that distinction but they but the the writers were very deft in giving me little i mean probably the moment when when rachel's character handed me her baby and i didn't know what to do with it was the was the moment the audience went okay this guy's not that bad because he means well and now he you know he has a baby and now he's going to learn a lesson here so i i that to me to play a character that was basically going to reinvent himself in the later stages of his career was what made it fun you know to to start that job in my middle 50s and have to become a leader at that stage of life i thought was a good analogy for what was happening after the you know the financial meltdown in 2007 there were a lot of people my age and older who had to go back into the workforce if they were already retired or so i thought it was an interesting time to play a character like that in his middle 50s trying to completely reinvent himself so that at least that was the rationale i operated under rachel i was asking the others before before you jumped in um when you came into atlantis how did you feel about sg-1 i mean it ran for 17 seasons you guys were coming in as the young upstarts you know had something to prove you know it was it was a little bit more um all right more itinerant less fart jokes like everyone is saying here how did it feel to jump into this this whole thing and with you it's an alien you know i mean she is she is human but like you said once to me she is unearthly right okay so i'm going to completely embarrass myself and that's all good i do not care the truth is i'm not aware i had seen the movie when i was much much younger and had loved the movie i did not know anything about the series i didn't i really didn't i came in completely naive i was you know and so which i think was really really good because i didn't feel the pressure to you know take on this this enterprise this huge fandom etc i didn't know anything about it honestly it took me probably until i don't know episode number five before i realized uh the impact of stargate and and uh and i'm happy about that um once i did um the pressure the pressure did kind of settle in but it but it but it took a minute um and then of course i was i was thrilled to be a part of it but no i came in completely naive i had no idea i had an answer yeah and i remember our very first convention oh my lord have mercy right was that comic-con was that the that was comic-con it was crazy studios gave us all free liquor the night before so i remember we all had we were in great moods like only new actors with free liquor yeah you can always tell season one right i thought no one's gonna be at that convention because they're all mad at us because they think we're killing sg1 and then we walked out and it was like a football field of people and i was so hungover i couldn't speak yeah i remember that so i just found pictures from that day oh we all look like we're lost we're looking like just like wide-eyed oh my gosh i remember being terrified i remember sweating so much on stage because i was like this is going to be kind of and then like i was just so much that i remember just i just had to keep my hands plastered don't raise your hands so it was like it was so overwhelming i had not a clue you know i hear this routinely about people who you know have uh con events in ballroom 20 there and part of me is like why don't they prepare these actors beforehand and then the other part of me is like because they wouldn't go out on the street no no it's listen it's very intimidating it's very intimidating i think the the thing that you got to get used to or that you we weren't used to i wasn't my moment wasn't heathrow because i didn't go to this one but the one in heathrow when i come out in front of 700 people is you have to sort of develop a third person it's like you is your private self and then you're playing a character which is what you're doing on on tv but this is like you and like a a hybrid version of you like you on stage and in front of 700 just talking about yourself like sort of stuff that we're doing now but when you first start doing it's like what am i going to talk to these people about what do they what do they want to know right it was it is really daunting you know it's it's you got to develop the sort of onstage convention personality which is like a hybrid between your character and yourself good for you david i haven't done that yet [Laughter] well thank you rachel thank you very much no i was just always like terrified me like every time it's just like okay here we go yeah yeah yeah you know nobody wants to see bono come out on stage and go oh okay guys i just sort of hi how are you you got it right they expect you to be on you got it you got to develop a trick a little bit of a routine for yourself even if it's loose yeah i do about 10 minutes to stand up before we get started usually you know yeah but we had to learn that that was something i know actors don't get told you got to go out and do this sort of stuff you sort of sink or swim and you realize the kind of questions that you're getting and you realize oh they want to know about the pranks that were on set what's it like to this and then you get used to sort of the pattern that comes with that but you have to develop that it's not uh it's not an actor's job it's a publicist paulie you mastered that paulie talking about long-form answers for each of those questions i remember one of my first conventions in germany and the show hadn't aired yet and i was talking to rothery who who is doing conventions and we're we're waiting to go on there introducing the actors that go on and i was last and terrell's talking to me i'm like oh i'm sweating i'm so nervous and she's like it'll be fine i'll be fine just go out there and just be yourself i'm like okay and they announce her and all of a sudden she turns into like the energizer bunny she jumps yeah she starts like tap dancing on the stage and stuff and people going crazy and then they introduced me and for some reason my legs would like i was like oh i walked out like [Laughter] and i'm out there i'm like hi and it's like like a sp they're shutting the air that was like reporter this german guy goes um i have a question for paul like it's after half an hour i'm like oh yeah and he goes your character i had a chance to see the pilot is a very humorous character on stargate atlantis you as a person are you humorous you're like my god i love that one funny and he's looked at me goes yes like that some of those some of those european conventions where they're translating you on stage or just prices you talk for like you know 15 minutes and then the other person goes they do like this five seconds you know right doesn't translate it's like an interpretation of the answer i'm very so thankful to uh fans who wrote in and submitted questions for you guys sarah johnson uh what was a facet of your character that you just loved or wished you could have explored further everything shocking that you say that david good answer what's not to love um yeah i don't know i mean listen i sound it sounds cheesy but i mean