Dial the Gate is privileged to be a part of this year’s WonderCon festivities! Though we cannot be together in person, we are definitely extending our reach online, and are glad you are with us. In this installment, Host David Read and Co-Producer Linda Furey are joined by Cleo Consulting/Kaleidoko’s Jenny Stiven, who has been a major player behind the Stargate scenes for years, to talk about the franchise past, present and future, and take your questions!

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Timecodes
0:00 – Splash Screen
0:27 – Opening Credits
0:59 – Welcome and Introduction
2:00 – Run of Show
2:19 – Guest Introduction
3:35 – What is an AMA
5:58 – How did David get into Stargate?
7:45 – How did Linda get into Stargate?
9:10 – How did Jenny get into Stargate?
10:33 – When did David join GateWorld?
13:19 – Linda’s Cat
15:05 – The Internet as a Gateway to Fandom
17:02 – Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment
21:47 – Jenny Stiven at Fox Home Entertainment
23:58 – Linda Expanding Her Sci Fi Roles
29:19 – What Keeps David Going
33:51 – Stargate Fans Want to Know About the Process
35:24 – Bjo Trimble Was a Neighbor
39:38 – What Keeps Linda Going
41:59 – Favorite Episodes from Each Series
47:12 – How many people have become fans because of you?
49:14 – Would you step through the Stargate not knowing what’s on the other side?
49:53 – Who have you met you’ve geeked out about the most?
54:44 – What kind of cameo would you have liked to have had on any of the series?
57:17 – Your favorite guest character
58:50 – What is your favorite personal cosplay?
1:00:37 – An episode you wish would have ended differently?
1:02:26 – Wyvern Gaming
1:03:30 – Discussion Wrap Up
1:04:27 – Would you rather be on Destiny or Atlantis?
1:05:02 – Themed Swag
1:05:29 – 3DTech.Pro
1:06:51 – End Credits

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TRANSCRIPT
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David Read:
Hello everyone, welcome to a very special episode of Dial the Gate. This is Episode 67, the Wonder Con 2021 AMA, which means “ask me anything.” I did not really know that until all of six months ago. Before we get started, if you like Stargate and you wanna see more content like this on YouTube, it would make a great difference if you click the Like button. It really does make a difference with YouTube’s algorithm and will definitely help the show grow its audience. Please also consider sharing this video with a Stargate friend and if you wanna get notified about future episodes, click the Subscribe icon. Giving the Bell icon a click will notify you the moment a new video drops and you’ll get my notifications of any last-minute guest changes. This is key if you plan on watching live. Clips from this livestream will be released over the course of the next several days on the GateWorld.net YouTube channel. Normally with an episode, I have a guest from Stargate’s production era. With this episode, I am bringing in my co-producer Linda Furey, and also someone that I have not actually had on the show yet. She is a friend of mine going back… Jenny, how long now?

Jenny Stiven:
2006.

David Read:
Is that right?

Jenny Stiven:
Yes.

David Read:
That sounds about right. Linda, welcome on screen for the first time.

Linda Furey:
Great to be here. It’s bizarre being on screen with you. I will enjoy it, I’m gonna have fun.

David Read:
I thank you for taking the leap into the next dimension. Jenny, yes, you and I have known each other for a very long time now. I’ve watched her kid go from three and a half feet tall to becoming a man. There’s a lot of history there and it was just a matter of time before we got you on the show. You were in the special thanks at the very beginning because if it wasn’t for you, the show would not exist. You are definitely one of the people who made Dial the Gate possible.

Jenny Stiven:
Oh, wow.

David Read:
It’s a delight to finally have you.

Jenny Stiven:
Thank you very much. I love you.

David Read:
I love you.

Jenny Stiven:
It’s so much fun to be here with you. Pretty much everything that is Stargate for me is wrapped up with David.

David Read:
This is true.

Jenny Stiven:
One goes with the other very easily.

David Read:
What is an AMA? How do these kinds of things work? What’s gonna be the plan going forward for this episode?

Jenny Stiven:
In this case, I’m gonna be taking over a little bit because I think that a lot of your fans and followers don’t really know a lot about each of you. Especially David, I’m not sure that you share all the time about your own background and how you got here. I know you’ve done a couple of podcasts with Darren over at GateWorld, but in this case, I’m gonna ask a couple of questions of both Linda and David, and then anybody who’s watching who’s live, you can ask us anything, any question at all. Everything is open. You can ask about the original broadcast. I was part of the production from 2004 on. You can ask about our… what do we wanna call it, David? The reactivation in 2015?

David Read:
Right, exactly.

Jenny Stiven:
That David and I worked on.

David Read:
We turned the gate back on.

Jenny Stiven:
Exactly. You can ask Linda about her background, which hopefully when I ask some of these questions, you all are gonna go, “What? We didn’t know that.” So, that’s what I’m gonna be doing. I’ll ask a couple of leading questions and then we’ll be checking about, in the chat live, what people wanna know about.

David Read:
Perfect. Sounds good. Sounds like a plan.

Jenny Stiven:
All right.

David Read:
All right.

Jenny Stiven:
Are you ready?

David Read:
OK.

Jenny Stiven:
OK. All right. So, I’m gonna start with David, and Linda obviously jump in anytime you hear anything and you wanna ask him a question as well.

Linda Furey:
OK.

Jenny Stiven:
David, I do want you to start a little bit on who you were as a young’un and getting into Stargate as a fan. I’m not sure everybody knows exactly how you came to be, not just doing Dial the Gate, working at GateWorld, but why, because you were a fan.

David Read:
I’ve never really gone too in depth into it before, definitely on this show. I was always a sci-fi nerd as far back as I can remember. My dad exposed me to Star Trek at three years old. Star Trek to this day has always been my sci-fi bread and butter. Stargate, I discovered accidentally when Season One started airing in syndication back in the fall of ’98.

Jenny Stiven:
Had to be the fall of ’98.

David Read:
when the show started entering into syndication. I was a big fan of Saturday night syndicated sci-fi programming on my local ABC affiliate, WSIL, in Southern Illinois. They always had The Outer Limits and Poltergeist: The Legacy, both of which were shot at Bridge Studios. Those would appear in syndication on Saturday nights. One of them didn’t come on that night, and instead, there was this ring and snake-headed people coming through. I’m like, “I vaguely recognize this ring. I think I know.” My only connection with Stargate at that point was the VHS tape sitting next to The Fifth Element at the Walmart for months and months and I was a huge Fifth Element fan.

Jenny Stiven:
Wait, so you hadn’t seen the movie?

David Read:
Hadn’t seen the movie.

Jenny Stiven:
OK, I didn’t know that.

David Read:
The next night, CBS, or I think it was CBS, aired Stargate as the movie of the week.

Jenny Stiven:
No way.

David Read:
Then I saw it.

Jenny Stiven:
It was meant to happen.

David Read:
It was meant to happen.

Jenny Stiven:
It was.

