Atlantis Season 3

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Atlantis Season 3
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The third season of Stargate Atlantis was a time of change for the series. The cast experienced several changes in the later part of the season, and the individual episodes focused more in this season on character development. In the US, the first half of Season 3 aired from July 14, 2006, to September 22, 2006. The second half aired from April 13, 2007 to June 22, 2007.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Main characters 3 Broadcasted episodes 4 Novels 5 Audiobooks

[edit] Plot

The premiere episode opens where the season two finale, Allies, left off. With the help of the Daedalus and the Orion, as well as assistance from Michael, Col. Sheppard manages to rescue Ronon and McKay from the Wraith ships. One hive is destroyed, the other captured, and the threat to Earth is eliminated.

However, the international advisory committee did not respond well to the potential of Wraith at their doorstep, recalling Doctor Elizabeth Weir to face questioning over her handling of the matter. Their mood is not improved when Weir chooses to resettle hundreds of Wraith, transformed into humans by the Iratus bug retrovirus, on a habitable planet under the expedition's observation. Michael, his memory erased using the retrovirus, is placed among them as well. This plan backfires as the former Wraith soon realize what the humans are doing, managing to revert back to Wraith form and contact a hive to pick them up. Atlantis' captured hive ship is destroyed while attempting to wipe out the population on the planet before they could be rescued. Most of the Wraith are killed, but Michael survives.

Sheppard and his team go on to have numerous adventures throughout this season, meeting a man with an addictive personality and falling victim to a Wraith hallucinatory device. Ronon is captured by the Wraith and made a runner again, battling dozens of Wraith on his homeworld before he is rescued, and Sheppard is captured by Acastus Kolya and must work together with a Wraith prisoner to escape. Rodney McKay's genius sister visits Atlantis to work on a project that holds the promise of a new ultimate power source — but ends up depleting the city's ZPM instead. And the expedition encounters a new enemy, the Asurans, who upon learning that Atlantis still exists make it their mission to eliminate the city.

During the first successful test of the McKay-Carter Intergalactic Gate Bridge, the Daedalus finds an Ancient warship in the void between galaxies, with live Ancients on board. When the Ancients return to Atlantis, they politely ask all the humans there to leave, and the Atlantis expedition is brought to an end. But only three weeks later, the Asurans assault and capture the city, killing all the Ancients there. Though General O'Neill, himself trapped in Atlantis, had left standing orders to destroy the city if it was ever captured, Sheppard and Weir lead a small team to defeat the Asurans and regain control of the city.

Not long after the expedition's return, Atlantis is almost destroyed by a solar flare, and saved only by a warning from telepathic whales. The team again runs into Lucius Lavin and Kolya, as well as finding a planet controlled by an Ancient device that McKay and Sheppard had been using as a video game. Rodney is given superhuman powers by a flawed Ascension machine, and the team finds a world where the remnants of a civilization have hidden from the Wraith inside a modified Wraith dematerialization device.

The continued stress of these tribulations leads Dr. Kate Heightmeyer to impose a day off for the expedition team's members, but this too goes awry when another Ancient device claims the lives of several expedition members, including Dr. Carson Beckett. Things go little better when team finds an Ancient geothermal platform to supplement their ZPM, and is stalked by a Wraith queen who had been trapped undersea for some ten thousand years. And after losing contact with the Taranians whom they had rescued the previous year, Sheppard's team discovered that Michael has used them to create an army of engineered Iratus bugs.

When a new ship, the Apollo, arrives from Earth with a new weapons system and a plan to launch a preemptive strike against the Asurans, Dr. Weir begins to question whether she can remain as head of the expedition. Before she can make any decision, an Asuran counterattack leaves the city under siege, forcing it to submerge once again. Ultimately, Weir choses to depart Lantea altogether, using the single ZPM left from the Asuran takeover to power the city's stardrive. But this, too, does not go as planned, critically injuring Weir and leaving the city crippled, lost in space, and with only 24 hours of oxygen.

[edit] Main characters

Joe Flanigan as Lt. Col. John Sheppard

Torri Higginson as Dr. Elizabeth Weir

Rachel Luttrell as Teyla Emmagan

Jason Momoa as Ronon Dex

Paul McGillion as Dr. Carson Beckett

David Hewlett as Dr. Rodney McKay

[edit] Broadcasted episodes

301: No Man's Land (Part 2 of 3)

302: Misbegotten (Part 3 of 3)

303: Irresistible

304: Sateda

305: Progeny

306: The Real World

307: Common Ground

308: McKay and Mrs. Miller

309: Phantoms

310: The Return, Part 1 (of 2)

311: The Return, Part 2 (of 2)

312: Echoes

313: Irresponsible

314: Tao of Rodney

315: The Game

316: The Ark

317: Sunday

318: Submersion

319: Vengeance

320: First Strike (Part 1 of 3)

[edit] Novels

• Stargate Atlantis: Casualties of War (Preceded by The Real World and followed by Common Ground)
• Stargate Atlantis: Blood Ties (Preceded by Sunday and followed by Submersion)

[edit] Audiobooks

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5