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0:00 – Opening Credits
0:11 – Introduction
2:08 – Guest Introduction
5:08 – Trivia Time
6:27 – Question 1
7:41 – Question 2
8:27 – Question 3
9:39 – Question 4
12:04 – Question 5
13:50 – Question 6
16:16 – Question 7
19:50 – Question 8
21:40 – Question 9
26:04 – Question 10
27:27 – Question 11
29:03 – Question 12
33:20 – Question 13
37:22 – Question 14
39:06 – Question 15
43:39 – Question 16
46:56 – Question 17
50:58 – Question 18
53:17 – Question 19
55:01 – Question 20
1:02:26 – Question 21
1:04:57 – Question 22
1:08:13 – Question 23
1:12:49 – Question 24
1:14:17 – Question 25
1:16:16 – Question 26
1:18:10 – Question 27
1:20:54 – Question 28
1:21:29 – Question 29
1:22:46 – Question 30
1:28:03 – Question 31
1:29:46 – Question 32
1:31:49 – Question 33
1:34:40 – Thanks to Guests
1:35:34 – Sponsor
1:37:03 – Monthly Trivia Winner
1:38:09 – Next Week’s Guest Line-Up
1:39:44 – End Credits

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TRANSCRIPT
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David Read:
Welcome everyone to Episode number 26. My name is David Read, you’re watching Dial the Gate and it is Stargate Trivia 2. This time, we are taking things, dialing it up to 11. I’ve got two moderators standing by. One is in my chat with you guys and also we’ve got, I believe, Tracy in there as well and Jeremy in there as well. Sommer is gonna be in our ear giving us trivia from you in the chat. In the meantime, Ian, moderator Ian, and Darren Sumner, founder of GateWorld, they are gonna be with me in a panel in just a moment here. Each of us have prepared eight trivia questions for each other, we’re gonna rotate and see who can get the most points. At the end of it, the fans submitting trivia questions in the YouTube live stream, they will be the ones who will decide who’s gonna be the reigning champion of Trivia 2. Darren currently holds the title, but we’re gonna see where that goes from here. Before I get started bringing them in, if I can get my documents ready to go here. If you like Stargate and you wanna see more content like this on YouTube, it would mean a great deal if you clicked the Like button. It really makes 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 live stream will be released over the course of the next several days, both on GateWorld.net and Dial the Gate YouTube channels. That’s all I have for you here. We’re gonna bring in our contestants. All right, Ian, moderator, welcome. Welcome to the show. Can’t hear you. Did you mute yourself?

Ian Zainea:
Yes

David Read:
Yes.

Ian Zainea:
Hello.

David Read:
Hello.

Ian Zainea:
Welcome everybody. Glad to be here, very excited.

David Read:
And Darren Sumner, GateWorld founder and managing editor, all-time guru.

Darren Sumner:
I’m ready. I’m ready.

David Read:
Hey.

Darren Sumner:
Ian and I just met backstage and I’m all ready to take him down.

David Read:
Jeez.

Ian Zainea:
It’s going that way? It’s on.

David Read:
Darren, do you think you’re gonna maintain your title this episode?

Darren Sumner:
No, I do not.

Sommer Roy:
Dang.

Ian Zainea:
Stroke of confidence.

David Read:
Geez. Ian, how long have you been a fan of the franchise?

Ian Zainea:
Been a fan of Dial the Gate since the very beginning. I did see a little bit of the show when it was on, but I didn’t have Syfy growing up. It was in college when Hulu became a thing, they had the entire series on there. It was around 2009 and I binged the entire show. It was before binging was a thing, I was seeing somebody at the time and she thought I was totally done with her ’cause I was so focused on this show and sort of ignoring her, but that wasn’t the case. The show was amazing, binged all of it and then caught up in time to see SGU live.

David Read:
That’s legit. All right. Which series is your favorite?

Ian Zainea:
SG-1 holds a special place in my heart, so by nostalgia reasons, that goes first. But from an artistic standpoint, SGU. It’s a fantastic show.

David Read:
Took me a while to get used to it, but I have to say the exact same thing. SG-1 holds a special place in my heart. I love the characters in Atlantis but I just love the storytelling in SGU. It’s modern. If it was done today, we would be much more acceptable of it. Darren, I think we’ve discussed all of that before. I honestly don’t know which is your favorite off the top of my head.

Darren Sumner:
SG-1 is still my show. I love all three, like I love all three of my children. SG-1 is still my show. I think you and I have talked so much over the years about how much I love Stargate’s mythology and the fact that it layers each episode. Each season, it builds on its mythology. SG-1, in 10 years, has so much mythology to it.

David Read:
This is true.

Darren Sumner:
SGU did its own world-building, but we only got 40% of that story. We don’t really know what the SGU mythology was meant to pay off.

David Read:
That’s a fair point, indeed. Let’s get on to trivia. In order to do that, we have someone. Sommer, are you there?

Sommer Roy:
Hello, David, I am here.

David Read:
The omniscient omnipresent–

Darren Sumner:
It’s a neat trick.

Ian Zainea:
Is that an Ancient?

David Read:
I know, I know.

Darren Sumner:
Isn’t it? I can hear her in my office.

David Read:
Give us an ancient proverb, Sommer.

Sommer Roy:
If you immediately know that candlelight is fire, then… Shoot. Something was lit along…

Ian Zainea:
The meal…

Sommer Roy:
The meal was cooked a long time ago.

David Read:
Yes, that’s right.

Darren Sumner:
Shoot, our dollar store Ancient.

David Read:
Oh, God. All right, trivia time, folks. Based on what I sent out, let me see here, it’s Darren, David, Ian, Darren, Ian, David, Darren, David, Ian, Darren, Ian, David. All right. Darren.

Darren Sumner:
I got my questions. You gotta tell me when it’s my turn.

David Read:
OK. This first question is going to me.

Darren Sumner:
OK. Mr. Read, we’re gonna start you out with an easy question.

David Read:
OK.

Darren Sumner:
This comes from a television show, Stargate SG-1.

David Read:
I think I’ve heard of it.

Darren Sumner:
Here we go. The Goa’uld Nirrti sought advanced technology to help her create a Hok’taur. What is a Hok’taur?

David Read:
What is a Hok’taur? Hok is advanced and taur is a sort of slang, Tau’ri, advanced human. Did I get one?

Darren Sumner:
Correct. You get a point. This is not for a bonus point. I got bonus points coming later if you need ’em.

David Read:
Understood.

Darren Sumner:
But, for conversation’s sake, what did Nirrti want a Hok’taur for?

David Read:
She wanted telekinesis. She wanted mind reading. She wanted a host.

Darren Sumner:
A new host, there we go. Exactly right, a new host.

David Read:
All right. Very good.

Darren Sumner:
You’re on the board.

David Read:
Thank you. Now I have a question for Ian.

Ian Zainea:
Pressure’s on.

David Read:
All right, man. Your easy question, what new substance did Tonane’s Salish people introduce to Stargate Command?

Ian Zainea:
Salish people, Tonane. That was the silver, the Native American episode.

David Read:
Almost every series has one.

Ian Zainea:
Trinium?

David Read:
That’s right. Give yourself a point. All right.

Sommer Roy:
Pressure’s on, Darren.

Ian Zainea:
I’m giving Darren a question then?

Darren Sumner:
All right, let’s have it.

Ian Zainea:
I’ll go with this one. I have several in each category. Luck of the draw here. O’Neill has the Ancient database downloaded into his head twice using the head sucker device. Who else used one of these devices?

Darren Sumner:
Who else used one of these devices? This is the thing that comes out of the wall and grabs your head and uses the beam of light to beam, in this case, the Ancient library into your brain. We found this first; Jack had it in “The Fifth Race.” Then we found it again in “Lost City” and Daniel almost tried to take it, but Jack had it there.

Ian Zainea:
He tried.

Darren Sumner:
The other time we see it is in “The Quest,” and Merlin uses it and then Daniel uses it.

Ian Zainea:
You’re right. Merlin does. I was only thinking Daniel, but there you go. Only one point though. One point.

Darren Sumner:
I’ll take it.

David Read:
All right. Darren, question for Ian. We’ll wait.

Darren Sumner:
Question for Ian.

David Read:
Question for Ian.

Darren Sumner:
Ian, here’s your easy question. It’s a little complicated, but I think you’ll get there in time. Name an episode where the same character is played by two different actors. Now let me qualify this, the same precise exact character. So, not a clone of that character, not an alternate universe version of that character, but the actual same character-

David Read:
That’s an easy question?

Darren Sumner:
Played by two different actors. I could think of a bunch off the top of my head. Hopefully coming up with one of them is easy.

Ian Zainea:
Initially I was thinking one actor playing two different characters in the same episode, but it also applies to that episode, which would be “Holiday,” where Ma’chello has the brain switching device.

Sommer Roy:
It’s one of my favorites.

Darren Sumner:
There you go. That’s correct. The episode is “Holiday.” Who are the two different actors who play the same character there?

Ian Zainea:
The main ones were O’Neill and Christopher Judge, Teal’c.

Darren Sumner:
Chris and Rick both play Jack O’Neill in that episode and they both play Teal’c in that episode.

David Read:
I was thinking “Torment of Tantalus.”

Ian Zainea:
Almost shaved the head.

Darren Sumner:
“Torment of Tantalus.”

David Read:
Two different actors playing the same character?

Darren Sumner:
Yes. One in the past, eh?

David Read:
Darren, whenever you pull that up, you are bleached white. There.

David Read:
Now you’re natural.

Darren Sumner:
My trivia question is on a white screen.

David Read:
Can you narrow that screen a little bit to make you less look like the Michelin Man?

Darren Sumner:
I can, yeah. The proverbial ghost? OK. How’s that?

David Read:
Much better. All right, man. Ian, question for me.

Ian Zainea:
Here we go. Another easy one.

David Read:
Wait, wait, wait. You know what, Sommer?

Sommer Roy:
Actually, it’s a question for you. You’re next.

David Read:
You’re right, but let’s show our scores.

Sommer Roy:
Yes, let’s show our numbers here.

Darren Sumner:
We just started round two.

David Read:
Right in front of you guys, right in front of your faces.

Sommer Roy:
There you go.

David Read:
There you go, like that.

Sommer Roy:
That’s perfect. David one, Darren one and Ian two. That is correct.

David Read:
So, we’re in the middle of round two.

Sommer Roy:
Yes, that’s correct.

David Read:
So, Ian, you have a question for me.

Ian Zainea:
Let’s go with this one since these easy questions are a little technical, so don’t go too easy on you. Name the four names of the Ancients, including the Ancients. So, three more.

David Read:
The names of the Ancients?

Ian Zainea:
Yeah, that they’re called as a species at various points throughout the series.

David Read:
The story book in “Avalon Part Two” calls them the Altera. Ancients obviously. Tayla’s species call them the Ancestors. There’s another one.

Ian Zainea:
Yes. One more from … I’ll give you a hint, from Atlantis.

Sommer Roy:
That was a hard one, I think.

David Read:
I think so too, Summer.

Darren Sumner:
We must be onto medium now.

David Read:
This is an easy question?

Ian Zainea:
One of the other ones was what does ZPM stand for?

David Read:
My God.

Ian Zainea:
Told me that was too easy.

David Read:
So, the Ancestors, the Ancients …

Ian Zainea:
Sort of sounds like the name of the spinoff series.

David Read:
You mean the Atlanteans?

Ian Zainea:
Lanteans.

David Read:
Lanteans.

Ian Zainea:
I’ll give it to you.

David Read:
OK. That’s fair.

Sommer Roy:
There you go.

David Read:
They called themselves Lanteans. That’s right. The Wraith introduced that in “The Defiant One.”

