2.10 The Cold and Distant Stars

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"The Cold and Distant Stars" - Production # H 210

Written by Alex Rubit

Original Air Date: Thursday, 15th December 2005

Synopsis: As Sonak is found on board a heavily damaged ship, the Horizon team discovers that the balance of power in the galaxy is being altered.

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I was wondering when you'd get round to posting this. Unfortunetly I haven't read it just yet, as I've been on a spree with reading Frontiers but I'll read it tomorrow.

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I kept seeing Bay'lar as Ronan in this episode. Pretty enjoyable, I knew this was going to be a character development orientated episode so I was in no rushm to read it but it was pretty enjoyable for a less intense episode.

I quiet liked how Sivea and Sonak interacted while he was memoryless and also the thing between Sivea and Bay'lar. Sivea is an interesting character, but what I want now is an episode for Grant.

Also, Alex has released a deleted scene:

there's an interesting scene that was cut from the final draft. It's a scene between Bay'lar and Callen, and, surprise, I figured I'll just post a link to it here.

The scene is about Callen and Bay'lar discussing how to proceed with regard to Sonak. It also shows that Bay'lar doesn't exactly like Sonak too much, because of what he did. This again becomes obvious later in the episode of course. The scene also makes a point of how serious the situation with the Kih'Andari is, and that Bay'lar thinks a war is inevitable.

This scene originally took place early in Act Two. It was the scene that followed the one with Grant and Sivea in the mess hall. It was deleted for two reasons actually. One, it wasn't really necessary for it to be there, even though it would have explained why Sonak isn't being treated as a prisoner (I figured it was kind of self-explanatory). Two, and more importantly, I felt it kind of slowed the episode down too much. It seemed to distract from the main storyline, which is the mystery of what's happened to Sonak and his ship. So, in terms of pacing I think it works much better to go from Grant and Sivea straight to Chase and Tom on the Kih'Andari bridge.

uk.geocities.com/alex_stargatehorizon/2.10_deleted_scene.pdf