Secrets of Stargate

A Replicator that can't replicate is loose on Earth, and Atlantis S4E15 spends the hour at a funeral instead. Jeff Haecker, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams argue whether backstory without consequence earns its keep. The post Outcast (SGA) appeared first on StarQuest Media .

A 13-year-old heir, a day's hike, and a forest full of Genii assassins. Victor Lams, Jeff Haecker, and Lisa Jones take on Atlantis S4E14 "Harmony" — the bottle episode that gave the franchise its funniest painting. The post Harmony (SGA) – The Secrets of Stargate appeared first on StarQuest Media .

Announcing Holy Troublemakers, a new podcast from StarQuest. In this weekly podcast host Dom Bettinelli will introduce you to the difficult people who built the Catholic Church. From mystics who argued with popes to missionaries who walked into places nobody sane would go, every episode tells one of their stories. The post Announcing Holy Troublemakers appeared first on StarQuest Media .

Every door in Atlantis seals at once. Communications, ventilation, sensors and internal transport all go down, the expedition is scattered across the city in pairs, and the one man everyone assumes will fix it is locked in the botany lab with no computer, no radio, and a diamond ring in his pocket. "Quarantine" is the 13th episode of Stargate Atlantis season 4, and it is a bottle episode in the strictest sense — the characters aren't merely on standing sets, they're physically sealed inside them. [**Lisa Jones**](https://sqpn.com/team_member/lisa-jones/), [**Jeff Haecker**](https://www.sqpn.com/team_member/jeff-haecker/) and [**Victor Lams**](https://www.sqpn.com/team_member/victor-lams/) work through why a talky, trapped-in-a-room hour lands here when so many don't. The answer is the pairings. **Rodney McKay** spends the crisis catastrophizing at **Katie Brown**, who stays patient right up to the point it becomes clear these two shouldn't marry. **Ronon** and **Dr. Keller** trade the worst things that ever happened to them — she was a child prodigy who never fit in, he lost everyone he knew to the Wraith — and nearly kiss. **Teyla** admits to **Sheppard** that she's frightened her son will grow up with no parents; Sheppard tells her the expedition is her family. **Carter** and **Zelenka** sweat out the lockdown in a transporter the size of a closet while he explains why nothing she suggests will work. Then there's the password. Sheppard reconstructs Rodney's from memory — Newton, Einstein, 1968, and 42 — and Teyla's reaction to the last one is the best beat in the episode. The panel also gets into how it was made. **Carl Binder** pitched the script to director **Martin Wood**, fresh off *Stargate: Continuum*, as "a parlor drama." The long sequence of doors sealing across Atlantis is one set of doors, redressed and reshot. The shutters in McKay's lab are CG, because that set has no practical windows. The transporter scenes took a day and a half in a four-walled box. And the tower climb is where the budget went after an effects-heavy stretch of the season — the one showpiece in an episode built to be cheap. It was also the first episode shot after the summer hiatus, which is why Teyla goes from barely showing to full maternity wear between episodes. Plus: Joseph Mallozzi's ultimate-starship-crew bracket on X pits Todd against Ronon, Michael Shanks announces a Stargate rewatch podcast with David Read of Dial the Gate, and Tori writes in about Kate Hewlett. The post Quarantine (SGA) appeared first on StarQuest Media .

The Wraith don't breed. They're grown. Season 4's "Spoils of War" (S4E12) finally shows how, and Jeff Haecker, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams weigh a cloning facility, a pregnant Teyla, and the episode where Sheppard names Todd. The post Spoils of War (SGA) appeared first on StarQuest Media .

Atlantis aims Earth ships, Wraith hives, and Traveler vessels at the same planet in Stargate Atlantis S4E11. Victor Lams, Jeff Haecker, and Lisa Jones on the biggest battle the franchise ever staged, and the face in that last shot. The post Be All My Sins Remember’d (SGA) appeared first on StarQuest Media .

Cut your hand and watch it close. That's the first sign Atlantis isn't Atlantis in Stargate Atlantis S4E10. Lisa Jones, Jeff Haecker, and Victor Lams weigh a sharp premise against an episode that talks its way straight through it. The post This Mortal Coil (SGA) appeared first on StarQuest Media .