i i loved what david said i loved all aspects of taylor i loved all aspects i loved it for sure what's that jerk just be quiet circle no one needs to hear what you're saying right now i just i did i i loved all aspects of her i loved that you know they managed to craft a character who was strong independent intelligent empathetic um and compassionate in into you know a woman you know in other words a multi-tiered multi-leveled diverse human being she was she was a you know a fleshed-out human being and that was wonderful to play david nichol you know you started off as being kind of um uh mckay's counterpoint in terms of exposition oh really and is that how i started off and in my it never really generation as as a as a viewer come on guys corey can i follow you wherever you're going tori come with me david my dog is going to save you he didn't get the black feather remember here come the hewlett questions it's minute 20. oh come on but what i was getting to is that by the end of it it was this multifaceted relatable hysterical character that every just every every time you were on screen it was like oh here he comes what's he gonna say what's he gonna be irritated about now or what's what's he going to have figured out that's going to to throw someone else for a loop you know the character really grew over five seasons pigeons and all well thank you very much for that david i'm gonna take the high road on this one uh i like i like to think that uh i think they developed zolenka because they didn't want rodney to do all the tech talk by himself in a monologue so they wanted a dialogue a little mutton jeff routine and someone that was funnier and better looking than uh than david so they succeeded really well not hard to find not hard to find with that how do you make the green how do you make the green square come back on you there it is that was beckett and uh no no uh again this is i really enjoyed working with david it was a lot of fun there was a lot of chemistry and that was what was really cool i wasn't in the pilot i think my first episode was number three or number four number two it's called 38 minutes and my first scene was with tori so it's a real treat to see torx you're someone i haven't seen for a long long time so for ages we don't do much convention crossover no no no i haven't seen you for ages and that was one of the first that was one of the first scenes i did and i remember doing this the scene and it was the only scene where i had like a radio i had to actually they didn't have the little little thingies that i always took home with me and i have a little shoe box full of because i forgot uh those things had like a radio and i was like oh please please don't talk to me that was the first that was the first ever scene i did and just like you described it you know like nervous and i don't know if i'll get hired again and i went to craft services and and brad wright was there and um i told him you know i'm check because the character was written as a check did you know that he said oh yeah we we we we did know that so i think they sort of were going with gener generic sort of eastern european they found i was checked that they named the character zlenka which means green uh and uh threw me in scenes with uh with with hewlett and it was a pleasure and then they put me in scenes with uh with tori and that was even more fun and then with robert ricardo and that was even more and then it was great we are insecure actors you can't leave anybody out love you all say my name but that's a okay and rachel paul whatever i think the banter though was that they they were good at banter they loved their banter it was always fun i loved the scenes whenever you got a couple of characters together just bantering back and forth there was some i mean that's like that was the appeal to game of thrones for me as well they sort of they they ran out of time apparently they they made the shows too short so they had to go back the first season and figure out and that i feel like i mean obviously the stargate guys we do it longer and they just they knew that that you know that you could have some fun with that i mean character character driven right you can you can go high concept and space and wormholes and all that but it's it's when you get behind the characters when you start knowing their story that's what that's what brings you to it yeah relatable too right everyone everyone can relate to certain characters in the show like all the people like like you know with the fighting character like with ford and then with taylor and then jason when he was on the show too that aspect of it and then you know like david and both david's you know people could find the character that they related to on the show and that's why i think people really draw towards it you know towards the characters yeah i i always wish that they uh did some i i always wish that ford would have um reconciled with ronan and they would have had some sort of love affair i thought that would have been really interesting if they had fallen in love you're about 10 years 10 years too early though i think it's a real missed opportunity the same way that robert picardo does his youtube channel yeah you've had a year you should be doing fan fiction yeah you know yeah it's yeah i was always fond of affordable it's just with a dreadlock okay guys please stop this i was always i was always fond of ford's relationship with shepard you know there was there was a mentor mentee equality there that even in that single scene you know in the beginning of season five where he's dreaming under all that rubble and he dreams of himself with taylor and then ford just smashes into his mind and said hey i'm over here you didn't rescue me you failed you're not as perfect as you might think that was fun that was martin guerrero just was like wrote that in it was like hey are you in vancouver still do you want to come in for one day i was like yeah i'll take the paycheck let's go i would love it but let's not overlook uh ford's relationship with uh paul and rachel then you know we we had such a really those moments were really special to me we had we laughed laughing we laughed so much it was bad yeah that we almost couldn't be together sometimes just make us laugh yeah the jumper especially the jumper jeez but the thing is i know you guys can all see you know when they say okay like delaware's especially okay the the the asteroids coming at you we're like oh no how big is it is it like is it how big is it or or around the party okay chief okay this giant thing is coming you guys jump and then like someone would jump two feet another person would be like joe would be like move over like that a little bit like [Laughter] that's one of the standard problems when you're when you get your first job in science fiction is relating to the off-screen visual effect that you'll never see yeah remember on the first time that happened to me on star trek when i was supposed to be battling some monster uh on the holodeck and i said what does it look like and the and the visual effects guy was really sweet guy and very shy kind of said well sort