David Read:
They aired “Children of the Gods.” It was a three-hour lineup that night, so I didn’t realize what I was watching was a pilot. When the first hour wrapped and it kept going, I watched the whole thing. I normally just turn things off if I’m not interested, so there was definitely an interest there. I taped it with my VCR, watched the second half the next day ’cause I was exhausted, I went to bed. Then that night the movie came on and from that point forward I was hooked.

Jenny Stiven:
I love that.

David Read:
I bought Showtime. I immediately got Season Two which started airing just a few weeks later, first run. I watched Season Two and Season One concurrently.

Jenny Stiven:
Love it. I think that’s great.

David Read:
So, that was my story.

Jenny Stiven:
That’s what every fan needs to know about both of you guys. So, Linda, how did you stumble on Stargate? How did you find it? ‘Cause I know people don’t know this story.

Linda Furey:
I’ve always been a nerd girl. Starlog magazine was something I was picking up at the mall. Every single month I’d go to the newsstand. I couldn’t afford them all. I had my little after-school library job. I had a little pocket money and I’d stand there at the newsstand and look through them all and decide which ones I was buying that month. It was all film magazines and television magazines. Starlog was usually top of my little stack that I was going home with. I’m flipping through and I turn to this incredible spread and it was the Anubis costume. It caught my eye and I was like, “Oh, ooh, Egyptian. What’s this?” I stood there and read the whole article at the newsstand with the guy who knew me at the counter, because he saw me every week, laughing at me and he’s like, “You’re hooked on something, girl.” I’m like, “Uh-huh, uh-huh.” I went to the theater as soon as I possibly could and saw it, but it was the costumes that caught my eye first. Then once I was in the theater and in the seat, I was practically reaching out the door buying a ticket for the next showing too.

Jenny Stiven:
Absolutely. I think that what’s so interesting, David, your dad introduced you to Star Trek, mine did too, introduced me to Star Trek. Of course, you all are babies ’cause I was watching it in ’69.

David Read:
First-run syndication for you was Star Trek.

Jenny Stiven:
My dad took me to see Stargate, and again, you guys are babies, so when it came out I was 25. I think that it doesn’t matter what your experience is, we all have that moment. Now, I saw the movie, forgot about it, and then stumbled on Stargate on Showtime in, I think, the third season. Or fourth season, right before it went over to Syfy. I didn’t even know that it was on Showtime. I didn’t even know it was there. Of course, it is that moment of, “Ah, this is it. I’ve made this connection.” We’re in this little apartment in Brentwood with our Showtime that basically is coming through a TV this big, but it didn’t matter. I was hooked. I was done.

David Read:
When you connect with a piece of art, it’s holy. There’s something holy about it.

Jenny Stiven:
Sci-fi especially, and of course, what you’ve talked about and I’ve talked about for years, and Linda, you’ve written about, is that there is that magic too, of the screenwriters and what they did with Stargate. To that point, I wanna ask you, David, as you got older and you graduated and you wanted to move on and you started working with GateWorld, which I know people know…

David Read:
Let me back up a little bit.

Jenny Stiven:
Why don’t you talk a little bit about that too.

David Read:
GateWorld was Starguide first when it came online in 1999. Darren has talked about this. “Jolinar’s Memories” had aired, Apophis is the big reveal at the end, and he realized that the show was gonna continue to reference itself into the future of the series, reference back on itself, and reward the fans in the process. It was gonna be a vehicle that would make the continuing story relevant to viewers who had been watching from the beginning. He decided to make Starguide and I discovered it. It was easily 2000, 2001 at this point. I was one of his earlier adopters. By the airing of Season Seven, I had joined the website to work on the Stargate Omnipedia, which is a project that he had brewing on the side for a while. He wanted to do that, but didn’t really have a chance to. I came in and started fleshing out the encyclopedia section of the site and that was really my first task. It wasn’t long before I was doing interviews with the cast and crew.

Jenny Stiven:
I think that’s so important as your first entree because that’s how a lot of us get hooked on those details. The details were fleshed out, not just on GateWorld, within the series. That’s one of the reasons why I think so many of us keep going back and you can rewatch these stories, because you find something new. Honestly, I haven’t watched it as much as you have, by far, in terms of re-watches. I just started Atlantis again, and every time I find something like, “Oh my god, I forgot about that episode.” I don’t know how I forgot, but I’ve read about that episode and you see something new.

David Read:
There are so many little linkages.

Jenny Stiven:
I think that the writers and everything that Brad did and Jonathan Glassner early on in building the world.

David Read:
Correct.

Jenny Stiven:
That’s what GateWorld did, is it gave all of us fans online some place to go to deeper dive into that world building. One thing that I know Darren hasn’t talked about, and I keep trying to bring this up because it’s important… OK, seriously, Linda, your cat is adorable.

Linda Furey:
She wants to be on screen.

David Read:
Let’s have a look at her real quick.

Jenny Stiven:
Amelia.

David Read:
Hello, cat.

Jenny Stiven:
She’s so beautiful.

Linda Furey:
This is Amelia.

David Read:
Hello, Amelia.

Linda Furey:
She’s named after Amelia Earhart because she likes to get up on things and launch herself.

Jenny Stiven:
Beautiful.

Linda Furey:
She has pretty blue eyes and is very photogenic, but if she’s not getting her own way, she bites.

Jenny Stiven:
Ooh, I’ll skip the biting part.

Linda Furey:
Do.

David Read:
Look at that face.

Jenny Stiven:
Actually, to talk a little bit about the GateWorld fandom and what they were doing, Linda, I think a lot of what you were doing and growing up as a fan and wanting to write, ties into that. There’s this depth to GateWorld. There’s this depth to the series and I think that’s what intrigues all the fans. It’s why there’s such rich fan fiction, so many good blogs, so many good fandoms. Also, GateWorld at that time, was part of what was becoming a burgeoning online fandom. X-Files, Buffy, everything that was at that time globbed on to the internet, the interwebs. I want both of you to talk a little bit about how that became a bit of a warp and a weave in your life and your career, because GateWorld became a launch pad, David, for you to a large degree of what you want to do in your career and what you are doing. Linda, a lot of what you have done in writing is tied to what you saw happening there online.

Linda Furey:
Definitely.

Jenny Stiven:
So, both of you could talk a little bit about that. I think there are people, fans, who probably are going through that themselves.

David Read:
Linda, do you wanna go first?

Linda Furey:
Yeah, sure. I really started out, like so many of us in fandom do, writing fan fiction. I’d always loved writing at school. Any writing assignment, I was like, “Yeah, I’m getting really creative with this.” So, I already had that bug.

Jenny Stiven:
I love that.

Linda Furey:
When I started going to conventions and participating in fandom, there were all these opportunities to write stuff. There were the fanzines, which were print at that point in the ’80s. You had to write your cover letter. You had to send it away. It was a really professional process at that point in time.

Jenny Stiven:
Titan Magazine did a lot for that. I know your friend Debbie did a lot of the magazine covers. Debbie Bell? David, is that right?

David Read:
Yes, Debbie. I don’t know what professional work she has done for Stargate besides working with you and I, but she did fan-made covers for sure.

