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The city of Atlantis becomes host to the minds of disembodied Replicators, led by someone very close to the team.
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NEWS & SPOILERS
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"Hey, look who's back! Yep ... Carl Binder turned up for work today! And he brought us a present: his first draft of 'Ghost in the Machine.'"
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in a post at his blog)
Koracen, a Replicator scientist on Weir's ship, believes he has found a way to reach a digital equivalent of ascension. Their consciousnesses will be enabled to exist indefinitely as fields of energy. As such beings they can essentially upload their minds to subspace and let their nanite bodies disintegrate, allowing them to move freely about the galaxy at will.
Lia, another Replicator, is understandably skeptical. But Koracen has a willing volunteer, and demonstrates the procedure.
Later, in Atlantis, the team works furiously to regain access to a room they have been locked out of. Colonel Sheppard orders two officers to retrieve heavy arms and explosives to blow the sealed door, but there is no need. The door suddenly opens, and Sheppard and his team are shocked by the familiar face which greets them.
Fran (Michelle Morgan) is reconstituted by the Replicators in Atlantis. |
It is Fran (Michelle Morgan), the "Friendly Replicator ANdroid" engineered by Dr. McKay last year ("Be All My Sins Remember'd"). Apparently now missing their bodies, the Replicators have come to Atlantis. And their leader is someone very, very close to the Atlantis team: Elizabeth Weir herself.
Weir will not be played by actress Torri Higginson, who turned down the offer to appear in the episode (story). Instead the script was rewritten so that the cliffhanger could be resolved and the story continued without her.
The existence of disembodied Replicator consciousnesses in the episode may go a long way in explaining just how this science fiction feat will be accomplished -- if the Weir from "Be All My Sins Remember'd" was, in fact, a Replicator duplicate and not the human Weir, who the Replicators claimed had been killed ("This Mortal Coil").
(GateWorld news report)
"I've just finished a nice six-day run out at The Bridge Studios. ... Two episodes in those six days: 'Ghost In the Machine' and 'The Shrine.' Some nice McKay/Zelenka scenes in there. Two great eppies, too."
("Zelenka" actor David Nykl, in a post at his blog)
What about Elizabeth Weir's storyline from the end of last season's "Be All My Sins Remember'd?" "That storyline we are going to follow through on -- but we will not be seeing Torri [Higginson]. When last she was in town for 'Be All My Sins Remember'd,' it was a very short scene, and she was at the time very excited that we had left the door open for her character. So based on her response we wrote the script. But when we went out to her she ultimately elected to pass. Which is fine -- we don't want to force anyone to do the show! However, given the script, given the plot, it was possible to do the story without her. So Carl went back and did a rewrite and the story will go ahead.
"It's unfortunate -- the fans would have liked to have seen her for continuity's sake, but at the end of the day it's Torri's decision and we respect that."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in an interview with Stargate.MGM.com)
Actor Robert Moloney will play Koracen in this episode, GateWorld has learned. Moloney's first time on Stargate was in the role of Borren, one of the Aschen, in the SG-1 episode "2001."
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