Normally I don't post all the stuff on
Stargate Atlantis from MGM here, but wow, they profiled
Kavan Smith - Major Lorne. Yes!!!
http://stargate.mgm.com/news_detail.php?id=99Here's a snippet. Rest at link above.
“Going way, way back, I was actually up for
Michael Shanks’ role in the original series,” Smith explains, speaking, rather ironically, from a seat inside the disused
Stargate SG-1 gateroom set. “So I knew some of the producers, and particularly Richard Dean Anderson’s partner Michael Greenburg. He was always looking for a way to get me on the show.”
Smith had a bit of a wait before that happened – seven years, in fact, until an episode of
Stargate SG-1 entitled “Enemy Mine”, appeared which called for a geologist named… Evan Lorne.
Thank goodness they didn't go with the geologist role!