Wormhole X-Treme!

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Image:Wormholextremestargate.jpg 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

This is an example of the show-within-a-show dramatic device; Danning, Monroe, Levant, and Grell are all examples of fictional fictional characters.

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.

Although it did poorly on the small screen, season ten of Stargate SG-1 may well see the return of the show in the 200th episode, as posted on Gateworld forums.Template:Citation needed It was said by the producers that the show was to do well on its DVD release thus promting a full season run based on sales. The season will be available at Gateworld.net.

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