Jenny Stiven:
Exactly.

David Read:
Ah, yes. Those are all hers.

Jenny Stiven:
Titan actually picked up a couple of those at the very end on their site when they were doing displays of fan fiction and fan art.

David Read:
I did not know that. That’s great.

Jenny Stiven:
I should find that for her. It’s buried somewhere in my ridiculous drives that you have. I think, Linda, a lot of what I love about both of you is that it’s a fan who professionally got to do and be part of what you love, so that passion combined with what you love to do. David, a little bit, I know people with your interview with Darren ’cause I saw that. You talked a little bit about that, but what I wanted to do a little bit of a deeper dive is when you were transitioning from GateWorld to other work, how you were looking at Stargate as your springboard, your leverage. It wasn’t just a passion. It was, “Hey, I really want to involve myself professionally with this.” I don’t know that everybody knows that about you and how you were approaching that.

David Read:
That was something that I fell into. I was going to be working part time with GateWorld until whenever. Heat death of Universe. I went to a Stargate convention in, I guess 2006, and I met Katie Postma, who was working with Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment at the time. She was moving on from community management at Stargate Worlds, which was in development, and asked me if I wanted to take her place. I went out to Arizona where I am now, interviewed in January 2007, and got the job. That is where I started having, not just a fandom Stargate career, but a professional Stargate career as well, and then working with Stargate Magazine at the time.

Jenny Stiven:
You and I met online in 2006.

David Read:
Yes.

Jenny Stiven:
Via Darren and Chad. Darren was the one I had reached out to in end of 2005 or 2004, I can’t remember. I remember, I’ve got an early email that you and I had in 2006. You were talking about that job and going to that job. I think one of the things that both of you have shown in your career is this open-mindedness to, “OK, I’m gonna go try that.” I want you both to talk a little bit about the Stargate family is very open to that, number one, which is unusual in a lot of productions. Most productions have what are called linear or adjacent industries and services to them. So, in this case, the Cheyenne Mountain gaming. As we’ve grown through the years online, we have multiple, thousands, of adjacent services and industries to that main production. What both of you have done that I think is really important is being really, really open to looking around of, “Well, where is Stargate? Where is sci-fi? What can I do? How can I get involved?” David, a lot of that was what you did at Cheyenne Mountain, so can you talk a little bit about what you do, RIP Stargate Worlds, how that really expanded and was a domino effect into a lot of what you did later, not with just Stargate, but production with me and how you learned a lot there.

David Read:
It was an opportunity to open some doors. One project led in so many ways into the next just because of the physical spaces that I was put in and the people that were adjacent in those spaces. Jenny, you need to come back a little center.

Jenny Stiven:
Sorry.

David Read:
There we go. Perfect. No, it’s all good.

Jenny Stiven:
My chair.

David Read:
It’s been driving me nuts.

Jenny Stiven:
My chair rolls. Sorry.

David Read:
That’s great.

Jenny Stiven:
Welcome to California and our earthquake-prone houses.

David Read:
One opportunity would give rise to another because of the people that you would surround yourself with. When you’re surrounding yourself with talented people, you’ll be darned if you don’t take advantage of them because the opportunity is there. That’s really what happened with you and me. I knew who you were, but we didn’t meet until a party that I threw for GateWorld in ’07. That transformed into working on the Stargate: Continuum, augmented reality content, or literally alternate reality content in this case. One thing led to another. I guess what I’m trying to say is that sticking your neck out there and trying to go above and beyond in a particular job or position, enables others.

Jenny Stiven:
And ask questions.

David Read:
Yes.

Jenny Stiven:
David, I wanna say for both of you, for so many people who I’ve met through Stargate that are fans, so Kelly Barner, Darren, Beth…

David Read:
Beth Walloch.

Jenny Stiven:
All the people who I’ve worked with, every single one of you asked me a question. I was working at Fox and MGM at the time, my background, for those that don’t know, is all TV production and then digital TV production.

David Read:
It’s important to mention that Fox was distributing the DVDs for MGM at this point. That’s the Fox connection her, the Stargate DVDs.

Jenny Stiven:
I worked with MGM on original production during that time and then I was a liaison and I worked with Fox Home Entertainment for the post-broadcast. I did all the digital marketing and digital content. A) I love Stargate and I’m a sci-fi geek, and B) during that period of time, digital was not just in its adolescence, it was in its toddler stage. A lot of the studios just basically could have cared less about it and didn’t get that it was important. So, to a certain degree, that opened up a lot of frontiers for me because I got to play in the digital sandboxes. David has heard me say ad nauseum, that I would just throw an idea out and people would go, “Yeah, sure, whatever. I don’t care.” “Can you do it for cheap?” “Sure.” David and I have done more projects for, what was Kelly’s joke? A buck 99 and a cup of coffee.

David Read:
I was like, “Oh, you want peanuts for that? OK, fine. We’ll do it for peanuts.”

Jenny Stiven:
A buck and a cup of coffee. I think what that in turn did is that it made me go out and say to Darren, “Hey, I love what you’re doing. I’m also a fan. Who have you got? What can we do together?”

David Read:
Your superpower is communication.

Jenny Stiven:
Thank you very much.

David Read:
It’s how it works.

Jenny Stiven:
It’s OK. Now I’m red. The reason I brought that up was because both of you I met because you asked me questions. David, I’m not sure that Darren even did anything other than, “Oh, so David’s working on this.” That was it.

David Read:
That was the introduction and then we were off.

Jenny Stiven:
I got an email that you were asking me a bunch of questions. Linda, you reached out and asked me a question. So, all of these people that we’ve met are because we’re curious, A, and to David’s point, when you’re meeting somebody, if you follow your passionate curiosity, you’re gonna get to do your passion. To that point, Linda, I want you to talk a little bit about what you’ve been doing with writing and how that’s expanded from being a sci-fi fan and you’re a teacher and being able to explore that area that you like.

Linda Furey:
I got into fandom. I was in high school still, I don’t remember which year. It might have been my second year of high school that I started going to cons. Nobody I knew was doing that. I was hooked immediately. The fanzine sucked me in. I joined clubs, I wrote for their newsletters. With me, it was all about expressing fandom, writing fan fiction, that later in college segued into more serious stuff, going to conventions and really helping organize. When the whole Stargate thing happened, I told you how I fell in love. I connected with other fans online and started writing my stuff. I found GateWorld. When I’d spot a little bit of news that Darren didn’t know yet or hadn’t posted yet, I’d use that little “send us news” button up the top and send it to him. I didn’t write anything big for GateWorld.

David Read:
Doesn’t matter. You were involved.

Linda Furey:
I was tapping into that world. I started making other connections and I found myself several mentors. I’m a librarian now, a school librarian, but I was working in a public library at the time and it was the library that John Updike went and did all of his research for his books at. I was seeing John Updike come in and I was requesting his inter-library loan books from other libraries for him. He liked me, he came to me with his stack of paper every week.

