Stargate gets a long segment on the Conan O’Brien show
On Thursday, May 13, on the NBC late-night talk show Late Night with Conan O’Brien, there was a segment devoted to Stargate SG-1. In the segment, the show’s graphic designer, Pierre Bernard, got to visit the Vancouver set of Stargate and Atlantis, and even got to play the role of “Gate Technician Sgt. O’Brien” in a scene from an upcoming episode, opposite Richard Dean Anderson. The segment featured Pierre getting to chat with Robert C. Cooper and Brad Wright, meeting Amanda Tapping and chatting with Anderson, and showed the director (Peter Woeste) coaching him on his one line of dialog. Conan showed the final produced scene, from which we can deduce that Pierre won’t be putting any professional actors out of work any time soon.
The visit to Vancouver was the result of an earlier “Recliner of Rage” editorial by Pierre, in which he lamented that Stargate is better without Daniel Jackson, because Daniel has a tendency to try to understand the different alien cultures the team encounters rather than just killing them outright. This segment, which we enjoyed in the ironic sense we assume it was intended, can be seen now on SciFi’s web site, at the SciFi Stargate Gallery Page. Click on the image at the bottom of the page for a Quicktime movie.
The end of Thursday’s segment showed a fitting retribution by Daniel, when an off-screen Dr. Jackson shot Pierre many times. We hope that segment will be made available on the SciFi site soon as well.