+++ Season 3 (2006/07) +++

301. No Man's Land
The episode began with a recap: Daedalus scrapping with Wraith ships, which jumped into hyperspace taking Col. Sheppard with them, riding on the hull of the Queen's ship. Dr. Zalenka concluded organic Wraith ships would have to take a break from hyperspace, which would offer an ambush opportunity. Dr. Weir told Col. Caldwell to pursue the Wraith with the wrecks of Daedalus and Orion with orders to stop them getting to Earth or die in the attempt.
   On the hive ship, Michael was miffed because the Queen didn't tell him her plan to betray Atlantis. Dr. Weir was ordered back to Earth, where the IOA was looking for a scapegoat to cover their asses. Michael heard Sheppard trying to contact McKay & Ronon, and offered a mutual survival pact. Ronon broke free from his cocoon and he and McKay looked for ways to sabotage the hive ship. Sheppard shot up a Wraith ship with his fighter before being shot up and captured.
   On Earth, Dr. Weir refused to be grilled by the IOA and headed back to Atlantis. Michael took charge of Sheppard when he was brought aboard the hive ship. Daedalus and Orion arrived to attack the Wraith ships. Orion took one out before being taken out in its turn. The crew was beamed aboard Daedalus.
   Sheppard & Michael caught up with McKay & Ronon, and headed for Daedalus in a stolen dart, and were beamed aboard. Daedalus had lost life support and had 9 hours' air left. McKay suggested taking over the Wraith ship as a source of air and Michael suggested sending over the retrovirus to turn the crew into humans. Most of the Wraith were dead when Sheppard beamed over, but some were confused humans. Sheppard got to shoot the Queen. To be continued ...

302. Misbegotten
Dr. Weir ordered Atlantis to be cloaked when Teylar reported that the city had lost contact with Daedalus and a Wraith hive ship was approaching. The doctor had to man the Ancient's weapon. But it was the hive ship captured by Sheppard & Co. last week, and it had 200 ex-Wraith aboard. Mr. Woolsey dumped the problem of what to do with them on Dr. Weir.
   Michael didn't like being locked up and he didn't want Dr. Beckett to give him the retrovirus as it would amount to a 'death of personality' for him. The IOA let Dr. Weir retain her command while Woolsey composed a report on her. The 200 prisoners ended up on a planet without a stargate and Michael was given the retrovirus by stealth. He had to stay with the prisoners as he wasn't sure if they would revert.
   Lathan, a prisoner suggested overpowering the guards and taking their ship. Woolsey tried to bribe information out of Col. Caldwell. Lathan, who was starting to revert to a Wraith, went walkabout and the other prisoners killed him. Then they stopped taking their medication, killed the humans (apart from the doctor) and took over the prison camp.
   McKay detected a Wraith hive ship heading for the prison planet and Sheppard had to take the barely working, captured Wraith ship to intercept it. Michael started questioning Dr. Beckett. Daedalus also headed for the prison planet. Some systems came on-line when the hive ship detected Wraith on the planet. Sheppard planted a nuke on the planet and rescued the doctor, but Michael deactivated the weapon.
   Sheppared tried to shoot up the camp with his ship's partially functional weapons as the other hive ship arrived. Daedalus found only wreckage in orbit, but Sheppard & Co. were hiding on a cloaked jumper. Woolsey avoided putting inconvenient facts in his report to let Dr. Weir remain in charge of Atlantis 'for the moment'. And Michael is probably still alive.

303. Irresistible
This is a somewhat silly episode.
   Sheppard & Co. go looking for stargate at uninhabited planets as part of a plan to connect Earth and Atlantis with a chain of conventional gates. They meet loudmouth Lucius, a flim-flam merchant, on a backwater planet, and Sheppard has a cold. Everyone on the planet thinks Lucius is the bee's knees, and Dr. Beckett falls under his spell while checking out his potions, and takes him to Atlantis without authorization.
   Sheppard & McKay return to Atlantis to find that everyone is under Lucius' spell. McKay thinks it's like an old Batman episode. Sheppard takes command. They see Lucius take a potion, and McKay tries to analyze it. Sheppard finds everyone on Lucius' planet going cold turkey in his absence. Sheppard gets more of the potion but when he returns to Atlantis, he finds that McKay is under Lucius's spell, too.
   Dr. Weir sends a team to a world with a Wraith base after Lucius asssures her it's uninhabited. They return with some plants, which Lucius needs to make his potion. Sheppard shoots Dr. Beckett and abducts him in a jumper along with McKay's computer. Sheppard is tracked down by Ronon and shot in his turn.
   Lucius tells Sheppard he was running out of his herb after the Wraith took over the only planet where it grows. Then the gang from Atlantis arrived with the means of getting him some more. Dr. Beckett pretends to give Lucius the ATA gene to let him operate a jumper, but it's really the antidote to the herb, which lets Lucius produce a pheromone which makes everyone like him. And Sheppard takes Lucius home to a village where everyone has received the antidote.

304. Sateda
A team from Atlantis visited a village and McKay was shot in the bum with an arrow. Teyla, Ronon & Sheppard were shot with tranquillizer darts and captured. Ronon had visited the village during his time as a Runner and the Wraith had promised the villagers immunity from culling if they handed Ronon over. Ronon got hold of a knife and threatened to kill himself if Teyla & Sheppard weren't released.
   The Wraith turned Ronon into a Runner again. Sheppard went back to the village mob-handed, only to find everyone dead or culled. Ronon was returned to his wrecked homeworld to be hunted again, so there were lots of flash-backs to the time before the Wraith destroyed it.
   Col. Caldwell was reluctant to rescue Ronon but Sheppard refused to abandon a member of the team. Ronon killed individual Wraith then half a dozen went after him. He went to the wreck of the hospital where his wife used to work to extract some shrapnel. Sheppard found him there.
   Ronon didn't want to leave the planet until he had killed the Wraith in charge of the hive ship. So the Wraith was lured to the planet. Ronon got his ass kicked but Dr. Beckett took the Wraith out from a decloaked jumper. And Ronon seemed quite cool with what he'd done.

305. Progeny
Atlantis contacts a new world and the people say, "Come over if you're friendly." They have a vast city, like Atlantis, and 'the Wraith do not concern them'. They also have lots of ZPMs, which they built themselves. Dr. Weir thinks they might be Ancients and their leader confirms it. They split off from the other Ancients when the others started their war with the Wraith and survived in isolation. But they plan to eliminate the Wraith 'one day soon'.
   Oberoth, their leader, has the visitors thrown in gaol, they stage a break out and head home. Seven Wraith hive ships attack Atlantis. Dr. Weir orders an evacuation to Earth. Sheppard starts the city's self-destruct system. Then he finds it was all a fantasy and he was being interrogated.
   Dr. McKay realizes the Asurians are Replicators. Which think they can Ascend. They thought Atlantis had been destroyed, so they head there in their city-spaceship to finish Atlantis off. Dr. Weir is told that the Ancients created warrior nanytes, which evolved into humanoids. The Ancients decided the weapon wouldn't work and they tried to destroy it. But some Replicators survived.
   Some of them want Dr. McKay to write the aggression out of their base code. They hope to share the new code with the others at a 'merger' and talk Oberoth round. McKay manages to freeze the Replicators and Weir tells him to blow up the Replicator city. Sheppard & Co. retreat shooting and fly off the city as McKay's power overload starts.
   The Replicator on the jumper starts strangling Dr. Weir as the other Replicators 'reset' him. So he is spaced and left to drift around aimlessly. Back at Atlantis, McKay is unable to find a single mention of the Replicators in the Atlantis databank, and the conclusion is that the Ancients wiped out all record of them.