Ian Zainea:
“The Defiant One.”

David Read:
All right. Darren, you’re ready?

Darren Sumner:
Ready for you.

Sommer Roy:
All right, Darren.

David Read:
Sommer, how we doing? How do you think it’s going?

Sommer Roy:
You’re doing good.

David Read:
All right.

Sommer Roy:
You’re doing good.

David Read:
Darren, the last easy question for you. What did TJ’s father teach her how to do when she was young?

Darren Sumner:
TJ’s father? You’re exposing my SGU gaps in my knowledge. TJ’s father?

David Read:
In the episode “Time.”

Darren Sumner:
Boy, it’s been a while. TJ’s father. I don’t remember. I’m gonna have to guess, camping skills, starting a fire.

David Read:
Consensus, guys. There’s three of us now. Should we allow stealing?

Sommer Roy:
Stealing? Such as? Define stealing.

Darren Sumner:
The other person gets to guess?

David Read:
If I ask Ian and he gets it, can he get the point? I think that would make it interesting.

Sommer Roy:
I think so too.

David Read:
Summer, Ian, Darren, what do you guys think? Regardless of whether or not you know the question.

Ian Zainea:
I’m fine with it.

David Read:
Do you think that’s clever moving forward, that we do that?

Ian Zainea:
Yeah, definitely. Or at least the other person gets a chance to guess.

David Read:
Right, a chance to guess.

Ian Zainea:
I would say, thinking about that episode, I know she’s in the cave with, I don’t remember the guy’s name unfortunately. I’m sure he did a fine performance.

David Read:
Eli?

Ian Zainea:
Wasn’t there…

David Read:
David Blue?

Ian Zainea:
No, I’m thinking of the other cave episode.

David Read:
“The Hunt.”

Ian Zainea:
With the animal. I was gonna say set a bone because I was thinking of that episode. I’m not sure.

David Read:
All right.

Ian Zainea:
That was my guess.

David Read:
Her father was a tailor.

Darren Sumner:
Hey, what’s the answer to your easy question here, Dave?

David Read:
Her father was a tailor. He taught her how to sew.

Darren Sumner:
To sew, OK.

Ian Zainea:
Did he go down to New Orleans, the land of the rising sun?

David Read:
I don’t know. Oh, God. All right.

Sommer Roy:
So, no answer, no steal that round.

David Read:
No answer, no steal. End of round two. Hold them up.

Sommer Roy:
David two, Darren one and Ian two.

David Read:
All righty. It’s beginning to get interesting.

Darren Sumner:
All right, we got a long way to go here.

David Read:
I know. Darren, you got a question for me?

Darren Sumner:
I got a question for you. We’re moving into the medium questions now.

David Read:
Yep.

Darren Sumner:
The SGC strategically utilized the black hole near P3W-451 at least twice after its discovery in Season Two’s “A Matter of Time.” Name one of these, and because I’m behind, also name the other.

Ian Zainea:
That’s nice.

Darren Sumner:
The first one’s easy. I know you don’t even have to think about the first one.

David Read:
Vorash Sun in “Exodus.”

Darren Sumner:
That’s right, destroying the Vorash Star.

David Read:
Destroying the Vorash Star. In the book series, it’s Matter of Honor where it is utilized and the Cost of Honor. In Season 10, it would be the “Pegasus Project.”

Darren Sumner:
Was that P3W-451?

David Read:
It wasn’t?

Darren Sumner:
I don’t know.

David Read:
OK, you want another one. All right.

Darren Sumner:
I put in the question at least twice, because I could think of two. You’re probably right.

David Read:
Where it was actively used or where it was strategically given?

Darren Sumner:
How did I phrase this? Strategically utilized.

David Read:
OK, then that would be Season Five, that would be 2010 with the, I wanted to say Enkarans. That’s wrong. The Aschen, or Aschen, depending on…No, I said 2010, I’m wrong. 2001.

Darren Sumner:
Back up there. Get the title right.

David Read:
2001.

Darren Sumner:
2001.

David Read:
Man, that was tricky.

Darren Sumner:
That’s the only one I was thinking of. So, what did they do with the Achen? How’d they use the black hole?

David Read:
They gave them a list of Stargates. The first being a black hole.

Darren Sumner:
“Here, now that you have access to Stargates, here’s a list of planets you might dive into.”

David Read:
Exactly. They get progressively darker after that.

Darren Sumner:
Jack said, “They get progressively darker after that.”

David Read:
There was a third episode planned in that trilogy. Do you remember that, Darren?

Darren Sumner:
I do. Brad’s talked about it.

David Read:
“Judgment?”

Darren Sumner:
A few times. “Judgment,” where the Aschen come back and basically put the planet Earth on trial for doing that to them, because it had a devastating impact on their civilization.

David Read:
Didn’t the Asgard stand in as a judge?

Darren Sumner:
I don’t remember if it was the Asgard, but they had to appeal to some sort of higher galactic authority.

David Read:
I think that would have been so cool.

Darren Sumner:
That would have been rad.

David Read:
That basic idea was used in Atlantis in the last season, when the Pegasus Galaxy puts Atlantis on trial.

Darren Sumner:
In “Inquisition.”

David Read:
“Inquisition.” I did not care for that episode.

Darren Sumner:
It was a clip show, wasn’t it?

David Read:
It was a clip show and I think part of it was because they had actively stated that it was taken from the bones of “Judgment” and utilized in Atlantis. I was like, “I wanted the other one.” Ian, did you know that?

Darren Sumner:
I didn’t get the connection there.

Ian Zainea:
I did not. That’s new trivia for me.

David Read:
Summer, did you know that?

Sommer Roy:
I didn’t either. Absolutely not. That would have been absolutely an amazing episode to watch.

David Read:
All right. Are we still on round three? Let me see here.

Sommer Roy:
Did you get a point for that?

David Read:
No, I have a question for Ian.

Sommer Roy:
Did you get a point for that, David? Or two, one or two?

David Read:
I got one and I don’t think I wrote it, did I?

Darren Sumner:
You got a point. Write it down.

Sommer Roy:
No, I don’t think you did.

David Read:
I had two before?

Sommer Roy:
Yes, that’s correct.

David Read:
Now I’ve got three. OK. All right. Ian. How did Ronon know about the Shrine of Talas?

Ian Zainea:
I believe that’s with the Second Childhood episode, correct?

David Read:
Yes.

Ian Zainea:
His grandfather went there as well?

David Read:
That’s correct. You got it right.

Sommer Roy:
Beautiful.

David Read:
Give yourself a point.

Ian Zainea:
Nice. All right.

David Read:
“I owe him this.” “Really, because you never seemed to care for him before.” The relationships continue off screen in new and interesting ways.

Ian Zainea:
It’s part of what makes it good.

David Read:
It’s one of the things I love about “Tao of Rodney,” it gives Rodney a chance to be a little bit more soft with all of his, I think, roommates.

Darren Sumner:
I think we needed that. In “The shrine,” we needed Ronon to show that he cared about McKay ’cause they had that fantastic moment in “Tao of Rodney,” where Rodney hugs him and heals the scars on his back and then it’s another season and a half of, I don’t know if their relationship is normal.

David Read:
Adventures, general adventures. McKay was so busy doing exposition. It’s not a surprise that his non-exposition time would have been limited to Sheppard. It’s arguably that Carson was his best friend. I would contend that Sheppard was his best friend.

Sommer Roy:
They had a really great relationship and David Hewlett was so good at portraying all those layers that he did from non-caring and egotistical to that softer side.

David Read:
Exactly right. I agree. All right. Ian for Darren.

Ian Zainea:
All right. Got several here. Let’s try this one. Name one episode from each show that has extended versions.

David Read:
Ooh.

Darren Sumner:
One episode from each show that has an extended cut of the episode? OK. I thought about asking this as a question with respect to SG-1, ’cause I know “Threads” has a longer version. First time “Threads” aired on Syfy Channel it aired as a 90-minute special. That episode is not streaming online anywhere, you’ve gotta own the DVDs.

Ian Zainea:
That’s right. Right there, I got the pack. I think it’s off camera.

Darren Sumner:
Do you got it back there?

Ian Zainea:
I got it back there.

Darren Sumner:
There’s my SG1 box set right there.

Ian Zainea:
I see the gate.

Darren Sumner:
Those are the Star Trek films. OK, so “Threads” did it in SG-1. There’s a lot of episodes that get a few seconds trimmed here or there for the syndication version. I believe in Atlantis; there’s a longer version of “Rising.” I don’t know that I’ve seen it. I think it’s on the Blu-ray release, but there is a longer version of “Rising.”

David Read:
That is correct.

Ian Zainea:
You might be right about that. OK.

Darren Sumner:
Slightly longer. There is that.

Ian Zainea:
That’ll count. I didn’t have that one listed.

Darren Sumner:
OK, I’d have to think about it to come up with another longer episode in Atlantis. I’m curious what you have. As far as SGU goes, a longer cut of an SGU episode?

Ian Zainea:
I only recently discovered it myself.

Darren Sumner:
Gracious.

David Read:
That’s not a title.

Darren Sumner:
I gotta get all three of these to get one point?

Ian Zainea:
Yup. It’s towards the beginning of the series.

Sommer Roy:
In other words, he’s saying it should be easy for you.

David Read:
He basically gave him the answer.

Darren Sumner:
If I had to guess, I would probably start at the beginning of the series, I guess. I’m thinking through the episode guide. I’m thinking through the back half of Season One and the cliffhanger and on into Season Two. I can’t think of anything. It’s gotta be “Air.”

Ian Zainea:
Yup. That’s what it was. For the other two Atlantis ones, “Enemy at the Gate” and “Vegas” were both extended, at least on the DVD.

David Read:
Really?

Ian Zainea:
Yeah.

Darren Sumner:
I did not know that.

David Read:
Isn’t that interesting? They had additional scenes that were not in the broadcast episode?

Ian Zainea:
I didn’t see it in broadcast so I don’t know for sure.

David Read:
Are you looking at the time codes?

Ian Zainea:
I do know that they’re a few minutes longer on each.

David Read:
Got it. Interesting. OK.

Darren Sumner:
There’s marketing copy on some of those releases. I think the Blu-ray release specifies “Rising” as a longer cut. I’m not sure about the others.

David Read:
Sommer, is that the end of round three?

Sommer Roy:
I believe so.

David Read:
All right. Stick ’em up.

Sommer Roy:
All right, what do we got here?

Darren Sumner:
That was a hard-earned point.

Sommer Roy:
It was. All right. We have David with three, Ian with three and Darren with a hard-earned two.

Darren Sumner:
Two of the more difficult questions. Let’s just admit.

David Read:
Oh, God. That’s funny.

Ian Zainea:
That was tough, though, stuff. In terms of format, are we doing three questions in medium or one question in medium?

David Read:
Was it two easy, three medium, and three hard?

Ian Zainea:
OK. All right.

Darren Sumner:
So, we’re going down the list?

David Read:
That’s my intent.

Darren Sumner:
That’s what I’m gonna do.

David Read:
At the end, maybe some questions will get two points based on whatever Sommer’s thinking. Sommer is basically God in this episode.

Sommer Roy:
Yes, fear me.

Darren Sumner:
Is she an Ancient or is she Ori?

Sommer Roy:
I’m a Furling.

Darren Sumner:
She’s an ascended Furling.

Sommer Roy:
I am.

Ian Zainea:
We finally meet them.

David Read:
We are the Furlings. All right. Darren, your question for Ian.

Darren Sumner:
My question for Ian.

David Read:
For Ian.

Darren Sumner:
OK, Ian, this is a medium question. All right. It comes from Stargate Universe, so it should be no problem for you.

