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Season 02 SG-1 Stargate

One False Step

Stargate SG-1SG-1 follows a brief visit to a habitable but seemingly undeveloped planet with an unmanned air reconnaissance vehicle, which surveys an area around ten miles beyond the gate before crashing into an unusual form of plant life. Shortly before the transmitter on the remote-controlled probe stops sending, however, Carter and O’Neill watch as an inquisitive, unclothed, but undeniably humanoid male examines the new arrival. SG-1 returns to the planet, finding its people harmless and incapable of communicating verbally. But after O’Neill and his team have spent some time with them, the natives begin falling seriously ill. As much as no one wants to admit it, Dr. Fraiser says that the inevitable may have finally happened – SG-1 may have set the extinction of an entire race in motion simply by setting foot on their world. But that doesn’t explain why O’Neill, Daniel and Teal’c are the next ones to show signs of the disease…

Order the DVDswritten by Michael Kaplan & John Sanborn
directed by William Corcoran
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Colin Heath (Alien), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Daniel Bacon (Technician), David Cameron (Elder), Richard DeKlerk (Joe), Shaun Phillips (Jim)

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Lexx Season 2

Nook

LexxThe arrival of a giant insect-like ship in their sky terrifies the population of the planet Nook. Their simple, monk-like existence is further disrupted by the landing of Stan, Kai and the first woman anyone on Nook has laid eyes on in generations – Xev. It turns out to be one of Lexx’s more peaceful planetary stops, as Xev and Kai get to know the natives, and Kai studies their culture – though he expresses surprise that none of the men of Nook have any recollection of having a mother. Indeed, the very knowledge of women is forbidden there – but the same doesn’t hold true for knowledge of sex. So when Xev introduces a markedly heterosexual lifestyle to the monks, she may have set the entire civilization of Nook on a path toward destruction.

Order the DVDswritten by Paul Donovan
directed by Bill Fleming
music by Marty Simon

Guest Cast: Matthew Burton (Randor), Mathias Klimsa (Traygor), Jeffrey Hirschfield (790), Tom Gallant (Lexx), Martin Honer (Older Brother), Tom Strauss (Brother Deal), Philipp De Roche (Brother Stack / Rat 1), Milton Welsch (Rat 11), Adrian Mattiske (Young Copying Brother)

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Deep Space Nine Season 07 Star Trek

Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: While Bashir and O’Brien are visiting Vic’s, the lounge suddenly turns into a sleazy dive, and Vic is fired. The hotel has been bought by a mobster and old rival of Vic’s named Frankie Eyes – the result of a surprise plot development buried in the program by its designer. Rather than reset the program, which would wipe Vic’s memory, the DS9 officers concoct a plan to rob the casino, so that Frankie Eyes will be unable to pay the mob its cut.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler
directed by Mike Vejar
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Penny Johnson (Kasidy Yates), Marc Lawrence (Mr. Zeemo), Mike Starr (Tony Cicci), Robert Miano (Frankie Eyes), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Bobby Reilly (Countman), Chip Mayer (Guard), James Wellington (Al), James Darren (Vic Fontaine), Andrea Robinson (Blonde), Sammy Micco (Croupier), Jacqueline Case, Kelly Cooper, Michelle Johnston, Michelle Rudy, Kelly Sheerin (Dancers)

Notes: “Bobby” Reilly is also known as actor Robert O’Reilly, taking a break from his usual recurring role as Klingon Chancellor Gowron.

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Season 4 Xena: Warrior Princess

The Way

Xena: Warrior PrincessAs Xena and Gabrielle are walking by a river in India, they are attacked by the minions of Indrejit. Their leader says they were sent to stop the warrior and bard from reaching the Avatar. They find Eli, surrounded by people seeking his help, and realize that he must be the Avatar. The offer to protect him from Indrejit and he relcutantly agrees. That night, an apeman, Hanuman, appears in the camp. He has been following Eli because it is his job to protect him. He tells them that they should head to the temple of Krishna and ask the god for his help.