Jenny Stiven:
Love this. I think that… I’m sorry. I get a little fangirly when you talk about this story because, what? You got to meet… Updike.

Linda Furey:
So, that started an ongoing conversation with the man about doing research for your writing. It taught me a lot about writing technique and it was just a sentence here and there. “Oh, hi Mr. Updike, these are your books today. Wow, you got 20 different subjects. What are you writing about?” He’d be like, “Oh, it’s all for the same thing, but I have a bunch of questions I need to answer because my characters need to know these things.”

Jenny Stiven:
Those titans of classic ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s literature are very much about research. I wanna bring this up for both of you, one of the things that always really, really, really appealed to me was that both of you did your research. If David came to me with a proposal or an idea, I knew he had put the research into it. When he came up with something really creative, I know he had done the background. Linda, when you and I were talking four or three years ago about doing an activation, you had already done the research about why this was a good idea and it would reach an audience I needed. That is so key. It’s so important to anything that we’re doing online right now because there’s a lot of white noise out there. The beauty of how we started is there weren’t a lot out there. Online fandoms were burgeoning. Both of you were babies, but when I was doing it, there was nobody there. Even during its adolescence when you both became very active online; there was still not a lot of white noise online. We could do a big splash like the Continuum Alternate Reality Game, but now you’ve gotta do the research to prove why is this going to reach an audience, how is this gonna do it? I can’t emphasize enough in whatever you’re doing, whatever fan fiction you’re doing, whatever proposal you wanna write, do the research, show the data, but do the analysis of it. Don’t just throw a number out there ’cause that’s too easy. David, that’s something both of you, Linda and David, do really, really well. I can count on it every time. I can’t emphasize the importance of research. I sound like such a teacher, sorry. I just realized I’m sounding way too much like my husband right now. So, do your research.

Linda Furey:
I always want my kids that I work with to know that this is why I’m so into do the research, do the research. It’s because that takes you places.

Jenny Stiven:
It does.

Linda Furey:
If you know the answers to all the questions before you go and talk to people, then you’re intelligent. You’ll thrive.

Jenny Stiven:
David, you do this so well; you ask questions that someone else hasn’t asked. Come on, we’ve been on this event circuit for how long?

David Read:
At a certain point you are going to ask questions that other people have asked. I’ll be darned if I’m not going to try to ask something in a unique way.

Jenny Stiven:
You look for that little detail. Devil’s in the details.

David Read:
That’s where he is.

Jenny Stiven:
OK. So many jokes, so little time. All right. So, here’s the next part I want you both to talk about. As you’ve gone through this, you’re finding your passion, it’s clicking into your career. You’re beginning to be able to do more in this area. What is it that keeps you going, that keeps the light on for you? It can be a drag sometimes. COVID notwithstanding, it can be really hard. I want both of you to talk a little bit about the fact that you both have a passion that keeps you going and where do you look for that creative light within? How do you do your creative process when you don’t feel like it? Sorry, that wasn’t on my list of questions. I apologize.

David Read:
I’ll go first. Stargate’s been off the air since 2011. Being on these Facebook groups and seeing the ongoing interest and activity for the show… Now, it’s been picked up by Netflix so here we go again. It’s like, “We’re back on the top of the rollercoaster again. Here we go.” For better or for worse.

Jenny Stiven:
By the way, it was in the top 10 internationally at the end of February.

David Read:
There we go, that’s what I’m talking about. The motivation, and it comes back to the motivation to do this show at this time, was the relationships. The relationships that we had built for years were still important to me. It was something that I didn’t want to let go. There were so many of these people that I hadn’t spoken with in years. I wanted to reach out with them and connect with them and see how they were doing through this and share a lot of those stories that I didn’t, and Darren, did not get to tell. We only started working on getting our own content in earnest around Season Eight of SG-1.

Jenny Stiven:
Really?

David Read:
He wrote news stories based on content that was earlier, all the way back to Season Three.

Jenny Stiven:
That’s so funny. I only met you in 2007, started talking to you guys in 2006, but in my head, I’ve got you guys…

David Read:
That’s when we started getting our own content in earnest. The stories that were before then, I wanted GateWorld and Dial the Gate to have copies of those stories, so to speak, that weren’t locked away in magazines in the German language. Stargate, that was huge in Germany.

Jenny Stiven:
Hi, Irina!

David Read:
They had these amazing German issues and so many of these interviews, of these stories from earlier seasons in the show, were only in German, for instance. One example. On top of that, there were so many creative people involved with the show that I really had not had a chance to really get to know, at all.

Jenny Stiven:
You were able to reach out to them and have more of those conversations you would love to have had back then.

David Read:
Back then. Vaitiare Hirshon, she and I never knew each other.

Jenny Stiven:
Really?

David Read:
Nope.

Jenny Stiven:
I assumed you knew everybody.

David Read:
I don’t.

Jenny Stiven:
David knows everybody.

David Read:
David knows a few, for sure.

Jenny Stiven:
No, that’s not true.

David Read:
Getting a chance to have a lot of these conversations for the first time is really cool as well.

Jenny Stiven:
I love that.

David Read:
The benefit of the stretch of time that has passed is that there were certain things that happened behind the scenes that are just, in any office situation, “we’re not gonna talk about that outside in public. What’s inside stays inside.” Being fortunate to be privy to a lot of those stories, would provide context to the other things, but fandom doesn’t need to know why XYZ left the show. Doesn’t matter. But, for a lot of the stories now, they’re like, “You know what? Time has passed. The networks don’t care anymore. Let’s explain this story to fans.” “You know what? I wrote that episode. I was not happy with that episode for XYZ.” Joseph Mallozzi’s been doing a lot of that. He’s been really honest. It’s so cool.

Jenny Stiven:
That’s so cool and it’s so much the benefit of, to your point, that 20 years of hindsight perspective and maturity to say, laughingly, “Well, I wish I’d handled that better.” Those are great stories. Linda, I want you to talk about your creative process as well. That just made me think of a question for both of you. One of the things that I think is exciting about that is that the Stargate fandom, and I’ve worked in a lot of fandoms, each one is unique and exciting and amazing in its own. One of the things that I was always struck by with Stargate is they always wanted to know what was happening behind the curtain. A lot don’t want to. The Buffy fandom, for a long time, didn’t care what was happening or how the production or the writing happened, and then they did get into it. But, for a long time, they were much more into the worldbuilding itself as opposed to the character building. Stargate fans, I love the fact, as a producer, it was after my own heart. I loved the fact that I’d meet fans and they wanted to know about the process. They wanted to know, “How does the writer’s room work? Well, why did Brad decide to do the set that way?” Or, “Why did James Robbins go for that concept design?” Or literally, “Why did they choose that P90 prop as opposed to the Zat gun?” Those were the things that I loved, because it expanded our world, because the fans wanted to know it. Linda, you’re one of those fans. I do want you to talk about your creative process as well. One of the first times I met you, you were asking me questions about the production process of what I did, which was, again, it’s an adjacent industry. I love that people love that, and David, that’s become your career. I think, a passion that overlapped. Linda, talk about your creative process a little bit in that area, ’cause that’s what you love. You love, “how does it work?”