David Read:
Hopefully.

Darren Sumner:
A colony of Novans encountered by Destiny, that’s “Common Descent,” is led by a man named Yaozu, played by August Schellenberg. For whom was Yaozu named? Or if you prefer, whose name did he share?

Ian Zainea:
I believe it was Camile Wray’s relative and I feel like father might be too close, so I’m gonna say grandfather. I don’t remember precisely.

Darren Sumner:
Camile Wray’s grandfather.

Ian Zainea:
Or maybe uncle?

Darren Sumner:
David, you wanna step in and steal?

David Read:
It was her father’s name.

Darren Sumner:
It was her father. Should’ve gone with your first instinct.

David Read:
That’s so close, man.

Ian Zainea:
So close.

Sommer Roy:
Aw. Da-da-da-da.

Ian Zainea:
One prefix away.

David Read:
All right. Ian.

Ian Zainea:
All right.

David Read:
Got one for me?

Ian Zainea:
Yes, I do.

David Read:
Mine just died. Plug in mouse. Hello mouse, I give thee life again.

Ian Zainea:
I guess my previous medium question was maybe a little bonus medium. It was a little too medium.

David Read:
It was a little too medium. That’s funny.

Sommer Roy:
Medium rare?

David Read:
Medium rare, I like it, Sommer. That’s good.

Ian Zainea:
Let’s go with this one. There is only one pilot of Earth ships, meaning the guy that’s at the controls of Daedalus and Odyssey, et cetera, that appears in all three shows. What is the character’s name?

David Read:
I know it. I’m just giving a minute to fans in the thread.

Ian Zainea:
And if you wanna show off, who is he played by?

David Read:
For God’s sakes.

Ian Zainea:
That’s not a bonus. That’s to show off.

David Read:
OK. It’s Major Marks.

Ian Zainea:
Yes.

Sommer Roy:
Woohoo.

David Read:
In all three. We just lost Kirby Morrow, may he rest in peace.

Sommer Roy:
RIP.

David Read:
He was Dave Kleinman. Marks is played… God sakes, I don’t know off the top of my head. He’s in “Ark of Truth.” But who’s the actor?

Ian Zainea:
It was Martin Christopher.

David Read:
Martin Christopher, sorry, man. We will have him on.

Darren Sumner:
I was thinking Christopher something.

David Read:
That’s good.

Darren Sumner:
Give me a chance to steal ’cause I need to get a point back, but I would not have come up with that.

David Read:
Got it. The core of the question obviously, if I don’t know it.

Sommer Roy:
Did you give yourself a point?

Ian Zainea:
Yes, that is a point awarded to Mr. Reed.

David Read:
Sorry.

Sommer Roy:
All right. There you go.

David Read:
Boo. OK.

Ian Zainea:
Gotta keep your own point.

David Read:
It may come in handy later on. Darren, you ready for my question?

Darren Sumner:
Ready.

David Read:
What does Ronald Greer discover stored in the fallout bunker beneath the Novus capitol in “Epilogue?” He’s surprised to find this 2,000 years later.

Darren Sumner:
Is this an extended cut again?

David Read:
No

Darren Sumner:
You guys with the SGU questions.

Sommer Roy:
I’m writing things down, Darren.

Darren Sumner:
Don’t you have any questions about “The Fifth Race?”

David Read:
Look, I’m learning from previous experiences. Rush also discovers a special material that they can use to replace that water, that terrible lime water on the ship. It’s an insulating material. They’re sending all this stuff up to Destiny and Greer discovers that this has survived human society for 2,000 years essentially.

Darren Sumner:
For 2,000 years. It’s something he recognizes and is probably significant to him that he finds it 2,000 years later.

David Read:
A comfort, I think, would be more appropriate, but yeah.

Darren Sumner:
Comfort. Probably not C4.

David Read:
No, it’s not a weapon.

Darren Sumner:
That would’ve been good though. Boy, I cannot remember this scene

David Read:
I think you have your homework cut out for you for the next month, my friend, to re-watch SGU.

Darren Sumner:
I’m gonna have to spend the next month re-watching SGU for sure.

Sommer Roy:
SGU re-watch.

Ian Zainea:
In your defense, I don’t remember this either.

David Read:
You don’t, Ian? You don’t remember?

Darren Sumner:
I love Greer too. He’s in character.

David Read:
I’ll give you both a hint. It’s a food.

Darren Sumner:
A food from 2,000 years that’s been preserved?

David Read:
No, not from 2,000 years ago of our time. It’s something that we have here. Every time I come back from, or go to, L.A. on the 10, I see it every time I go by. There’s a billboard that cracks me up.

Ian Zainea:
In-N-Out Burger?

Darren Sumner:
Twinkies.

David Read:
No, guys. Come on. Every time I drive out on the 10, there’s a sign for pretty good beef jerky. Oh, God.

Darren Sumner:
This is a real product?

David Read:
It’s jerky. All right.

Sommer Roy:
Sounds pretty good.

Darren Sumner:
The answer is beef jerky. It’s not that particular brand.

David Read:
Beef jerky has survived. Some animal they’ve cannibalized in the Novus galaxy…

Ian Zainea:
Technically not cannibalization.

Darren Sumner:
Not cannibalized, no.

David Read:
OK. That’s fair.

Darren Sumner:
They dried.

David Read:
Wouldn’t it be something if it was human?

Ian Zainea:
Oh, God.

David Read:
If that’s something the Novans never said-

Darren Sumner:
The Novans are this awesome advanced race of humans, and they’re also cannibals.

David Read:
They’re also cannibals.

Ian Zainea:
Oh, man.

David Read:
They never mentioned that to the team. “You know what? Our ancestors would not appreciate us doing this so let’s just keep this one on the down low and… all that meat that you sent up to Destiny, that’s human.”

Darren Sumner:
Brody probably started that. Brody started that in Futura.

David Read:
And sold it to the Novans?

Darren Sumner:
Yeah.

David Read:
That’s funny. All right.

Ian Zainea:
Reminds me of a Walking Dead episode which is horrific in its detail of their cannibalization.

David Read:
“Tastes pretty good.”

Ian Zainea:
Ugh.

David Read:
All right. Darren, question from me.

Darren Sumner:
Yes sir.

David Read:
Question number five. Am I right, Sommer?

Darren Sumner:
Is it my turn?

David Read:
I think I’m right.

Sommer Roy:
Yes, that’s correct.

David Read:
All right. OK, so we’ve completed a round.

Sommer Roy:
You did.

David Read:
So, stick ’em up.

Sommer Roy:
Congratulations. David, you now have five points. Ian, you now have three points and Darren, you still have your hard-earned two points.

David Read:
Ian, you’re gonna wanna pull it back a little bit for the future.

Sommer Roy:
It’s still two, Darren.

Darren Sumner:
There you go. It’s still two.

David Read:
That’s what I say about hash marks.

Darren Sumner:
If you turn it upside down, that’s an 11.

David Read:
Oh, God. All right. Darren.

Darren Sumner:
OK, ready for the next round?

David Read:
OK.

Sommer Roy:
Next round in progress.

Darren Sumner:
I don’t know. I’m gonna spend more time on these next month ’cause now I think this is too easy for a brain like David’s.

David Read:
That’s what I thought at the beginning too.

Ian Zainea:
I’m just gonna ask you proper nouns from now on.

David Read:
OK. I did a lot more proper nouns this time around. I wrote these last night when I was driving and it’s like, “You know what?”

Darren Sumner:
OK, here’s a medium question.

David Read:
OK.

Darren Sumner:
Actress Jamie Ray Newman had a recurring role on Stargate Atlantis. For full points, tell me not only who she played but which episodes she appears in.

David Read:
Jamie Ray Newman.

Darren Sumner:
I made it slightly harder in reading it.

David Read:
Is that Amelia Banks? Jamie Ray Newman.

Sommer Roy:
Is there a steal?

David Read:
I know the name. He already shook his head so I lost it. Jamie Ray Newman.

Sommer Roy:
Would you like to go for a steal, Ian?

David Read:
Ian, do you know who it is?

Ian Zainea:
I’m with you. The name sounds super familiar. The episode, I’m terrible with episode names, where Rodney and the lieutenant get switched? No, that’s not her. I can see her face but I can’t remember who she played unfortunately.

Sommer Roy:
I’m very sorry, the answers you have chosen are incorrect.

David Read:
Incorrect, please try again. I’ve already lost it. Ian, you were right.

Ian Zainea:
Was I?

Darren Sumner:
Did you just Google it?

David Read:
No. It just dawned on me, ’cause I remember now.

Darren Sumner:
It just dawned on you.

David Read:
No, I swear to God.

Darren Sumner:
I made it harder. I told you it was easy and then I made it harder by not giving you the character’s name.

Ian Zainea:
I can’t remember the character’s name.

Sommer Roy:
Good, you did great. It was correct.

David Read:
It’s in “Trio” and then later in…

Darren Sumner:
No, subtract one from Trio.

David Read:
What do you mean subtract one from?

Ian Zainea:
“Duet.”

David Read:
“Duet.”

Darren Sumner:
Subtract one from “Trio” and you get a duet.

David Read:
“Duet” and the episode where the ZPM is an explosive and the Goa’uld did his thing. I’m in pieces over this. Rachel sings Beyond the Night and she’s in that one. Jamie Ray Newman was supposed to be in “Grace Under Pressure” and she was supposed to be the one on the other side of that door that closed it and died.

Darren Sumner:
She was?

David Read:
Yeah.

Darren Sumner:
I didn’t know that.

David Read:
Yep and then they changed it. They didn’t wanna kill her off.

Sommer Roy:
Ian, you can give yourself a point for that.

Ian Zainea:
Does that count, Darren?

Darren Sumner:
The full question is who she played and which episodes she appeared in.

Ian Zainea:
Ask them the character’s name. What was her character name?

Darren Sumner:
Her character is Lieutenant Laura Cadman.

Ian Zainea:
Cadman.

Darren Sumner:
Cadman is in “Duet” and “Critical Mass.”

David Read:
Jeez, we all suck. “Critical Mass.” That’s it.

Sommer Roy:
OK, no points this round. All right.

David Read:
This is completely irrelevant but I have my book here. This fell out of it.

Sommer Roy:
What is it?

Darren Sumner:
Awesome. That’s from Gatecon.

David Read:
I swear to God I didn’t have this planned. I was like, “This thing just fell out.” I guess David DeLuise wanted to make an appearance.

Darren Sumner:
That’s David DeLuise.

David Read:
God, that’s too funny. All right. Ian, question five?

Darren Sumner:
“Everyone, look at this picture of me with a famous person.” I don’t have mine close. I have a Simone Bailey picture in front of Stargate.

Ian Zainea:
I did pull this out.

David Read:
Wow. Do it closer to the camera. Dude, that is so cool.

Darren Sumner:
Hey, awesome.

Ian Zainea:
I don’t remember which episode it was, but in Toronto, which is like five hours away from Cleveland, they had a live showing and signing afterwards. I literally almost ran into Robert Carlyle. I rounded a corner and he was doing an interview right there and I was like, “Oh, sorry.” Going around.

David Read:
Did Carlyle sign it?

Ian Zainea:
No, he wasn’t doing the signings.

David Read:
OK. That’s too bad. All right.

Darren Sumner:
It’s still really cool.

David Read:
My fifth question is for Mr. Ian.

Ian Zainea:
Pressure’s on.

David Read:
My Medium questions sucked. All right, Ian.

Ian Zainea:
The last one was pretty tough.

David Read:
What happens to the SG-1 marionettes when they arrive on Teal’c’s planet in “200?”

