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The team investigates when the Earth ship Daedalus shows up abandoned in orbit, only to find themselves flashing through parallel universes.
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NEWS & SPOILERS
(Newest information is added to the bottom)
 "A final of Alan McCullough's 'Daedalus Variations' came out today and we shifted focus to Alan's second -- extreme Shep-whumpage -- script, co-storied by Robert C. Cooper."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in a post at his blog)
"... Despite the delay, I got in about five minutes before the prosthetics meeting. We discussed upcoming episodes 'Whispers,' 'The Daedalus Variations,' 'The Seed,' and 'Broken Ties.' Among the subjects covered: visual versus practical effects, stunt people vs. acrobats, fog, elements of the visual we saw in 'Spoils of War,' yogurt, and, of course, methacil."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in a post at his blog>)
"Colonel Sheppard's team finds the Earth ship Daedalus abandoned. As McKay works to restore power, Teyla finds a recording in the computer -- the final entry of the ship's log.
It is Captain Sobol, apparently the commander of the Daedalus, who reports that equipment and supplies have been transported down to the planet's surface, where he and his crew hope to survive long enough to be found and rescued. Sobol plans to soon join them in an F-302 fighter.
The crew's predicament and the reason for their evacuation, however, is not the first question that Sheppard the team have. The first question is ... Who is Captain Sobol?"
(GateWorld news report)
"We watched the producer's cut of 'The Daedalus Variations.' Alan did a great job on it. To be honest, I was worried about this script at the outline stage but it's turning out to be a great, fast-moving episode."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in a post at his blog>)
"It's a great team show, and it's a real visual effects spectacular, too. It's going to be an amazing visual effects show. The idea of that story is the Daedalus just shows up in orbit, unexpectedly. And it doesn't make sense, because we know for a fact it should be back on Earth.
"When we try to radio we receive no response, and when we scan it we learn there are no life signs on board. So we head up to investigate and very quickly find ourselves in trouble because there is a strange energy reading coming from somewhere in the ship. We can't figure it out, we don't know where it's coming from. Suddenly it spikes, a flash consumes the ship, and a moment later, when it dissipates, we learn that Atlantis is gone and we have shifted realities.
"So we are essentially on a Flying Dutchman. This drive is caught on auto-pilot, and every time it charges it bursts, and we jump reality after reality after reality after reality.
"... It was a neat opportunity to see a bunch of different alternate realities. We don't have to build a new set every time -- we are on the Daedalus. You get to see through the visual effects what might have happened in this reality."
Those differences from one reality to the next are seen "just outside of the Daedalus, for the most part. Although there is one important interaction that takes place on the Daedalus: when we jump to another reality, we get boarded. I won't say more than that! But we do end up having to win back our Daedalus from an alien species."
"... It's a wild romp. It's pretty much a one-off adventure story that gets the team into trouble and gets them out at the end. But it's a lot of fun. It's a fun script."
(Writer Alan McCullough, in an interview with GateWorld)
NEW! June 11 - "It's a visual effects spectacular featuring a couple of great battle sequences and the introduction of some brand new alien ships."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in a post at his blog>)
NEW! July 3 - "The team becomes trapped on a runaway duplicate of the Daedalus, which takes them to numerous alternate realities."
(TV Guide episode description)
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