Linda Furey:
As far as Stargate goes, Bjo Trimble was a neighbor.

Jenny Stiven:
I forgot about that.

David Read:
My gosh, that’s cool.

Linda Furey:
This is when I was living in the L.A. area. I was out of work at the time and she had broken her ankle. She was like, “Kiddo, we can help each other here. Let’s get together. If you’ll drive me all over the place, we’ll do dinner and you can eat with us. This’ll help your bills for the moment and this’ll really be a huge help to me.” I took her everywhere. Fabric shopping, quilting club. Of course, when it’s Bjo Trimble, it includes trips to Star Trek sets, which was Deep Space Nine and Voyager at the time. I was on the Deep Space Nine set several times. Once with her, twice with fans.

Jenny Stiven:
Did you ever drop to your knees and kiss the ground? ‘Cause I would.

Linda Furey:
Yeah. One of those times was with a Make-A-Wish kid, and that was the final day of filming of Deep Space Nine.

Jenny Stiven:
That’s brilliant.

David Read:
“What We Left Behind.”

Linda Furey:
She knew I loved Stargate and had been watching it religiously and she’s like, “All right, I wanna see what the big deal is.” We sit on the couch and we put it on and we were watching it together and she’s like, “Ooh, this has great potential. Are you writing about this? You should write something.”

David Read:
Blessing from the Trimbles. That’s great. I know.

Linda Furey:
She started fielding ideas at me and a few weeks later she comes and she’s like, “Did you see this?” It’s news of a Stargate fan club starting. This was the first official fan club that had been licensed by MGM. She said, “It’s these people at this company. Call them now.” Literally, she handed me the phone. “Call them now. Tell them you’re an expert on this and that they should hire you as a consultant.”

Jenny Stiven:
Isn’t this the best story, David?

David Read:
I love this story.

Jenny Stiven:
I didn’t know this until just a couple of weeks ago.

Linda Furey:
I haven’t really shared this very much. I stood there with her beige phone in my hand. I called the people and I said, “Do you need a Stargate consultant? I know everything about this series backwards and forwards and can recite the whole thing to you line by line.” They were like, “Yeah, yeah, OK. Come down.” I only worked for them for a couple of weeks getting them started and then unfortunately the whole thing kinda collapsed. They didn’t really manage to get the thing properly launched. There was a welcome packet that included a welcome letter from Jack O’Neill and some other stuff.

Jenny Stiven:
Very cool. You still have, I hope.

Linda Furey:
I don’t. I lost it in one of my moves.

Jenny Stiven:
What?

David Read:
Linda the librarian, do you not know The Dewey Decimal System?

Linda Furey:
If anyone out there has a copy of this thing and would make a photocopy or a scan of it and mail it to Dial the Gate…

Jenny Stiven:
[email protected]. I’d love to see it.

Linda Furey:
I do not have it and it’s the welcome letter from Jack O’Neill that I wrote. I had the best fun getting that and trying to write it in his voice so that it sounded like that irreverent, welcome-to-the-club, snarky Jack O’Neill thing.

David Read:
“Sure. You betcha. Get on with it.”

Linda Furey:
I don’t know if I did a good job or not. It’s been so long. At the time, it really rang true to me.

Jenny Stiven:
I am sure it was great.

Linda Furey:
That was my first professional bit of writing.

Jenny Stiven:
I love that. Wow.

Linda Furey:
That was Bjo giving me a kick in the backside and saying, “Get out there and do it. Don’t just talk about doing it.”

Jenny Stiven:
What keeps you going? What’s your creative light? What’s your spark that keeps you going when it’s hard? When you don’t wanna do it?

Linda Furey:
You know what? You guys. It’s you guys; Jenny and David and all the fellow fans I’ve made friends with over the years who I keep in touch with, who ask me what am I doing next? I feel like, “OK, I’ve gotta do next. I’ve gotta keep doing next for these people because they’re out there and they’re counting on me to turn out something for them.”

Jenny Stiven:
True. The fans keep it going. I’ve rarely seen a fandom… I know everybody talks about it.

Linda Furey:
That feeling that somebody’s depending on me, that’s what keeps me coming back.

Jenny Stiven:
I love it.

Linda Furey:
Please don’t ever stop asking me what I’m doing next, because I’d probably trip over myself and fall on my face.

Jenny Stiven:
That’s a perfect segue. One of the last things I wanna ask both of you, because I know we’ve got about 10 minutes here. What I’d like to do is have both of you talk about what you all ask every one of your interviewees every time. I’m gonna put a little bit of a different spin on it. Everybody always asks what’s your favorite series, what’s your favorite episode, whatever. Everybody’s got different ones. I don’t care about that. What I wanna ask for both of you is, based on what you’re doing now, your passion, so Linda with the writing, David with producing and editing, what was one of your favorite episodes in each of the series? I hate it when someone says, “Out of 300 episodes, what’s your favorite episode?” From each of the series, what’s an episode that either surprised you by the writing, Linda, or by the producing, the editing, the overall package, David, or is one that you hold in your mind as your standard of measure? From each series. I know, I’m putting you on the spot.

Linda Furey:
For SG-1, it would be “The Fifth Race.”

Jenny Stiven:
OK, why? Why that one?

Linda Furey:
Because it said that there’s hope for the human race.

Jenny Stiven:
Love it.

David Read:
It says that we’re gonna be all right. That line has stuck with me. Jack’s line has stuck with me more in the past year than ever. “That meaning-of-life stuff, I think we’re gonna be all right.”

Jenny Stiven:
It has so much meaning and that’s true. I love that.

Linda Furey:
I think if you turn on the news we’re beating each other over the head. We’ve definitely got issues; there’s no denying that. But I think it’s important to remember that. I always look back to that episode. For Atlantis, it was “Sunday,” because I talked with Martin Gero years before he created this show. He was percolating this idea and we had talked about it off and on for years. I watched “Sunday” emerge.

Jenny Stiven:
I didn’t know that.

David Read:
We were talking about it as early as Season One.

Jenny Stiven:
I learned something new. I didn’t know that. That’s so cool.

David Read:
He had wanted to do a day-off episode since he had first joined the show, but he was trying to figure out how to do it. We discussed, not like I helped him make it or anything, but he definitely talked me through his process of, “Well, there has to be jeopardy and there has to be this or that because this is what the show is. How can we do it?” “Sunday” is very special to me for that reason, not only because we lost Carson and everything else. For SGU, it would probably have to be “Time.”

Jenny Stiven:
Really?

David Read:
My mouth was on the floor at the end of it, realizing that there was no more story, that the episode had ended. I had not seen Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, so I was not aware…

Jenny Stiven:
Wait. OK, so you didn’t know the parallel..?

David Read:
Not at that point. I’ve since seen it. I wasn’t expecting the program to stop before the narrative had ended for you to assume the rest. I woke up the next day having gone to bed asking, “What had I thought? What had I seen?” and realizing that I had seen the second iteration of an at least three-iteration time loop. The second’s really all that you need. With video camera footage from the first, you know what happens next. I wish they had never done that Kino episode, that was not necessary. But for me, it’s those three stories.

