Stargate: Atlantis (2007) – Travelers, and Tabula Rasa

Paul Mullie and Joseph Mallozzi wrote Travelers which first debuted on 26 October, 2007. Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) is returning on a mission when he is fired on by a giant starship. Brought on board, he discovers they’ve been living a nomadic existence aboard ship due to the war with the Wraith (sounds a bit like…

Stargate SG-1 (2007) – The Quest: Part 2, and Line in the Sand

The second half of SG-1’s final season picked up on 13 April, 2007, almost seven months after the mid-season finale in September of 2006. Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie throw us right back into things as SG-1, alongside Ba’al (Cliff Simon) and Adria (Morena Baccarin) continue their uneasy alliance and their search for the sangraal….

Stargate: Atlantis (2006) – No Man’s Land, and Misbegotten

Season three of Stargate: Atlantis got underway on 14 July, 2006. It was written by Martin Gero and picks up exactly where the season two finale ended. The Daedalus is still engaged with the Wraith hiveship, Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) is leading a squad of 302s against Darts and we get a huge space battle. And…

Stargate SG-1 (2006) – Crusade, and Camelot

Vala (Claudia Black) is back. Kind of. As we dive into the penultimate episode of season nine. Crusade was written by Robert C. Cooper (he also directed it) and it first aired on 3 March, 2006. Remember the stones that allowed Daniel (Michael Shanks) and Vala to inhabit bodies in the galaxy that the Ori…

Farscape (2002) – Unrealized Reality, and Kansas

Unrealized Reality was written by David Kemper and first aired on 23 August, 2002. Crichton (Ben Browder) is about to get an education! When he tumbles into a wormhole, and he encounters an alien, Einstein (John Bach), who wants to learn why Crichton was given this information. And to show him how much things can…

Stargate SG-1 (2005) – Citizen Joe, and Reckoning: Part 1

Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, guest stars in Citizen Joe. Written by Damian Kindler from a story by Robert C. Cooper this episode debuted on 18 February, 2025. It’s a unique kind of clip show, with excerpts featuring the writing of Cooper, James Crocker, Peter DeLuise, Jonathan Glassner, Victoria James, Kindler, Joseph Mallozzi,…

Stargate SG-1 (2004) – Chimera, and Death Knell

Osiris (Anna-Louise Plowman) is haunting Daniel’s (Micheal Shanks) dreams as her former self, and his former lover, Sarah. What is Osiris up to? Does it have something to do with the Lost City? Chimera was written by Damian Kindler from a story by Robert C. Cooper. And outside of Stargate Command we see that Carter…

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (2014) – Becky Chambers

When I get into a book that I’m really enjoying reading it gets to the point that I see it all in my mind’s eye. Some books not only get the theater of the mind rolling, but make me feel at home and comfortable with the characters and the environment within pages of starting 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…

Stargate SG-1 (1998) – The Tok’ra Part 1, and Part 2

Using story threads laid down in the episode In the Line of Duty and Secrets, The Tok’ra expands the Stargate universe once again, and introduces new characters, allies and threats? The Tok’ra Part 1 was written by one of the showrunners, Jonathan Glassner, and it debuted on 2 October, 1998. When Captain Carter (Amanda Tapping)…