of like a giant pile of glowing linguini and i i thought about that and i looked at the entire plate of linguine but you know it's like everyone doesn't want to look stupid by going you know like what's the reaction shot but you but it looks equally stupid if there's this ridiculous terrifying looking thing and you just look at it and kind of go you raise an eyebrow yeah yeah so it is a journey of trust you have to have and that's why the second season is so much easier because then you watch it you go oh those guys know they're they're doing some good stuff so now i can really comment without that little bit of pride ego getting in the way going do i look like an ass yeah but it's an interesting a journey you have to yeah you have to make you have to have a leap of faith and a leap of trust who among you have re-examined the show have watched it since um and how do you feel about the product itself and the quality of the show how i started watching it i watched it with bazz so baz um wanted to i think because of the twitch streaming stuff he wanted to do he wanted to do like a you know basically i think he wanted the stargate audience for his twitch channel um but but uh so i started with your son yeah doesn't it it's like it's i was so proud of him but we started watching it together and it's so funny because he like he would get caught up in stuff that i was surprised at because he's so he's my son he's so jaded he's already watching stuff that i wouldn't watch so i mean he's and yet they were like he would get caught up in these moments and i was that i was quite sort of proud that he that he sort of reacted to whether it was my my character or other characters but um but the thing that i find suffering here uh not me i don't know whose favorite it's a good question actually i think said yeah i'd be really interested in knowing i will i will because i i don't know you're not gonna like the answer he uh well he'll i i know what he has to say um but he but his thing oh sad yeah he would agree with that he's oh my god he's a dog fan i like him but he he critiques the the visual effects which drives me crazy because i'm like it was it was 17 years ago he's like yeah that looks like you know you're like stop it you know my kids are watching it because i feel like it's going to scare them like especially the probably with the wraith is really scary right so maybe soon like they'll start how old are the kids now eight and six all right have they expressed interest in the material paulie they have yeah they have but i just i i think this year i'll get them to watch i have all i have all of them so well it'll be cool for the watch but it it you know the rate is pretty scary especially in the for in the pilot i but that's the thing you've created sorry what now rachel go ahead i'm just gonna say my kids will not watch it they're just i i have on occasion said hey you know mommy was in this thing and they're like uh-huh whatever mom whatever and and on occasion you know it'll come on and and i'll say hey that's you know and they'll watch 10 minutes and they're slowly walking out of the really that's because she's like yeah yeah yeah i gotta i got i gotta prep for john malcolm did you do a show that's nice mom yeah that's basically bad that's wild they'll discover i don't know 20s and be like oh mom they couldn't care less right now really but the fact that you guys created a show that your kids can enjoy and that you're like well when you're 18. no they can enjoy it now as long as they're ready for like things like the fear factor for the wraith and things like that you know because there are there are some there are some frightening elements to it yes yeah it'll be cool yeah i'm looking forward to it i'll see if they watch it like rachel say you never know what they're gonna do right you know yeah i try not to force it like if he doesn't want to watch it i don't we don't do it because like you don't want to feel like i tried to force them yeah i took it down i got the popcorn knife mommy's pulling out the fighting sticks let's go oh watch this part son watch this part i'm great here oh we didn't make it past 10 minutes that's okay can you can you show your son that you can speak just as quickly now as you could 17 years ago david or yeah pretty well he yeah he's he's although he the point now is that he just ignores me it's amazing i blow up i do full mckay on him and he just laughs at me well i did too look at looking back at episodes like satida which was just like a powerhouse for jason mamoa or the scene of of yeah right that one guy or the scene whatever happened to that guy who knows i think he actually left atlantis and then came back king that's right or the scene of of rodney and shepard on the pier you know that wonderful episode uh that brad wright wrote it's it's an impressive body of work there are some scenes between between um tayla and and weir that are just so tender i mean you you could see the subtext here that there was you know these two were friends outside of just um uh where's office hours you know these these were drinking lives yeah i'm glad you got that vibe i didn't know that that was because i remember we were always fighting for more we were always one team i always wanted taylor to teach where how to fight and and um right and and i so i'm really appreciative that that's that was as an audience you that you received that a lot of us did no we got that that she would when the military comes in to take over for like the second or third time the person that she goes to is tayla and that was the only explanation for me was that she she wanted she wanted a peer who she respected and that's that's why that scene plays as well as it does you know where where can i feel comfortable with enough saying you know what tayla i may not be here next week i i don't think that i can keep on doing this and where she was you know she felt like she could be in a in a a position where there wasn't any any judgment from from this person who was from another galaxy who could as another leader leader to leader could get where she was coming from you know what i think so much of that is because we all just had the most terrific cast i mean honestly we got along with each other organically easily from the get-go so i think that that just translated it just carried forth into what we brought on screen we were very very lucky you know that doesn't always happen but it didn't happen right i mean it just it just happened i mean i i had a fantastic relationship with tori um and that just carried forth into you know our characters and i'm i'm i'm thrilled that you know that as you said that as an audience you were able to see that but i really do think that that just came from the fact that we all genuinely enjoyed being around each other what memories do you have of each other that stick out after all this time i i keep going back to that damn puddle jumper they're running into the puddle jumper to see who's gonna get what spot and then the jostling around over who's over where the seats are and i mean that was they were always like these or those or those damn the