Order the DVDswritten by R.J. Stewart
directed by John Fawcett
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Timothy Omundson (Eli), Jake McKinnon (Hanuman), Rajneel Singh (Indrajit), Rajiv Varma (Krishna), George Sabbage (Man), Slade Leef (Demon)

Notes: Protests about this episode’s portrayal of Krishna led the producers to edit certain elements of the episode before it was repeated again.

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

The Disease

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Voyager has docked with a Varro generational ship, a huge vessel which is not only a closed ecosystem, but a closed society which avoids all contact with outsiders. However, not all of the Varro have been sticking to their xenophobic ways – and not every member of Voyager’s crew has been observing Starfleet protocols about engaging in intimate relations with alien species. Harry has fallen for Varro engineer Derran Tal, and even when unforseen biological side-effects expose their relationship to both ships’ crews, they continue to see each other, no matter whose orders they defy. What Harry doesn’t know is that Tal represents a serious threat to her own people – a splinter faction that wants to explore other worlds and cultures instead of shunning them. Without realizing it, Harry may have set in motion the downfall of the Varro civilization as its people know it.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Michael Taylor
story by Kenneth Biller
directed by David Livingston
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Musetta Vander (Derran Tal), Christopher Liam Moore (Varro Leader), Charles Rocket (Jippeq), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

Notes: Charles Rocket was a former Saturday Night Live cast member who was famously fired from the show after saying the “F” word live on national television; he later appeared in a recurring role as the villainous network executive Ned Grossberg on Max Headroom. He committed suicide in 2005.

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Red Dwarf Season 08

Back In The Red Part II

Red DwarfThings are not going well for Lister and his friends. Kryten has been sentenced to be completely rebooted back to his original personality parameters, and the others are due to stand before a board of inquiry for crashing a Starbug into the ship. Worse yet, Lister has entrusted Rimmer with helping them escape or bringing evidence of the nanobots to the captain’s attention. However, Rimmer has no time to do either since he’s spending all of his time enjoying the sexual magnetism virus. Cat, Kochanski and Lister barely escape being recaptured (thanks to Lister’s use of the luck virus), and are soon on their way to freedom…so long as nothing goes wrong with their plan. But they haven’t counted on Rimmer’s need to keep the source of his secrets…well, secret.

Order the DVDswritten by Doug Naylor
directed by Ed Bye
music by Howard Goodall

Guest Cast: Mac McDonald (Captain Hollister), Kira Mirylles (Doc Newton), Jemma Churchill (First woman officer), Andy Taylor (Dr. MacLaren), Sue Keeryn (Second woman officer), Karl Glenn Stimpson (MP Thornton), Guenevere Swallow (Third woman officer), Geoffrey Beevers (Doctor)

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Season 02 SG-1 Stargate

Show And Tell

Stargate SG-1An unscheduled, unauthorized incoming wormhole puts the SGC on full alert. Despite every effort to close and lock down the iris, the gate remains open and a single small, cloaked humanoid emerges – a young boy with a shaven head. The first words out of the boy’s mouth are “I am here to warn you.” In the SGC infirmary, the boy says his mother told him to speak only to O’Neill – and then points to an empty bed. The boy claims his mother has observed SG-1’s activities and has determined the team to be honorable enough to help him. The boy not only knows who O’Neill is, but even knows about his son, and asks to be named after O’Neill’s son, Charlie. “Charlie” describes a Goa’uld attack on his people fairly accurately, and panics at the sight of Teal’c. Unusually, Teal’c has a strong reaction to Charlie as well – when he gets close to the boy to demonstrate he means no harm, a strange nauseous sensation overwhelms both Teal’c and his symbiote. When O’Neill and the others question Charlie, they learn that his mother is a survivor of the Re’tu race, whose more militant rebel faction has taken it upon itself to rid the galaxy of the Goa’uld by ridding the galaxy of every potential host life form. Carter calls her father, now fully integrated with the Tok’ra known as Selmak, to get the Tok’ra’s help. The Tok’ra know the Re’tu well, and even have weapons capable of detecting and elimintating them – and they quickly find that the boy’s “mother,” an insectoid Re’tu, is indeed in the SGC. Charlie gives O’Neill the coordinates to the rebels’ staging area, where SG-1 and SG-12 find the rebels preparing for a massed attack on Earth. O’Neill and his teams return to Earth, only to discover that they’ve brought their new enemy home with them.