Ian Zainea:
This is an easy one. The strings get cut when they go through the gate and I don’t remember exactly what they say. Maybe “Oh.”

David Read:
They don’t say anything. They just fall over.

Darren Sumner:
They just fall over.

David Read:
Give yourself a point.

Darren Sumner:
And Teal’c starts laughing. Good job. David, do you know if Chris did the voice for Marionette Teal’c?

David Read:
With the laughing?

Darren Sumner:
Yeah.

David Read:
That’s absolutely him. With all the laughing that he did during Dialing Home.

Darren Sumner:
There’s no reason why it wouldn’t be, that’s his laugh. I always thought it didn’t sound like him the first time I watched it. David, are you out of focus?

David Read:
Me? I’m in focus.

Darren Sumner:
You look a little blurry to me.

Sommer Roy:
Focus, David.

David Read:
I’m pretty clear. You guys are watching from a different camera. The camera that’s broadcasting to everybody is in focus.

Ian Zainea:
I was wondering how it looked a bit better over there.

Sommer Roy:
You are correct. It looks really good on the broadcast.

David Read:
Correct.

Ian Zainea:
Very handsome.

David Read:
I have two cameras on the top of my monitor. That’s how I pull it off. I’m actually not looking at my guests, I’m looking at my audience. All right.

Ian Zainea:
You gotta do an episode where you cover your setup.

David Read:
People have been asking for that. They wanna see the house and all the Stargate stuff, we’ll do it. All right, Ian. Number five for Darren.

Ian Zainea:
OK, since we’re behind, Darren, we gotta look out for each other here against the unstoppable David Read.

Darren Sumner:
We’re behind now?

David Read:
Geez, man.

Ian Zainea:
You’re more behind than me.

Darren Sumner:
I need to make up some ground here. Come on.

David Read:
“You’re more behind than me, let’s be honest.”

Darren Sumner:
“In the episode, ‘The Fifth Race’.”

Ian Zainea:
Close.

Ian Zainea:
I’ve got an SG-1 question for you, with a bonus. In the SG-1 episode, “Camelot,” the team is given three places that Arthur went after leaving Camelot.

Darren Sumner:
Gosh.

Ian Zainea:
What are those three places? For bonus, you have to name the character. I feel like the actor’s pretty obvious.

Darren Sumner:
The character who says those three names?

Ian Zainea:
Yeah.

Darren Sumner:
Man.

David Read:
Boromir.

Sommer Roy:
This is hardcore trivia right here.

Darren Sumner:
This is hard.

Ian Zainea:
The three names for one point, an extra point per character.

Darren Sumner:
Let’s start with the three names. I was in the room when David asked this of Michael Shanks.

David Read:
Ooh, good recall.

Ian Zainea:
Michael Shanks was in the room where it happened.

David Read:
At Gatecon. It’s hardcore trivia.

Darren Sumner:
You might’ve given him the first two.

David Read:
The first two and then he came up…

Darren Sumner:
Then he pulled the last one out of his head. It was amazing.

Sommer Roy:
Wow.

Darren Sumner:
You’ve gotta have a steel-trap mind like Michael does. They’re not easy names either.

Darren Sumner:
But they’re so fun. They’re lyrical. They’re lyrical, but I’m gonna get one vowel wrong.

Ian Zainea:
I’ll give it to you for a vowel wrong.

David Read:
I think that’s…one vowel wrong.

Darren Sumner:
Close enough? OK. ‘Cause I wanna say the first one is Castiana.

Ian Zainea:
No incorrect vowels.

Darren Sumner::
Sahal and Vagonbrei.

David Read:
He’s got ’em.

Sommer Roy:
He’s got ’em.

David Read:
Write down that point.

Sommer Roy:
Love it. Awesome.

Ian Zainea:
If you name the character, one more.

Darren Sumner:
The character who says them?

Ian Zainea:
Yes.

Darren Sumner:
These are the places where Arthur and his knights went. I don’t think that the dialogue came from Merlin.

Ian Zainea:
No.

Darren Sumner:
I think it came from Meurik.

Ian Zainea:
Yes, it did.

David Read:
Who’s John Noble’s character.

Ian Zainea:
Noble, yes.

Sommer Roy:
Great job.

Ian Zainea:
That’s two points there.

David Read:
That’s impressive.

Sommer Roy:
It is.

Ian Zainea:
I had to look that up for the character name.

David Read:
I remember him saying, “I am,” such and such, “leader of our village. Welcome to Camelot.” I remember that whole spiel.

Ian Zainea:
Meurik?

David Read:
The name was blank. Meurik?

Darren Sumner:
Meurik, M-E-U-R-I-K.

David Read:
That was John Noble’s character?

Darren Sumner:
That’s John Noble’s character.

David Read:
I’m impressed.

Darren Sumner:
I don’t know if his wife had a name on screen, but she was played by the Get in the Gate contest winner.

David Read:
That’s exactly right. Darren has this… I’ve noticed he has this remarkable tendency, the longer he sits there, the more he’s likely to come up with the answer. The longer I sit here trying to think, the more I bury myself in more thought.

Darren Sumner:
I know. It’s been a lot of years, so I know that some of the stuff is in there. I have to dig for it.

David Read:
Gotta go through them. That’s a real talent. All right, very good.

Sommer Roy:
Do not forget to give yourself that hard-earned point.

David Read:
Yes, thank you, Sommer. Mark it. OK.

Darren Sumner:
Is there a bonus point in there?

David Read:
He did. He got two.

Sommer Roy:
There were two.

Ian Zainea:
If I recall from the commentary, John Noble came up with the pronunciations of those because it was in the script as these words and they’d never been said before.

David Read:
It wouldn’t surprise me. Sommer, that was the end of round five?

Sommer Roy:
It certainly was.

David Read:
All right. Hold ’em up.

Darren Sumner:
They’re given to Daniel. Michael knew them because Daniel has them in a later episode.

David Read:
Darren, a little bit to your left. There we go. Sweet.

Sommer Roy:
David with five, Ian with four and Darren with four.

David Read:
All right. They’re coming around the back stretch. All right, here we go. Ian, you having a good time?

Ian Zainea:
Yeah. It’s a blast. Good to hang out.

David Read:
I’m glad you’re here.

Darren Sumner:
This works great with three people.

David Read:
It does. And an omniscient Furling.

Darren Sumner:
And an omniscient Furling.

David Read:
All right.

Sommer Roy:
That’s me.

David Read:
Darren, question for Ian.

Darren Sumner:
Ian, I’m into my hard questions here.

Ian Zainea:
Are we on hard?

David Read:
Yes.

Ian Zainea:
Or do we have one more medium? Hard? OK. Then I need to know.

David Read:
Six, seven, eight is hard.

Sommer Roy:
Dun, dun, dun, dun.

Ian Zainea:
I need to switch my background here.

Darren Sumner:
You’re ready for it.

Sommer Roy:
He’s serious now.

Ian Zainea:
Copyright? OK.

Darren Sumner:
Five seconds is fine. We’ll see it for five seconds.

David Read:
I’m very particular about that ’cause I want this to be up for years and years.

Darren Sumner:
We all enjoyed it.

David Read:
I don’t want a later regime at MGM to say… I don’t want them to Simpsons us.

Darren Sumner:
OK, here it is. I wrote this wrong. Aris Boch forced SG-1 to help him capture his quarry. Who was Aris Boch hunting? There’s a bonus on this one.

David Read:
That’s a trick question, it could be.

Ian Zainea:
It was a Tok’ra, I know that. There’s no way I’m gonna get the name.

Darren Sumner:
OK, before we throw it over to David, the question is, “what is the name of the character that he was hunting?” and the bonus is, “by what other name did Aris Boch know him?” We got two big, fat proper nouns here, Dave.

David Read:
Aris Boch did not know his actual name. Like many Tok’ra, they disguise themselves. There are two names here, either one of which can give you a point. At least one.

Darren Sumner:
Ian, you wanna take a shot at either of these names? I wanna say it was a Z name, Zarok maybe.

David Read:
That’s Battlestar.

Darren Sumner:
I’ll give you a hint here. Both of them start with the letter K.

Ian Zainea:
Ugh, I was way off. Although both obscure letters.

David Read:
That’s a matter of perspective.

Ian Zainea:
Kaspian.

David Read:
That’s a C, I think. I suppose it could be a K. I’m giving you crap.

Darren Sumner:
Solid guess.

Ian Zainea:
For the second name, let’s say, Kagan.

Darren Sumner:
Kagan, that is a Stargate name, isn’t it? Isn’t there a Kagan somewhere in Stargate?

David Read:
Sooner or later.

Ian Zainea:
I believe it is.

Sommer Roy:
It sounds really familiar.

Darren Sumner:
We’re gonna have to look it up on the Wikipedia. OK, I’m gonna suggest new rules on the fly, that if you get a steal, you get to steal one and not two.

David Read:
Not both?

Ian Zainea:
Yeah.

David Read:
OK, that’s fair.

Ian Zainea:
That sounds fair.

David Read:
You don’t want me to get too far ahead. All right.

Darren Sumner:
Especially if you’re ahead.

David Read:
All right. According to Aris Boch, his name was Keltar.

Darren Sumner:
Correct.

David Read:
But his actual name was Korra. “I am Tok’ra.”

Darren Sumner:
“I am Korra of the Tok’ra.”

Sommer Roy:
Beautiful. Beautiful, David, you get a point.

David Read:
Thank you.

Sommer Roy:
For the steal.

David Read:
This, with this, and then that.

Darren Sumner:
Your bonus is that we are all very impressed by you.

David Read:
Oh, God.

Ian Zainea:
I don’t know the correct name, but that was the episode with the Tegmalutleron [sic], with the little ball that shot lasers.

David Read:
The Tac.

Darren Sumner:
The Tac.

David Read:
The Tac.

Ian Zainea:
The Tac.

David Read:
Tacluchnatagamuntoron.

Darren Sumner:
Taca… I don’t know.

David Read:
During Season Three there was a stint where they were having fun with Goa’uld names, in this episode and in “Rules of Engagement.”

Darren Sumner:
“Rules of Engagement” had the Vo’cume.

David Read:
The Vo’cume. Get the vacuum. Vo’cume, whatever, get it. All right, Ian, question for moi?

Ian Zainea:
All right, here we go. This is a hard question. This is one of my favorite shots in the entire series. Which SG-1 episode has a steady cam shot that goes backwards up the spiral staircase, tracking along with Doctor Fraiser and General Hammond as they walk up the stairs? Since you’re a wizard, who was the director of that episode as well?

David Read:
Dude, I don’t even… They go up the spiral staircase?

Ian Zainea:
Yes. They go from the downstairs area, they actually come up the stairs from the hall, and then the steady cam operator, who is a god as far as I’m concerned, goes completely backwards up the spiral staircase, following along with them the whole time.

Darren Sumner:
And into the briefing room?

David Read:
So, the actors were underneath him following him up?

Ian Zainea:
He’s pointing down at them as they’re going up the staircase. I won’t give a hint because it could be stolen.

David Read:
We had Ks earlier for you, Mr. Caspian.

Ian Zainea:
That is true. I feel like the only hints I can think of would totally give it away.

David Read:
Really? All right, there were a lot of walk-and-talks with Fraiser and Hammond. There were a lot of them in “Window of Opportunity,” I don’t think this is it though. The only other one that I can think of is “The Fifth Man.”

Ian Zainea:
That’s not it.

David Read:
That’s not it? Then I don’t know.

Darren Sumner:
What the question was, it was a Hammond and Fraiser walk-and-talk?

David Read:
Mm-hmm.

Ian Zainea:
Yes.

