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Summer TV doesn't have a lot of jewels, but the show SciFi is using to relaunch itself as SyFy sparkles like a logic diamond in a coal mine.

The quirky little town of Eureka is where the government keeps the coolest toys - forget Area 51, that's for tourists.

Since the earliest part of the 20th century, the idyllic little town of Eureka has been the haven for the best and the brightest America has ever had. They invented the atomic bomb decades before WWII.  Teleportation? Got it. Cloaking device? How do you think they hide the town from us? Clean fusion power? Even the town diner, Cafe Diem, has a fusion reactor powering its freezer.

Vincent (Chris Gauthier)

Cafe Diem is the excuse we're going to use to provide a little coverage of this little gem of a show.  That diner is the social center of the town of Eureka, and it is run by Vincent (Chris Gauthier).  He is the only known gay in the village, so to speak, and mainly functions as a traffic cop for the comings and goings of the main characters. He also brings a little humanity to the silliness that these geniuses get into.

Sheriff Carter (Colin Ferguson)

Sheriff Carter (Colin Ferguson) is the heart of the show.  He's the everyman in town, the guy with the average IQ that has to save these eggheads from themselves. He lives in an underground smart house with his daughter. If he's not in his uniform, he tends to not be wearing anything. One episode last season found him living a Bill Murray in Groundhog Day existence, reliving the same day, starting out the loop each time in the shower.

Douglas Fargo (Neil Grayston)

Douglas Fargo is absolutely adorkable as played by Neil Grayston. He's also a one man disaster zone. In a town full of weird weapons, crazy experiments, and discarded technology, Fargo is the type to look at a wall with a big red button labeled "Do Not Press", look around to see if anybody is looking, and press it, just to see what happens. Still, he's the most plugged in guy in Eureka, and he knows a little bit about everything that's going on, so if he isn't currently about to die from the disaster of the week, he may be able to point Sheriff Carter in the right direction. He also invented the smart house that Sheriff Carter lives in, S.A.R.A.H., who sees to Carter's every need in a sweet, non-threatening, female voice. Except it's actually Fargo's voice, made to sound female. What can I say, there are many issues here.

Larry (Christopher Jacot)

Larry (Christopher Jacot) graduated from his role on DeGrassi: The Next Generation, to Eureka, where he plays Fargo's rival and nemesis. That room with the big red button? Larry probably left Fargo a message to meet him in that room.

Henry (Joe Morton)

Henry (Joe Morton) is the guy who designed the space shuttles, then retired to run the auto repair shop in Eureka. He's only repaired one vehicle in 3 seasons, because most of the time, he's using his insanely broad knowledge base to help Sheriff Carter save the town.

Zane (Niall Matter)

Don't let those beautiful blue eyes fool you, Zane (Niall Matter) is a genius with as broad an area of study as Henry, and is generally key to saving the day from whatever radiation, drone airplane, or nano particle-gone-bad emergency is at hand. Cute as he is, don't even think about it, because he's dating the gun happy sheriff's deputy, and she will hurt you.

Lucas (Vanja Asher)

Hottie in training, Lucas (Vanya Asher) dates Sheriff Carter's daughter Zoe. Poor kid may have a 190 IQ, but he's still not smart enough to find a spot to make out with Zoe that the sheriff doesn't catch him in.

General Mansfield (Barclay Hope)

Dropping in when things get really bad is General Mansfield (Barclay Hope), who makes the tough calls such as deciding to drop Fargo down a bottomless pit and set off a nuke to seal him in.  The cliffhanger for the last season was General Mansfield firing our often-shirtless hero, Sheriff Carter, leaving Eureka without its protector and beefcake.

Nathan Stark (Ed Quinn)

Nathan Stark (Ed Quinn) ran the research in Eureka the first few seasons. Sadly, last year he sacrificed himself to save the town. Whether he died, moved to another dimension, or just had his molecules scattered is up for debate, and like everything else in this town, anything is possible. Maybe he's going to re-materialize at my house?

Obviously, these guys don't look like the math club at my high school, and that means that it's a giant conspiracy to hide all the hot nerds from those of us that would love them. Peek into the secret world of Eureka's hot geeks on July 10th at 9pm on SyFy.

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