Order the DVDswritten by Jonathan Glassner
directed by Peter DeLuise
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Carmen Argenziano (Jacob Carter / Selmak), Jeff Gulka (Charlie), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Daniel Bacon (Technician)

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Lexx Season 2

Norb

LexxNorb – a child space pilot rescued from the Guleen family by Kai – encounters a brightly-colored, candy cane-shaped space station which turns out to be an incredibly large number of Mantrid’s camouflaged drone arms. As the drones attach themselves to Norb’s ship, he ejects the pilot’s seat and sends a distress signal. Kai and Xev, in a moth, find Norb drifting alone in space and bring him back to the Lexx. Despite his rescue, Norb is neither friendly nor eager to answer anyone’s questions. After delivering a message – “let the contest begin” – from Mantrid, Norb reveals his true colors: he died in deep space, his body replaced or infested by the drone arms. Several arms manipulating what’s left of Norb’s body scatter inside the Lexx, and while Kai destroys some of them, others escape the reach of Lexx’s internal sensors. When Stan goes looking for the remaining drone, he finds it – and several identical drone arms that it has built in the short time that has passed. Even when Kai arrives to save Stan, it quickly becomes apparent that there are still more of Mantrid’s drones aboard, and they are replicating themselves by the hundred in short order, using Lexx’s own raw material. Stan, Xev and Kai evacuate Lexx in one of the moths as the drones overrun the ship – but now how will they get back into the Lexx?

Order the DVDswritten by Paul Donovan
directed by Paul Donovan
music by Marty Simon

Guest Cast: Dieter Laser (Mantrid), Brandon McCarvell (Norb), Jeffrey Hirschfield (790), Tom Gallant (Lexx)

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Deep Space Nine Season 07 Star Trek

Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: On the eve of a trip to Romulus for a conference and seminar on the Dominion, Bashir is visited by Sloan, who wants him to gather data on the Romulan leadership. Sisko advises Bashir that this might be a good way to learn more about Section 31 as well. At the conference, Sloan tells Bashir that he is to diagnose Chairman Koval of the Tal Shiar, who is suspected to have a disease called Tuvan syndrome. Believing that Sloan may be planning to use the disease as a cover to assassinate Koval, Bashir has no one to turn to except a Romulan senator.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Ronald D. Moore
directed by David Livingston
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Andrew J. Robinson (Garak), Adrienne Barbeau (Cretak), John Fleck (Koval), Barry Jenner (Admiral Ross), Hal Landon Jr. (Neral), William Sadler (Sloan), Cynthia Graham (Wheeler), Joe Reynolds (Hickam)

Notes: The U.S.S. Bellepheron is an Intrepid class starship, meaning that the producers could cut costs by shooting on the standing sets of its fellow Intrepid class ship, Voyager. The episode’s title is Latin for “in times of war, the law falls silent.”

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Course: Oblivion

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 52586.3: The crew gathers to celebrate the wedding of Tom Paris and B’Elanna Torres, but the joyous occasion turns out to be the last good news any of them will ever experience. B’Elanna falls ill and dies, and Voyager’s own structure begins to break down. Soon, others begin to fall victim to the same epidemic, until only a handful of the crew is alive, leaving Harry Kim in charge of the ship. Ultimately, the entire crew perishes in a futile attempt to seek assistance from a nearby vessel…the Federation starship Voyager.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Bryan Fuller & Nick Sagan
story by Bryan Fuller
directed by Anson Williams
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Red Dwarf Season 08

Back In The Red Part III

Red DwarfThings go from bad to worse as Lister, Kryten, Cat and Kochanski manage to get to a Blue Midget shuttle and escape – but in reality, they’re in an AR machine under the watchful eye of Captain Hollister and the “new” Red Dwarf’s Holly. But by monitoring their actions in artificial reality, Hollister does discover that their story about nanobots must be true – but they’re also desperate enough to steal a shuttle and leave on their own. Proving that the only consistent thing is their luck, Lister, Rimmer and the others are sentenced to serve time in Red Dwarf’s top-secret, well-populated prison floor.