306. The Real World
Dr. Weir wakes up in a psychiatric hospital on Earth. Her doctor tells her she has never left Earth and she collapsed during some treaty negotiations. But Dr. Weir remembers that she did that job 2 years before, not 3 days before. General O'Neill arrives to tell her he knows nothing about stargates and Atlantis in another galaxy. Then his head goes into a blur briefly.
   Weir is sedated when she tries to escape. The doctor says she's depressed by the death of an ex-boyfriend in a car crash, which she survived. Her mother turns up to give Weir her father's watch and she keeps seeing shadowy figures watching her. The staff fail to spot that she's not taking her medication, but she goes back on the pills to keep the terrors at bay.
   Surprise! Dr. Weir is in the hospital at Atlantis and her body is full of nanytes, with which she was infected by the Replicator, who was spaced at the end of the previous episode. Dr. Beckett thinks they are using Weir's body in an attempt to survive, having convinced her immune system that they are not a threat.
   Col. Sheppard tells Weir to fight back when Dr. Beckett says she might be able to hear him. The doc uses some Wraith tissue to lure the nanytes out of Weir's brain so that they can be zapped with an EM pulse. But they have been replicating using organic material, which makes some of the EM-proof. Sheppard deduces that there's a battle of wills going on, which Weir has to win.
   Sheppard goes into the isolation booth to make contact with Weir and tell her to run, which she does. She uses the stargate to escape from O'Neill and the SGC and she ends up okay again on Atlantis, with her father's watch.

307. Common Ground
A team from Atlantis was lured to a planet, but everyone but Sheppard made it back home. He ended up Kolya's prisoner. Leyden, the current head of the Geni, turned up at Atlantis to offer his help, as Kolya had used codes leaked by Leyden's staff. Kolya contacted Dr. Weir to say he wanted to trade Leyden for Sheppard. And to help with her decision, he was going to let his captive Wraith feed off Sheppard in 3 hours' time.
   Kolya was feeling upset because he felt he should have been the next ruler of the Geni, not Leyden. Sheppard found himself in the next cell to the Wraith. A rescue mission went after Sheppard and wasted a lot of time. The Wraith got another meal. Sheppard proposed a joint escape plan to the Wraith, who agreed.
   Leyden came up with the right gate address. Sheppard and the Wraith escaped, and the Wraith had a snack from Sheppard to find the energy to take out one of Kolya's patrols. Sheppard looked about 190 by the time the gang from Atlantis arrived.
   The Wraith, which had fed from Kolya's men, returned Sheppard's life force, underlining his remark that humans knew very little about the Wraith. So Sheppard stopped Ronon from killing the Wraith, dropped him off on the way home and told the Wraith he knew very little about humans. But both understood that all bets would be off if they ever met again.

308. McKay And Mrs. Miller
A woman on Earth went into a mathematical frenzy. She turned out to be Jean, Dr. McKay's sister, and he was recalled from Atlantis to get her to sign a confidentiality agreement. When she wouldn't do it, not trusting the military, she was beamed aboard Daedalus, where Col. Carter told her that her discovery was needed to protect the planet she was staring at.
   Carter believed that her theory offered a way to extract safe zero point energy from a parallel universe while leaving the exotic particles created in the parallel universe. Jeanie got to meet an Asgard on the way to Atlantis, where everyone took the Mick out of McKay for being called Meredith before Rodney.
   Another McKay appeared in the containment chamber when the experimental rig was fired up. He wanted the experiment shut down as it was endangering his Atlantis, and he was stuck in his new universe. McKay2 was way more popular than McKay1. The bridge between the universes was still there after the experimental rig was switched off, and it had to be switched on again to prevent an explosion.
   Atlantis2 came up with a solution, which would destroy Atlantis1 and put a tear in the fabric of universe1. Jeanie decided that the bridge could be collapsed if the ZPM on Atlantis1 fed enough power into it. McKay2 was returned to his own universe and the ZPM was depleted completely.
   Sheppard showed Jeanie a message from her brother, recorded 2 years before, to prove that he did think about her occasionally. And Dr. Weir didn't fire McKay for rendering their ZPM useless.

309. Phantoms
Sheppard & Co. go looking for a missing team on another world. McKay is picking up puzzling energy readings. Teyla finds the first of a group of ancient Geni corpses, all shot or stabbed. They killed one another and the big question is, what happened to the guys from Atlantis? More bodies turn up in a cave and McKay finds the source of the energy. The missing men are found shot dead, their major is missing and he killed his own men.
   Sheppard orders a return to Atlantis, the group jumps at shadows along the way, and the major attacks and destroys the DHD. McKay says he needs to shut down the device. He thinks it's a Wraith experiment which the Geni found, tinkered with, then shot up in an effort to switch it off, destroying the control panel.
   The major wings Teyla. Ronon sees a Wraith and goes after it. Everyone but Teyla starts hallucinating, Dr. Beckett about the wounded and dead of their party. McKay thinks it's an effect of the Wraith device. Sheppard starts thinking he's in a desert in Afghanistan. Ronon shoots down a remote piloted vehicle from Atlantis, which frustrates their attempts to find out what his going on.
   Sheppard & Ronon start shooting at each other. McKay thinks the device is overloading but he realizes it is an hallucination just before Sheppard shoots him. Teyla forces Sheppard to help her disarm the device and everyone comes back to their senses. Atlantis provides them with supplies and they have to wait for Daedalus to pick them up.

310. The Return (Part 1)
McKay's triumph of creating a bridge of 34 stargates to connect the Pegasus & Milky Way galaxies in a 30 minute was diluted by the detection of a ship travelling at near light speed. Sheppard successfully piloted a jumper to the SGC. The ship turned out to be crewed by Ancients; survivors of a battle with the Wraith. Helia, captain of the Ancient ship Tria asked Daedalus for help, but when she arrived at Atlantis, she gave it a new ZPM, took the city over and told the humans to leave.
   Weir & Co. got 48 hours to go but the IOA was allowed to send Mr. Woolsey there as a liaison officer. The Pegasus Replicators were detected heading for Atlantis but the Ancients weren't worried as the Replicators' base code prevented them from attacking their creators. Meanwhile, the former crew of Atlantis were stuck back on Earth and hating it.
   The Replicators took over Atlantis. McKay got the blame for having made it possible for them to rewrite their base code. General Landry wanted to nuke Atlantis to stop the Replicators getting to the Milky Way galaxy. Weir, Sheppard, McKay & Dr. Beckett stole the jumper and headed for Teyla's world, where the Geni were trying to recruit Teyla & Ronon. They preferred to go to Atlantis with Sheppard & Co.