David Read:
Ian, the problem with these types of questions is that you have to have watched every episode in detail to make sure that that shot is never duplicated with those actors. I’m gonna trust that that’s the case.

Ian Zainea:
That is true. I’ve never seen that shot except for once and it took me a while to track down which episode it was.

David Read:
OK, that’s fair.

Ian Zainea:
I had to watch it a lot.

David Read:
OK. The fact that it’s a rare, unique shot is good enough for me.

Darren Sumner:
You don’t see those kinds of trick moves very often. I feel like I can picture it in my head, but I would have to guess at random episodes that both characters are in.

Ian Zainea:
Just before I give it away.

Darren Sumner:
“Foothold” is my guess.

Ian Zainea:
“Foothold?” OK.

David Read:
OK. So, Ian, give us a hint now.

Ian Zainea:
OK. It’s a Teal’c-centric episode.

David Read:
“48 Hours.”

Darren Sumner:
“Avatar.” No, jam, that’s not an answer.

David Read:
And it’s dead.

Darren Sumner:
He said Teal’c-centric. It’s my favorite Teal’c episode.

Ian Zainea:
It’s a good one. Another hint…

David Read:
It wasn’t “48 Hours?”

Ian Zainea:
No.

David Read:
All right then.

Ian Zainea:
Christopher Judge had a role outside of acting in this episode.

David Read:
Was it “The Changeling?”

Ian Zainea:
It was “The Changeling.”

David Read:
OK, I’m not gonna take it, but interesting.

Ian Zainea:
Directed by Martin Wood.

Darren Sumner:
Good to know.

David Read:
By who?

Ian Zainea:
It’s around 34 minutes if you wanna look it up.

Darren Sumner:
Martin Wood.

David Read:
Interesting.

Darren Sumner:
Very cool.

Sommer Roy:
Very cool trivia.

Ian Zainea:
Actually, 38 minutes. Sorry.

David Read:
38 minutes? Interesting.

Ian Zainea:
38, the special time.

David Read:
Sommer, how are the fans doing with the questions?

Sommer Roy:
Good. They’re doing great. They have a lot of very cool questions.

David Read:
Good. All right.

Ian Zainea:
Did anybody in the chat get that one right?

Sommer Roy:
I’m sorry? No, I don’t see that they did.

David Read:
That’s a legitimately hard question. Good job.

Darren Sumner:
We have learned today that Ian is good with hard questions.

David Read:
Oh my God. All right. Where’d it go? Last question in round six, for Darren. The Daedalus’s hyperdrive engine allowed for trips back and forth from Earth to Atlantis. How long was the journey? Not talking augmented with Zero Point Module.

Darren Sumner:
Just Daedalus by itself, how long was the journey? How exact do you want me to be? I’ve given this number in various contexts on GateWorld and I usually round it off.

David Read:
Days.

Darren Sumner:
OK, you want it in days. When I round it off, I estimate that the round trip takes a little over a month. I think one way, it’s 17 days.

David Read:
Ian, do you wanna steal?

Ian Zainea:
I was gonna say 14 days.

David Read:
It’s 18 days.

Sommer Roy:
Yes. 18.

Darren Sumner:
That’s rough.

David Read:
Ugh. All right.

Darren Sumner:
But it’s a hard question.

David Read:
Stick ’em up.

Sommer Roy:
All right, end of round six, we have David with six points. Jeremy with…

David Read:
You’re confusing the moderators.

Sommer Roy:
I’m sorry. Ian with four points and Darren with four points. Keep in mind, I’m recovering from a surgery.

David Read:
No, you’re good.

Sommer Roy:
I am a little bit medicated; thus, my quote was off a little earlier today. I’ll be better next time.

David Read:
You’re fine. Darren, question for me.

Darren Sumner:
Question for you? OK, I got two hard questions left. Here’s one of ’em.

David Read:
Everyone should have two questions left. Now we come to it, the great battle of our time.

Darren Sumner:
I’m gonna give you the title of the episode that we’re talking about here. I was watching your recent fantastic interview with Rachel Luttrell.

David Read:
Thank you, despite the freeze frames.

Darren Sumner:
You couldn’t come up with the episode title while you were talking to Rachel so I’m gonna give you a hard time about it here. The Atlantis fourth season episode “Missing” saw Teyla and Dr. Keller on New Athos, where they ended up squaring off against what tribe of ruthless warriors?

David Read:
The Bola Kai.

Darren Sumner:
I haven’t finished yet. Minus one. Whom Teyla describes as, quote, “Beyond dangerous.”

David Read:
The Bola Kai.

Darren Sumner:
Bola Kai is correct.

David Read:
With a fantastic guest star who did not get nearly enough screen time by the name of Danny Trejo. Tortuga, if anyone’s a fan of Breaking Bad.

Darren Sumner:
Very good. What was Danny Trejo’s character’s name?

David Read:
I don’t know. I’m gonna give myself one.

Darren Sumner:
You don’t need any bonus points.

David Read:
Do you have the character’s name written down?

Darren Sumner:
I do.

David Read:
Ian, do you wanna try and steal it?

Ian Zainea:
No. I’ll just embarrass myself. Oola of the Bolokai.

Darren Sumner:
No, his name was Omal.

Sommer Roy:
Omal?

David Read:
There’s no way.

Darren Sumner:
No.

David Read:
Omal, interesting. I’d love to have him on Dial the Gate, but it’s such a minor role.

Sommer Roy:
But Danny Trejo!

David Read:
I know.

Darren Sumner:
That’d be a huge get.

David Read:
It would be a huge get. Everything I’ve heard is he’s a wonderful human being. He has an amazing life story to tell. That man has gone through some hard times and has come through the fire.

Darren Sumner:
If he’s a Stargate fan, he might like to do it,

David Read:
If he’s a sci-fi fan. I would love to talk with him. I’ll record a whole thing for him. All right. My question for Ian, number seven. You ready, buddy?

Ian Zainea:
All right. I think so.

David Read:
In “Descent,” SG-1’s “Descent,” what feat of endurance does the actor, Corin Nemec, achieve which does not technically make the final cut of the episode?

Ian Zainea:
What technical feat?

David Read:
What feat of endurance.

Ian Zainea:
Feat of endurance…

David Read:
… does Corin Nemec, the actor, achieve on film which technically does not make the final cut it in episode?

Ian Zainea:
Episode “Descent.”

David Read:
He does it, but the way that it’s edited does not capture it.

Ian Zainea:
Is this the episode where his mentor is going insane?

David Read:
Darren, should I answer that?

Darren Sumner:
I don’t know. He’s asking for hints.

Ian Zainea:
All right, fair enough.

David Read:
OK, no. No, it is not.

Ian Zainea:
No it’s not? OK.

Sommer Roy:
Well, there you go.

Ian Zainea:
Dang. I can’t remember this episode. I’m gonna say, based on the title alone, that he is rappelling.

David Read:
No. That’s good, though. I like that.

Darren Sumner:
Now I wanna see that episode.

David Read:
I wouldn’t have minded seeing it either. A whole episode of them rappelling.

Ian Zainea:
I think I know which episode it is.

Darren Sumner:
On the rock face.

David Read:
Darren, I think it’s your chance to steal.

Darren Sumner:
This is the episode where Corin goes underwater, because the Ha’tak is sinking. Corin does this whole long take where he’s swimming underwater and interacting with the console and fixing the thing. He did the whole thing like a minute and a half underwater in one take. I think one of the props fell, or something fell out.

David Read:
One of the crystals came out…

Darren Sumner:
… on the console.

David Read:
… and they had to cut it. But Corin achieves that entire sequence in one breath.

Darren Sumner:
Amazing.

David Read:
Isn’t that cool, Sommer?

Sommer Roy:
Yeah.

David Read:
They had to cut away from it.

Sommer Roy:
That’s cool.

Ian Zainea:
They would fix that in post these days.

David Read:
I know.

Darren Sumner:
For us who were watching the show at that point week to week, Corin and the writers were selling the character to the viewers…

David Read:
Especially earlier on.

Darren Sumner:
… for the very first time. Early in those first episodes in Season Six.

David Read:
He had an unwinnable battle.

Darren Sumner:
He was in a terrible position, when he did that episode, when he did that shot and then he comes back through the ring transporter with the water…

David Read:
“It worked!”

Darren Sumner:
… and the water all splashes out.

David Read:
Great sequence.

Darren Sumner:
… I was sold on Jonas at that point. That was awesome.

Sommer Roy:
Jonas definitely sells himself. He was an excellent replacement. If anybody could have done it, it was Corin.

David Read:
There’s a lot of people who disagree with you, Sommer, but I applaud you for sticking your finger out there and saying that.

Sommer Roy:
I like Corin. If I couldn’t have Daniel or if I couldn’t have Shanks, I think anybody that was put in that position was gonna be heavily criticized.

David Read:
I’m talking about Corin as a replacement. I’m talking about Jonas as a replacement for Daniel.

Sommer Roy:
Yes, Jonas. Correct, yes.

David Read:
Corin was solid. All right.

Darren Sumner:
Jonas, I think, was written in such a way that he had to serve a story in a particular way. Daniel is the exposition, figure-things-out character, at least on one side of the equation. Sam doing the science part, Daniel doing the mythology, archaeology, aliens part. Jonas had to be the sort of character who could step in and do that and do the exposition and move the plot.

David Read:
If I had any criticism about the franchise, it’s that, when Daniel was gone, the voice of balance and the Jiminy Cricket aspect of the franchise, the conscience, had to go to Corin. In Atlantis, that was supposed to be Weir. Weir was often sidestepped at the more critical points. At the end of Season One, she is relieved. At the end of Season Three, she is relieved again. These moral issues that Darren and I like to talk about on the podcast, in Atlantis, they would discuss them and then they would move on. It wouldn’t really become a big part of the show. It would affect the plot in future episodes, “Atlantis caused these problems and now we have to deal with them.” They didn’t really deal with the nuance of their actions until episodes like, is it “Inquisition?”

Sommer Roy:
Yeah.

Darren Sumner:
The consequences of the things they had been doing as they’re traipsing through the Pegasus Galaxy letting Wraith loose.

David Read:
The weight of it never felt impactful in Atlantis.

Ian Zainea:
The whole Michael storyline especially. Basically torture and…

David Read:
Someone deserved to go to prison in the Pegasus Galaxy over that.

Ian Zainea:
In my latest rewatch in the spring, it actually bothered me how casual and nonchalant Sheppard was about it. He was gung-ho for it, like, “Yeah, let’s torture this guy. I don’t care.”

David Read:
That’s an intense episode that could have been a two-parter in terms of sitting back and going, “Is this the right thing to do?” I had some conversations with one particular writer about that once. He said, “David, that’s just not the story I’m wanting to tell. I’m not into it for that.” I was like, “OK. OK, you gotta do the show that you wanna tell.”

Darren Sumner:
There were decisions made in the writer’s room and from the producers and, I don’t know, for all we know maybe even higher up, that Atlantis was a certain kinda show and it was gonna tell certain kind of stories. David and I have talked over the years about how we would have loved to see more time spent in “Be All My Sins Remembered,” talking about the consequences of committing genocide against the replicators. It gets a line of dialogue or two, “Should we do this?” and then they go and do it.

David Read:
But can you commit genocide against a race of machines?

Darren Sumner:
That would have been a fantastic episode.

Ian Zainea:
You could spend a whole episode on that.

Darren Sumner:
Part one.

David Read:
Easily.

Darren Sumner:
To a two-parter. It’s just not the show that Atlantis was and that’s fine.

David Read:
All right. Sorry for that tangent. My bad. All right.

Sommer Roy:
Did you get to give yourself a point, Darren, for that?