Order the DVDswritten by Doug Naylor
directed by Ed Bye
music by Howard Goodall

Guest Cast: Mac McDonald (Captain Hollister), Graham McTavish (Ackerman), Yasmin Bannerman (First ground controller), Jeillo Lennards (Second ground controller), Karl Glenn Stimpson (MP Thornton)

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Season 02 SG-1 Stargate

1969

Stargate SG-1SG-1’s latest mission is slightly delayed when Carter has to run more calculations than usual due to solar flare activity, and before she goes, General Hammond hands her a folded note and cryptically tells her to open it on the other side of the gate. But when O’Neill and his team finally step through the gate, they seem to go nowhere, arriving at the gate room at the SGC again. That environment seems to melt away, and SG-1 finds itself standing under a Titan II missile whose engines are about to be tested – incinerating them in the process. When no one else can find an escape, Teal’c takes a gamble on disabling the missile with his zat gun, but that gets even more attention. O’Neill and the others are captured by soldiers and interrogated by U.S. officers who accuse them of being Soviet spies. The solar flare has thrown SG-1 30 years into the past, and the note given to Carter by General Hammond shows the team how to return to 1999. But first, they’ll have to convince a young Lieutenant George Hammond that their fantastic story is true – and that they need his help.

Order the DVDswritten by Brad Wright
directed by Charles Correll
music by Joel Goldsmith
montage music by Bruce Turgon

Guest Cast: Alex Zahara (Michael), Aaron Pearl (Lt. George Hammond), Amber Rothwell (Jenny), Pamela Perry (Cassandra), Daniel Bacon (Technician), Glynis Davies (Catherine), Fred Henderson (Major Thornbird), Sean Campbell (Sergeant), Efosa Otuomagie (Security Police)

Notes: Jack’s choice of aliases is only partly anachronistic; in early August 1969, the original Star Trek had just aired its final episode mere weeks before SG-1’s capture, so his “Captain James T. Kirk” alias could have been spotted right away; Jack wisely corrects this and claims to be “Luke Skywalker” instead.

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Lexx Season 2

Twilight

LexxXev finds Stan passed out on Lexx’s flight deck, and 790 says he’s been out cold for over nine hours. 790 diagnoses Stan with a terminal illness and, atypically, expresses concern for Stan’s well-being – primarily because Lyekka is still aboard the Lexx in her dormant plant form, and would eat Xev if she woke up hungry and couldn’t eat Stan first. Xev transmits a medical distress call and receives a promising reply from the planet Ruuma, whose ecosphere is said to restore health to its inhabitants. The signal leads Xev, Kai and Stan to an island castle, where an odd family of three is eager to begin Stan’s treatment – and none too eager to finish it. Kai goes exploring on the island to see if a legend concerning the discarded bodies of the Divine Predecessors is true. As it turns out, Xev’s suspicions about their hosts and Kai’s rumor both turn out to be true: the leftover host bodies of His Divine Shadow stalk Ruuma by night as zombies, and Stan’s would-be healers only want to steal the Lexx. Things get worse when Xev is bitten by one of the zombies while trying to protect the weakened Stan – and begins transforming into one of them – while Kai begins to exhibit very unusual personality quirks and can no longer defend his crewmates.