Jenny Stiven:
Sometimes exposition isn’t necessary.

David Read:
It’s not.

Jenny Stiven:
We’re a smart audience.

David Read:
It’s a smart audience, exactly, so those are mine. If on the fly I were to answer, those would be mine.

Jenny Stiven:
OK, I love it.

David Read:
I’m interested to hear Linda’s.

Jenny Stiven:
I know, Linda, so what about you?

Linda Furey:
SG-1, it’s definitely “The Curse.” Everybody always looks at me funny when I say that.

David Read:
It’s a good show.

Jenny Stiven:
Really? No, that’s a great one, but why?

Linda Furey:
It’s all Agatha Christie and Daniel gets to be an archeologist.

Jenny Stiven:
Got it.

Linda Furey:
There’s that fabulous plot twist where the girlfriend is the Goa’uld. It’s just wonderful. She’s so sweet and you love her and you’re like, “Ooh, Daniel could get back together with her.”

David Read:
I adore Anna-Louise.

Linda Furey:
Then boom, the eyes glow and she throws him against the wall.

David Read:
It’s like, “Not again. I just did this.”

Linda Furey:
You’re like, “Oh!”

Jenny Stiven:
You know what? I like the fact that you referenced Agatha Christie because some of the best episodes across all three series have that kind of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid or Agatha Christie. There’s a classic twist to it, but it’s a twist and it’s our special Stargate twist. It’s very interesting.

Linda Furey:
Exactly.

Jenny Stiven:
What about Atlantis?

Linda Furey:
Atlantis? Atlantis is harder. What’s the episode where they get trapped in the cave and Sam hurts herself?

David Read:
“Trio.”

Jenny Stiven:
“Trio.”

Linda Furey:
I liked that one.

David Read:
They were supposed to save the money and it went way over budget.

Jenny Stiven:
No kidding.

Linda Furey:
It’s the trapped in a mine story that every single series has, but they did it differently.

Jenny Stiven:
They did. Those three personalities were so good together too.

David Read:
That’s true too.

Jenny Stiven:
That’s what does it. What about SGU? Can you think of one for SGU that you liked?

Linda Furey:
It’s gotta be the very first one.

David Read:
“Air?”

Jenny Stiven:
“Air?”

Linda Furey:
The whole concept where they show up at Eli’s door and tell him he’s gotta come help. What fan doesn’t want that?

David Read:
It’s Last Starfighter.

Linda Furey:
Oh my God, Sam Carter knocks on my door or somebody right now and says, “Get up. Come on.” I’m like, “I’m going, I’m grabbing the cat and I’m out the door and going.”

David Read:
“Can I get some pants?”

Jenny Stiven:
Exactly. I love that. Guys, are there any questions? I’m so sorry, I don’t have the live chat open. Are there any questions from fans that you guys want to answer?

David Read:
There have been. Wyvern Gaming wanted to know how did David get involved in Stargate? Asked and answered. Thank you, guys, at Wyvern. Appreciate you.

Jenny Stiven:
Hello. Hi, Wyvern.

David Read:
Eva Lipinska, question for all three. “How many people became a fan of Stargate because of you? I introduced SG-1 to my 12-year-old brother during quarantine and now he’s the biggest fan.” Aw.

Jenny Stiven:
That’s cool. That’s awesome.

David Read:
I’ve recommended it to a lot of people. I’ve lost count of the number of friends that I’ve gotten to watching it. Dedicated, hardcore? Maybe two or three that I know of. I’m sure there’s more though. You guys?

Jenny Stiven:
My son. Timmy’s an absolute huge fan of it. I would say the same thing. Amongst my family and friends, I’ve introduced it to… my family’s huge, so I’ve introduced it to over 50 or 60 people, but of that…

David Read:
Fans of it.

Jenny Stiven:
I would say three or four have become pretty dedicated. They’ll do rewatches with me, we talk about it. So it’s been fun. I love it. That’s a great question. Linda?

Linda Furey:
I don’t know. I’ve certainly introduced tons and tons of people to it. I don’t know who’s still following it seriously. I do know that at the very first Stargate convention I went to, which was the first Gatecon, I walked into the lobby of the hotel thinking I was going to this con solo and there sitting in chairs near the desk, were two of my very best friends from other fandoms.

Jenny Stiven:
No way. You guys didn’t even know that you were going?

Linda Furey:
None of us. The other two arrived before I did, found each other, sat down, and were having a girl fest.

Jenny Stiven:
I love that.

Linda Furey:
I walked in, they looked at me, we all three shrieked and hugged each other.

Jenny Stiven:
Of course.

Linda Furey:
Then we went to the desk and rearranged who was staying with who.

Jenny Stiven:
Of course.

David Read:
There you go.

Jenny Stiven:
That is what you have to do.

Linda Furey:
They’re both still in Stargate fandom and I talk with them.

Jenny Stiven:
I love it. Awesome.

Linda Furey:
I was talking with them yesterday.

David Read:
That’s great.

Jenny Stiven:
I love that. That’s so cool.

David Read:
Teresa Mc, “Would you actually step through the Stargate not knowing what was on the other side?”

Jenny Stiven:
Hell yeah.

David Read:
If it existed as we know it, for sure, and everything that we know about the world is consistent in real life, I would step through it.

Jenny Stiven:
In a millisecond and I’d bring everybody with me.

David Read:
Epitaph wouldn’t be boring.

Jenny Stiven:
No.

Linda Furey:
We’re a team and we’re taking the rest of the Dial the Gate people with us and Beth.

Jenny Stiven:
So, we get to choose our team. I guess that would be my part to that. I wanna choose my own team.

David Read:
Wyvern asks, “You’ve all met a lot of stars, cast members, directors. Who have you met that you geeked out about the most?”

Jenny Stiven:
David knows this story. I’m so sorry this is not connected to Stargate, but you guys will laugh. I was at, I think, David, it was San Diego I was at? We were doing the very first reactivation, 2016 or ’17 Stargate panel. I was running around and I had to go from, in San Diego to Comic-Con there’s three main hotels where the stars are. I went up to go get, I forget who I went to get, Chris Judge. I went to go get Chris. We’re in the elevator and Tim’s with me, my husband, and Guillermo del Toro gets on.

David Read:
Ooh.

Jenny Stiven:
Because of my business, I love it and I’m usually very, very easy-going. “Hi, how you doing? I love your work.” My palms got sweaty. He was on his phone. Chris is ginormous and Chris is elbowing me, like, “Do it. Do it. Do it.” My palms got sweaty. I backed into the corner of the elevator and I think literally I sweated out four quarts just in the time it took us to go from the top of the hotel down to the bottom. As he gets down and he closes his phone, Chris and my husband are like, I’ve got bruises from the elbows, like, “Say something, say something.” Absolutely 100% speechless, frozen, couldn’t do it.

