Farscape veteran Ben Browder was eyed for two different characters on Stargate: Atlantis before snagging his role as Lt. Mitchell in Stargate: SG-1.

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Browder jumped in as a new series co-lead for the show’s last two seasons, playing Cameron Mitchell, a new member of SG-1. How Ben Browder & Claudia Black joined Stargate SG-1 ...

Things changed quite a bit across Stargate SG-1’s decade-long run, most notably with the addition of former Farscape star Ben Browder as Cam Mitchell, the leader of the flagship SG-1 team in the ...

Farscape's Ben Browder reveals what he would like to see for his character, displaced astronaut John Crichton, should the sci-fi TV series come back.