Stargate Atlantis’ Key Episodes
Stargate Atlantis premiered in 2004, as a spin-off of Stargate SG-1. Meanwhile the parent show continued to air alongside Atlantis for another three years. If you haven’t seen SG-1 yet we recommend starting there. Atlantis didn’t begin until after SG-1‘s eighth season premiere (“New Order”).
Like its predecessor Stargate Atlantis is an episodic series. That means that mostly stand-alone episodes were loosely connected by ongoing storylines, with the story arcs peaking with big season premieres, season finales, and mid-season two-parters. To get the best of Atlantis you should watch more than the episodes on this list, because many of the show’s finest hours (including arguably its finest character piece) are not actually part of the main story arcs.
Source: https://www.gateworld.net/news/2021/06/watch-list-only-stargate-atlantis-key-episodes/
Like its predecessor Stargate Atlantis is an episodic series. That means that mostly stand-alone episodes were loosely connected by ongoing storylines, with the story arcs peaking with big season premieres, season finales, and mid-season two-parters. To get the best of Atlantis you should watch more than the episodes on this list, because many of the show’s finest hours (including arguably its finest character piece) are not actually part of the main story arcs.
Source: https://www.gateworld.net/news/2021/06/watch-list-only-stargate-atlantis-key-episodes/
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- DirectorMartin WoodStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellA team of scientists think they have found the location of the long lost city of Atlantis. It can be reached by a Stargate address that leads to the Pegasus galaxy.
- DirectorMario AzzopardiStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellSheppard gets bitten by a Wraith-like bug and is dying. While the puddle jumper returns, it gets stuck in the Stargate. There's 38 minutes to find a solution.
- DirectorMario AzzopardiStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellThere's suspicion of a Wraith collaborator and some of the team suspect the Athosians. Ford and Sheppard find land on Atlantis' planet.
- DirectorBrad TurnerStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellAtlantis offers help to the Hoffans, who are working on a defense against the Wraith.
- DirectorBrad TurnerStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellAtlantis wants to trade food with the Genii, a simple civilization who turn out to be not so simple. They are planning a nuclear attack against the Wraith.
- DirectorHolly DaleStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellA strange energy generating fog allows travel back to Earth. But something's wrong.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellTwo hurricanes are approaching Atlantis and an evacuation is necessary. The leader of the planet taking them in tells the Genii about the situation.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellMcKay and Weir start repairing the grounding station, while Sheppard tries to fight Kolya. The puddle jumper on the mainland enters the eye of the storm.
- DirectorMario AzzopardiStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellA team of scientists, including McKay, Zelenka and Ford, are exposed to a deadly virus. Sheppard goes after one of the scientists trying to escape.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellIt's Elizabeth's birthday and she gets a very special gift: a woman who has been in stasis in an Atlantis' laboratory for 10,000 years and is actually herself.
- DirectorPeter DeLuiseStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellTeyla is haunted by nightmares, leaving her agitated. After seeing a psychologist, an old Athosian woman tells her a secret about her ability to sense the Wraith.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellMcKay and Zelenka come up with a plan to repair the Ancients' weapon satellite. Bates and Teyla get into a fight. He is found unconscious and badly injured shortly afterwards.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellAll hope seems lost, until Colonel Everett arrives suddenly from Earth. He is determined to defend the city until the arrival of a ZPM, brought by a new ship.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellThe Daedalus arrives and the two hive ships are destroyed. Atlantis seems saved, then Zelenka detects 12 more ships. Ford seems changed after a fall in the water.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellThe team is searching for Ford on a planet. Teyla and Sheppard are taken hostage by a stranger, while Ford tries to convince McKay that he's normal.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellThe team find a hidden Wraith girl, cared for by a man with a serum that he claims can satisfy her hunger. Beckett wants to perfect a retrovirus that can turn Wraith into humans.
- DirectorBrad TurnerStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellThe team is captured by Ford and are forced to take the Wraith enzyme. Ford has a plan.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellSheppard's interrogation is suddenly aborted. Teyla senses another hive ship has arrived. Meanwhile McKay tries to convince his guard to call in help.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellWhile Teyla and Ronon investigate the apparent death of Major Lorne, the Genii Ladon Radim contacts Atlantis. He wants to trade a ZPM for weapons supplies.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellMichael Kenmore, a new lieutenant, awakes in the infirmary and doesn't remember a thing. The other expedition members are very concerned about his well-being as he seems different.
- DirectorPeter DeLuiseStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellAtlantis helps with repairing an Ancient shield generator on Taranis. They discover the Taranians are in possession of an Ancient warship.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellThe hive ship approaching Atlantis is Michael's. He wants a trade: the retrovirus for not revealing the secret of Atlantis and insights on Wraith technology.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellFallen into the Wraith trap, McKay initially resigns to fatal captivity in a cocoon, but Ronon keeps struggling to attempt escaping, or at least taking some Wraith down with them. Sheppard managed to hide his glider on the very hive ship, seeking a way out, surprised to get radio contact with Michael, who seeks revenge after the ingrate queen has him semi-restrained as 'too human' suspect. While they try to sabotage the hive and maybe escape, the Daedalus and Orion race just in time to fight the two hive ships before they may attack earth. Weir is summoned to SGC for a pointless grilling by the International Oversight Advisory, finding them bureaucrats unable to risk a decision beyond questioning what was already done. So she returns, never mind the career risk compared to a Wraith culling. Sheppard manages to reach the Daedalus and his party comes up with a daring plan to overpower the hive with the weaponized retrovirus, despite bombarded damage compromising even their life-support systems.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellSheppard and the others are now in control of the one remaining hive ship with most of the Wraith transformed into human form, courtesy of the retrovirus. They do learn something interesting about female Wraiths, however. After they return to Atlantis, the question becomes one of what to do with the Wraiths who are again human, especially Michael who has proved to be quite helpful. Elizabeth Weir meanwhile is surprised to hear that she is to return to Atlantis as the expedition leader. She will be accompanied however by Richard Woolsey who is to review her leadership and make recommendations to the International Oversight Advisory on whether she should be allowed to continue.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellThe Atlantis expedition encounters a highly advanced race, the Asurans. They initially believe them to be the Ancients. However, this new race is just a new face of an old nemesis.