scenes in the in the in the control in the um yes in the board yeah yes first or who's going to fold their arms oh my god yeah it was just yes who has the folded arm thing don't forget the tables in the control room whenever there was an evacuation they had that freaking thing that stuck out the side of it that would get you right in the door i'm amazed that i had a child the number of times i walked into what the actual yeah like that how to design a how to design a a room and yeah you put the controller at the top of the tower where it's going to get bombed the most i don't know i think people had a sense what i loved about it was that the the cast all had a sense of humor about it like i mean they all everyone i mean they took it seriously enough to do the job well but at the same time we we just like man we laughed like we just honestly with all the stuff i remember it's just like those like belly laughs where you're just you can't stop and you're like and you're feeling so fortunate for having a job such a great job and you know you're in this vancouver was fairly new to me and it was just like i it was just that i'm it feels like a it's like a weird dream like you know it's uh um yeah it was it was just honestly i think i think remembering the laughing was the was the best part goran goran andowski said the caliber of he asks the caliber of guest stars you had over the years um was ridiculous the people that you were able to get i mean from robert patrick all the way down um were you surprised at that and who are you still proud to have worked with you richard kind richard kind of is a lot of kind picardo funny yeah picardo was he on that show well neil degrasse tyson i mean um you know bill nye i mean jesus it was it was wow where did those guys come in today season five robert davie yeah and then of course i i don't normally talk with scottish accent i started acting he's we're in a prison cell it was in richard kind's episode and he comes up and i start talking with the scottish accent he just like he freezes like are you what are you doing i'm i'm you you speak like that you're irish oh god oh yeah we hated each other from the moment we met it was just we never got along it was just i didn't enjoy him at all i did like uh coal mini oh my god yeah so lovely i was very like no ego whatsoever or dave ogden steers remember oh my emerson winchester the third your scenes within tory were dynamite i just rewatched them a few days ago i was a bit starstruck he was so lovely so kind so sweet so grounded yeah that was funny drove himself up from seattle yeah we're like we'll get him right here he's like no i'll drive he drove himself uh-huh yeah robert patrick that's right david reed i have a question for you how many times have you watched stargate the whole the whole franchise from beginning to end in sequence or just the an average of every episode i think you could answer the question both answers both answers both beginning to end about three times i've watched every episode on average around three or four wow wow yeah not as many as you might think considering you know 20 years of this but yeah it's a good show guys you did well and you've got a good memory because i can't remember well that's the thing well when you sit down and you watch something with the intel at least for me when you sit down and watch something with the intent of okay i i want to recall this later i put my brain puts the information in in just a different place so at least it does for me but yeah i just can never find that place that's the problem there you go i don't know some of those lines of dialogue holy crap i would stand on set behind the scenes and you know atlantis is floating through space and uh shepard is chewing you out over something i'm like how does he do this take after take after take he has stored that information in a very special spot and it's it's like this this this very it's like ram you know in in his computer it's it will exit and then more information will come in for him to repeat again and again i always liked jason's comment on that where he said he said you think it's hard to remember all those lines you know try listening to them [Laughter] i also remember over and over again seeing it recently like i'm struck by how the tech was uh dated i remember when they first told us that like that atlantis is gonna be paperless and then we're gonna be carrying on these 25-pound laptops that are meant to look like ipads like screens you know those those heavy things and that was now you re-watch that we're sort of poking into those things just before remember when joe flanagan showed up with the first iphone and he had like this beer out on yeah like a glass of beer and we're like what is that carrying around 25 pound hewlett packard laptops right so that you know the tech in it is is kind of well so are you hewlett because you insisted on no styluses you said no we're not going to do styluses this is not going to be the thing in the future we're going to no i said i wasn't going to do a stylist i just the idea of i because i don't have that kind of i'm just not that dexterous i can't you don't need that pulling out the little pencil out i was like screw that i'm just going to hit it with my finger and that and strangely that was prescient in that that's what the ipad became but yeah we invented the ipad invented the ipad that's correct and bob picardo you know he goes from pads and tricorders to writing with the pen and paper in every scene he's got folders in front of him he was great no i loved it i loved being back to uh to pen and paper i was thinking the main difference on star trek being the master of my sphere of of knowledge being the doctor on that show i i was the guy who had to spew the techno babble right the captain the boss comes in the captain comes in and it's like here's your report and i would do the page and a half of you know of support real science but extrapolated ladies and gentlemen we have an actress presence this is ridley we're gonna have something [Music] rachel it's been such a pleasure to have you it's been so great to see all of you i i miss i miss it i miss you all i think i think so highly of every single one of you and um yeah it's been it's been a pleasure it's been a pleasure good luck rachel and ridley good luck good luck great to see you rachel good luck ridley we're never going to get the dirt on john malkovich now yeah great stories thank you rachel thank you ridley my pleasure all right see you guys bye bye-bye i want to know were you guys expecting any of your characters to hook up and if so yes me [Laughter] there's a fair amount of subtext in a lot of these episodes tori it was it was i mean it was looking like with flanagan for a while there and then you know with rachel and flynn again and i was like well you know maybe that's to be i mean to hewlett we had we had you were engaged at one point and then that fell through you know yeah they never explored that at all um jason let me put his wig on that was as intimate as we got that's pretty intimate yeah it was pretty cool it was still warm i remember zalenko was pretty