The Stargate franchise is making a comeback. A new series has been announced, and it’ll continue the universe started by Stargate: SG-1 and continued through Stargate: Atlantis and Stargate Universe.

For a sci-fi series, it was a role that came with a ton of nuance and emotional heft — a far cry, in other words, from the devious thief Black was originally meant to play as newcomer Vala Mal Doran ...