Re: Robert Picardo joins "Stargate Atlantis"

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>, "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
wrote:

> Michael Black <et472@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >suzee (suzeeq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) writes:
> >>Georgiana Gates wrote:
> >>>David wrote:
> 
> >>>>Robert Picardo, whom Stargate fans will recognize as International
> >>>>Oversight Committee rep "Richard Woolsey," joins the Stargate
Atlantis
> >>>>cast this season as Woolsey assumes command of the Atlantis
> >>>>expedition. The team, led by Lt. Colonel Sheppard (Joe Flanigan),
Dr.
> >>>>Rodney McKay (David Hewlett), Teyla (Rachel Luttrell), Ronon (Jason
> >>>>Momoa) and Dr. Jennifer Keller (Jewel Staite), must adjust to his
> >>>>unique leader****p style.
> 
> >>>I always think of Picardo as The Doctor on Star Trek:Voyager.
> 
> >>And he had another role on a not sci-fi show about the same time, or
the 
> >>season before ST:V began.
> 
> >What, as a cop on "Alice"?  No, too early.
> 
> >The coach on "The Wonder Years"?  I'd say that's when I first remember
> >seeing him.
> 
> >And then he was a doctor on "China Beach", which basically overlapped
> >with "The Wonder Years".
> 
> >"Voyager" came later, and I'm sure by then he was pretty recognizable.
> 
> I suppose to casting directors but probably not to a very large
> audience. Perhaps his most prominent role was the weapons technology
> fence The Cowboy in "Innerspace", not all that amusing a part.

I recognized him as Johnny Cab.
> 
> He had recurring roles on Lyons' Den and E-Ring but I don't recall that
> he was on the main cast of either show. He was certainly on every Lyons'
> Den episode I saw.
> 
> Remember when they added Worf hoping to improve DS9 ratings, then didn't
> know what the hell to do with him? Seems like the same situation with
> Amanda Tapping on "Atlantis".
> 
> I liked Elizabeth Weir, sort of; I agree with numerous comments made
> over the years that the character should have been more intelligent.

Like she was when she was blonde.

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