Stargate: Atlantis (TV Series) First Contact (2008) User Reviews

Daniel Jackson and 10 stars? Inconceivable!

[robrosenberger · 10/10 · 1 July 2012]

Absolutely gripping, unpredictable, and breakneck, with stabs of humor for flavor. It's funny that the title is a lift from STAR TREK, as i'm torn over whether ten stars here is as great as ten stars in TREK. That being said...i couldn't NOT give ten, as i don't think the SG people could have blown the doors off any more impressively. I bend over backwards to avoid hyperbole, so bear that in mind when i call this (and its conclusion, "The Lost Tribe") heart-pounding. Even more astounding, the guest star is famed SG1 weak link, Michael Shanks. He's grown since he first entered the sci fi universe, as a piece of balsa. Jackson arrives at Atlantis with a clue to a secret lab. As soon as he and Rodney discover it, powerful aliens in environment suits appear, taking both them and a piece of technology. Daedalus is at a summit with the wraith, exploring the feasibility of the DNA treatment that would allow the wraith to no longer feed on humans. On a distant world, Rodney is forced to activate the ancient device, which will destroy any wraith ship that engages hyperdrive...but also explode any stargate being used, with the force of many nukes. The wraith Todd commandeers the Daedalus, and is off on a race to the mysterious alien planet. They turn out to be a splinter group of asgard who would let anyone die to be rid of the wraith. Also racing to the planet is Sheppard, hitching on a traveler ship. Keller and Ronon have some great moments as they try to re-take Daedalus. Everything, but everything, works.

Good, but the aliens were a bit rubbish.

[fig-75275 · 8/10 · 14 May 2021]

Having Daniel Jackson back, and having him spar with Rodney, is great but I felt disappointed with the bad guys in this episode. They don't introduce themselves and they pick a fight with Atlantis for no obvious reason. Why would they do that? And how come the shield one of the aliens used was just strong enough to deflect most of the bullets, but not all of them!?

First Contact is a two-part episode, so hopefully we'll find out what it is all about in the conclusion!

Whoops!

[Drat1964 · 5/10 · 8 January 2024]

Just watched this after getting hold of the DVD box set, liked the premise but the end seems to have not been thought out, with the destruction of the entire gate room, which seemed to melt the Atlantian tech consoles but rather oddly left several earth made notebook computers not only intact but still working. There also seems to be a glaring plot problem with doing this, they have already established they can replace a gate, by inserting another gate from somewhere else, but how can they replace all the other Atlantian tech in the gate room including the console that controls the gate itself or the Atlantian long range sensor controls they seem to use quite a lot, yet it's all back to normal when it next appears 2 episodes later.