311. The Return (Part 2)
Mr. Woolsey and Gen. O'Neill were dodging replicators at Atlantis, and Woolsey had left Gen. Landry with a standing order to nuke the city if there was a Foothold situation. Sheppard's jumper arrived and blew up the control room. Gen. Landry cancelled Sheppard & Co.'s IGCs. They retrieved the replicator spaced in episode 305 as part of McKay's plan to give them a virus. All of the Ancients are dead.
   Gen. Landry gave Dr. Lee the job of dismantling the stargate bridge to the Pegasus galaxy; he decided a Mark 9 nuke at the half-way point would do it. The jumper had to evade drones as it tried to broadcast McKay's virus to the replicators. Gen. O'Neill wasn't impressed by the strength of the rescue mission.
   Sheppard tried to get into the city via an underwater jumper bay. So O'Neill had to do a lot of underwater swimming to open the door. After almost getting himself killed, O'Neill was captured with Woolsey and they had their minds probed. McKay had to zap the replicator in the jumper when it turned on him. So would it be Plan B? Kill replicators? No, they'd just adapt to the weapon so it was Plan C. Put C4 in the shield generators. Which O'Neill decided was more like Plan F, as in "We're totally f**ked!"
   The plan was to take out the shields so that Daedalus could nuke the city but everyone was captured and the replicators switched on the shield. So cue a rapid replay to explain that it was really Plan D; turn the shields into replicator destroying-weapons and feed the replicators false information via Mr. Woolsey. So the replicators were all zapped and Dr. Weir got to take command of Atlantis again.

312. Echoes
The people on Atlantis, starting with Teyla, started seeing ghosts and McKay was bombarding Dr. Weir with emails telling her that she should keep all 3 of the ZPMs brought to the city by the replicators instead of just one of them. Dr. Beckett checked Tayla over and found nothing wrong with her. Sheppard found McKay watching a 'whale', which was swimming close to the city. McKay had named it Sam.
   Dr. Weir also saw 'the burnt man' one of Teyla's ghosts. The lady shrink on Atlantis thought it was just the power of suggestion. McKay's scans showed that Sam's mother was also in the area, so he and Sheppard went underwater in a jumper for a closer look at them. Dr. Beckett and Ronon also saw ghosts. A huge gang of whales closed in on Atlantis, and they emitted EM pulses and eardrum-bursting sub-sonic frequencies.
   All the ghosts were worried or injured Ancients. As the crew of Atlantis began to go sick with terrible headaches, Teyla assumed that the Ancients were trying to warn them about the whales. So Colonel Caldwell suggested zapping them with drones. But McKay decided that the whales were trying to help them. They were projecting ghost images from some past catastrophe to warn the people of Atlantis.
   Then McKay noticed that a monumental coronal mass ejection was about to erupt from their star. With 3 ZPMs, the city had been able to extend its shield over a large part of the planet. With only one, the city and its surroundings would be protected, but most of the life on the planet would be wiped out.
   Sheppard decided that the only thing to do was install the ZPM on Daedalus, get really close to the star and use the spacecraft's shields to deflect the CME. There was a huge build up of heat behind the shield as the plasma washed over it but, as both Sheppard and McKay realized afterwards, "We're not toast!"
   The 'whales' left Atlantis after the danger was over, but Sam lingered.

313. Irresponsible
Sheppard & Co. go looking for a hero and find that it's Lucius [see episode 303, Irresistible], who's in a village that looks like Hamelin. Dr. Beckett does a blood test but finds no trace of the charisma herb. Lucius reckons he's invincible; and he has an Ancient personal shield. He realized what the device was when browsing in the records at Atlantis.
   Armed men come looking for the hero, Sheppard surrenders his group then Lucius 'zaps' the intruders. Only he's using the 'bad guys' to build up his reputation, and they used to be the elite bodyguard of Kolya of the Genii. The villagers don't want to hear a word against Lucius when Sheppard tries to spill the beans on him.
   Kolya arrives in the village so Lucius hides Sheppard & Co. Then he finds out the hard way that, even with his shield, he can't breath with his head submerged in a barrel of water. Sheppard & Co. aren't in the secret hiding place when Kolya's men arrive so Kolya threatens to bury Lucius alive.
   Everyone but Sheppard is captured and Koyla tells them he's going to swap them for weapons from Atlantis. Then he threatens to shoot McKay unless Sheppard surrenders. Lucius tells the villagers they have to save themselves to regain their independence.
   Sheppard surrenders wearing the shield, which malfunctions after the first fusilade. The villagers rise up and take out the bodyguard, and Sheppard gets to shoot Kolya in a fast-draw contest. And Lucius gets the broken shield back, not knowing it's broken.

314. Tao Of Rodney
McKay & a science team are shutting down gadgets switched on by the Ancients to save power when McKay screws up big-time in a small room where he is zapped by an energy pulse. There are no detectable physical effects but McKay acquires super-hearing and becomes a telekinetic.
   A team on M72656 sends a distress call, Dr. Zalenka finds that McKay's DNA has been manipulated and when the rescue team returns, Dr. Weir learns that McKay jammed the bad guys' weapons. Then he makes Dr. Beckett float in mid-air. McKay is a telekinetic, he's becoming smarter, he's eating huge amounts and he thinks he has been turned into an Ancient super-hero. Sheppard wants to be next.
   McKay takes over the Chair and starts messing about with Atlantis' systems. Dr. Weir decides the machine is intended to help Ancients Ascend if they can't do it unaided. Worse, McKay will croak if he doesn't Ascend! Dr. Zalenka is zapped by a power surge. McKay heals him. Then McKay decides that all he has to do is Ascend and then return in human form.
   Big problem; McKay realizes he's not going to Ascend and he feels obliged to apologize to everyone for his past behaviour. He flatlines after asking Beckett to save him. The doctor takes him back to the room where he was zapped and McKay is zapped again.
   McKay returns to his old self; and finds that the stuff he wrote while enhanced now makes no sense. And that he could have Ascended after all and saved himself without the doctor's help.

315. The Game
Atlantis finds a world with geosynchronous satellites and 2 pre-space societies on either side of a river. One culture has pictures of McKay all over the place and the planets looks like the setting for a game which Sheppard & McKay have been playing in a 'games room' which they found in the city. The satellites were made by the Ancients and they are transmitting a tremendous amount of data.
   The people in McKay's country decide that he is The Oracle, who stopped communicating with their terminal a long time ago. His country wants Sheppard's removed as it is a thorn in their side. Dr. Zalenka finds that there are lots of other planets linked to the 'games room', which is a vast Ancients' experiment and Sheppard & McKay are responsible for an arms race and hostilities on their planet.
   Dr. Zalenka finds himself helping another society to let it survive and he gets into a 'game' with another member of the staff. The leaders of the 2 societies on the first world are taken to Atlantis for an apology and an explanation. Dr. Weir tries to broker a peace treaty with little success. A war starts over a mine dug from McKay's country to coal deposits under Sheppard's country.
   Dr. Weir sends Sheppard & McKay back to the planet to stop the war. McKay's side have airships and bombs, but Sheppard's lot can shoot them down. Col. Caldwell beams Sheppard & McKay to Daedalus to give them a strategy then beams them back. Both countries see their forces wiped out on their display screens; but it turns out to be just special effects from Daedalus. The strategy was to let them experience a real war in virtual reality and realize what a mistake it would be.

