from Scifi Wire
Star Joins Atlantis
SCI FI Channel announced that The X-Files' Mitch Pileggi will join the cast of Stargate Atlantis as the show gears up production for the new season.
Pileggi, best known to SF fans for his recurring X-Files role as assistant FBI director Walter Skinner, takes on a recurring role in Atlantis as a hard-nosed colonel who butts heads with Dr. Weir (Torri Higginson) and Maj. Sheppard (Joe Flanigan).
Production on Stargate Atlantis is set to begin in March for a summer premiere on SCI FI.
Beckman already posted in the character threads that Carson Beckett would be made up to a full-time cast member in Season 2, and that Aiden Ford would be getting the chop in favour of a new character - an alien weapons specialist - it seems that this could be that character.