David Read:
Wow.

Jenny Stiven:
He leaves and that’s the last time I ever ran into him. I’m a huge fan girl. Hellboy is my thing. I was frozen and I fangirled. It was ridiculous.

David Read:
Linda?

Linda Furey:
I’ve never frozen meeting anybody.

Jenny Stiven:
I love throwing my embarrassment out there.

Linda Furey:
There have been one or two male actors who I really had a serious crush on. Probably stuck my foot in my mouth and went, “Oh, ah, ugh,” and looked like a total fool. The one I probably have the most nostalgia about having met is Don Davis, who I, again, met at one of the Gatecons. I’ve got a photo of me and him. I only talked to him for about two seconds and got the picture together. The man put his arm around me and called me darlin’. I had this warm glow. It was that General Hammond father-figure glow.

Jenny Stiven:
‘Cause that’s who he was.

David Read:
That’s who he was.

Linda Furey:
He was a big teddy bear and we had a little tiny moment, but I treasure it.

Jenny Stiven:
I love that.

David Read:
For me, one non-Stargate and one Stargate. Sam Deiter, who Jenny and I worked with on our Stargate: Continuum project.

Jenny Stiven:
Which we have to talk about that another time.

David Read:
Absolutely, we can.

Jenny Stiven:
Some of that stuff we did was amazing.

Linda Furey:
I’d love to hear it.

David Read:
He had friends at Darkhorse. We went out to a bar in the Gaslamp District in San Diego with them. Lo and behold, I’m sharing a small space in a small group of friends with Kevin Eastman…

Jenny Stiven:
That’s right. I forgot about that.

David Read:
… from the Ninja Turtles. I was a Turtle boy all my childhood and I must have been so embarrassing because I figured out who he was and I was, “Na, na, na, na, na.”

Jenny Stiven:
God, no. No.

David Read:
No, it was pretty bad. For me, it was Dean Devlin. I saw him, I did not expect to see him at WonderCon when we went with Legion M to go work on Bad Samaritan. He was livestreaming the convention floor and I ran out from our booth. I was like, “Oh my god!” A total fanboy, got a selfie with him and everything else. He was totally cool about it. That’s why he was there. That’s when you and I connected with him.

Jenny Stiven:
You were interviewing him.

David Read:
Correct.

Jenny Stiven:
Yeah.

David Read:
To bring him in with us and got to do that on Dial the Gate last year.

Jenny Stiven:
Such a good interview.

David Read:
Thank you.

Jenny Stiven:
If you guys have not seen that interview that David has done on Dial the Gate with Dean, it is phenomenal. Dean shares a lot that he might not have shared five years ago. You got him to open up about things that you and I knew, but that he hadn’t shared.

David Read:
Exactly.

Jenny Stiven:
Great job on that interview.

David Read:
Thank you. That was a great moment. Let me see here.

Linda Furey:
One of my favorites.

David Read:
Question for David, Jenny, and Linda. What kind of cameo role would you like to have on any of the series?

Jenny Stiven:
That’s a good one. That’s such a good question. OK, I would kill to be a Goa’uld queen. I think that would rock. Look, it’s so counter to who I am. Normally, I’m sure you guys would expect me to say, “I want to be on an SG team.” I would love to be some badass Suanne Braun, Hathor-type queen. Let’s be honest, I’m the girl next door, so I’m never gonna be the femme fatale. It’d be so cool to be that; be some super cool Celtic-Goa’uld queen.

David Read:
Linda?

Linda Furey:
Any cameo part they gave me; I would happily do.

Jenny Stiven:
Come on.

Linda Furey:
I really would.

Jenny Stiven:
Give it to me. Give me a character.

David Read:
Any part they’d give me.

Jenny Stiven:
You’d be a kick-ass female Daniel.

Linda Furey:
I love that.

David Read:
You could be an assistant. You could run that base, for crying out loud.

Jenny Stiven:
You’d be so good as the archaeologist. That would be amazing.

Linda Furey:
I would love being the archaeologist. I’ve joked about this a number of times with people, that Daniel’s brought back so much stuff that needs to be catalogued that there’s gotta be a base librarian. Hello, librarian.

Jenny Stiven:
That would be such a great character too. It’d be like Gary Jones; you could be this running character through all the seasons. That would have been awesome.

David Read:
I could be like, “Shh,” to the loud Goa’uld who comes in.

Jenny Stiven:
That would be so good.

David Read:
“Impudence.”

Jenny Stiven:
David, I am dying to know. I don’t know if you’ve ever told me.

David Read:
I’ve always wanted Gary Jones’ job.

Jenny Stiven:
No way?

David Read:
Be the gatekeeper.

Jenny Stiven:
I could totally see you doing that.

David Read:
Yep, give me my glasses and Chevron 1 encoded.

Jenny Stiven:
Oh my goodness.

David Read:
Because we all know there’s more to it than that.

Jenny Stiven:
There is.

David Read:
Those SG teams, they count on that person being there for them.

Jenny Stiven:
They do. He’s got some deep science knowledge going on there, or technical engineering knowledge. David, that’s perfect. I love that. I think it’d be fun if he had, for kicks and giggles, mixed it up, “Chevron 5, Chevron 1.”

David Read:
He tried to do that and they were like, “No.” They shut him down.

Jenny Stiven:
I know.

David Read:
There’s a few here, so we need to run through ’em a little more quickly. Goran Andonowski, your favorite character. I’m gonna go with my favorite guest character, Osiris, Anna-Louise Plowman. I’m praying that we can get her on the show. I’m trying.

Jenny Stiven:
She’d be great.

David Read:
I’ve always adored Anna-Louise Plowman. You guys?

Jenny Stiven:
I love her.

Linda Furey:
She’d be at the top of my list too.

David Read:
You said “The Curse” and I was like, “Hey.”

Linda Furey:
I adore her, I really do. I’ve seen her in some other stuff and she’s fabulous whatever she does.

Jenny Stiven:
I gotta be honest, it’d be hard to pick.

David Read:
Now you’re doing it!

Linda Furey:
Originally, I woulda said Daniel and these days, Sam and Janet. Those strong women. Those are the role models I want for my students.

Jenny Stiven:
I hate to say it, but Jack, because he was one of the first ones. Remember, I’m 25, so I’m thinking he’s hot…coming off MacGyver. Then Sheppard. I had a tendency to pick the leaders, ’cause that was always who I was really into when I was growing up in sci-fi as well, ’cause Captain Kirk was cool. But honestly, I have to go back to Teyla. For me, Teyla, I always keep coming back over and over and over again to her as an arc that I really love. If I was gonna pick a strong character that I keep coming back to a lot, it’s her. The others are my favorites and I’ll watch any episode with them.

David Read:
Marcia Middleton, “What is one of your favorite cosplays for yourself?” Who do you cosplay?

Jenny Stiven:
Hi, Marcia.

David Read:
Hi, Marcia. I have a set of Galactica green fatigues from Battlestar, from Ron D. Moore’s Battlestar. I’ve done conventions with those. That’s about it. The rest of the time, people are like, “You don’t dress up?” I’m like, “No, I’m working.” I’m working with you guys.

