The SCI FI Channel today confirmed a long list of guest stars for the upcoming spin-off series Stargate Universe. Included in the announcement is the news that Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis co-star Amanda Tapping (“Samantha Carter”) will make a guest appearance on the show.
Tapping joins previously announced SG-1 actors Richard Dean Anderson (“Jack O’Neill,” story), Michael Shanks (“Daniel Jackson,” story), and Gary Jones (“Walter Harriman,” story) — leaving Christopher Judge (“Teal’c”) the only member of the original SG-1 team not yet confirmed to appear on the new series.
It is not yet known which episode Tapping will appear in.
Tapping’s own series, Sanctuary, will begin its second season this fall, likely airing alongside SGU.
SCI FI also officially confirmed the casting of actor Christopher MacDonald, giving us the full name of his character: Senator Alan Armstrong. The Senator is the father of Chloe Armstrong (Elyse Levesque), one of the show’s main characters.
Carlo Rota
The network has also announced that veteran actor Carlo Rota has been cast in the role of Carl Strom. This is probably a renamed “Dale Strom,” who as we previously reported works for the I.O.A. (International Oversight Advisory), the organization that oversees all things related to the Stargate program. SCI FI tells us that the character is actually the head of the I.O.A. — making him the guy to whom people like Richard Woolsey and Shen Xiaoyi report.
Rota hails from London, England, and has played recurring characters on 24, Queer as Folk, La Femme Nikita and Traders. His list of credits also include Saw V, Shark, Earth: Final Conflict and Total Recall: 2070.
Strom appears in the show’s fifth episode, “Earth” — though his first appearance on Stargate Universe might come sooner.
Finally, in something of a first for the Stargate franchise, the network announced that Grammy-nominated recording artist Janelle Monáe will play herself in an upcoming episode and will perform two songs from her new album Metropolis: “Many Moons” and “Sincerely.”
Stargate Universe is now filming for an October premiere in the U.S. (SCI FI), U.K. (Sky1), and Canada (SPACE)! Learn more about the new series in GateWorld’s SGU Launch Center.
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Sylvia | April 15 @ 3:48 pmLOL indeed but not at the guest stars. It’s for the O’Neil with one L in the press release :P
Osiristi | April 15 @ 4:05 pmDude, Carlo Rota is ultimatt bad-a$$! The line of great stars continues to grow. I’m stil (one L.. haha) very excited for this show. Should be a great mix of all things awesome.
AscendedTauri | April 15 @ 4:16 pmI’m no expert on “Universe,” but I thought the whole premise of the show is that the characters are stuck on a ship, randomly gating from one place to the next, and not in control. If that’s the case, how are they going to continue running into familiar Stargate Command people??
jyh | April 15 @ 5:32 pmI was on the fence about this series but now clearly they’re going the way of 90210 and The OC in space: they’re having pop stars play themselves and perform. How lame is that? Smells like teen spirit…which means it smells like sh*t.
Inter arma enim silent leges,
AllTerroristsMustDie | April 15 @ 5:40 pmATMD
jyh, they are going to use a method of communication seen on Stargate before to tell an ongoing arc of Earth stories while still on the Destiny.
David Read | April 15 @ 6:16 pm“It’s O’Neill. Two L’s!”
Very interesting that they’re bringing in Carter. All we need now is Teal’c.
On a more serious note regarding their continuing to run into familiar faces, it’s probably either flashbacks, or the action is alternating between the Destiny and Earth with the SGC trying to figure out what happened to the team. The latter is more likely.
McClance | April 15 @ 6:21 pmBRILLIANT!!! FANTASTIC!!! AWESOME!!! COOL!!! First Rick and and Michael and now Amanda guest starring…I am waaaaaaaaaay above and beyond Cloud 9 with this news!!! Bring it on!!! :D :D :D :D
Alan | April 15 @ 7:05 pm*sigh*…after all these years, they still can’t spell “O’Neill” right? Oh wait…waht if they’re referring to the O’Neil from the original movie? o_O
I’m happy that Daniel and Jack and Sam are all guest starring! Is Sam gonna die her hair blonde again? Cos it would be kind of cool to see her with dark hair on Stargate. :P
caramelmonkey | April 15 @ 7:16 pmis Carlo rotas character name Carl or Dale?
John Sheppard | April 15 @ 7:48 pmThe thing that comes to mind for me is some of them have been cast beyond the first episode. This is going to mean a) regular-ish flashback type scenes, not something done a lot in stargate.
b) Some sort of tie to earth beyond them going through the gate.
sargemat | April 15 @ 8:22 pmsam/amanda’s going to be on?…
okay, now i’ll watch. :p :D
majorsal | April 15 @ 8:24 pmI thought the premise of the show was that it was one-way gate travel.
gojira66 | April 15 @ 8:37 pmCan’t the people on Earth still dial the gate to the ship but not the other way around?
Cannot they send supplies and whatnot to the ship but not back the other way?
Presumabbly that means that earth can communicate with the ship.
But knowing that they can let earth know what is happening aboard ship but can’t return home would be really frustrating to the crew.
If i knew my kid was growing up without me but I could never see him/her again would be incredibly painful. It would drive me crazy.
Dave C.
Also it would seem to me that if the crew can communicate with earth wouldn’t thay use the MALP or cameras to send pictures of the ship-gate to earth to have Carter and everybody try to figure out how to identify the ship-gate symbols and try to figure out how to gate home?
gojira66 | April 15 @ 8:39 pmDave C.
It’s all great news, but…
WHERE IS CHRISTOPHER JUDGE?
….And As Always….
Have A Very Stargate Day!
:-))
BillieO | April 15 @ 9:10 pmI just checked out those Janelle Monáe songs… They’re terrible, I hope they are only used as background music at a restaurant or something.
TwiceBorn | April 15 @ 9:23 pmGreat. As long as they do also get Chris Judge. He is definitely part of SG1, and became one of my favorites! Hope he doesn’t get excluded!
vanity01 | April 16 @ 3:49 amI liked Carlo Rota character in 24.
kzap333 | April 16 @ 8:49 amI wonder what they are going to go about Carter’s hair?
Call me crazy but I’m going to assume that not only is that gate one way but they only have enough power to dial once.
I am a tad worried about Janelle Monáe playing herself.
kzap333 | April 16 @ 8:52 amTo me celebrities playing them selves in TV shows always seemed fake, but I’m not going to go on about that until I have seen a few episodes call me a hater if you will but I’m still unsure on this series.
@jyh
kzap333 | April 16 @ 8:58 amI don’t think they are I think the whole point is that they will be in the pilot and flashback.
RDA, Michael Shanks, Gary Jones AND Amanda Tapping! This so rocks!
And it’s nice to see Carlo Rota in the cast list- he’s my favourite part of Little Mosque on the Prairie!
sheenabeena123 | April 16 @ 10:08 amarghhhhh! They really are trying to get me to watch this thing aren’t they?
sanctuary4all | April 16 @ 11:36 amI’m sorry…no amount of stunt casting will drag me into this “thing” they call SGU. I don’t like soaps.
Pippin | April 16 @ 12:54 pm@pippin, my sentiments exactly.. Throw a hook with flashy lures (in this case, our favorite actors for a 30 second cameo), and see who’ll bite..
US06154 | April 16 @ 1:37 pm@US06154 You could watch the clips with them in on youtube and if it really doesn’t look like BSG or a soap (why wouldn’t they show that in the trailer) then you can watch the episodes on TV, but I think it will be shame :(.
kzap333 | April 16 @ 3:39 pm