Vancouver, B.C.— “I have to go blow up a planet!” declares Amanda Tapping with glee as she bursts from the door of Bridge Studios/Stage Six here, where Sci Fi Channel is shooting scenes for episode 200 of Stargate SG-1.

For 10 seasons, Tapping has inhabited the role of Samantha Carter, the Air Force colonel and physicist with girl-next-door charm who delivers bewildering strings of technobabble and carries a torch for her commanding officer. (In the fannish vernacular of the Internet it's called UST, or Unresolved Sexual Tension. Think Moonlighting, Frasier or The X-Files.)

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Getting rid of Richard Dean Anderson is always an improvement, but this is ridiculous.

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What with "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" having breathed their last, Beau Bridges considers the 9-year-old "Stargate: SG-1" the best thing in production, science fiction-wise.

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