The cast and crew are back at work on Syfy’s Defiance, with filming underway on the third season’s 13 new episodes. Season three will premiere this summer with Grant Bowler back as Nolan and Julie Benz returning as Amanda Rosewater. Returning cast members also include Stephanie Leonidas as Irisa Nolan, Tony Curran as Datak Tarr, Jaime Murray as Stahma Tarr, Graham Greene as Rafe McCawley, and Jesse Rath as Alak Tarr.
New to the world of Defiance for the upcoming season are Lee Tergesen, Nichole Galicia, and Conrad Coates.
Michael Nankin is directing episode one of season three and Kevin Murphy is returning as executive producer/showrunner. Darren Swimmer and Todd Slavkin are also back as executive producers.
The Plot and Character Descriptions (Courtesy of Syfy):
Following the events of the season two cliffhanger finale, season three of Defiance opens on the eve of an impending military siege upon the town, which has fallen on hard times following the collapse of its lucrative mines. Their fate uncertain, the townspeople face further threat with the surprise arrival of the mysterious and nearly extinct Omec, an alien race of warriors marked by the decades of subjugation they imposed upon the galaxy in the years preceding the Pale Wars.
Lee Tergesen will portray General Rahm Tak, a ruthless, arrogant leader in the Votanis Collective who sees Defiance, now free of Earth Republic oversight, as a symbolic target in his unrelenting pursuit of power. A Castithan, Rahm is a well-read, brilliant strategist who imposes his army upon the town with decisive force.
Conrad Coates plays T’evgin, the leader of the Omec who reluctantly carries the burden of his species’ survival on his shoulders.
Nichole Galicia is Kindzi, the fierce, beautiful, and tough daughter of the Omec leader T’evgin; she is his second in command and a skilled fighter unafraid of danger.
