How did you get involved with doing an episode of Stargate Atlantis?
BN: Robert Picardo is on the advisory board of The Planetary Society. I have been a member of The Planetary Society since 1980. Now I’m the vice president and he and I have become really good friends. So he asked me if I’d be interested and he asked them [the producers] if they’d be interested and we converged. It turns out that Stargate-ians are all big Bill Nye fans. It’s cool. PCZ: Most of the time on a show like Stargate, a fictional show, it’s usually… BN: Fictional, what?!? Are you kidding? That’s not real? PCZ: You tell me, how real is it? BN: I’ll just tell you, [on the episode I’m in] the world almost ends, man. It takes us like fifty-four minutes to keep the world from ending. We really had to focus. PCZ: When they came to you was it always that you were going to be yourself and have such a large role in the episode? Usually they bring the guest star through as themselves for a few minutes, they make a few jokes and then go away. But you keep showing up and you help save the