316. The Ark
Sheppard & Co. were investigating a small, hollowed out moon. Sheppard thought the technology was antiquated but McKay was impressed by the sheer effort involved in building the base. McKay triggered a gadget in a control room and suddenly 2 men called Herek and Jamus appeared in the moon.
   It turned out that some of their people had been put into stasis using adapted Wraith beaming technology. Their planet had been destroyed in a war with the Wraith and the orbiting base was intended to be a lifeboat for 2,000 people. Only a stasic changer containing the second 1,000 people, including the family of Herek, the architect of the project, had never got off the surface.
   Herek fired up a shuttle attached to the moon and killed himself while pushing the moon out of orbit. The people from Atlantis were separated by compartments with no air and their jumper was blasted out into space. But when Dr. Weir called the team, Sheppard was able to ask for help.
   Teyla reminded McKay that there were still 1,000 people in stasis. He told her there wasn't the power available to release them. Jamus took Teyla prisoner to get his people saved. Sheppard had the storage device put aboard another shuttle, which he planned to fly down to the planet. Only he couldn't undock it from the moon.
   Sheppard had to ride the moon into the atmosphere until it broke apart. He made a landing from which he could walk away. And Jamus, conveniently, didn't make it.

317. Sunday
Atlantis is having a rest day, by order, when there is an explosion and Teyla is injured. 3 hours earlier; Dr. Weir is trying, but failing, to avoid having lunch with the pushy Mike. Afterwards, she is told that 3 people were killed in an explosion. 5 hours earlier; Ronon got fed up of watching Sheppard knocking golf balls into the sea and introduced him to flag-fighting. They were hanging out when they heard the explosion. Dr. Zalenka thought that Dr. Houston had blown up.
   Cut to McKay chewing out Drs. Houston & Watson for switching on a device and irradiating themselves on the day before the rest day. Then McKay gets out of going fishing with Dr. Beckett. He is fern-sitting with Katie instead when he hears the explosion. McKay realizes that the device which his staff switched on is an anti-Wraith weapon, which creates explosive tumours in the human body. And that Dr. Watson will go bang next.
   Back to Beckett looking for someone to go fishing with him. He is in the medical centre when Dr. Houston explodes. He operates on Teyla and he is working on Watson when McKay tells him about the explosive tumour. Beckett locks everyone out out of his tower after his nurse insists on staying.
   The operation is a success, Beckett hands the tumour over to a bomb disposal guy, then he is caught in the blast when it goes off and killed. So he gets a memorial service on Atlantis and a posthumous chat with McKay.

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318. Submersion
The gang was looking for a submerged mobile drilling station as a source of geothermal power and McKay was being a pain. Dr. Weir wanted to know why the Ancients abandoned it. Teyla sensed a Wraith. No Wraith, said McKay but everyone believed Teyla. Teyla went into a Wraith-detecting trance; and changed her mind about the Wraith. Then she beat up Ronon.
   Meanwhile, a Wraith queen had woken up on a crashed cruiser and she swam to the station. Teyla messed about with the station's controls a bit, then the queen released her mental grip. The hungry queen ate one of the extras. The queen decided Sheppard was going to fly her to the stargate. Ronon got in the way.
   The queen was captured. She'd been on the sea bed for 10,000 years, since the last Wraith attack on the Ancients. She'd set the self-destruct on her cruiser, which would blow up in 2 hours. The planet's crust was thin at that point, so the blast would take out Atlantis!
   McKay had 30 minutes to stop the self-destruct when he got aboard the cruiser. Teyla set the queen free and she was bamboozled into switching off the self-destruct. Then she was rewarded with lots and lots of bullets.

319. Vengeance
Ronon was bashing McKay with a kendoish stick then the gang was sent to investigate what had happened to the relocated Teranans. Nobody home and the village abandoned suddenly. There were extensive underground bunkers and something had emerged from a cocoon. Dr. Weir sent some Marines as backup. They didn't last long.
   Sheppard blew up a room full of cocoons. McKay thought the Wraith were trying to create a weapon rather than more Wraith. But it was Michael, feeling rejected by both humans and the Wraith, who was creating human-Iratus bug hybrids in an attempt to build an army. And he'd taken the control crystal out of the DHD, so Sheppard and Co. were stuck.
   Teyla was taken prisoner as the other fought the monster. Michael said he had other labs on other planets, and he had sent a fake message to Atlantis to make Dr. Weir think that everything was okay. Sheppard & Co. found the bodies of the Marines. They blasted the monster and killed a smaller bug, which Michael has set on Teyla.
   McKay disabled the shielding which Michael had set up in the complex and spotted dozens more monsters. Sheppard had a chat with Michael. He and Ronon got to the surface and stole Michael's dart, which had a DHD in it. The gang got home, then much guilt about Michael finding the Teranans using data stolen from Atlantis. Daedalus found no sign of Michael and the monsters when it checked the planet.

320. First Strike
Dr. Beckett's replacement doesn't feel up to the job so Dr. Weir tells her to give it another 2 weeks. The Ancient Replicators are building a fleet on their planet. Weir wants to negotiate but they are obviously planning to attack Earth, so Apollo, the new spaceship, is going to zap them, which McKay thinks is a bad idea.
   The 6 nukes go off (but did anyone get any pix of the sites beforehand to make sure the ships were still there?) A small ship parks in orbit over Atlantis. No, it's a satellite with a stargate, which fires a beam weapon at the city. McKay thinks there's enough power to stop the gate shutting down after 38 minutes. Weir tries to negotiate with Replicator boss Oberoth. He responds with a virus attack.
   The shield will last 29 hours, then the ZPM will be exhausted. McKay and Zelenka buy another 10 hours by submerging the city. Nowhere on the planet is safe so Sheppard suggests using the geothermal drilling station for power to blast the city into space so that it can go to another planet.
   An asteroid is manoeuvred into the beam but the control tower takes a strike before power can be switched from the drive to the shield again. Weir is an end-of-series casualty. Worse, the city suddenly drops out of hyperspace in the middle of nowhere with just 24 hours of power for the atmosphere-containing shield left.

