NEWS & SPOILERS
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This working episode title was revealed by executive producer Joseph Mallozzi in a post at his blog.
"The character in 'Search and Rescue' has been changed to Captain Alicia Vega. Now Doctor Allison Porter will be making her debut in 'Whispers.'"
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in a message at his blog)
"Well, I completed all of two pages on 'Whispers' today, finally hitting that all-important 10 page mark but, more importantly, establishing the other team: Captain Alicia Vega, Lieutenant Anne Teldy, Sergeant Dusty Wells, and Dr. Alison (with one L) Porter. Carson will be in for a treat -- when he's not fighting for his life. Come tomorrow, I'll probably rewrite the whole thing anyway but, hey, it’s a start. A slow, laborious start.
"... The prosthetics meeting with Todd [Masters] has been moved to tomorrow morning. For 'Whispers,' I'd like something elegantly simple yet shockingly terrifying. I can't wait to see what Todd and the gang come up with."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in a message at his blog)
"More slow and laborious progress on the Whispers script today, but I'm pleased to report that I am finally out of the Beckett-Porter scene."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in a message at his blog)
"Said hello [to] Paul McGillion back who dropped by the production offices on his way to his wardrobe fitting for 'The Seed.' I pitched him 'Whispers.' He was predictably delighted at the prospect of being stranded off-world with an all-female team."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in a post at his blog)
"Congratulations to me as I finally completed my revised writer's draft of 'Whispers.' I made some dialogue adjustments, changed the end of the fourth and the top of the fifth acts, lost the compasses, lost the dead end beat, lost the Land of the Lost gag, and fiddled with the act breaks. I'm loving Dusty! Oh, and congratulations to Anne Teldy on her promotion from Lieutenant to Major and command of her own team."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in a post at his blog)
Having been removed from stasis in Atlantis after two months, Carson Beckett -- or, more precisely, the clone of the late doctor created by the Wraith Michael -- returned home to Earth for some R&R. Now he has returned to Atlantis, and is called upon to join Colonel Sheppard on a visit to another planet.
The two trapse through the alien forest and rendezvous with another team, commanded by Major Anne Teldy. Also on the team is Captain Alicia Vega (Leela Savasta), the tough Sgt. Dusty Wells, and the cute and bookish Dr. Alison Porter. The team has called Sheppard and Dr. Beckett there to see what they have found: a Wraith lab hidden inside a network of underground caves, with a dozen humanoid forms in stasis along the wall.
Beckett and Porter study the lab and the condition of the "patients," who they suspect may be more of Michael's test subjects. As they work, Teldy, Vega, and Sheppard shoot the breeze. (The Colonel mentions that the I.O.A. is hesitant to rebuild the Midway space station, recently destroyed in a Wraith attack ["Midway"].)
The presence of the people in stasis brings up Carson's own recent experience, prompting him to tell Dr. Porter about what happened when he showed up on his mother's doorstep two years after his own funeral. The two scientists begin to bond.
The group decides to bunk overnight in a nearby village -- though they have no way of knowing that there are forces nearby that are conspiring against them. And Michael's test subjects are about to wake up.
Guest characters include Dr. Carson Beckett, Major Anne Teldy, Captain Alicia Vega, Sgt. Dusty Wells, Dr. Alison Porter, and Mirellus, one of the local villagers.
(GateWorld news report)
"The deals have been closed and we finally have our guest cast in place. And quite the kick-ass guest cast it is:
Major Anne Teldy ... Christina Cox
Captain Alicia Vega ... Leela Savasta
Sergeant 'Dusty' Mehra ... Janina Gavankar
Dr. Alison Porter ... Nicole de Boer"
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in a message at his blog)
Actress Christina Cox has appeared twice on Stargate SG-1. She played the alien T'akaya in Season Two's "Spirits," and rogue N.I.D. operative Lieutenant Kershaw in Season Five's "The Sentinel."
"I'll admit that one of the reasons I wanted this team of potentially recurring characters for this episode is that the audience won't know what to expect. They can be pretty certain that Sheppard and Beckett may survive the experience but as for any of other four ... In this particular case, the fact that they're female is less important than the fact that, as guest cast, there's no telling who will make it out alive."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in a message at his blog)
"I'm pretty excited about the script I'm writing now, 'Whispers.' We've never done a horror episode -- we did 'Vengeance,' but that was a monster. I wanted to do an episode that just creeps people out. I've always been a fan of horror movies. So, I came up with this scenario. It takes place off-world and there are two elements to the story.
"One is the horror element, which I think is going to be very kick ass, spooky and hopefully there will be a lot of very cool scares. Right now it looks as if Will Waring will be directing the episode, so I'm just going to stock him up on horror movies and make sure he gets a good running start at the sensibility that we want to capture. The other element is that we introduce a recurring character in 'Search and Rescue,' called Captain Vega. With Carter gone, I said to Martin during the hiatus that it would be good to introduce a female military character -- like Lorne, a background character to use. So we introduced this character. In 'Whispers,' we end up meeting up with Captain Vega's team, which happens to be an all-female team.
"One of the fun things about horror movies is that you never know who's going to survive at the end! In this episode they're not just 'red shirts,' they're very interesting characters. I'm very excited about all four of them. Whoever survives the episode will be a great addition to the general roster of recurring characters!"
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in an interview with Stargate.MGM.com)
NEW! July 6 - Actress Janina Gavankar (Sergeant Dusty Mehra) answers tons of fan questions in a new Q&A at Joseph Mallozzi's blog! "Dusty is the quiet one that will save your ass in times of peril," Gavankar said. "You don't know much about her, and she likes it that way. ... She's the bodyguard. She's always on high alert, and very confident in that role."
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