MGM’s Official Stargate website has a few features concerning the making of Stargate Atlantis‘s mid-season two-parter, “First Contact” and “The Lost Tribe”.
The two-parter was written by Martin Gero, and he got to do some directing in second unit with Michael Shanks and David Hewlett. Gero was interviewed by MGM’s Sharon Gosling about how the writers wanted to get Dr. Daniel Jackson back to Atlantis. Gero said, “It was definitely something that I had wanted to do for quite some time, and was finally afforded the opportunity to do. My favorite Daniel stories were always the ones where he was on the treasure hunt, with puzzles and figuring out this and that. We hadn’t done that in forever.”
Michael Shanks talks more about Dr. Daniel Jackson’s return in the video interview Dr. Daniel Jackson Returns to Atlantis. Shanks seemed thrilled to reprise his role after nearly a year away from the Stargate sets and stated, “I’m always up to coming back to the Stargate universe.”
Gero, Shanks, stunt coordinator James Bamford, who played an armored alien, and Keith Arbuthnot, model maker, give a brief overview about the development of the suits “with a secret inside” in the video Designing the “New” Alien in “First Contact”.
The fifth and final season of Stargate Atlantis continues to debut new episodes on the Sci Fi Channel on Fridays at 9pm (with a repeat at 11pm). Coming up next will be Alex Levine’s “Inquisition”.
[Image from MGM.]