SGA 5.04 "The Daedalus Variations" Episode Guide

Précis

A drive malfunction aboard a mysterious duplicate Daedalus sends the team jumping through various alternate realities where they encounter sinister alien life forms, a searing sun, and a pitched space battle over Atlantis.

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MGM/SciFi.com Official Summary

The official summary is not available as this episode has not yet aired in the United States.

Spoiler Summary

Sheppard’s team are onboard the Daedalus. McKay is working on restoring basic power and after completing that task, he plans to figure out a mysterious energy reading. Teyla finds the ship’s log with an entry made by “Captain (Colonel) Sobol of the Daedalus”, but no one has ever heard of him. The log entry tells of the last efforts of the crew as they abandoned ship to a planet that seemed habitable. They beamed down all of their supplies and Captain Sobol planned to pilot the last F-302 once everyone was off the ship. The crew left the ship knowing that their rescue might not come.

Cast

• Joe Flanigan as Lt. Col. John Sheppard
• Rachel Luttrell as Teyla Emmagan
• Jason Momoa as Ronon Dex
• Jewel Staite as Dr. Jennifer Keller
• Robert Picardo as Richard Woolsey
• and David Hewlett as Dr. Rodney McKay

Guest Stars

• Col. Sobol

Production

• Written by Alan McCullough
• Directed by Andy Mikita

Production Gallery

The following are links to images concerning the production of this episode and were published by Joseph Mallozzi in his personal blog:

• Concept Art: Alien Thermal Grenade (February 15, 2008)
• Concept Art: Possibly Interdimensional Drive or something entirely different for another episode (March 8, 2008)
• Concept Art: Blast door that opens to interdimensional drive (March 8, 2008)

Related Articles

Keywords

• Daedalus

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• Next: SGA 5.05 "Ghost In The Machine" Episode Guide

Production Notes

• "A final of Alan McCullough’s Daedalus Variations came out today and we shifted focus to Alan’s second - extreme Shep-whumpage - script, co-storied by Robert C. Cooper." — Joseph Mallozzi in his personal blog, February 11, 2008.
• "Despite the delay, I got in about five minutes before the prosthetics meeting. We discussed upcoming episodes Whispers, The Daedalus Variations, The Seed, and Broken Ties. Among the subjects covered: visual versus practical effects, stunt people vs. acrobats, fog, elements of the visual we saw in Spoils of War, yogurt, and, of course, methacil." — Joseph Mallozzi in his personal blog, February 12, 2008.
• "Ascended Tauri writes: “Based on your posted picture, is ‘The Daedalus Variations’ slated to air as No.4 in Season 5?” Answer: At present, yes it is." — Joseph Mallozzi in his personal blog, February 16, 2008.
• "Oh, and I’m sure fans will be thrilled to hear that we finally did it. Yes, spread the word! The casting process is complete! We have our Captain Sobol!" — Joseph Mallozzi in his personal blog, March 10, 2008.
• "Looks like the Visual Effects department is going to have their hands full with The Daedalus Variations." — Joseph Mallozzi in his personal blog, March 13, 2008.
• Belouchi writes: "I figured from a recurring pattern in the past seasons that in the first half of the season that is the first 10 episodes there is always a tech savy episode with cool visual effects involving either space fights or ancient technology in general. […]. Might I be somewhat close to say Daedalus Variation is the one for season 5?" Answer: "Somewhat." — Joseph Mallozzi in his personal blog, March 14, 2008.
• "We've been shooting "Deadalus Variations" all week and it ended with a bang thanks to our pyro pyrotechnical team...they've always got those huge grins on their faces...then again if I was blowing stuff up all day I would too." — David Hewlett in his blog, March 22, 2008.
• "Production continues on The Daedalus Variations, most of which is being shot on the FX Stage." — Joseph Mallozzi in his personal blog, March 24, 2008.
• "Two huge playback-heavy episodes in The Daedalus Variations and Ghost in the Machine will have that department on their toes for the next few weeks." — Joseph Mallozzi in his personal blog, March 25, 2008.

Further Reading

• Joseph Mallozzi's Blog
• Solutions: SGA S5 Spoilers: "The Daedalus Variations", March 6, 2008.
• David Hewlett's blog entry of March 22, 2008.

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--DeeKayP 16:12, 6 March 2008 (PST)