Actor Ben Browder is really no stranger to play in science fiction shows. In fact, it was in great demand for these roles in the authors of the start in the middle. Browder was particularly perfect on the series “Farscape” as John Crichton, an American astronaut who ends up going through a worm hole and finds himself surrounded by the group of ragtag foreigners in the universe on a living ship called the Moya. On “Farscape”, which was designed by its creators to be the “anti-‘trek” “” “ Browder was both impetuous and charming childish, a sort of 20th century silly captain, and the team behind The “Stargate” franchise knew it was ideal for their new spin-off, “Stargate: Atlantis”. There was only a small (big) problem: he was a little busy filming the “Farscape” “follow-up” The Peacekeeper Wars “.

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The creative team of “Stargate” was so impatient to ensure that navigation was on “Atlantis” that it was almost interpreted as two different characters. Of course, things did not happen like that, and he was finally thrown as a lieutenant-colonel Cameron Mitchell in season 9 of “Stargate SG-1”. There, Browder was the new SG-1 commander After a few actors who moved at the end of season 8. Let’s take a look at the characters he almost played, and how things could have been different if he had not been attached with other projects.

Browder was a welcome addition to the distribution “Stargate SG-1” and helped fill the void on the left when Richard Dean Anderson fell from his role as Jack O’NeillBut that would not have happened if he had obtained one of the previous roles on “Stargate: Atlantis”. While creating “Stargate: Atlantis”, the first spin-off of the television of “Stargate SG-1”, the creative team of the show apparently envisaged Browder as a lieutenant-colonel of the Air Force pilot John Sheppard (who would ultimately be represented by Joe Flanigan). In a 2011 entrance in his Personal blog“Stargate: Atlantis” the producer and executive writer Joseph Mallozzi revealed the original plans for Browder as Sheppard:

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“Ben would have made the perfect John Sheppard as initially envisaged in the pilot ‘Atlantis’ – a southern cowboy with Swagger. The fact that he pulled on the” Farscape “miniseries withdrew him from the race.

It would have been a pleasure to see Browder play a “Southern Cowboy” version of John Sheppard, who is also a very captain of Kirk in certain ways. Flanigan did an excellent job with the character’s final version, so everything worked. Then, some time after that, Mallozzi and the “Atlantis” team tried to bring Browder on board for a leading arc as a very different character: Colonel Dillon Everett.

On his blog, Mallozzi continued by saying that he had written the colonel Dillon Everett in the arc of three episodes “of siege” specifically for Browder, adding that “the character’s arc would have been considerably different if Ben had been available to play the role”. Colonel Everett is a commander of the Marine Corps who briefly takes Atlantis during the Arc while the city-Navire takes care of an attack by the horrible Wraith fleet based in the hive. He is a much less sympathetic character than Sheppard or Crichton, and it would have been interesting to see Browder play someone so much more antagonistic (but not a bad guy).

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Since planning did not work for that either, Browder was finally brought for “Stargate SG-1” towards the end of its race to help complete the cast and inject a little fresh blood into the flagship series. He stayed with the show until his end, but returned for any other “Stargate” franchise entry. Since “SG-1”, Browder has appeared In superhero projects like “Arrow” and “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” and even played a big guest role in “Iké Boys”, herself a cinematic love letter to the anime. Things may not have worked for Browder and “Stargate: Atlantis”, but fortunately, he played a lot of big roles through other gender films and television shows so that we can enjoy it.