Day: February 18, 2005

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Season 1 Stargate Stargate Atlantis

Before I Sleep

Stargate AtlantisSheppard leads a team investigating some of the still-unexplored parts of the city, when he finds a chamber with an elderly woman in suspended animation. Dr. Weir makes the call to revive the woman, who McKay says has been frozen for 10,000 years. The apparently human woman’s first words upon waking up are “It worked.” After some rest, Dr. Beckett reports that the woman has awakened again, and seems to recognize the people and things around her. When Weir pays her another visit, the woman claims to be her – after traveling back in time to the Ancients’ heyday on Atlantis. Beckett confirms the woman’s DNA is the same as Weir’s. But her story of what happened baffles everyone – according to the older Weir, Atlantis’ shields remained down when Weir’s team arrived through the stargate and activated the city’s systems. The city flooded, many of the crew was killed, and only Weir survived, somehow finding herself 10,000 years in the past, healed by the Ancients. It turns out that the Ancients did not approve of the construction of the time travel device that led to Weir’s recovery, and refuse to allow it to be used to return her to the future. But another of the Ancients gave this timeline’s Weir another option – a chance to ensure that events would unfold differently when she arrived 10,000 years in the future.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazon's Unboxwritten by Carl Binder
excerpts from The Rising written by Robert C. Cooper and Brad Wright
directed by Andy Mikita
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Gildart Jackson (Janus), Matthew Walker (Ancient Council Member), Paul McGillion (Dr. Beckett), Craig Veroni (Dr. Grodin), Melia McClure (Melia), David Nykl (Dr. Zelenka), Alex DeCosta (Technician)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

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Battlestar Galactica (New Series) Season 1

Six Degrees Of Separation

Battlestar GalacticaBaltar is called to the CIC, where Commander Adama informs him that a Miss Godfrey has made some disturbing accusations regarding his tampering with Caprica’s defenses, and she appears to have some proof, though it’s far from conclusive. Baltar sees no one other than the command crew and Number Six, until he realizes that for the first time, the others can see her too. Even the President questions his honesty, and for the first time since the attacks on Caprica, Number Six no longer features in Baltar’s fantasies. He decides to take matters into his own hands to eliminate the evidence, Baltar only incriminates himself further. Boomer opens her locker on Galactica and finds the word “Cylon” scrawled inside. And on Caprica, after Helo finally confesses his feelings for the copy of Boomer he’s on the run with, a Cylon experiment reaches a climax.

Order the DVDsDownload this episodewritten by Michael Angeli
directed by Robert Young
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Paul Campbell (Billy Keikeya), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Donnelly Rhodes (Dr. Cottle), Nicki Clyne (Cally), Christina Schild (Journalist – Playa), Biski Gugushe (Journalist – Eick)

Original UK Airdate: November 29, 2004

LogBook entry by Earl Green

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8th Doctor Doctor Who The Audio Dramas

Human Resources – Part 2

Doctor Who: Human Resources Part 2With the Doctor and Lucie embroiled in a conflict with warmongers on one side and the inhuman Cybermen on the other, the Doctor isn’t sure who he should back. But even as he noodles his way through that question, many more are raised. Who is responsible for this war being fought? Why is it being run in such a peculiar fashion? And what was so important about Lucie that so many people were making so much fuss about her? The answers lead all the way back to the Doctor’s home planet of Gallifrey and, as usual, he’s not going to like them…

Order this CDwritten by Eddie Robson
directed by Nicholas Briggs
music by ERS

Cast: Paul McGann (The Doctor), Sheridan Smith (Lucie Miller), Katarina Olsson (Headhunter), Roy Marsden (Hulbert), Nickolas Grace (Straxus), Owen Brenman (Jerry), Louise Fullerton (Karen), Andrew Wisher (Malcolm), Nicholas Briggs (Cybermen)

Timeline: after Human Resources Part 1 and before Dead London

LogBook entry & review by Philip R. Frey

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Battlestar Galactica (New Series) Season 3

A Day In The Life

Battlestar GalacticaFor the rest of Galactica’s crew, it’s a routine day, but for Admiral Adama, it’s a day he marks, and yet dreads, every year – his anniversary. Even all these years later, it seems he can only remember the arguments. For Tyrol and Cally, the day starts with a routine argument, but when the airlock they’re assigned to work on suddenly traps them due to a slight loss of pressure, their normal day becomes a life-or-death crisis. Even with their expertise, there’s no way to just open the door and return to the ship – the only way out is to blow the outer airlock hatch and try to catch them in a raptor just outside, a last-ditch maneuver that’s as like to kill them as it is to save them.

written by Mark Verheiden
directed by Rod Hardy
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Nicki Clyne (Cally), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Lucinda Jenney (Caroline Adama), Bodie Olmos (Hotdog), Jennifer Halley (Seelix), Sebastian Speance (Narcho), Don Thompson (Figurski), Mike Leisen (Pvt. Stewart Jaffee)

Note: While dogs are known as daggits in the Galactica universe, apparently cats are – according to President Roslin’s “herding cats” comment – still cats in any universe. As well they should be.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

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Rebels Season 3 Star Wars

Legacy Of Mandalore

Star Wars: RebelsSabine returns to Mandalorian territory to the kind of welcome she expects – the moment she identifies herself, her vehicle is shot down. Her mother gives her a chilly reception, her brother only slightly warmer, and soon it becomes apparent to Sabine that her mother has sold her out to Gar Saxon, the Mandalorian governor loyal to the Empire. The Darksaber, which everyone had hoped would rally Mandalorians behind Sabine, is handed to Saxon; Ezra throws his lightsaber to Sabine to even the odds. Even if she can use all of Kanan’s training to survive the duel with Gar Saxon, can she deal the death blow required of the victor by Mandalorian custom?

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Christopher Yost
directed by Mel Zwyer
music by Kevin Kiner
additional music by David Russell, Sean Kiner, and Dean Kiner
based on original themes and music by John Williams

RebelsCast: Taylor Gray (Ezra Bridger), Freddie Prinze Jr. (Kanan Jarrus), Tiya Sircar (Sabine Wren), Kevin McKidd (Fenn Rau), Ray Stevenson (Gar Saxon), Dave Filoni (Mandalorian Warrior), Ritesh Rajan (Tristan Wren), Sharmila Devar (Ursa Wren)

LogBook entry by Earl Green