Atlantis was never a show which is very good with logic or consistency. Most of the time you can ignore it, but here it's the complete story which makes no sense and overall you can skip this episode because nothing happens.
The main story: The Daedalus tries to return from earth, they have a Wraith virus on board, try to remove it, succeed and continue to Atlantis. There are some flashbacks to some moments on earth: Weir can still lead the expedition and Sheppard gets promoted to be able to lead the military part of the expedition.
The major error is one typical for SciFi shows or movies: Every computer can talk to every other computer, infiltrate it, execute software in it and move freely. This time it's Wraith virus which somehow infiltrates the Daedalus. The virus is an AI, which seems to be the magical explanation as to why it can interpret video signals, copy itself to other computers and even fly spaceships, with no effect on cpu power available for ship tasks. The elephant in the room is the execution of code. You cannot run a Windows program on a Mac and you cannot run an ARM program on an intel machine, unless you programmed it for that operating system and architecture. When did the Wraith had the opportunity and time for that?
The next major error is the solution: Just restore a backup. No, you don't just restore a backup from a compromised system if you don't know when the system got compromised. You might restore the virus. And how many backups from every computer on the Daedalus do they keep? Hours? Days? Maybe just two and the original version which is just the operating system without any data? It doesn't work this way.
Then there are the little things like Sheppard getting beamed out sitting and arriving staying or the great idea of the AI to kill everyone on board with radiation of a nearby star, while it could just disable life support or suck oxygen out of every part of the ship.
This episode made me angry.
The main story: The Daedalus tries to return from earth, they have a Wraith virus on board, try to remove it, succeed and continue to Atlantis. There are some flashbacks to some moments on earth: Weir can still lead the expedition and Sheppard gets promoted to be able to lead the military part of the expedition.
The major error is one typical for SciFi shows or movies: Every computer can talk to every other computer, infiltrate it, execute software in it and move freely. This time it's Wraith virus which somehow infiltrates the Daedalus. The virus is an AI, which seems to be the magical explanation as to why it can interpret video signals, copy itself to other computers and even fly spaceships, with no effect on cpu power available for ship tasks. The elephant in the room is the execution of code. You cannot run a Windows program on a Mac and you cannot run an ARM program on an intel machine, unless you programmed it for that operating system and architecture. When did the Wraith had the opportunity and time for that?
The next major error is the solution: Just restore a backup. No, you don't just restore a backup from a compromised system if you don't know when the system got compromised. You might restore the virus. And how many backups from every computer on the Daedalus do they keep? Hours? Days? Maybe just two and the original version which is just the operating system without any data? It doesn't work this way.
Then there are the little things like Sheppard getting beamed out sitting and arriving staying or the great idea of the AI to kill everyone on board with radiation of a nearby star, while it could just disable life support or suck oxygen out of every part of the ship.
This episode made me angry.