Alaina Huffman, the actress who plays medic Tamara Johansen on Stargate Universe, has announced that she’s pregnant with her third child. This obviously led to questions about whether her pregnancy would be written into the show. Her response?

“You have to watch. I think every actor on the Stargate franchise has had [...]]]> OK, puns may not be my thing…

Alaina Huffman, the actress who plays medic Tamara Johansen on Stargate Universe, has announced that she’s pregnant with her third child. This obviously led to questions about whether her pregnancy would be written into the show. Her response?

“You have to watch. I think every actor on the Stargate franchise has had one or more kids.  [The writers] know what they are doing, and they know how to deal with it.  I can’t give away spoilers whether we are or are not going to entertain that possibility.  You’ve just got to keep watching!”

I can see both the positive and negative aspects of writing her pregnancy into the show; on the one hand it would raise some very interesting problems for the crew and TJ by having a baby on board, but on the other hand, women with babies on television are too often reduced to only being mothers. If the writers could handle Johansen being pregnant in an interesting way, without it detracting from her development as a character, then it could be a good move for the show.

Of course, they may have already planned for this; we know from the pilot that Johansen was resigning from the military, so perhaps she had a bun-in-the-oven type of reason…