Darren Sumner:
Did I ever.

David Read:
All right. Put them up. Put them back up.

Sommer Roy:
All right. Let’s see what we have. We have David with seven. Ian, you still have…

David Read:
That’s four.

Sommer Roy:
OK, four.

David Read:
Don’t beat him up.

Sommer Roy:
Darren, you have five now. That’s wonderful. So proud.

Darren Sumner:
Thank you.

David Read:
All right. Darren, a question for Ian, your final question.

Ian Zainea:
All right. I can come back a little bit here.

Darren Sumner:
You can do this. You got this.

David Read:
For now, but that could change.

Ian Zainea:
True.

Darren Sumner:
My final hard question for Ian: what piece of technology inadvertently permitted extra-dimensional parasites to enter our dimension, taking up residence in native wildlife and massacring the inhabitants of P9J333?

Ian Zainea:
What piece of technology? Assuming this is SG-1 and I believe that’s confirmed because P is SG-1. M was Pegasus, I believe.

David Read:
M was supposed to be Moon, but yes.

Ian Zainea:
OK. I don’t remember the name of the device. That’s what you’re looking for though? I know it was the big cylinder thing with the crystals on it. No, this is the episode with the Jaffa, with the short staffs. Why can’t I think of their name?

David Read:
Why can’t you?

Ian Zainea:
The pressure’s on.

Darren Sumner:
I’ll give you the title of the episode, if it’ll help, but I think you’re close enough right now that it’s probably not gonna tell you much more.

Ian Zainea:
Yeah, sure. Go ahead. It was the Sotan tribe.

Darren Sumner:
Episode is “Uninvited.”

David Read:
One of my favorite Nintendo games.

Ian Zainea:
It was the Sotan. No, that’s the character name. I know it’s an invisibility device that shifts you into an alternate dimension, but I can’t remember the name of the device.

Darren Sumner:
David and Summer, what do we think?

David Read:
I just knew it as a Sodan cloak.

Darren Sumner:
This is really close.

Sommer Roy:
Same here.

Ian Zainea:
Sodan. Ah.

Ian Zainea:
Technically it didn’t have cloaks. You’re looking for the name I just described.

Darren Sumner:
You described the entire function of the device.

Sommer Roy:
Exactly.

Darren Sumner:
You identified it with the… Sotan is very close to Sodan. I’m inclined to give you the points. Summer, what do you think?

David Read:
I’ll give it to him.

Sommer Roy:
I deem it so, yes.

Darren Sumner:
It is the Sodan cloaking device.

Ian Zainea:
I will take the points.

David Read:
Sotan is pretty darn close, man.

Darren Sumner:
Excellent. Good job.

David Read:
Talking about invisibility and everything else.

Sommer Roy:
All right. Ian with five points now. Woo-hoo.

David Read:
Ian, question for me.

Ian Zainea:
All right, here we go. Let’s go with the hardest one that I have.

David Read:
Thanks, man. Harder than a walk and talk in Stargate?

Ian Zainea:
OK. Probably equally hard.

David Read:
OK. This should be interesting.

Ian Zainea:
OK. In SGA’s, Stargate Atlantis, Season Two episode “Trinity,” there is a failed ancient experiment McKay thinks he can fix. This is a three-part answer. What is the experiment, what is the name of the project, and what is the name of the planet?

David Read:
I have to get all of those?

Ian Zainea:
You said it was hard.

Darren Sumner:
That’s a medium question suddenly turned hard.

Sommer Roy:
I know this episode fairly well, but I… The names?

David Read:
It was Project Arcturus. The device had a name?

Ian Zainea:
That was the name of the device.

David Read:
Arcturus?

Ian Zainea:
Yeah, that was the name.

David Read:
They were trying to substitute ZPMs by creating another form of power. The planet itself had a name?

Ian Zainea:
That’s the kicker. Or at least the system had a name.

David Read:
He blew up like three-quarters of it, I know that.

Sommer Roy:
Yes, he did.

David Read:
That’s debatable depending on who you’re talking with, either Weir or Rodney.

Darren Sumner:
It’s not an exact science.

David Read:
We were there for that shot when Ronon and Teyla were walking back through the gate and it pans up to her office. We were there for that shot.

Darren Sumner:
We were. When Rodney was getting dressed down by Weir.

David Read:
They were miming and then in post it was inserted. I don’t know the planet’s name.

Ian Zainea:
All right. I feel like a steal would be inappropriate here since it’s a three-part question.

David Read:
No, go ahead.

Sommer Roy:
I think you should at least try.

David Read:
Darren, do you know the name of the planet?

Darren Sumner:
I don’t know if I’m gonna have any easier time coming up with the name of the planet or the system if it’s not an M or a P designation. If it actually has a name.

Ian Zainea:
At least according to Stargate Omnipedia on GateWorld.net.

David Read:
Then that would be from the show.

Darren Sumner:
OK. Be sure you’re using that one cause that one’s canon.

David Read:
Wiki is wonderful but it uses the books and doesn’t differentiate.

Darren Sumner:
OK, let’s see. Every system name I’m coming up with is from SG-1. It’s not the Hasara system.

David Read:
That’s the Goa’uld Mardi Gras. That’s where the Goa’uld space station was.

Darren Sumner:
Correct, in “Trinity.” I’m not gonna come up with it. I think it might start with an A.

Ian Zainea:
Actually, it might’ve been the wiki that I got it from.

Darren Sumner:
Boo. Sorry.

Ian Zainea:
Doranda. The Dorandan System.

Darren Sumner:
Doranda, that’s right.

David Read:
I think Doranda is canon.

Darren Sumner:
That’s right. You’re actually asking this question of the two nerds who wrote that thing. It’s been a long time. Doranda, man.

David Read:
All right.

Ian Zainea:
That’s a tough one.

Darren Sumner:
Great question.

David Read:
Darren, my last question is for you. You ready, compadre?

Darren Sumner:
OK, I’m ready.

David Read:
In “Enemy at the Gate,” McKay is shocked, shocked I say, to learn that Beckett will be flying Atlantis. McKay remarks, “You must have a higher CTA than I thought.” What’s the acronym?

Darren Sumner:
CTA? They actually gave that a name?

David Read:
I checked the transcript on GateWorld.

Darren Sumner:
OK, a higher CTA quotient. In my life, CTA stands for Chicago Transit Authority. Let’s see.

Ian Zainea:
Definitely close.

David Read:
That’s not close. I had to look at it again. I was like, “No, that’s not close.”

Darren Sumner:
They started in Season One with ATA. Ancient Technology Activation, based on your genes.

David Read:
It’s of the same ilk of those abbreviations.

Darren Sumner:
Beckett ended up developing early in Season One, spoofed the ancient gene. So, a CTA… Control of Technology day Ancients. It’s not quite working with the order of the letters. That’s as close as I’m gonna get.

David Read:
It’s a fair stab.

Ian Zainea:
I’ll take a stab.

Darren Sumner:
All the pieces are there, Ian.

David Read:
You lie.

Darren Sumner:
You have to put ’em in the right order.

David Read:
He really teed it up for ya.

Ian Zainea:
I was thinking Ancient Technology Activation gene as well.

Darren Sumner:
I forgot they gave it a new name.

Ian Zainea:
I’m assuming the C refers to the chair, because that’s what flies Atlantis, so the Chair Technology Activation gene.

David Read:
Hang on a second here.

Ian Zainea:
He lost the answer.

David Read:
No, I’m fumbling around. You have to have a higher CIA. Did I say CTA?

Darren Sumner:
You did.

Sommer Roy:
You did.

Ian Zainea:
Yes.

Darren Sumner:
You called it the Chicago Transit Authority.

David Read:
My apologies.

Ian Zainea:
Uh-oh, uh-oh.

David Read:
CIA, my apologies.

Darren Sumner:
CIA, you did it.

David Read:
I’m wondering if the chat picked that up. Sommer, did anyone in the chat know that?

Darren Sumner:
Has the chat already corrected us?

Sommer Roy:
Let’s see.

David Read:
I bet they have. CIA, and chair.

Sommer Roy:
Yes, they did. Kyleguebert says…

David Read:
Don’t say it.

Sommer Roy:
Chicago Transit Authority. It’s not the answer. It’s not.

David Read:
A higher CIA. CIA. Sorry.

Darren Sumner:
Chair interface activation.

David Read:
Ian, you wanna take a stab?

Ian Zainea:
I’m trying to think of a word like adept that measures your score.

David Read:
You’re certainly hovering over the target.

Ian Zainea:
Chair initiation aptitude.

David Read:
You guys were so right and so wrong.

Darren Sumner:
Combine our two answers.

David Read:
Chair interface aptitude.

Darren Sumner:
Interface aptitude.

David Read:
That was really close, guys.

Darren Sumner:
Man.

Ian Zainea:
Man.

Darren Sumner:
Yes. I was thinking interface.

Sommer Roy:
We had some funny answers in the chat that were incorrect, but actually they did get that correct as well.

David Read:
Who was the one who posted CIA?

Sommer Roy:
It was Ad Roe, chair interface aptitude.

David Read:
There we go.

Sommer Roy:
Was it aptitude or activate?

David Read:
Aptitude.

Darren Sumner:
Aptitude.

David Read:
Ad Roe?

Sommer Roy:
Ad Roe, A-D-R-O-E.

David Read:
Congratulations, Ad Roe.

Darren Sumner:
Well done.

David Read:
Very good. All right, guys. We are at the end of questions internally here.

Sommer Roy:
Yes. I believe we are.

David Read:
Stick ’em up.

Sommer Roy:
All right. David with seven, Ian with five and Darren with five.

David Read:
All right. Sommer, how many viable questions do we have based on your estimation?

Sommer Roy:
We can do two or three rounds.

David Read:
OK. Let’s shoot for three then.

Sommer Roy:
Okey-doke.

David Read:
All right. We’ll move left to right. We’ll start with me and then Ian and then Darren.

Sommer Roy:
All right. I hate to tell you guys, but these probably all fall into the medium category instead of easy.

David Read:
Don’t hate. That’s fine.

Darren Sumner:
That’s good.

Sommer Roy:
All right. There might be one or two that are gimmes. OK, the first question from JohnFourtyTwoTrivia, “How much money did Colonel O’Neill owe General Hammond at the end of episode ‘1969?'”

David Read:
Specifically? That’s not fair. I specifically mentioned…

Darren Sumner:
You just looked this up?

David Read:
… two weeks ago, or last week, to not ask this question.

Darren Sumner:
Number questions are rough.

David Read:
That’s wrong, man. That’s not wrong, because I don’t know it.

Darren Sumner:
Now, 17 days versus 18 days, that’s fair, but this is rough.

David Read:
After the decimal, it’s 50 cents, I know that.

Sommer Roy:
That is absolutely correct.

David Read:
It’s like $542.50.

Sommer Roy:
So close.

David Read:
Do you wanna steal it?

Sommer Roy:
Anybody else?

Darren Sumner:
541 dollars.

David Read:
This isn’t The Price is Right.

Ian Zainea:
$1.

Sommer Roy:
The price is wrong. OK, it is $539.50.

David Read:
I was off by three bucks.

Sommer Roy:
Yes. It was very close.

David Read:
That’s cruel. I should have banned that question but I went ahead and took it like a man. Ian, you’re up.

Ian Zainea:
All right.

Sommer Roy:
OK. This next question is from a few people in the chat. One of the questions that I would have wanted to ask, which is, “What did O’Neill say to Carter after she used the ribbon device to kill Seth?”

Ian Zainea:
OK, I think I actually saw this one in the doc by accident, so I don’t think that I should answer this one.

David Read:
Darren, question is yours then. We’ll come back to Ian.

