(It's also where the movie "War Games" and the long-running sci-fi TV show "Stargate: SG-1" were set).
"Stargate" notwithstanding, when I think of space, archaeologists and anthropologists don't come to mind.
That is due in no small part to Stargate: by bringing a European remixer's sensibility to the crunchy beats of hip-hop, they created a new kind of urban pop.
"Stargate is the only producer where I go to their place, 'cause everyone else is so hit-minded.
(Also good is Mili Avital as Uri's onetime fiancée; American viewers may recognize her from her starring role in the original "Stargate" movie).
" 'I sing the body electric!' " In an age when "The Matrix," "Stargate" and similarly mind-bending excursions into the fantastic are taken for granted, it takes some head scratching to recall why the show was such a hit.
with an eye for studly young patrol officers; the most appealing is Louis Ferreira ("Stargate: Universe") as the more cynical of the detectives.
Michael Shanks ("Stargate SG-1") plays Charlie, a high-powered surgeon who's engaged to a fellow doctor, Alex (Erica Durance of "Smallville").
Both the short-lived TV show "Stargate Universe" and Beth Revis's Y.A. novel "Across the Universe" feature similar circumstances.
9 P.M. (Syfy) SYFY 20TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL Film clips celebrate series like "Alphas," "Battlestar Galactica," "Being Human," "Caprica," "Eureka," "Farscape," "Haven," "Lost Girl," "Sanctuary," "Stargate: SG1" and "Warehouse 13".
What "Defiance" lacks, though, is any shred of originality, or any of the conceptual audacity that could keep you involved in "Battlestar Galactica" or "Stargate Universe" despite their ticky-tackiness.