A dying girl, a father with a billionaire's resources, and nanites nobody finished coding. Jeff Haecker, Victor Lams, and Lisa Jones take apart Stargate Atlantis S4E9 — and the moment Sheppard hands a guilty man his own way out. The post Miller’s Crossing (SGA) appeared first on StarQuest Media .

A dying psychic's visions expose the Asuran replicators' slaughter of human worlds and force an uneasy Wraith alliance. Victor Lams, Jeff Haecker, and Lisa Jones weigh Carter vs. Woolsey in Stargate Atlantis S4E8 — and Teyla's secret gets out. The post The Seer (SGA) appeared first on StarQuest Media .

A routine checkup on New Athos becomes a run-for-your-life survival story when the cannibal Bola Kai overrun the village. In Atlantis S4E7 "Missing," Jeff Haecker, Victor Lams, and Lisa Jones weigh Teyla and Keller's brutal two-hander. The post Missing (SGA) appeared first on StarQuest Media .

Everyone on Atlantis wakes up with no memory and a deadly clock ticking. In Stargate Atlantis S4E6, "Tabula Rasa," Victor Lams, Jeff Haecker, and Lisa Jones unpack the amnesia mystery, Major Lorne's villain turn, and one very effective Polaroid. The post Tabula Rasa (SGA) appeared first on StarQuest Media .

A nomadic human fleet, an Aurora-class battleship, and a character study gone wrong. Victor Lams, Lisa Jones, and Jeff Haecker weigh the best idea in SGA S4E5 "Travelers" against writing that can't make Larrin (Jill Wagner) land. The post Travelers (SGA) appeared first on StarQuest Media .

A crystal entity turns Sheppard into every crew member's nightmare in SGA S4E4 "Doppelganger." Lisa Jones, Jeff Haecker, and Victor Lams tackle fear-feeding aliens, Heightmeyer's death, and what Robert C. Cooper called his "Nightmare on Atlantis Street." The post Doppelganger (SGA) appeared first on StarQuest Media .

Ronon's Satedan comrades are back — and they've been turned by the Wraith. Jeff Haecker, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams break down SGA S4E3 "Reunion," Carter's first episode in command of Atlantis. The post Reunion (SGA) appeared first on StarQuest Media .

The new Stargate series is dead — Amazon pulled the plug right before they hit record. Victor Lams, Lisa Jones, and Jeff Haecker hold a wake, then celebrate all ten seasons of SG-1. 214 episodes. No regrets. The post Stargate SG-1 Complete Series Retrospective appeared first on StarQuest Media .

Dr. Weir stays behind on the Asuran homeworld so Sheppard's team can get away with the ZPM in SGA S4E2. Lisa Jones, Jeff Haecker, and Victor Lams break down the heist, the farewell, and Samantha Carter's quiet arrival. The post Lifeline (SGA) appeared first on StarQuest Media .

A powerless Atlantis drifts toward an asteroid field with a dying leader aboard. In Stargate Atlantis S4E1 "Adrift," Lisa Jones, Jeff Haecker, and Victor Lams unpack a major cast shake-up and Emmy-nominated visual effects. The post Adrift (SGA) appeared first on StarQuest Media .

Atlantis faces an orbital Asuran weapon and must launch the entire city into space to survive. Jeff Haecker, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams break down the Season 3 finale — including the introductions of Dr. Jennifer Keller and Colonel Ellis. The post First Strike (SGA) appeared first on StarQuest Media .

What do you do when you find the weapon that could end a holy war, but using it means forcing truth on people who never asked for it? Jeff Haecker, Victor Lams, and Lisa Henley Jones take on The Ark of Truth. The post Stargate: The Ark of Truth appeared first on StarQuest Media .

Fifty years in a time bubble aboard the Odyssey. Lisa Jones, Jeff Haecker, and Victor Lams say goodbye to Stargate SG-1 in the series finale "Unending." The Asgard are gone. Was it worth it? The post Unending (SG1) appeared first on StarQuest Media .