Atlantis Season 1
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The twenty episodes that constitute the first season of Stargate Atlantis introduced the audience to a new world, related to but separate from the world of Stargate SG-1. Finally, humans have discovered the legacy of the Ancients, the Lost City of Atlantis. As humans explore the city and encounter dangerous new enemies throughout the season, viewers are taken on a wild ride of adventure and drama, with just enough comic relief along the way.
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[edit] Plot
Dr. Elizabeth Weir, having recently left the SGC, now commands the international research team investigating the Ancient base in Antarctica. Under her command, many important discoveries have been made; scientists have learned how the Ancient power cell, known as a Zero Point Module, functions, as well as learning more about the Ancient projectile weapons in the base. It is also discovered that a specific gene is responsible for activating Ancient technology like the Drone Weapon, as it is called. However, Dr. Daniel Jackson makes the greatest discovery: the Stargate Address to the Lost City of Atlantis.Analyzing the address leads scientists to realize that the city is in the Pegasus galaxy, outside the Gate Network of the Milky Way. Establishing a wormhole to the Pegasus galaxy would require a massive energy source, consuming Earth's Zero Point Module, or ZPM. However, General Jack O'Neill gives the go-ahead, and Dr. Weir, chosen to lead the expedition to the city, assembles her team. Key personnel include Col. Marshall Sumner, commander of the Marine forces traveling to the city, Major John Sheppard, an Air Force Major with a strong concentration of the Ancient gene, Lt. Aiden Ford, a Marine officer, Sgt. Bates, chief of security, Dr. Rodney McKay, genius astrophysicist and head scientist for the expedition, Dr. Radek Zelenka, his second, Dr. Peter Grodin, another lead scientist, and Dr. Carson Beckett, discoverer of the Ancient gene, or ATA gene, and chief medical officer for the expedition.
Upon arriving in Atlantis (and depleting Earth's ZPM in the process), the expedition finds that the Ancients submerged the city to the bottom of the ocean floor to protect the city from attack from a vicious, vampiric enemy, the Wraith. The city was protected from the extreme pressure by an incredibly sophisticated energy shield, powered by the city's main energy plant, an array of three Zero Point Modules. However, continual operation of the shield over ten thousand years has depleted the ZPM's, and the arrival of the expedition automatically re-activated the city's life-support system. This power drain has caused the energy shield to fail; the intense ocean pressure begins to crush the city, but an automatic safeguard causes it to rise to the surface of the ocean.
Meanwhile, Col. Sumner sends out teams through the Atlantis stargate to find a suitable evacuation site should they be forced to leave the city. Indeed, they find one on the planet Athos, but Athos is soon attacked by the Wraith. Col. Sumner and Teyla Emmagan, the Athosian leader, are abducted by the Wraith. Dr. Weir sends Major Sheppard and a team to retrieve the prisoners, and while they do, Col. Sumner is killed, and they awaken the Wraith from a centuries-long hibernation cycle.
Over the course of this season, the expedition, joined by Teyla and her people, explore the galaxy, looking for allies against the Wraith, while also exploring the many advanced labs and towers of the city. They stumble upon an Ancient personal shield emitter, but problems arise when they can't turn it off, and the team also discovers a monstrous insect that may be the progenitor of the Wraith. They must find a traitor who may be sending information to the Wraith and stop the person from compromising their security. They find a planet where the inhabitants commit ritual suicide on reaching the age of 24, in order to fend off the Wraith, and they find a drug that prevents the Wraith from feeding on the life-force of humans. Sadly, the drug tends to kill those who take it as well. Major Sheppard's team contacts an Amish-like world with dark secrets beneath the surface (literally), and later find a planet with an energy source strong enough to send them home, or so they think.
When a great hurricane approaches Atlantis, the team must find a way to power the shield, or the storm surge could destroy the fragile city. Things get more complicated, though, when the team's new nemesis, the Genii, seize the opportunity and try to conquer Atlantis. The expedition team discovers an Ancient satellite with a powerful defensive weapon, but more troubling, an ancient Wraith who has lived for millennia. The scientists inadvertently release a deadly bio-weapon into the city, and Sheppard's team discovers a planet inhabited by an Ascended being. The discovery of an Ancient stasis chamber in Atlantis leads to the revelation of an interesting time-loop having taken place, and cedes the locations of five Ancient outposts known to have ZPMs. Dr. McKay leads a search for a ZPM on one of these worlds, but runs into trouble when the Genii show up. The ZPM is found, then just as quickly lost, even as Dr. Zalenka discovers that a Wraith fleet is on its way to destroy Atlantis.
In a desperate attempt to warn Earth of this new threat, Dr. McKay finds a way to power a wormhole to Earth for just over a second, long enough to send a compressed databurst through. As the Wraith grow nearer, Teyla discovers that her ability to sense the Wraith is in fact evidence that her genome contains some Wraith DNA. She can even telepathically connect with another Wraith mind -- but this can allow the Wraith to take control of her body.
A last-ditch attempt to use the Ancient weapons satellite to fend off the Wraith fails, killing Dr. Peter Grodin, and Atlantis is left defenseless. The expedition prepares to abandon the city, but their luck changes when a new military contingent arrives from Earth, via a ZPM recently discovered there. (SG1: "Moebius, Part 2") The new Marine force, led by Col. Dillon Everett, has brought advanced weapons to fight the Wraith, as well as the good news that the Daedalus, sister ship to the Prometheus, is en route to Atlantis, carrying the ZPM. Things turn sour again, however, when the Wraith forces punch through the new defenses and attack Atlantis directly. Maj. Sheppard embarks on a suicide mission in a Puddle Jumper with an armed nuke on board, in a quest to destroy one of the Wraith's hive ships.
[edit] Main characters
- Joe Flanigan as Major John Sheppard
- Torri Higginson as Dr. Elizabeth Weir
- Rachel Luttrell as Teyla Emmagan
- Rainbow Sun Francks as Lt. Aiden Ford
- David Hewlett as Dr. Rodney McKay
[edit] Broadcasted episodes
- 101: Rising, Part 1 (of 2)
- 102: Rising, Part 2 (of 2)
- 103: Hide and Seek
- 104: Thirty-Eight Minutes
- 105: Suspicion
- 106: Childhood's End
- 107: Poisoning the Well
- 108: Underground
- 109: Home
- 110: The Storm (Part 1 of 2)
- 111: The Eye (Part 2 of 2)
- 112: The Defiant One
- 113: Hot Zone
- 114: Sanctuary
- 115: Before I Sleep
- 116: The Brotherhood
- 117: Letters from Pegasus
- 118: The Gift
- 119: The Siege, Part 1 (of 3)
- 120: The Siege, Part 2 (of 3)
[edit] Novels
- Stargate Atlantis: Rising (Novelization of the pilot episode, Rising)
- Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary (Preceded by Hot Zone and followed by Sanctuary)
- Stargate Atlantis: The Chosen (Preceded by The Eye and followed by The Defiant One)
[edit] Audiobooks
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