Dr. Zalenka, Dr. Keller, Colonel Carter and Wraith 'Michael'

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401. Adrift
Atlantis was losing masive amounts of power through leaky conduits and Dr. Weir was in a bad way, too. Sheppard had the hump because McKay was too busy to tell him what he was doing. The shield started collapsing and some of the team were killed. It collapsed to just the central tower. Meanwhile, Colonel Carter and Dr. Lee were at the midway station of the gate bridge with no gravity.
   Apollo went looking for the city. Dr. Weir needed surgery for a swelling brain. The leaky conduits had to be plugged while there was enough ZPM power left to operate the hyperdrive. The city was drifting toward an asteroid cluster, so Sheppard put everyone with the Ancient gene in a jumper to blast a path through.
   Dr. Keller wanted McKay to reactivate Weir's nanites as her only hope of repair. Sheppard said it's too big a risk. Sheppard and Zalenka had to make a spacewalk to fix asteroid damage to get the hyperdrive working. Zalenka was shot in the leg by a fragment but got a repair done.
   Weir crashed in the infirmary and there was no longer enough power to operate the hyperdrive. Colonel Carter decided to head for the Pegasus galaxy. McKay reactivated the nanites after rewriting their code and Weir woke up as Sheppard was about to kill her as a threat to the city.
   Weir thought reviving the nanites was a very bad idea. What about using a jumper with hyperdrive to steal a couple of ZPMs from the Replicator homeworld to get the hyperdrive and the shield working again?

402. Lifeline
McKay was back-tracking on getting a jumper hyperspace-capable. Dr. Weir and her nanites were needed for the ZPM mission. She ordered Sheppard to kill her if she started acting weirdly. Colonel Carter & Dr. Lee were beamed aboard Apollo to search for Atlantis. The jumper needed a ZPM for the return trip to Atlantis; too much power consumption in hyperspace.
   Dr. Weir tuned in to the Replicator network. The ZPM was bagged easily but McKay found a deactivated code, which could be switched on to make the Replicators attack the Wraith again; a one-time deal they had to take. The Replicators defeated McKay's barrier and Weir took action with Sheppard and Ronon as good as dead.
   Weir bamboozled Oberoth after taking control of the collective but she had to be left behind when the jumper left. Apollo turned up in the nick of time. Atlantis found a new planet and Sheppard bounced the city into its ocean. Communication with Earth was restored. A Replicator fleet was spotted launching to attack the Wraith. Carter is now a full colonel and Sheppard refused to give up on Dr. Weir.

403. Reunion
Ronon & Teyla visited a planet full of eager would-be husbands. Ronon met again 3 old armed forces buddies after Teyla got in a bar fight with them. McKay thought the IOC would put him in charge of Atlantis. Wrong! Colonel Carter got the gig. The Replicators were kicking Wraith ass. Teyla wanted Ronon to be cautious over telling his mates about Atlantis.
   Ronon got the hump when Carter told him Atlantis wasn't receiving guests and Sheppard wanted to go on a suicide mission in search of Dr. Weir. Ronon's buddies said they wanted to attack a Wraith science base, where the Wraith were working to switch off the Replicator attack code. It was just a ruse.
   Ronon's buddies turned McKay over to the Wraith, who ordered him to do the switching off job. Sheppard managed to get back to Atlantis. Carter sent 2 jumpers. Ronon found out the hard way about his 'buddies'. The Wraith had a Replicator prisoner, which started killing them when the power to his force-field containment went off. His ex-mates had a sob story for Ronon. Two of them ended up dead and Ronon went home; to Atlantis.

404. Doppelganger
The gang visit a dark jungle planet; no info on it @ Atlantis. There's a glowing crystal on a tree; Sheppard feels compelled to touch it and he's zapped. A medical back home says he's okay. Teyla has a weird dream featuring an evil Sheppard. She tells Dr. Kate, the shrink, that she's afraid to go to sleep. She ends up in the infirmary? No, it's another dream.
   Dr. Keller and Ronon have nightmares. Major Lorn pulls a gun on Sheppard and insists he's a Replicator. So's Colonel Carter. Ronon has to shoot him. He was sleepwalking. Carter orders a virtual lockdown and no gate travel. The conclusion is that there was a sociopathic alien entity in the crystal.
   Back to the planet in bug-suits. Another crystal bought back for study almost bamboozles Keller into touching it. Dr. Kate dies in her sleep thanks to the creature, which lives on fear. Carter orders a full lockdown. The creature is trapped in McKay. Sheppard gives Carter an idea for using a VR system to get Sheppard into McKay's dreams.
   McKay crashes. Crap! He's revived. Because the alien being is in Sheppard. He has a dream punch-up with his evil self. McKay joins in and the monster ends up back in its crystal. Then the crystals are dumped back where they came from.

405. Travelers
Sheppard was captured by a gang of space pirates. Their leader had heard of Sheppard and she'd been looking for a newcomer who could use Ancient technology. She told him to help get an Ancient warship working again or be spaced. Sheppard took over the ship. The boss bluffed him into giving it up.
   McKay detected a Morse SOS from Sheppard. The Wraith got the signal, too, and started shooting. Sheppard zapped them with drones; after they'd written off the 2 male pirates. Three Wraith boarded the ship from darts. Using a drone took out two of them. The third ate the pirate boss. Sheppard made it restore her as the price of freedom.
   Sheppard let the pirate shoot him and he ended up a prisoner again. The other pirate ships arrived. Then some cloaked jumpers turned up after a 5-hour trip just as the pirates went into hyperspace. But the ditched the dopey Sheppard in his jumper.

406. Tabula Rasa
McKay had a funny turn then he found a message from himself; he had to find a particular woman (Teyla) or hundreds of people would die, including himself! Oh, crap. 14 hours earlier. Dr. Kate the biologist named a virulent cactus after McKay. She had a headache; so did lots of others; pretty soon, the infirmary was swamped by people with headaches.
   Zalenka tried to get McKay to hide from the soldiers. 10 hours before: Dr. Brown added memory loss to her symptoms. Something nasty had been brought to Atlantis and spread through the general population. With the infirmary full, patients had to be taken to the mess hall. Major Lorn and a gang (the soldiers) filled themselves to the gills with speed to delay their collapse.
   Teyla and Ronon were immune. McKay & Carter escaped from the mess hall. There was an Athosian treatment but Sheppard needed to fly to the mainland to get some herbs as amnesiac Zalenka had disabled the gate on Carter's orders. Ronon had to shoot Sheppard when he went wonky and tie him up.
   Lorne & his speed-freaks grabbed Teyla. McKay left a message for himself. Ronon got the herbs but Sheppard escaped from his bonds whilst he was away from the jumper. By some miracle, the cure was distributed and Dr. Kate woke up last and remembered McKay.