Darren Sumner:
You can ask this to me ’cause I’m not sure I know the answer. It’s been a while since I saw Seth. I’ve got a couple, three lines of dialogue in my head. What did Jack say to Sam after she…

Sommer Roy:
After she used the ribbon device to kill Seth.

Darren Sumner:
… used the hand device on Seth, and he walks up and he says…

Sommer Roy:
Would you like a hint?

David Read:
No, that’s not fair. The hint will give it away.

Sommer Roy:
That’s true.

David Read:
It’s pretty obvious.

Darren Sumner:
I got a couple, three obvious things in my head and I don’t know which one it is. I’m gonna guess Jack says, “You did the right thing.”

Sommer Roy:
Nope, sorry. Would you like to know the answer?

David Read:
I get to steal, Sommer.

Sommer Roy:
You know what? David, would you like to steal?

David Read:
I would like to steal.

Sommer Roy:
OK, David. I know you know this answer that’s why I’m giving you a hard time.

Darren Sumner:
$539.50.

Sommer Roy:
Go ahead. What is it? He’s already giving him the point.

David Read:
Hail Dorothy.

Sommer Roy:
That’s correct. That is absolutely correct.

Darren Sumner:
I forgot that.

Sommer Roy:
Hail Dorothy.

Darren Sumner:
That’s good. That’s a good question.

Ian Zainea:
I believe the answer listed on the doc was “All Hail Dorothy.”

David Read:
No, he says, “Hail Dorothy.”

Sommer Roy:
No, “Hail Dorothy” is from what I see.

David Read:
Good one, guys.

Darren Sumner:
One of the show’s many, many Wizard of Oz references.

Sommer Roy:
I’m sorry, David. I had to give you a hard time on that-

David Read:
No, it’s all right.

Sommer Roy:
‘Cause I know you know.

David Read:
I was like, “Come on, man.” After that last travesty. Jeez. All right.

Sommer Roy:
All right.

David Read:
For Ian.

Sommer Roy:
Ian, let’s see here. What did the team use to find the Catacombs of Avalon?

Ian Zainea:
They were in the Odyssey, I suppose, and they used the rings.

Sommer Roy:
Yes, but specifically when they were searching for the catacombs.

Ian Zainea:
Ground-penetrating radar?

Sommer Roy:
What technology was it?

David Read:
That’s very intelligent, Ian.

Ian Zainea:
What technology was it? Asgard technology?

Sommer Roy:
What do we think, guys? It’s Asgard sensors.

David Read:
Actually, the Odyssey is not correct.

Sommer Roy:
I didn’t ask the episode and I wasn’t sure of the episode. It just asked about the sensor.

Ian Zainea:
No, I was referring to the spaceship.

David Read:
The spaceship is wrong.

Ian Zainea:
They’re in the Odyssey.

Sommer Roy:
Ah, gotcha. OK.

Ian Zainea:
Is Prometheus still around at that point? I guess it gets destroyed at the season finale there, Season Nine.

David Read:
No.

Ian Zainea:
No? Before that?

David Read:
No, the Korolev gets destroyed. Prometheus blows up in “Ethon.” Ground-penetrating radar was pretty good.

Sommer Roy:
That was a hard question.

David Read:
Sommer, did your answer say Odyssey?

Sommer Roy:
No, it just said, “What did the team use…

David Read:
What did they use?

Sommer Roy:
“… to find the catacombs?” It was Asgard sensors.

David Read:
No one got it, I don’t think. Back to me.

Sommer Roy:
All right, David. Here’s a good one for you. That was from Cam Wells, by the way, that question. This one is from GateGab. “What is the name of Senator Kinsey’s dog?”

David Read:
Try Oscar.

Sommer Roy:
Absolutely correct. All right.

Darren Sumner:
Nice job. I was gonna say Buster, knowing that it was wrong.

David Read:
That’s what it is.

Darren Sumner:
We just watched Star Trek Generations with my kids and that was Kirk’s dog in the Nexus.

David Read:
Butler.

Darren Sumner:
Butler. Isn’t that what I said?

David Read:
Buster.

Darren Sumner:
I said Butler.

David Read:
No.

Darren Sumner:
It’s Butler?

David Read:
Yeah. Buster is Toy Story.

Darren Sumner:
You see how much I was paying attention?

David Read:
Yeah. And that was Rick’s dog.

Darren Sumner:
Butler.

David Read:
Rick’s dog appears in Season Four and in “200” at the gate to Cheyenne Mountain Complex, which was actually the gate to Bridge Studios. You see the red girders in the reflection on the glass. All right, Ian.

Sommer Roy:
Ian, would you like to answer the next question?

Ian Zainea:
Me again already?

David Read:
It is.

Ian Zainea:
Yep, let’s do it. I’ll give it a shot.

Sommer Roy:
This is from Tiber Septim. “What are Eli and McKay arguing about in the hallway during the SGU episode ‘Seizure?'”

Ian Zainea:
This was actually a question a couple of weeks ago.

Darren Sumner:
We had this question.

David Read:
We had this question.

Darren Sumner:
David, did you ask me?

Sommer Roy:
Did you really?

David Read:
No.

Ian Zainea:
The last time?

David Read:
I’m trying to figure out who did. This has come up recently.

Sommer Roy:
Would you like me to ask one in its place?

David Read:
Yeah, let’s do that because I know it’s come up on the show recently. I can’t think of where.

Ian Zainea:
I’m trying to think of the last trivia episode.

David Read:
But Darren and I, neither of us… Darren, did you come up with that?

Darren Sumner:
No.

David Read:
Then who did?

Darren Sumner:
We must’ve got it from the chat last time and neither of us could come up with the answer.

David Read:
Someone in the chat submitted that question, that’s where it came from one month ago. That doesn’t count.

Sommer Roy:
The answer for the audience is whether or not the universe is expanding. All right. Let’s replace that.

Darren Sumner:
Solid question.

Sommer Roy:
Yes, very solid. All right. Let’s replace that one.

Ian Zainea:
I need an easy one this time.

Sommer Roy:
I’m sorry?

Ian Zainea:
I need an easy one.

David Read:
Give him an Oscar question.

Sommer Roy:
Ooh. OK. Here’s one from Teresa McAllister, “What was Jack O’Neill’s son’s name in the original movie?”

Ian Zainea:
It was changed to Charlie from…

Sommer Roy:
Correct.

Ian Zainea:
… Tyler, I believe.

Sommer Roy:
That’s absolutely correct. Good for you.

David Read:
That’s good.

Darren Sumner:
It’s not spoken in dialogue in the movie.

David Read:
No, the books have tried to make it seamless by making it his middle name, so Tyler is his middle name.

Sommer Roy:
All right. Darren, this is from Planettv, “What is the point of origin for Atlantis on the Pegasus Stargate and what is its position number?”

David Read:
Oh my God.

Darren Sumner:
What is the what now?

Sommer Roy:
The point of origin for Atlantis, what is it called?

Darren Sumner:
Should I draw it? Do I need to draw the dots?

Ian Zainea:
I think you have to draw it.

Sommer Roy:
Let’s see, apparently it has a name.

Darren Sumner:
It has a name and a position on the gate?

David Read:
It has a name. Is this canon? Is this canon or is this from books?

Sommer Roy:
I’m not sure.

Darren Sumner:
I don’t know about this.

Sommer Roy:
Let me check that right now. Let me ask the chat as well. Guys, do you know if this is canon or the books?

Darren Sumner:
What was the question? From Atlantis to Earth? Or just from Atlantis?

David Read:
Atlantis’s point of origin.

Darren Sumner:
Anytime it dials a Pegasus gate?

David Read:
And it has a number? What kind of number?

Darren Sumner:
I don’t know if this is on screen.

David Read:
While they deal with that, let’s ask Darren another one.

Sommer Roy:
OK. You got it.

David Read:
Let’s throw that piece of meat to the hounds.

Sommer Roy:
The chat?

Darren Sumner:
If the chat can come up with it, the chat gets a point.

David Read:
Chat gets a point.

Darren Sumner:
You’re way behind, but you get a point.

Sommer Roy:
OK. This is from Eva Lipenska, “How many people were shown recording the message in ‘Letters from Pegasus?'”

Darren Sumner:
Another number question. How many people were shown?

David Read:
Not how many messages, ’cause Elizabeth records a few. But how many people were shown in front of the camera recording?

Darren Sumner:
All right. This is rough.

Sommer Roy:
Correct.

David Read:
We just gonna have to go through them.

Darren Sumner:
As far as I can recall, they did all the main cast. Ford was doing the recording, but I think he even recorded his own message towards the end of the episode. I don’t think they left out any of the main cast. It would’ve been Ford and Weir and Rodney. Obviously, Rodney’s very well known…

David Read:
Leadership.

Darren Sumner:
… fantastic message on leadership, followed by a message to his sister. I’m trying to remember if there was a Sheppard one. Sheppard might’ve been left out. I don’t remember a Sheppard message, but obviously Teyla’s not recording a message back to Earth. Carson? Then the question is how many of the supporting characters did they bring in? Like the nurse, the doctors, random scientists. Boy, I’m gonna have to ballpark this one ’cause I don’t remember a Sheppard. Maybe you guys can tell me if you remember a Sheppard recording. I’m gonna say it was about seven people ’cause I think there were a couple of extras beyond the main cast.

Sommer Roy:
Does anybody else wanna take a guess on that?

David Read:
Ian, I’m gonna toss this to you. So, is seven incorrect?

Sommer Roy:
That’s correct. Seven is incorrect.

David Read:
Ian, I’ll give it to you next.

Ian Zainea:
It would be another guess, ’cause the ones he listed, I don’t remember a Sheppard one either. I do wanna say, I think his name was Grodin, the guy that died on the space station. I think he was one of the people.

Darren Sumner:
I can think of two who were not on the main cast.

Ian Zainea:
So, there’s five main cast and if Sheppard didn’t do it and two people did.

Darren Sumner:
Teyla didn’t do it.

Ian Zainea:
We’ll say six. Teyla. I’ll still say six.

Sommer Roy:
David, do you have a different answer?

David Read:
Sheppard recorded to Sumner, his family.

Ian Zainea:
Three.

David Read:
Ford recorded to his grandparents.

Darren Sumner:
His grandparents.

David Read:
Kavanagh recorded to O’Neill.

Darren Sumner:
Kavanagh, I forgot that.

David Read:
Weir recorded to everybody and their mother. Beckett recorded to his mother.

Darren Sumner:
Rodney. Did you say Rodney already?

David Read:
No. Rodney recorded Leadership and to his sister. That adorable little Japanese actress sent a message home regarding her wonderful boss, Rodney McKay.

Sommer Roy:
Kasanjy.

David Read:
OK, I did not know that. Zelenka recorded a message in Czech.

Darren Sumner:
Those were the two I was thinking of.

David Read:
I have eight.

Sommer Roy:
Is that it?

David Read:
Obviously not.

Darren Sumner:
That means you’re wrong, David.

David Read:
That means I’m wrong.

Sommer Roy:
Is that your final answer, David?

David Read:
Yes, it is my final answer, but it’s gotta be 9 or 10 then.

Darren Sumner:
I was forgetting Kavanagh, but obviously somebody else as well.

Sommer Roy:
You guys did a phenomenal job naming everybody, but you missed Bates.

Darren Sumner:
Bates.

David Read:
I did miss Bates, to his kid brother. That’s absolutely correct.

Darren Sumner:
Excellent.

Sommer Roy:
But you guys did a phenomenal job. That’s a hard question.

Darren Sumner:
I forgot Kavanagh and Bates.

Sommer Roy:
Very, very hard question.