Order the DVDswritten by Paul Donovan, Lex Gigeroff and Jeffrey Hirschfield
directed by Chris Bould
music by Marty Simon

Guest Cast: Louis Del Grande (Roada), Mary Walsh (Heedia), Louise Wischermann (Lyekka), Jeffrey Hirschfield (790), Tom Gallant (Lexx), Lauren Abraham (Lomea), Christian Murray (792)

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Red Dwarf Season 08

Cassandra

Red DwarfLister signs himself and his friends up for Canary duty, an elite corps of prisoners who tackle the dangerous task of being the first members of Red Dwarf’s crew to visit inhospitable an unknown environments, determining whether or not it’s safe for more valuable and irreplaceable crew members (i.e. the automatic robotic mining equipment) to make planetfall. Their first assignment, to board a long-lost Space Corps vessel discovered in a nearby planet’s ocean, proves to Lister that he didn’t sign up for a singing group. The derelict ship’s only inhabitant is a computer called Cassandra with infallible powers of foresight. This otherwise useful power proves to be a massive pain in the ass when Cassandra predicts that at least one of them will soon die.

Order the DVDswritten by Doug Naylor
directed by Ed Bye
music by Howard Goodall

Guest Cast: Geraldine McEwan (Cassandra), Graham McTavish (Ackerman), Jake Wood (Kill Crazy), Shend (Warden Knot), Ian Soundry (Guard)

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Season 02 SG-1 Stargate

Out Of Mind

Stargate SG-1O’Neill awakens in a facility he’s never seen before, surrounded by strangers. The last thing he remembers is going through the gate with his teammates to visit a world that intelligence reports said had been attacked by the Goa’uld. O’Neill is told that the year is 2077, that he’s awakened in the SGC, and that he is the only survivor of SG-1. He’s also told that, even now, Earth is fighting a losing battle against the Goa’uld, and anything from his memory of races or technologies encountered by SG-1 who could fight the Goa’uld is desperately needed.

Carter awakens in a facility she’s never seen before, surrounded by strangers. The last thing she remembers is going through the gate with her teammates to visit a world that intelligence reports said had been attacked by the Goa’uld. Carter is told that the year is 2077, that she’s awakened in the SGC, and that she is the only survivor of SG-1. She’s also told that, even now, Earth is fighting a losing battle against the Goa’uld, and anything from her memory of races or technologies encountered by SG-1 who could fight the Goa’uld is desperately needed.

Teal’c awakens in the SGC, where Dr. Fraiser and General Hammond tell him he’s been unconscious for three weeks. The last thing he remembers is going through the gate with his teammates to visit a world that intelligence reports said had been attacked by the Goa’uld. When Teal’c is told that he is the only survivor of SG-1, he refuses to believe it; when General Hammond says the search for SG-1 has ended unsuccessfully, Teal’c tenders his resignation and asks to be sent through the gate one last time.

Carter is awakened from her recovery by O’Neill, and they also find Daniel alive and well. They disocver that they’re not at the SGC at all, but aboard a Goa’uld ship commanded by Hathor. On the run from the rest of the Goa’uld, Hathor does need their memories – and she’ll implant one of them with a Goa’uld symbiote to gain access to those memories.

Order the DVDsstory by Jonathan Glassner & Brad Wright
teleplay by Jonathan Glassner
excerpts written by Hart Hanson, Katharyn Powers, Robert C. Cooper, James Crocker, Jonathan Glassner, Brad Wright, Terry Curtis Fox, David Bennett Carren & J. Larry Carroll, Michael Greenburg & Jarrad Paul
directed by Martin Wood
music by Joel Goldsmith and Kevin Kiner

Guest Cast: Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Suanne Braun (Hathor), Tom Butler (General Trofsky), Samantha Ferris (Dr. Raully)

Appearing in footage from The Nox: Armin Shimerman (Anteaus), Frida Betrani (Lya)

Appearing in footage from The Torment Of Tantalus: Elizabeth Hoffman (Catherine Langford), Keene Curtis (Ernest Littlefield)

Appearing in footage from The Serpent’s Lair: Tony Amendola (Bra’tac), Peter Williams (Apophis), Alexis Cruz (Klorel / Skaara)

Appearing in footage from Secrets: Douglas H. Arthurs (Heru’ur)

Notes: As a result of her brief merger with Jolinar, Carter apparently has naquadah in her bloodstream.

LogBook entry by Earl Green