Lea is best known for his role as Krycek in The X-Files. He’ll be playing Erica’s ex-husband.

Lexa Doig played Dr. Lam on Stargate SG-1 and she’ll be a doctor on V. She has also guested on The 4400 and Eureka and she was Risa in Supernatural “The End.”

Also joining the cast is Charles Mesure who played the Archangel Michael on Xena, and has had a recurring role on Crossing Jordan. He also appeared in Boogeyman, which was written by Supernatural creator Eric Kripke.

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One of our all-time favorite shows, The 4400, leads this Tuesday’s DVD releases. As is the case with so many shows in this genre, it never got the audience or the attention it deserved. The good news is that talented series regulars on catching on everywhere.

On Terminator:The Sarah Connor Chronicles you can find both Summer Glau and Garret Dillahunt as some seriously mean machines. Megalyn Echikunwoke has landed a prize role as Dr. Tara Price on CSI:Miami. While the show may be gone, its cast is still making plenty of waves in the industry. Now you can enjoy the whole run of this great series on DVD.

For classic fantasy TV fans, Dark Shadows:The Beginning, Vol. 6 contains writer interviews, SCI FI Channel commercials and old school merchandise promos. My mom would not let me legally change my name to Barnabas and I still bear some of the emotional scars.

The week’s big sci-fi movie release is Brendan Fraser starring in the remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth. Between this and the Mummy flicks, Fraser is making quite a living as “Indiana Jones Lite.”

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At this press gathering she talked about her role as Cameron, the guardian of young John Connor on the red-hot show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Playing a robot presents its own unique set of challenges and Glau admits it’s not an easy experience.

S. Glau: I think that as you do a series, you do sort of become your character in a way, and it does get much more comfortable when you read a scene. You kind of have an idea of how you want to do it. Whereas when you first begin a role, you’re really exploring it and you’re making big decisions about how you want to play her. But at this point, I think all of us in the cast have really gotten comfortable with how our characters would react in a certain situation. But I would say that the hardest part is still looking at my scene partner who might be, you know, spilling their guts to me or crying or yelling, and I can’t give anything back. You know, I mean I’m always giving something. I’m always giving energy back to my scene partner, but I can’t respond in a way that I would if I was playing a human. That never quite feels natural to me.

Cameron isn’t Summer’s first go-round playing a superhuman fighting machine, to speak. Would River Tam or Cameron win in a throwdown?

S. Glau: Well, you know, I played River for a little bit longer. I think I know more of her moves at this point, but River was all about finesse and creativity and using her form as best she could because she wasn’t the strongest person in the room, and she wasn’t the biggest girl in the room. Now playing Cameron, I don’t really break a sweat because she just gets to pick things up and throw them and bash through walls. I don’t know.

John Connor was instantly enamored with the cute girl who approached him at his new school. Then he found out she was made of heavy metal. But could there still be a love connection?

S. Glau: The writers are keeping me guessing. At this point, I can’t tell. I know that it’s a possibility. And I think that in her own way, Cameron does love John because, when I think about it, her entire existence is to protect him. Her purpose in life is to keep him safe and to be with him always. I think that she does love him, as best a robot could. But at this point, their relationship is very complicated. John is still trying to figure out how he wants to treat her and what his relationship with her should be. It’s really complicated, but I think that anything is possible at this point.

As a former cast member of the recently canceled USA sci-fi drama The 4400, Glau was saddened to hear that show’s run was over.

S. Glau: I was heartbroken. I love all of those actors. I have to say, I enjoyed my time there immensely, and I thought it was an excellent show. You know, they had a really long run though. The show was on for a long time, and I’m sure all those actors are going to do great in new projects. I wish I could have been there for the finale too because I had to leave before the last episode because I was shooting Sarah Connor, and I always thought, well maybe I’ll come back. Now I don’t know. Maybe some of those actors can come be on Terminator, so I get to see them.

The Sarah Connor Chronicles air Mondays at 8 p.m. CST on Fox.

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