Stargate SG-1 (1999) – Fair Game, and Legacy

Carter (Amanda Tapping) gets promoted to Major in this episode, a wonderfully nice moment for the character, but things get interrupted when O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) gets beamed aboard an Asgard ship, which leads to the story for the episode when he has a conversation with Thor (voiced by Michael Shanks). Written by Robert C….

Farscape (1999) – Premiere, and I, E.T.

I remember my friend Dennis raving about Farscape, but everytime I tried to get into it, I wouldn’t get hooked. But I found the key, if you could get to the episode PK Tech Girl, you would be hooked. Having only gotten through the series once, I decided it’s time for a rewatch and can’t…

Stargate SG-1 (1999) – Into the Fire, and Seth

Season Three of SG-1 got underway on 25 June 1999 with Into the Fire. Written by one of the showrunners, Brad Wright, General Hammond (Don S. Davis) learns that SG-1 is being held captive by Hathor (Suanne Braun). While Major Davis (Colin Cunningham) stays at the SGC, Hammond joins Teal’c (Christopher Judge) and Bra’tac (Tony…

Stargate SG-1 (1999) – 1969, and Out of Mind

The penultimate episode of season two gives us a little bit of time travel. Written by Brad Wright, one of the showrunners, 1969 first aired on 5 March, 1999. Carter (Amanda Tapping) is updating a gate’s address, working to account for solar gravity, and General Hammond (Don S. Davis) gives Carter a note without a…

Stargate SG-1 (1999) – One False Step, and Show and Tell

There’s always going to be at least one episode a season that I don’t really care for, and this time around it’s One False Step. Written by Michael Kaplan and John Sanborn this episode was first broadcast on 19 February, 1999. When SG-1 gates to a distant planet to recover a downed UAV, O’Neill (Richard…

Stargate SG-1 (1999) – Holiday, and Serpent’s Song

While on a mission, Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) gets body-swapped with an ancient inventor Ma’chello (also Shanks), but that’s just the beginning of the problems . Ma’chello takes over Daniel’s body, and just uses it as an opportunity to take a reprieve from life, and travel around the city. But when Teal’c (Christopher Judge) and…

Stargate SG-1 (1999) – The Fifth Race, and A Matter of Time

Poor Jack (Richard Dean Anderson). O’Neill becomes infected with an alien database when they travel to one of the possible ally worlds of the five races allied against the goa’uld system lords. Written by Robert C. Cooper, The Fifth Race first debuted on 22 January, 1999. He begins to speak in an alien tongue, and…

Stir of Echoes (1999) – David Koepp

Stir of Echoes got lost in the theatres when it went up against the ghost story The Sixth Sense. Based on the novel by Richard Matheson and adapted by Koepp who settled into the director’s chair as well, the film lets Kevin Bacon just shine, and features some well-executed visuals including the hypnotism sequence featuring…

The Bone Collector (1999) – Phillip Noyce

Denzel Washington brings Jeffrey Deaver’s brilliant detective Lincoln Rhymes to life in Phillip Noyce’s big-screen version of The Bone Collector. Haunted by the moment he became a quadriplegic, Rhymes is an ex-homicide detective who is planning for his final transition, an assisted suicide, much against the wishes of his caregiver, Thelma (Queen Latifah). When one…