zlenko was pretty sexless there was nothing no nothing no indications of any sort of interest that way anywhere in the scripts oh yeah the elevator scene yeah yeah yeah yeah that was yeah yeah there's a there's a little bit of a sexual subtext there just a small one but it's funny it's it's what adds humor to the scene okay so it was humor all right oh i mean i gotta start somewhere so yeah the only person i gotta kiss was david the entire five years first they said that's several times over and over again it's crazy how you know we think that they're going to go with one way and then they go with another one i one of my favorite episodes is uh uh uh one with uh had a lot of action uh physical action between between that's what's wondering where you were going with that weird and shepherd called the long goodbye i loved that one that was that was so cool you know you get taken over by other personalities that decide well atlantis is their last battlefield yeah that was fun i had a lot of fun because i was always like i was always felt left out right you guys all got to go in the puddle jumper and have adventures and i was like acting by myself in my room everybody you got 30 minutes left like i just felt so dis yeah which was hard right because you went oh you want to be a part of it so that was fun for me because yeah you sort of felt in the middle of it and had some action and and i came from a kind of a respectful c movie action past i'd done a lot of c movies not even b movies like c action films straight to video when that was a thing so i'm like oh it's been a few years since i got to carry a gun you got to kick ass got to kick ass did a great job do you guys eva lopinska do you guys ever remember working so hard on a scene or a line of dialogue only to find out later that it didn't make it all the time all the time wow i the ones that used to piss me off were the ones where you'd like do these huge long dialogue scenes and when you watched the show you were an ant like a million miles away some big wide tracking shot and you'd be like what like i could have freaking dubbed that later you could have been reading it yeah yeah coverage is on everybody else but you yeah well that happened with you paul a lot but that was a different thing i just like to hear my belts and tones in uh mario it's a party and letters for pegasus he had me um memorize the monologue in czech and in english i did both of them and when we did the setup we did one take in check only forcing the hand of the editors so there was never an english version for him to use so he kept that in there so stuff like that was was was done all the time wow yeah and you know that was one of the running gags about the show was what's what's being said on this screen here that we're um that in in the czech republic would be censored everything everything everything i i said the worst it was great [Laughter] i remember they cut out one part when we did the episode with uh on on with richard kind the first one yes irresistible irresistible and in the puddle jumper and then i'm handcuffed and jill kidnaps me sort of and at the end of it like he he punches me says buck up carson or something but actually when we shot it i had joe um i go would you mind and i made him take a kleenex out of my pocket and blow my nose for me but cut it out and i was like so funny you know yeah but joe actually i made him do it he did it actually one of my favorite woolsey episodes is remnants with anna galvin and you know he he's he falls in love with uh not really in love but has there's uh there's a an exchange between him and uh and a probe that has been dormant at beneath the ocean for how many eons and i hate when that happens and they're those are the only ones really attracted to me are those dormant those dormant pros well they're either you've heard still still waters run deep so well they're either they're either taking you over because they're a nuclear warhead yeah exactly it was the same we did the same plot on the star trek except i was the i was the probe on the start you know i had they were too cheap to hire a guest star wait a minute we've got this we've got this uh artificial intelligence who's also a walking bomb we were going to get a guest star but we just thought we'd make you do it oh you ate that up don't you lie no it was it was a lot of yelling it was a lot of angry screaming um no she was lovely and that was a lot of fun because woolsey even though he was a man of a certain age he still had a little uh he had a little it piqued his interest to have her flirting with him until he discovered that of course she was only uh an avatar really for uh for an artificial intelligence what are you going to do what happens all the time fellas my favorite gag my favorite gag they did on the show i couldn't believe that i talked them into doing it but they seem to like it in the show vegas um we're having a discussion we're looking for a where can an alien hide in las vegas and somebody added i mean i suggested they add the line what about star trek the experience and then it cuts to me and i go no it closed i was i was the i was one of the two rides at star trek it was an attraction yeah i was an attraction so i begged them to do that and they and then i thought well it'll get cut out but it didn't it's in the show and they didn't just never know and they didn't get sued apparently because i thought well maybe paramount never mind but i thought it was uh i was proud of them for keeping that gag in for those of you who are on board at the end of the series were you surprised when it didn't go for a sixth year and what would you have wanted to see in a season six inquiring minds want to know yeah i was i was surprised i i was as i say it was the first year that i thought for sure we were going to do another one like i really did it just seemed like why is that was that because weir wasn't in it no i don't think it was that um no just because it was like you know how i guess boring because they were talking about starting up another show they were talking about you know they were it just seemed like i i assumed that they were just gonna do what they did before like overlap it just it worked well before um i just assumed they were gonna do that so i was on i that was truly i was surprised like um you guys knew they were you knew they were putting together universe that last i don't know if we do we know about universe i don't remember but i i it just it i can't remember now i honestly don't remember but it just i remember being pretty like confident it was going to go and um which is weird because i don't normally well as i say yeah i was brought in specifically to kill the franchise so the fact how many times how many times have you done all the time i can't tell you how many times they said things are going really well with tory but let's bring picardo in he'll kill the show and i did so you don't you don't jump the shark anymore you jump picardo is that the uh no i i i i only listened to what others were saying and people seemed i mean first i i remember joe early on seemed like he didn't think it would go on then he