407. The Seer
Teyla took the gang to visit a Great Seer. McKay wouldn't believe he could tell her what happened to the Athosians. There was a reception committee waiting at the gate; the Vedeenans were expecting the visitors. Meanwhile, Mr. Woolsey arrived in Atlantis to do Col. Carter's 3-month evaluation. Oh, joy!
   The Wraith who teamed up with Sheppard to escape from the Genii wanted to contact him. The Seer showed McKay a vision of a Wraith ambush. So Sheppard took a couple of cloaked jumpers along when he met the Wraith and took him prisoner. Dr. Keller found that the Seer was dying of cancer. The Wraith wanted the Atlanteans to switch off the Replicators, who were wiping out the entire population on human planets to deprive the Wraith of food.
   The Seer was a mutation with a weird brain architecture, Dr. Keller found. He showed Carter a vision of Atlantis being shot to bits. A hive ship changed course for Atlantis; it was the prisoner's hive bringing the original Replicator virus for McKay to work on. The seer said Teyla's people were still alive and congratulated her on the pregnancy. Then he showed Sheppard a vision of himself in the chair, firing off drones.
   Another Wraith started heading for Atlantis' planet, attracted by the orbiting first hive. The city was cloaked, Sheppard stood by in the chair and Woolsey tried to take over. Carter slapped him down and the 2 hives destroyed each other in orbit. Woolsey went home embarrassed.

408. Miller's Crossing
McKay was struggling and everyone else downed tools and abandoned him until he asked his sister for help. Which she was unable to provide as she'd been kidnapped at gunpoint by men working for a rich government contractor, whose daughter was dying. McKay went back to Earth; to get an NID guy clobbered and himself kidnapped.
   Henry Wallace had illegal access to stargate program material and he'd made some nanites to put in his daughter. But they needed work on the programming. McKay refused to believe that the prisoners would be released. An escape attempt flopped badly so Jeanie got a dose of nanites to give her an incentive to save the girl.
   Sharon's cancer disappeared miraculously. Then she died. No, the nanites had shut down her heart to repair a murmur. She was left alive but brain-wiped. The same was going to happen to epileptic Jeanie. Sheppard and the troops moved in and Jeanie was beamed aboard Daedalus.
   Jeanie's legs were broken to give the nanites something to fix. McKay talked the Wraith prisoner into helping with the nanite coding. The Wraith collapsed, in need of food. McKay volunteered. Sharon died again; her father had given her defective nanites; so Sheppard let Wallace feed the Wraith and Jeanie was saved.

409. This Mortal Coil
McKay had broken the stargate. An object hit the city; a probe. Not Wraith. It had been hit by weapons fire. Sheppard thought it was a threat. McKay got a glimpse of nanite code; it was a Replicator probe. McKay's lab blew up. Sheppard got a spit eyebrow whilst training with Ronon but the wound healed instantly. He insisted on scans. Dr. Keller found no nanites and no retrovirus.
   Sheppard cut McKay's hand. He healed instantly. There were only 4 lifesigns in the city despite all the people around Sheppard's gang. No, there was a 5th; Dr. Weir. The Replicators had made all off them using nanites. They were able to after McKay messed with their base code. The gang was just lab rats for a Tok'ra-type faction of Replicators, who wanted to Ascend.
   The Goa'uld Replicators turned up. The gang was allowed to escape in a jumper with a gadget for tracking Oberoth's fleet. Sheppard hitched a ride to the Replicator homeworld. Weir2 contacted Atlantis after they stole a ship and escaped. McKay1 and McKay2 had a great time together at a meeting.
   The Replicators turned up and parked over the planet's stargate. The alternates provided a diversion to let the originals escape. Dr. Weir was declared officially dead. McKay got the gadget working. Oh, crap! The Pegasus galaxy was full of Replicator ships.

410. Be All My Sins Remember'd
The Atlanteans were trying evacuate planets threatened by the Replicators. Some people wouldn't listen and troops were being delayed and killed. Daedalus and Apollo arrived. All McKay could offer was bluster. Col. Carter got all mother hennish on his behalf when the captain of Apollo told McKay he was all talk. McKay and his Wraith were given 10 hours to get something done.
   Meanwhile, the spaceships destroyed Replicator ships and waited for them to react: they fell back to their homeworld. McKay's 10 hours came and went. Then he got an idea for creating a supersize blob of all the Replicators; of neutron-star density. The Replicators had 30 ship. Earth had 2. The Wraith said he could get 12 hive ships to join them; in the event, it was 7.
   The space gypsies turned up again and stoopid Sheppard let the leader wind him round her little finger again. Teyla finally admitted she was pregnant and she was grounded. McKay built a female Replicator as part of his plan, and she proved that he'd got his sums wrong! Fran suggested a Replicator fusion bomb.
   The fleet attacked the Replicator homeworld. Fran hosed up Replicators. McKay's plan went wonky but Carter put him right. The planet blew up. Surprise! A Replictor Dr. Weir was still around and feeling able to get on with her master plan.

411. Spoils of War
The ally Wraith got ZPMs out of the Replicator war. Sheppard took his gang for a chat with him; pregnant Teyla resented being left out. Lorn took her place. The Wraith hive was full of bodies when the jumper arrived, and their ally's tracker had been ditched. The hive was secured and only Teyla could fly it.
   There was a top-secret Wraith outpost, which played pivotal role in wiping out the Ancients. There was a hive in orbit around the planet. Zillions of warriors were being grown at a base on the surface. A dormant queen woke up. The ally was rescued just before the queen could eat him. He said it was a cloning base and he knew where to find the ZPMs.
   Sheppard & Co. were stunned in an ambush. The Wraith flew up to the captured hive ship. Teyla did mind-control on the queen! The clones started to hatch. The other hive approached the stranger. Sheppard, McKay and Ronon shot their way out and flew to the hive ship, which was shooting at the other hive.
   The Atlanteans crashed their hive onto the cloning base and escaped in the jumper. Back home, Teyla realized that her unborn child had to be her priority.

412. Quarantine
The city suddenly went into lockdown with no communications. McKay was trapped in a botany lab with Dr. Kate with no access to computers and spent most of the episode flat on his back, freaked out. McKay had been messing with the system and a harmless external event had convinced the computer to quarantine the tower for an outbreak of some plague.
   Zalenka & Col. Carter were stuck in a lift, Ronan grew to like Dr. Keller after being stuck in the infirmary with her. Sheppard and Teyla were also paired. The control room staff thought a signal beacon might have been activated just before everything switched off; which could be picked up by the Wraith.
   Sheppard went for a climb on the outside of the tower. He tried to turn off the beacon but just activated the self-destruct? Dr. Keller gave Ronon the idea of blasting the door open using a gas cylinder as a missile. Didn't work! The self-destruct turned out to be the city's ultimate response to the bogus plague outbreak.
   Sheppard blew some doors open. Getting Carter and Zalenka out of their lift just involved Sheppard and Lorn pulling the doors apart! Zalenka crawled through miles of ducting to reach a control room to save the city. Later, when the deep-space tracker was working again, there was no sign that the beacon had been detected.
   McKay was pretending he'd been involved in saving the city despite being flat on his back. Dr. Kate had found an engagement ring box on collapso McKay. He decided he wasn't ready for marriage; and she told him she wasn't ready either.

