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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LOL
LOL indeed but not at the guest stars. It's for the O'Neil with one L in the press release :P
Dude, 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.
I'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??
I 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,
ATMD
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.
"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.
BRILLIANT!!! 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
*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
is Carlo rotas character name Carl or Dale?