was sure that it would go on or something so i heard people change over the course of the year change their thoughts and i i definitely got the feeling from the you know from some of the executives on the show that they thought it would go on another year or that we'd at least make a movie or two to you know to sort of wrap things the actors are always the last to uh to find out yeah i can't i can't the second chuck filled me with i remember chuck the stand and then it's like oh it's over i think i heard on twitter a lot of people found out on twitter yeah that's true twitter wow it's how information moves these days isn't that weird yeah you'd think that they would call you yeah it's it was a weird one though i don't know like is there a good way it's like it's like there's no good way to break up you know what i mean like there's no the fact of the matter is it's like i i think no one i don't think anybody i think there's no even the producers were caught off guard i think yeah i've seen them were like they had they were gonna go with the season six right and that's as far as they had plans yeah they had they were laying seeds in five for six the asgard were gonna probably be back you know in some fashion you know you had a whole kind of whole list laundry list of things but isn't it possible that that there um that the the guarantee the two-year guarantee for the new show for universe may have had something to do with it that's what i heard but i i don't know who knows i mean i everything's like hearsay for my i don't know anything for sure i'll ask brad i'll ask i'm talking to brad on monday apparently what's this and what's all the scuttlebutt about it about a new thing now that amazon's bought it so brad is still uh in development of his show that he's been working on for for two years now i've just i've been calling it sg4 you know because we want we all want it to be a continuation of the continuity uh if if amazon is um fast tracking it or not or whatever we don't know what's going on so i'm just one of these people who have been telling everyone let's wait and see uh you know brad and the folks that are involved you know when it's time for us to start pushing it they'll let us know you know if there is if there is anything but i mean with amazon picking this thing up there's going to be something stargate at some point in the next few years here it's just a matter of time yeah i mean like i i can't imagine it having having certainly me in it but but it but it i i i just use it crazy not to have like it's such a iconic franchise i can't imagine why they wouldn't like relaunch it in some way shape or form you know what's been really fun though i played the rpg game rainbow have you tried that uh it's based on the fifth edition dungeon dragons and it's really yeah because they're doing it they're set up like rainbow with you yeah you did it as well yeah okay right okay all right you were the two that's right that's right yeah yeah i think it's actually incredible yeah it's incredible that's been really honestly of all the stargate stuff to come out since stargate that's the most exciting thing to me and what you pick like a character and then you play as that character the stargate one role-playing game it's coming out later this year but it's designed in episodes really fun yeah it really is really fun i had i had like no preconceived notion of what it was and i had never played dnd but i had always wanted to and when we did it i was i had i had the time in my life did you get to play as yourself rainbow yeah did you play yourself rainbow it's season six sg-1 no you you pick your own characters so it's it's set in a on a fictitious uh like outside of the beltway of content in season six of sg-1 it's called phoenix site and you create a new character david nicholl i tried to get you on i think you would love it tori i think you would enjoy it too and paul and bob it's actually a video game that's not what it is it's not what it is it's all imagination it's super fun you have a game master there who takes you through the story and you don't need reaction time to play this game right no all right because i do have a line at that time actually robert you'd love it too it's kind of fun it's it's just it's it's it's dungeons and dragons it's like it's like you're you know you enter a cavern where do you and people what do you do now voices and stuff and yeah i mean very fun i don't really really i didn't realize you hadn't played it before because you were like you did the we did the first mm-hmm i couldn't do the second one but i did the next one as well we'll have the third one later this year the butcher of abaddos part two and it's fantastic yeah they have yeah we have a great game backwards right yeah so we had a lexus cruise in a scene and scara in the same scene and that was that was real trippy yeah he had to talk to himself it was interesting oh pay attention i am i appreciate you guys joining us this has been fantastic um my father and i we are fairly different people and one of the few things that we've always had in common is science fiction my family would get together we would watch your show and we'd be teleported away one night a week and it helped improve us as people and as human beings can you tell us briefly an experience that you've had with a fan where it helps shape your life for the better where it helped the show helped shape their lives for the better your character atlantis helped them push give them a push to what they needed to do or what they were called to do so i still get lots of amazing letters from um mostly young women and i remember being very jealous during stargate because rachel got all these wonderful letters from people going you're so hot and i was like i don't get any you're so hot letters but it took a few years before i got all these letters from these young women and it was so beautiful and very moving and very surprising i just didn't because to me i grew up you know sort of in the 70s so there's a lot of strong women on television in the 70s there is a great and then at this time 20 years ago kind of the strongest woman on television that point was lisa simpson like there was this a very sexualized thing going on with women and you couldn't you didn't have very many strong women who weren't sexualized on television anymore so i once i made that leap i i felt really grateful for being that voice and i i still get letters from women a lot of gay women that felt very empowered by having a woman who had power and was was leading with her heart not her sexuality or using that as a access to power and that was really moving and i've also met so many young women who said i went to study um political science because of weir like i feel very honored that i got to play elizabeth ware i think she was a very cool character and i'm so grateful for those guys for writing her because she was necessary and she was she was an honor to play and to this day i'm still moved by the number of young women that that are grateful for her and grateful for her giving them a sense of power and a voice so i think one of the most amazing legacies