Im neuen "Stargate- The official magazine" (100 seitige Version) steht in einem Bericht von Joe Mallozzi folgendes:
"We had discussed Ben as early as season one of Stargate:Atlantis as a possible Major Sheppard. He was one of the names brought up, but he was working on The Peacekeeper Wars at the time, so it's not something that we really pursued. Then we thought about Claudia as well - we honestly thought about them separately at first."
Hm, Ben als Sheppard? Neee!