Darren Sumner:
So, it was nine total then?

David Read:
I need that.

Darren Sumner:
Dave, if you wanna do the same, we gotta decide if we’re allowing number questions, next time. These are killing us.

Sommer Roy:
I will tell you, the Stargate fandom is a very smart crew. They definitely have some intelligent questions and these are the easier ones.

Darren Sumner:
Jeez.

David Read:
We have 10 minutes.

Sommer Roy:
We have exactly three questions left. One, two, three. No, I’m sorry, we have four. No, three. We have one more round.

David Read:
Am I not at the beginning of Round 10? I think I’m at the beginning of Round 10.

Sommer Roy:
Yes.

David Read:
OK, so Ian and Darren and then that’s it.

Darren Sumner:
No, that was my question.

David Read:
That was your question?

Sommer Roy:
Yeah, it was.

Darren Sumner:
That started with me.

Sommer Roy:
No, it is you, David. I’m sorry. I thought you meant are you going at the beginning of Round 10. No, it’s you.

David Read:
So, we are now on Round 10?

Darren Sumner:
Yeah.

Sommer Roy:
Correct.

Darren Sumner:
Last round.

David Read:
Sweet. OK, proceed.

Sommer Roy:
David.

David Read:
Yes?

Sommer Roy:
I’m sorry. In Episode “200,” this is from Claireburr: “What are Vala’s pitches and in what order did she pitch them?” I’m so sorry.

David Read:
Wizard of Oz, Gilligan’s Island and She Can Sing.

Sommer Roy:
And what?

David Read:
She Can Sing. She runs away, she says, “I can sing!” She chases after him. Her first pitch is Wizard of Oz. Her second pitch is Farscape. She did pitch the Farscape one.

Sommer Roy:
That is correct.

David Read:
I’m not sure what order it came in.

Sommer Roy:
You absolutely got the order correct. It was Wizard of Oz, Gilligan’s Island and then Farscape. You got it right.

David Read:
I’ll give myself that.

Darren Sumner:
I got the Gilligan’s Island one.

David Read:
You got that from 48-Hour Reconnaissance Mission.

Darren Sumner:
Was it just dialogue?

David Read:
Yeah.

Darren Sumner:
They didn’t do a Gilligan’s Island scene.

David Read:
Correct. Then she pitched that she can sing. Did the answer say, “I can sing?”

Sommer Roy:
It does not. I think they were referring to shows.

David Read:
OK, got it. She still offered to sing.

Ian Zainea:
That could be a show.

Sommer Roy:
Yes, she did.

David Read:
Ian, what’s up?

Sommer Roy:
All right, Ian.

Ian Zainea:
Last chance.

Sommer Roy:
Who voiced the Unas in Season 1, episode “Thor’s Hammer?”

Ian Zainea:
His name is escaping me right now. I know him, he plays…

David Read:
I would hope so.

Ian Zainea:
Fifth Man. He did all those characters, the recurring guy. But it wasn’t him that time.

David Read:
Sommer, can you give the episode name again?

Ian Zainea:
Dion Johnstone.

Sommer Roy:
It is “Thor’s Hammer.”

David Read:
Season One.

Sommer Roy:
Season One.

Ian Zainea:
He wasn’t in that episode, but that’s who I was thinking of, Dion Johnstone. I’m gonna go with Christopher Judge.

Sommer Roy:
Ooh. Would anybody like to steal?

David Read:
Darren’s gonna have to steal it.

Sommer Roy:
All right, Darren.

Darren Sumner:
Believe it or not, this guy. That was James Earl Jones.

Sommer Roy:
Darren, you are my father, so you are correct.

Darren Sumner:
Whoa, where did we go?

David Read:
All right.

Darren Sumner:
I haven’t heard that story. Dave, have you heard that story?

David Read:
What’s that?

Darren Sumner:
From Brad or anybody, about how they ended up with James Earl Jones doing Thor’s voice?

David Read:
I haven’t gotten that yet. I’m hoping to get that story pretty soon here. Christopher Judge talked about how he met him once he actually gave him a lot of the inspiration for Teal’c. The less you do physically, the more specific you are physically, the more people may pay attention to you in the movements that you do make. James Earl Jones gave him that note, which he then applied Teal’c years later, ’cause they worked together on a previous project.

Sommer Roy:
All right. This last question is for Darren. Darren, I apologize. This is from Ákos Tamás Nováki.

Darren Sumner:
$539.50.

Sommer Roy:
What is the difference between Nish’ta, Roshna and Shikra?

Darren Sumner:
Shakira is definitely not alive.

David Read:
Nish’ta is a Goa’uld mind-control agent which Seth uses on humans in his cult. Can be counteracted with a jolt of electricity, like from a Zat gun. Roshna is something that Aris Boch’s race consumed. I think the Goa’uld used it to keep them under their foot, so it has some sort of unspecified dependency.

David Read:
They can’t take his race as hosts.

Darren Sumner:
Shakira is a pop artist. Something I can think of.

Sommer Roy:
Technically correct. But…

David Read:
But?

Darren Sumner:
If that’s not the right answer, I was thinking it was a trick question. All right.

Sommer Roy:
No.

Darren Sumner:
Is Shakira actually in Stargate canon?

David Read:
Ian, do you know what it is?

Ian Zainea:
No.

David Read:
I don’t know either. Sommer, what is it?

Sommer Roy:
It is the name of the blade that Qetesh has used to cut in half Ba’al in “Continuum.”

Darren Sumner:
That’s Shikra.

David Read:
Shikra.

Darren Sumner:
That is a Shikra blade.

Sommer Roy:
I’m sorry. It was spelled incorrectly. I apologize. OK. See?

David Read:
Darren gets it. Darren gets it. He said it.

Sommer Roy:
He got it.

David Read:
Because he pronounced it correct.

Sommer Roy:
That’s great ’cause you got everything else correct, Darren. That’s perfect.

Darren Sumner:
And I told you who Shakira was. I was right.

Sommer Roy:
You’re absolutely correct. Shakira, now I’m always gonna call that dang thing Shakira.

David Read:
Geez, that’s funny.

Sommer Roy:
That’s what’s in my head now.

David Read:
All right, folks, final tally.

Sommer Roy:
That’s it.

David Read:
Stick ’em up.

Sommer Roy:
All right, let’s see what we have here. All right, let’s make sure you’re honest with mine.

David Read:
Ian, back up a little bit.

Sommer Roy:
All right. David, 10. Darren, that’s correct, you have 8. No.

David Read:
Seven.

Sommer Roy:
I thought you had…

Darren Sumner:
I have eight?

Sommer Roy:
No, Darren, you had six, correct?

David Read:
Seven.

Sommer Roy:
Or is that… You had six, right?

Darren Sumner:
I just got a steal.

David Read:
He got a steal. These are correct

Darren Sumner:
Then I got Shakira.

David Read:
I’ve got 10.

Sommer Roy:
That’s correct.

David Read:
Darren’s got seven and Ian’s got six.

Sommer Roy:
That is correct, yes.

David Read:
Pretty solid stuff, people. Very nice.

Ian Zainea:
Good job.

Darren Sumner:
Wow.

David Read:
If we were passing around a championship belt, I have now claimed a belt.

Darren Sumner:
That was serious trivia. You have now claimed the belt?

Ian Zainea:
A little badge in the corner of your video.

David Read:
We need to have something that we can give to one another.

Darren Sumner:
Ian and I know that the real prize here is the friends that we made along the way. The real prize is friendship.

David Read:
Aw, that’s cute. Guys, this was terrific. Thank you so much.

Darren Sumner:
Thank you.

David Read:
Welcome.

Darren Sumner:
Thank you, Sommer.

Sommer Roy:
You’re very welcome.

David Read:
Yes, Sommer.

Sommer Roy:
It was very, very fun.

David Read:
Fantastic. Hope you’re all staying on-

Darren Sumner:
And thank you, chat. Thanks, chat, for the questions.

David Read:
Yes. This was tremendous guys. Exactly how I wanted it to go off and hope you guys will stick around for David Nykl. Ian, tremendous to have you on.

Ian Zainea:
Thank you for having me.

David Read:
Sommer.

Ian Zainea:
I pulled out a few there.

David Read:
You did indeed. Out of where? We’ll leave that up to your imagination. All right. Darren, thank you again.

Darren Sumner:
Thank you.

David Read:
Darren, we’ll have you back in January. Ian, are you potentially interested in coming back?

Ian Zainea:
I’d be happy to. If you wanna rotate, though, I totally would.

David Read:
I do wanna rotate out, but we will do it again, guys.

Ian Zainea:
Excellent.

David Read:
All right. I’ll talk to you guys soon. Thank you, Sommer. Thank you, Ian. Thank you, Darren.

Sommer Roy:
Thank you.

Darren Sumner:
Thanks.

Sommer Roy:
Y’all have a wonderful day.

David Read:
Bye, guys. All right. Thanks so much for tuning in to Dial the Gate for our trivia challenge. That was good. All right. So, coming up at 3:00 PM Pacific Time, we have Mr. David Nykl, who will be regaling us on Stargate Atlantis memories as Doctor Radek Zelenka, and perhaps from Arrow as well, if we have some Arrow fans in the crowd. We will be bringing him in in about 15 minutes or so here, so I gotta go and grab him. Before we let you go, we have a sponsor. Dial the Gate has partnered with 3D Tech Pro for the month of December to give you a chance to get your very own desktop Stargate and customized Ancient keychain. 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, like we just did, or for a special guest to ask me in a round of trivia. There are three slots for trivia, one easy, one medium and one hard. Only one needs to be filled in, but you’re more than welcome to submit up to three. Please note, the submission form does not currently work on mobile devices. Boo hiss. Your trivia must be received before January 1, 2021. If you’re the lucky winner, I will be notifying you via your email right after the start of the new year to get your address and what word you want on the Ancient keychain. It just dawned on me. I did not announce the winner of the lovely trivia that we have back here. Linda, if you can hear me? I need to know what that is so that I can tell everybody. I think I have the answer somewhere here. Man, this is really embarrassing because I had the answer and then I lost it. Ah yes, Teresa McAllister, you win this lovely trivia. I have your email address on file, I’ll be reaching out to you. The lovely concept art here, “Tin Man” is the top one and the bottom one is from “The Curse.” Thank you so much Teresa and good luck to December applicants on the website. Maybe you’ll win a little desktop Stargate and a keychain as well. Next week, our guest lineup: Gary Jones’ fan Q&A. We recorded a round of fan questions and answers yesterday with Gary Jones. He wanted to get to know some Stargate fans and tell their stories on the show. So, Gary Jones will be hosting his first fan Q&A. It’s pre-taped from yesterday, but that will be broadcasting Sunday, December the 13th at 11:00 AM Pacific Time. Tune in live to submit your questions for Rick Worthy, who played K’tano in Stargate SG-1 Season Five, on the same day, Sunday, December 13th at 1:00 PM Pacific Time. At 3:00 PM Pacific Time, we have Narim himself and also Simon, but I didn’t have enough room because it would’ve run into Rick there. Garwin Sanford will be joining us at 3:00 PM Pacific Time on Sunday. Garwin is one of my favorite people. He is an artist; he’s an amazing artist and we’re gonna show off some of his work in addition to talking about Stargate and talking about his career. That’s all I believe I have for you now. Be sure to like and subscribe if you’re enjoying the show and stick around for David Nykl, who’s coming up in just a moment. Thanks again to my moderating team, Jeremy, Ian, Tracy, Keith, Sommer; you guys are the best. Thanks to Darren for his help in this episode. Big thanks to Linda “GateGabber” Furey and Jen Kirby, my assistants. Guys, we’ll see you on the other side.