uh to echo tori saying is is i think what we brought to everyone and you see this as you go to different conventions all the world is companionship so i think we were in people's living rooms and we were in people's bedrooms and people that don't necessarily you know didn't have friends or or a community back sort of in the early days of the internet and the fandom really brought that together and that's that's i think the biggest legacy of that is the people that come up to me and say just countless personal stories uh health stories related stories but just how sort of the companionship of having these friends come into your your house every week sort of got them through tough times and now it's generational as david related to earlier david you let that you know you start you know the kids come up and says i always watched it with my dad or as you just said david so that that sort of stuff is it really is humbling because you know you kind of go and you do a scene and you come home and you you wash the dishes right you don't have really any kind of sense of where it's landing when you're doing it until you go to these conventions and you see that you've you've helped sort of provide companionship for people all over the world and that's cool that's very cool i just want to jump in quickly and amend i know rachel also got lots of fan letters from young women saying we love your power and your strength and your intellect she was not just a sexualized character i just want to amend that oh absolutely i never had anything that came off of my character so much but i will say that doing the conventions and being that all of us have uh sort of been as opposed to other shows we're quite accessible uh i find that we're we we are very accessible to the people that watch the show our friends the friends of the show and i certainly am and because of the interactions and because of my openness you know i deal with uh a heavy amount of depression in my life and i've always been quite open about it and uh i've been lucky enough to talk with a lot of fans so not so much the character but the show has allowed me to have an open discussion with fans about what they're going through and so i've been able to help them and they've been able to really help me over the past forever to get through some really hard times you know and so i'm really really grateful for that from the show so it wasn't so much ford but ford was definitely the the catalyst and the conduit for that um yeah i appreciate what rainbow said so much that mine is isn't probably going to my answer will sort of pale i guess by a comparison when i think of the influence that you're i i have many more stories obviously from my years on star trek because i did because i was there so much longer as far as people being influenced to go either in the medical profession um or even people that became emts or nurses or whatever some some aspect of medicine or uh were inspired to go into some aspect of space exploration my experience on stargate atlantis was obviously shorter but because i began as a just a recurring guest star who was a very unlikable person very kind of you know combative and judge judgmental whatever and then and then once the producers for whatever reason decided to try to turn me into a leader the nice comments that i have gotten from people was about that aspect of the character development they all start by saying i hated your character or i didn't like your character at all and then i was surprised to see how you became a leader or how you navigated those changes or whatever which was really you know the writers were very clever in that they had the how they had the audience open their heart to this character because he really really was when especially on this uh on stargate sg1 he was really had nothing likeable about him not a shred of of compassion or humor or nothing so the fact that that uh if if if i've gotten anything it's from people i guess appreciating the fact that he was redeemed so to speak after being such an unredeemable human being the first outing so that that that would be he was always a seeker of truth you know i mean that was the one thing he had yeah the one thing he had was that he believed that you know that the the there had to be oversight of the secret military up so yes you're right he had that one positive quality yeah it was great to see everyone and thank you you know thanks it's just like i i'm very fond of all of you and i really wish that we had done this sooner all right thank you so much my friend for stopping by and congratulations thank you mr picardo nice thank you very much so i'm so glad that's uh that's happened for you thank you love you all i hope to see you again in the flesh yes and be safe enjoy the rest of your pandemic oh yeah there's that paul and dave hewlett sure okay i mean i i i think i'm very much of the of the of the rainbow on this one i feel like i feel like there's well i get i'm very lucky that a lot of people do come up and say like you know i'm in i'm an astrophysicist because of this or i'm i'm a you know i'm at nasa i mean those kind of things are wild but i i can't i can't so i don't i feel like the the thing that's hit me the most is is the accessibility is what i've been able to do because of stargate the people who i've met who i never would have met without stargate i mean you know the tech bandits thing's been really interesting for me because because basically what i've been able to do is is take all those people who've gone on to do things who are influenced in some way shape or form from the stargate stuff um and and sort of mine them for information for the next generation right so it's i i love i love the access it's it's given us um i mean especially i'd be very lucky with mckay because because of the science angle i just i've i've been able to explore all this like stuff that i i find fascinating and and i just i never would have been able to do that without the show i mean i just they just wouldn't it wouldn't exist so it's it is amazing that the number of people who still come up and say like it's affected them in some way shape or form um but honestly i think it's probably affected me more than more than any of the people that they i mean just the change in my life since that has been you know extraordinary so you know blessed one yeah paul mcgillian you always had you know carson so often reflected the what the audience was feeling and i i suspect you had to get that in response from fans uh yeah a lot i mean it was it was such a a lovely character to play you know and i think um he kind of wears hard on his sleeve a lot you know it was so sweet and mine's more of a little a little fan i think i've told it before but we were in ireland and i was at uh in dublin at a comic book signing a place called forbidden planet and this little i love the little kids and stuff this little boy was in line and he had a little two gun and every time i looked up he was like you know give me a thumbs up and he finally got up to the table and he he said oh mr mcgillian i'm so happy to meet you i just love dr beck and i want to be a doctor