Wormhole X-Treme!
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Wormhole X-Treme! is a fictional television program shown inside the Stargate SG-1 episode "Wormhole X-Treme!"—the series' 100th episode.
Wormhole X-Treme! is a campy, low-budget, farcical parody both of old science fiction series in the tradition of the original Star Trek series and of Stargate SG-1 itself. Over the course of the Stargate SG-1 episode "Wormhole X-Treme!", which depicts its production, there are many self-referential and self-deprecating jokes. After the episode is finished there is a "Making of Wormhole X-Treme!" featurette with interviews of several of the fictional actors from the show.
Actors and characters in Wormhole X-Treme! include:
| Actor | Stargate SG-1 character | Wormhole X-Treme! character | Stargate SG-1 analogue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael DeLuise | Nick Marlowe | Colonel Danning | Jack O'Neill |
| Jill Teed | Yolanda Reese | Major Stacy Monroe | Samantha Carter |
| Christian Bocher | Raymond Gunne | Dr. Levant | Daniel Jackson |
| Herbert Duncanson | Douglas Anders | Grell the robot | Teal'c |
Other characters who were seen in this episode included:
- The director of a Wormhole X-Treme! episode, played by Peter DeLuise, who was the director of this Stargate SG-1 episode. "Bigger!! What is it about the word bigger that you don't understand?!"
- A Wormhole X-Treme! writer, played by Robert C. Cooper, a Stargate SG-1 writer and executive producer. "We could always go back to the way it was in the script."
- Crew members on the set of Wormhole X-Treme!, played by Joseph Mallozzi (who co-wrote this episode), producer N. John Smith, Stargate SG-1 writer Ron Wilkerson.
- A studio executive, played by MGM Television President Hank Cohen. "What this show needs is a sexy female alien!" (Stargate SG-1 received just such a character in a three-episode guest appearance by Vanessa Angel as the Tok'ra Anise in the previous season).
- An NID man, played by Martin Wood, a Stargate SG-1 director.
- Two executives who commented on how unrealistic Lloyd's spacecraft looked, played by Stargate SG-1 executive producer Michael Greenburg and executive producer/co-creator Brad Wright.
Wormhole X-Treme! is filmed at Bridge Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, where Stargate SG-1 is filmed in real life.
The eighth season episode "Citizen Joe" revealed that Wormhole X-treme! was cancelled after just one episode due to low ratings.
External links
- "Wormhole X-Treme!" (http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s5/512.shtml) on GateWorld
- "Wormhole X-Treme!" (http://www.rdanderson.com/stargate/database/databas5.htm#Xtreme) on www.rdanderson.com