January 12, 2013: Continuing our trip down SGA Memory Lane with The Daedalus Variations!

Congratulations to Akemi who has been bestowed the highest honor one can achieve as a tourist visiting Yellowknife willing to pay three dollars for a certificate.  She is now and forevermore (unless she misplaces this piece of paper and doesn’t buy herself a new one) “an honorable member of the exclusive North of 60 Chapter, Order of Arctic Adventurers”!  All good – until Russia invades, of course, in which case she is legally bound to fight on behalf of the Northwest Territories.

So, we were discussing Stargate: Atlantis’s fifth season.  Where were we…  Where were we… Oh, yeah!

THE DAEDALUS VARIATIONS  (504)

Near the end of the show’s fourth season, writer-producer Alan McCullough had an idea for a story which would see our crew trapped in a room that would travel through different parallel universes.  EP Robert Cooper, our resident idea man, suggested a slight but significant alteration: instead of being trapped in a room, our heroes should be trapped aboard the Daedalus.  And thus, our SF version of The Flying Dutchman was born.

Alien ship design.

Alien fighter design.

Alien design.

Yes, you!





‘Splosion!  (Photo @MGM Television)





Firefight! (@MGM Television)





David Hewlett and Director Andy Mikita in discussion (Photo @MGM Television).





Always nice to see Teyla packin’ (Photo @MGM Television)





Rodney McKay is smokin’ (Photo @MGM Television)




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