Jenny Stiven:
I’ve never done cosplay. These guys know, I love cosplay. Marcia, you know this. I love cosplay, but I don’t tend to dress up myself. Not because I’m working, just because… I don’t know why, it just never hit me. If I had had the body for it, to go back to Teyla, I would love to dress up as Teyla. If I was still 25 and rocking that bod, that would be really cool, with her staff weapons. I’d do that in a second.

David Read:
Very good. Linda?

Linda Furey:
I used to cosplay a lot. When I was in high school and college, I sewed all my own costumes. I did a lot of Doctor Who companions. Tegan with the purple air stewardess uniform. I even made the hat. Lately though, I don’t do very much. I tend to wear my con T-shirt.

David Read:
Jenny’s got hers on too.

Jenny Stiven:
I’ve got it on too.

David Read:
I have an SG-1 uniform complete with the vest. I made a stuffed Goa’uld to perch on my shoulder.

Jenny Stiven:
I know, I love that.

Linda Furey::
You gotta go whole hog and do the full nerd.

David Read:
That’s true.

Jenny Stiven:
If you’re gonna do it.

Linda Furey:
The stuffed Goa’uld.

Jenny Stiven:
It’s perfect. I loved it. That’s a great one.

Linda Furey:
Sorry about the cat. She’s knocking things off the desk.

David Read:
No, it’s all right. An episode that you wish would have ended differently, Eva Lipinska wanted to know, from any series. That ended differently?

Linda Furey:
“Heroes.” I wanted to keep Janet forever. I’d have had her ascending, come back like Daniel.

David Read:
I wish we hadn’t destroyed Reese at the end of “Menace.” I wish that she had just gone offline. I love Danielle Nicolet. She said no to coming on the show. I asked her and she wasn’t interested.

Jenny Stiven:
Aw. Too bad. Outside of the obvious, which is SGU, the end. Atlantis, I loved “Vegas” as your ultimate episode. While I understand all of the reasons behind why the last episode of Atlantis went the way it did, and I know what the machinations were, that was not what I wanted. In terms of one that’s a little bit different, what’s the one that SG-1 is underground at the mine and they’re slaves?

David Read:
“Beneath the Surface.”

Jenny Stiven:
I wish that Jack and Sam had remembered and been together. I’m not a huge shipper, it’s not what I do, but I thought that story was so poignant and so amazing and there are some very quiet moments. We all used the gif of her putting her head on his shoulder. I think it would have been very cool if they remembered more about being together.

David Read:
A two-part character study would have been really nice about that, having them remember a lot of that too.

Jenny Stiven:
That would’ve been cool. I would have loved that.

David Read:
All right; they’re still submitting questions. Unfortunately, we’re gonna have to wrap it up because we’re bumping into the other episode.

Jenny Stiven:
Guys, also because all this is part of WonderCon, I know, David, this will be on your channel forever. But right now and this weekend, for anybody that’s live, Wyvern Gaming is also doing games as part of GateWorld’s sponsor of the Stargate channel through CCI and WonderCon gaming. So please, I encourage everybody to go over and look at Wyvern Gaming’s new Stargate RPG. We have amazing games. David, if you could do a little spiel, we have, I think it’s at 2:00 today. I can’t remember.

David Read:
So, there’s another cast reunion roleplaying game episode with Alexis Cruz, Julie McNiven, Simone Bailey and Rainbow Sun Francks. They’re visiting a familiar planet today and it’s going to be a hoot.

Jenny Stiven:
It’s so good.

David Read:
Check it out.

Jenny Stiven:
It is. It’s so good. Guys, please check that out. For anybody that hasn’t checked out the Stargate RPG over at Wyvern Gaming, Wyvern Gaming site, they’ve got a whole forum and they’ve got all the information about this game. They’ve already got the book done and fans get to really be a part of it. I’d like to thank David so much for letting me ask him anything, and Linda, to let me ask you anything. David, I hope we can do some more walk down memory lane. There are some topics and activations we didn’t even get to talk about.

David Read:
We’ll have you back whenever works for you. Absolutely.

Jenny Stiven:
I love some of the ideas that you’ve come up with over the years. They’ve been pretty successful, so I’d love to talk about that.

David Read:
Absolutely.

Jenny Stiven:
Thank you both very much.

David Read:
Thank you both for coming on and taking the time, for sure. This has been terrific. It’s been a good one, for sure.

Jenny Stiven:
It has. It’s been great. Thank you.

David Read:
All right, guys, I’ll wrap up the show and I’ll reach out to you both soon, OK?

Jenny Stiven:
Yes. Bye-bye, everyone.

David Read:
Thank you so much. Bye-bye.

Jenny Stiven:
Bye.

David Read:
All right, Jenny Stiven and Linda Furey, my co-producer and my longtime working partner, each separately, for Stargate. Someone else asked, “Would you rather be on Destiny or Atlantis?” Atlantis because of the food, Destiny because of the adventure. Would love to know the guests’ opinion on the best music over the Stargate different series. We didn’t get to that one. As far as I’m concerned, the best piece of music is Joel Goldsmith at the end of “Gauntlet.” His closing music to Stargate is absolutely amazing. That’s a question for Robert C. Cooper. I appreciate you guys sticking around and hope you really enjoyed the show. Dial the Gate is brought to you every week for free and we do appreciate you watching, but if you wanna support the show further, buy yourself some of our themed swag, which you saw the ladies wearing today. We’re now offering T-shirts, tank tops, sweatshirts and hoodies for all ages in a variety of sizes and colors at RedBubble. Currently offering four themed designs and hope to add more in the future. You can use your Amazon or PayPal account to check out. Visit dialthegate.redbubble.com and thanks for your support. Dial the Gate has partnered with 3DTechPro for the month of March to give you a chance to win your very own Atlantis, puddle jumper and BC-303. To enter to win these items, you need to use a desktop or laptop computer and visit dialthegate.com. Scroll down to Submit Trivia Questions. Your trivia may be used in a future episode of Dial the Gate, either for our monthly trivia night or a special guest to ask me in a round of trivia. There are three slots for trivia; one easy, one medium, and one hard and only one needs to be filled in, but you can submit up to three. The submission form does not currently work for mobile devices. Get your trivia in to me by April 1st and if you’re the lucky winner, I’ll be notifying you via your email to get your address. Be sure to check out our partners’ website for more Stargate-related merchandise at 3dtech.pro. If you liked the show, please Like, Subscribe, share this channel. It means so much to have you here. Thank you to Sommer, Tracy, Keith, Jeremy, Rhys, Antony; my moderating team. As always, a big thanks to Jennifer Kirby, Linda “GateGabber” Furey, you met her today, and Jenny Stiven as well for coming on. It’s a long time coming that we were gonna have Jenny on the show and I’m really glad that we finally got to do it. Enjoy WonderCon and see you on the other side. I’m David Read for Dial the Gate.