But the cast didn't have a sure-shot way of knowing that at the time, so some of them, like Torri Higginson (who plays Dr. Elizabeth Weir), thought that "Atlantis" was "killing" what "SG-1" stood for.

As the TV incarnation of Dr. Daniel Jackson (first played by James Spader in the original 1994 Stargate movie), Shanks already was a longtime cast fixture on SYFY's long-running Stargate SG-1 by ...