someday i said oh that's that's great he goes and i said what so lovely to meet you what can i get for and he goes oh nothing sir i just got a piece of my birthday cake i just turned 11. and he gave me his cake on a napkin and he walked goes to walk away i'm like whoa whoa whoa get over here i go you can pick a pick a picture for your birthday he goes oh sir we don't have any money his mom was standing close by and i could just see you could just tell you know they didn't have any a lot of money and i said this is for your birthday it's a gift from me and he the little face on him it like broke my heart and he goes well and he had to ask his mom if it's okay and i said it's okay if i give him a picture and she looked at me and she'd give me a little nod you know and it was okay he picked a picture and he he was he just took it as he walked away just holding it looking at it and just said to me like what an impact you can make and you don't even realize it you know a little guy like that you know and you see he was so happy and that's i think uh a testament but how was the cake you know it was just so sweet you know what a little what a little guy in his make his day you know over something over over a television show you know and and i think that's what stargate does like you know all of you have mentioned different things but it did bring it does bring families together and you know eventually you see all the different people that grow up with the show and that's the that's what makes it so special you know and special to be part of and intimately right intimately we're not in a movie we're in their living room we're in right every week and consistently too that's another thing it happens every week right you get it yeah it's like relationships do not underestimate your contributions to people's lives i mean i i i like like rainbow i have struggled with depression all my life and all of you i mean i am so blessed to have all of you in in my life in one form or another i love you guys you have been you know i it's been so good uh growing with you over over these these past years and continuing to share what uh was such an important chapter in science fiction and an equality show that made us think and made us wonder and made us ask those questions well thank you david thank you you're always so supportive and you're always bringing us together and you're always creating and thank you thank you for this this is lovely to see you yeah it really is but thank you this is a great thing to do all of you thank you so much for making this this happen and recognizing the important work that you that you guys did and and continue to do is this thing gets reinvented you know again and again throughout throughout the years so one one quick question yes or no cindy hayward just another day riot hunt whiskey barber redux and phil hang in there tori all wanted to know would you be game for returning for sg4 because i know rainbow i know going to own the foreign galaxy by the next time we see him he's not dead i don't believe it so tori you go first uh yes there's my position oh yes absolutely yes we do it in the heartbeat i do in a heartbeat look i just answered for all of us i'm going to thank you tori so good to see you guys thank you guys bye-bye take care bye yeah but yeah you guys will be down yes legit yes oh yeah for sure yeah yeah i mean yeah we was yeah that would be stupid not to frankly i mean that's one of the you know what i talk about one of the things you can you get out of this is that you know it takes so little to make someone's day yeah you know what i mean like you're on the subway and someone says something and you say hi back or you know or shake their hand or sign something for them i mean like it's just such a great it's a great pick-me-up you know what i mean like i never thought i i never thought like 20 years later you'd still be still get that kind of little little ego boost every every couple of you know every couple of weeks or whatever it's it's it's it's lovely it's great when you go to your house your little basement dwelling that you're in yeah when i look in the mirror and i say you're a you're a really good actor i would i would love to i've said your son you sign you know like yeah oh i just said i've said this to you before but i would love to you know i've grown so much since that i would love to be able to revisit for now uh with much more insight and more it's been great watching you rainbow like honestly like you're just like just get better and better every time every time i see you it's just it's amazing to see see what you've got up to yeah paul you just got worse but but uh but rainbow you really really picked it up david you just never stopped talking i gotta get that fifty percent comedy in right yeah something's gonna be funny [Laughter] guys this has been terrific thank you so much for taking so much time with us we went a little bit over but uh it's going to be good for a year none of us are like dashing off really are we well you know conventions they're they're not gone for good i i think we're really starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel here and uh i can't wait to see you all in person again yeah my tremendous thanks to david hewlett tory higginson paul mcgillian rachel luttrell rainbow sun franks david nicholl and robert picardo for joining us uh in this very special 100th episode and i have as you know trying to get back to the root of what this show has been about the fans stargate art for you this is one that i've been hanging on to a while this is steampunk atlantis by laina and she describes it as archival photograph from the atlantis expedition of 1907 for an au prompt challenge using the main stargate atlantis team my prompt was steampunk as usual many references used all the characters are referenced i looked at vintage photos for ideas of the poses and some of the costumes notably rodney's pose and clothes are referenced from a vintage photo of h ryder haggard this is an homage since i read and loved his books as a kid and he's partly responsible for my love of the concept of steampunk zeppelin is based on vintage photos of the graph zeppelin my thanks to my team as always for continuing to make the show possible um summer tracy keith jeremy reese anthony uh and linda gate gabriel fury my producer and my production assistant jennifer kirby 100 episodes man it took us a little bit but not as long as i would have thought so i will be back this fall with season two and we will be going from there but we're going to continue to pump out content over the summer hope you're enjoying that and that's what we've got thanks so much for tuning in to dial the gate my name is david reed and i'll see you on the other side [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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u/gategabber looking forward to season 2! It would be really cool to see some episodes centred on the music of each season, maybe as more of a virtual round-table between some of the producers, directors and anyone who might have some insight since Joel and Rick are no longer around.