Urgo

StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago

Goofs...

When Urgo explains or talks about why he would want to be removed in the infirmary, the guard behind him looks at Urgo numerous times.

StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago

Nickolas Baric (SF Guard) previously played Lt. Jonathan Reed in the Stargate SG-1 episode "A Matter of Time".

StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago

Dr. Daniel Jackson's line "We've discovered the devices you implanted in our brains and we'd like you to remove them. Him." And Togar's response "Him?" are references to Dom DeLuise's character "Victor / Captain Chaos" from the Cannonball Run movie series. Victor refers to his alter ego "Captain Chaos" only as "Him".

StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago

Actor Dom DeLuise (Urgo and Togar) and director Peter DeLuise are father and son. This is the third time a DeLuise has guest-starred on the show. Dom's sons Michael DeLuise, and David DeLuise and Dom's daughter-in-law and Peter's wife, Anne Marie DeLuise, had on-screen roles in later seasons. The Air Force officer that Urgo transformed into was played by Peter DeLuise.

StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago

Major Samantha Carter's corridor scene with Major General George S. Hammond and Dr. Janet Fraiser particularly is reminiscent of the 1950 film Harvey with Jimmy Stewart, which likewise features an invisible companion.

StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago

Since Urgo is an artificial life form that appears to have consciousness the writers may have chosen the name as an alteration of the Latin word ergo from René Descartes' famous philosophical proposition cogito ergo sum "I think, therefore I am." It may be a portmanteau with 'urge', since he can suggest but not compel.

StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago

Colonel Jack O'Neill described Urgo as resembling a "famous tenor." The famous tenor he refers to is most likely Luciano Pavarotti. Dom DeLuise himself played a caricature of an opera singer in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother.

StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago

This episode is a partial tribute to the movie Contact, as the "paradise" island you see is actually a scenario of the film, throughout there are musical hints from the movie itself.

StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago

Dom DeLuise ad-libbed most of his lines. According to the Stargate SG-1: The Illustrated Companion Seasons 3 and 4, very few shots include Teal'c, since actor Christopher Judge couldn't keep a straight face. Director Peter DeLuise kept him on screen for as much of the episode as he could using two-shots, to capture as much of his material as possible.

StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago

The game which Urgo refers to (involving guessing the meaning of words) is the game Balderdash.

Guest Cast

Teryl Rothery

Dom DeLuise

Bill Nikolai

Nickolas Baric

Cast Appearances

Richard Dean Anderson

Michael Shanks

Amanda Tapping

Christopher Judge

Don S. Davis

Episode Discussion