413. Harmony
A 13-year-old kid and future queen has to go on a quest deep in the forest as a rite of passage. Sheppard & McKay have to go with the bratty kid, even though she should be alone, which is just as well as a rival has set a gang of Genii mercenaries on her trail. There's a Beast in the forest to frighten McKay.
   Sheppard shoots 3 of the Genii but there are lots more of them. Back at the palace, the mercenary boss is offered more for 3 killings. Sheppard wants to turn back but the kid sneaks away and kills and cooks dinner. The Beast is killing Genii. It drives Sheppard's group to the ruined temple.
   McKay realizes this is where the Ancients developed mini-drones. The kid has to light up a crystal to prove she has the Ancient gene; one small snag, the Genii have been messing about with the crystals so McKay has to put things right. Or die. Sheppard releases the mini-drones, which zap the Genii. The kid is stoopid enough to think McKay is a hero. The traitor at the palace is busted and Queen Harmony takes her throne.

414. Outcast
Sheppard's father has died and there's a woman with pictures of him. Ronon went back to Earth with him, which means there's going to be trouble. The woman knew about McKay being kidnapped and the nanites. Sheppard's brother was full of hissy resentment because he thought Shep would take over the family business.
   Dr. Eva was involved in building a Replicator golem, which escaped when threatened with termination. Three weeks before. Sheppard bagged Dr. Richard, the guy in charge of the Golem project. Dr. Lee was kidnapped from holiday to track the golem. Dr. Richard clobbered his useless guard; but the golem killed him. Its signal went off the air. The creature jumped off a dockside crane and disappeared into the water.
   Sheppard thought that the dead Dr. Richard had a customer for his golem. Dr. Lee decrypted the projects files and found that Dr. Eva had been dead for over a year. But she was not a military golem, like the male. A spook ex of Sheppard's got him some info. Dr. Lee gave Sheppard a suggestion for staging an ambush. The stroppy Rep was beamed into low orbit; to burn up on reentry. At the end, Dr. Eva's consciousness was moved to a VR computer and her body was scrapped.

416. Trio
Colonel Carter, McKay and Dr. Keller try to convince the people on a world mined by the Genii and rocked by earthquakes to relocate. All three of them fall into a hole in the ground; which is in the roof of a metal building on stilts on a shelf beside a huge abyss. They can't wait to be rescued because an earthquake could topple the building into the abyss. Stacking rotten crates doesn't get them to the hole in the roof.
   Some local kids find them but they're too afraid of what their parents will do if they admit they've been in the danger zone to get help. Another quake leaves the metal box on the brink of the abyss. McKay punctures a hole in a gas main while trying to throw a grappling hook out through the hole. Carter succeeds but the ground is too loose for the hook to dig in.
   Dr. Keller comes up with an idea but another quake leaves Carter with a broken leg after a fall. McKay builds a cannon using the gas to fire a metal rod which will span the gap through the hole. Another quake leaves Keller hanging over the abyss on a rope held by McKay. She manages to swing to a side tunnel before McKay's strength gives out. Carter is lowered and swung to the tunnel, broken leg and all. McKay barely makes it.
   Then, with one bound, everyone is back on Atlantis. Keller blags a drink from McKay. Ronon at the end of episode 412, now McKay. The doctor is really putting herself about!

417. Midway
Teyla had to go to Earth for an interview with the IOC and she met Mr. Coolidge, who called her Honey. Col. Carter's leg seems to have healed completely. No crutches. She brought Teal'c to Atlantis to coach Ronon for his IOC interview. Teal'c had hair! Ronon had nothing to say to him. Meanwhile, the Wraith were up to something.
   Teal'c could push Ronon's buttons and they had a huge battle. The Wraith were hacking McKay's unhackable gate bridge. Dr. Lee was at the Midway station, where there was a mandatory 24-hour quarantine period. Ronon and Teal'c had to share a visitor room. There was no iris at Midway because McKay said one wouldn't be needed. So the Wraith had no trouble getting in.
   The Wraith had to get round McKay's unhackable lock-out to dial Earth. Atlantis sent a MALP to planet 788 and found Wraith there. Carter told McKay to make another gate route to Midway. The Wraith sent a device to Earth to stun everyone at the SGC before sending troops there. Teal'c and Ronon managed to follow them. Sheppard and some Marines arrived at Midway.
   The head Wraith told Sheppard he'd picked up all sorts of interesting stuff from Todd, the Wraith who had been a temporary ally. More Wraith arrived at Midway. Dr. Kavanagh managed to shut the gate down but also activated the self-destruct. Sheppard headed for the jumper bay and told Lee, who was in the control room, to vent the air from the station.
   Back on Earth, Coolidge had arranged for the SGC to be nuked. Sheppard managed to get himself into a space suit. Teal'c and Ronon slew the rest of the Wraith at the SGC, so no nuke needed, and Sheppard flew the surviving humans off Midway in a jumper before the station blew up. Ronon got the IOC's approval and Daedalus collected the jumper whilst heading for Atlantis.

418. The Kindred (1)
Kanaan is being cremated. Then he wakes up! Teyla was having a nightmare cum vision about the father of her child. Dr. Keller reported that there was a new plague in circulation, 8 planets affected, no obvious connection between them. 200,000 people would die if it ran its course. Teyla told McKay about her vision. The Athosians have been missing for 6 months.
   Teyla used information from her vision to go looking for clues but came to a dead end. Dr. Keller found that the plague was mass murder; it was an adaptation of the anti-Wraith virus created by the Hoffans. Teyla told Col. Carter that Kanaan also has Wraith DNA and they can communicate because of it. Carter let her carry on her search with Major Warren as back-up.
   The archive on Hoff was a looted ruin, Sheppard and McKay found. Teyla caught up with a trader with Athosian stuff. He said it had been dumped where corpses are dumped. Teyla was hoovered up by a Wraith dart! Todd told Sheppard he needed human help to make a cure for the plague, which was leaving the Wraith not knowing who they could eat. He offered the plague-spreader in return: Michael.
   McKay hoped the Wraith would use the Hoffan research to kill off rival tribes. Michael told Teyla he was using the Athosians as part of his plan to kill off the Wraith and take over the galaxy using his own army of monsters. He claimed he played Kanaan in the visions. He thinks the child will be the equivalent of Vala Maldoran's Ori-bred daughter, Adria, in his master plan.
   Michael's ship had a brief battle with Daedalus over Hoff before ducking into hyperspace. On the planet, Sheppard found Dr. Beckett!!! in a cell. Continua . . .

419. The Kindred (2)
The new Dr. Beckett isn't a Replicator; Dr. Keller finds he's a badly made clone from a mature cell, which needs daily injections from Michael. The clone has been around for 2 years and Michael threatened to kill people he know to get his co-operation in Michael's human/Wraith DNA experiments.
   McKay has to tell the other Beckett that the original was killed 6 months after being rescued from Michael. Michael takes Teyla to the Athosians; lots have been turned into monsters, including Kanaan. Col. Carter can't trust information from the other Beckett but he's allowed to go out on an expedition with Sheppard & Co.
   The gang are ambushed by a Wraith-worshipper, Nabel, with a P-90 stolen from a weapons cache. Beckett collapses. Teyla tries to get through to the Kanaan inside Michael's monster. She ends up in the Frankenstein lab. Michael is planning to use her son to perfect his hybrid. Nabel is bribed into giving up where Teyla is being held.
   Michael leaves the planet with Teyla before the rest of the Athosians are rescued and after shooting the Beckett clone, who ends up in stasis until a fix can be found.

