Tonight!
JOE FLANIGAN
as
Robert Danzig
FRINGE
“Neither Here Nor There”
Fox 9/8c
Stargate star JOE FLANIGAN makes a guest appearance tonight in the Season Four premiere of Fringe as Robert Danzig. Be sure to tune into Fox at 9/8c for the episode “Neither Here Nor There.”
We first got word that Flanigan was guesting in this sci-fi favorite when he tweeted the news himself back in July: “Working on Fringe right now. Trying to get my small head around their mythology.”
Indeed, there is a lot to wrap your head around with this show, which stars Stargate vet John Noble as Dr. Walter Bishop, Joshua Jackson as his son Peter, Anna Torv as FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, Lance Reddick as Agent Phillip Broyles, Jasika Nicole as Astrid Farnsworth, and Blair Brown as Nina Sharp. There are alternate universes (at least one that we know of) and shape-shifters who have mercury as blood. There’s even a time traveling machine and “Observers” who appear to be secretly steering events. On top of that, there are fringe science concepts such as devices that allow people to walk through solid objects and geographic pockets where the rules of science are turned upside down.
Tonight’s episode picks up one week after the Season Three finale in which Peter vanishes as if he never existed after bringing the two universes together at Liberty Island to find a way for the two realities to co-exist without one cancelling out the other. In the meantime, “as the two universes maintain an uneasy alliance, Lincoln Lee helps the Fringe team on a shape-shifting investigation that hits close to home.”
If you miss the original airing, visit the Fringe Episode Guide for online streaming of past episodes.
The winner of the 
A recent addition to the Stargate saga, Dr. Nicholas Rush, portrayed by Scotsman Robert Carlyle, is the type of character that you don’t know whether to love or to hate. Always thinking ahead several moves—he is a chess player, after all—Rush saw the discovery of Destiny as one of the most significant events in human history—and he had a major part in that discovery. His goals were often out of sync with the rest of the Icarus Project’s personnel, but he was depended upon to get them through the tough spots, and he often did.
He was the first to walk through the Stargate in the movie and has been with us ever since to watch our backs! A Sci-Fi Icon list would not be complete without him. We got to love him as Colonel Jack O’Neill, leader of the flagship team SG-1, and now he’s all grown up to become Lt. General Jack O’Neill, commander of Homeworld Security. As the only military man who could say he’s been there and done it all, Jack has always been there for his people. Portrayed by TV legend Richard Dean Anderson, we cannot imagine anyone else filling Jack’s boots!
It’s only appropriate that the man who opened the Stargate and made regular travel through it possible should be the top representative of Stargate in the poll. Dr. Daniel Jackson might have been a “dweeb,” but he certainly knew his stuff and learned how to adapt quickly to his changing role as the expert on human cultures that had been transplanted across the galaxy by the Goa’uld. And after the defeat of the System Lords, Jackson continued to show how closely linked he was to the Stargate by becoming the foremost expert on the Ancients, the builders of the Stargates, Destiny, and Atlantis. Ever resourceful and quick-thinking, Daniel’s ability to solve riddles and puzzles, as well as negotiate treaties, made him Stargate Command’s most respected civilian employee the military had ever had and his actor Michael Shanks one of the Internet’s most closely followed television actors.