420. The Last Man (1/2)
Sheppard went back to Atlantis from a routine mission; there was no one there and the ocean had dried up! He got McKay on the radio; McKay was a hologram and 25 years older. Sheppard had been blasted 48,000 years into the future and he could be the last human in the galaxy! McKay told him things went from bad to worse after he disappeared.
   Michael killed Teyla. McKay thought getting Sheppard back and saving Teyla would prevent Michael from winning. The plan was to put Sheppard into stasis and bring him back when a suitable solar flare distorted the wormhole; in maybe 700 years. Meanwhile, Carter was killed fighting Michael's forces, Ronon built his own army but he and Todd were killed whilst destroying one of Michael's monster factories.
   Sheppard had to struggle through a storm to get from the control tower to a building housing the stasis chamber. McKay said he quit and went home after Woolsey arrived with the news that he was taking over command of Atlantis and the IOC was letting the rest of the Pegasus galaxy go to hell. Dr. Keller also quit. She married McKay but died of the Hoffan plague. 25 years' work, with help from his sister and then General Lorn, got McKay back to Atlantis.
   The plan worked. With one bound, Sheppard was back at Atlantis but 12 days overdue, which made Col. Carter suspicious of him. But McKay cleared him to go and rescue Teyla. The gang walked into a trap and a building fell on them. Continua in series 5 . . .

Major Lorn, Wraith Todd, Mr. Woolsey of the IOA

+++ Season 5 (2008/09) +++

501. Search and Rescue (2/2)
Sheppard and Teyla are boozing; she says he rescued her from Michael. No, he was hallucinating under the wreckage of Michael's base. He was with Ronon and McKay was trapped with Major Lorn, who had a broken leg, elsewhere. Survivors got back to Atlantis and Col. Carter led an away team back to the complex. McKay thought he had Michael's database on a tablet.
   Michael knew his complex had been trashed and he headed for the planet. Would Daedalus get there first? Teyla was about to give birth and she doesn't seem to have a future, from what Michael said to her. McKay and Lorne were found. Michael arrived and Carter put everyone in cloaked jumpers.
   Daedalus arrived. Michael tried to run but Daedalus shot up his hyperdrive. Sheppard, Ronon and the jumpers were retrieved; at the cost of lowering the shields. Daedalus ended up with no weapons and no hyperdrive. Going aboard Michael's ship to rescue Teyla was still an option. McKay had to be her midwife. The jumper was gone when Sheppard & Co. returned to it!
   The gang had to trust Kanaan, and stole a dart with his help. Then the Wraith cruiser was destroyed. Sheppard & Co. returned home via the planet's stargate. Carter had to return to Earth for a one-year evaluation and the Goa'uld was about to be removed from the last Ba'al clone [see the film Stargate: Continuum]. As soon as she arrived, Carter was told she'd been given the sack and Woolsey was replacing her.

502. The Seed
Teyla's baby was okay, Dr. Keller was thinking of saving Dr. Beckett from stasis and Woolsey started off in Atlantis by playing the big "I Am". He would like to think that Michael is dead, even though it's obvious he escaped from his cruiser, before Daedalus destroyed it, in the jumper that Sheppard lost. The victims of Michael's experiments had to remain prisoners.
   Keller found herself oozing goo! Beckett had to be brought out of stasis to be experimented on. Woolsey was going to send him back to Earth. Keller was found covered in tendrils and she ended up in a cocoon. Worse, the tendrils began to invade the fabric of the city, looking for power to drink.
   Everyone who went to Michael's complex had the pathogen so Woolsey put them in quarantine. The tendrils were heading for the ZPM. Beckett thought the organism was using Keller's mind. He wanted to give her an untested pathogen. Woolsey wanted to kill Keller as an easy option. Sheppard tested the drug. Ronon, infected with Michael's stuff, got to inject the tendril-killer.
   Sheppard crashed a jumper into the central tower when Ronon became stuck in the tendril forest, then he killed the tendrils. Woolsey had to admit to the IOA that he had ignored more rules than you can shake a stick at to get control of the city again.

503. Broken Ties
Kanaan was having trouble adjusting to life at Atlantis, Teyla told Ronon just before he was shot. Tyre, the Wraith worshipper, grabbed him. Sheppard decided another Satedan was needed to find Ronon; Teyla knew where to find one. Tyre claimed the Wraith had sacked him. He was addicted to Wraith feeding and he wasn't getting any.
   The Wraith arrived to claim Ronon. Teyla told Woolsey she wouldn't be rejoining Sheppard's team. Tyre found out the hard way that a Wraith promise is worthless. He was rescued but there was no sign of Ronon. Dr. Keller said Tyre was going cold turkey. He was also sharing the torture that Ronon was getting. Kanaan told Teyal to 'be careful out there'.
   Tyre said he could take Sheppard to where Ronon was being held. Woolsey ended up holding the baby when Teyla joined in. The gang was captured. Ronon was supposed to be a Wraith stooge; but he and his sword soon proved that false. Sheppard got his gang away and Tyre had the satisfaction of blowing up a Wraith research station (and himself).
   Back home, Ronon had to go cold turkey and Teyla returned to active duty formally.

504. The Daedalus Variations
The Daedalus arrived back at Atlantis unexpected and undetected, and with no life signs aboard. And shot up. There was a weird energy reading and a Colonel Sobel made the last log entry before the crew abandoned ship to a planet they were orbiting. The energy reading spiked and Daedalus went . . . somewhere.
   McKay detected Atlantis on the planet they were orbiting. He decided that the ship had a new type of drive, which was taking it to alternate universes. The ship was full of bodies of the Atlantis crew. "They were us and they failed," said McKay. They came to Daedalus to work out what was going on.
   Another McKay built the device, which the current one wouldn't turn off. The ship made another jump to an Atlantis being attacked by aliens. Sheppard opened fire and took out their weapons. The BGs launched fighters and McKay speeded up the jump cycle as the wreck was being shot up more.
   The next version of the planet was orbiting a red giant, which began to fly Daedalus. Ronon found someone to fight: an alien who had crashed on to Daedalus. McKay managed another jump with the hull melting. The drive had just a few more jumps left in it. McKay said they had to put the drive into reverse; something Sheppard had suggested 2 hours before.
   Atlantis helped out with 302s when Daedalus came under attack by the aliens again, and Sheppard had a chat with another him. More aliens came aboard. Blasting them caused a hull breach and put the jumpers out of reach. Major Lorne and Dr. Zalenka flew out in a jumper when the other Daedalus appeared again. The ship jumped again before they reachied it, but they found Sheppard & Co. floating in space suits, having abandoned ship.

505. Ghost in the Machine
Sheppard lost control of a jumper, which rammed the ring of an orbiting stargate and went into a decaying orbit. Life support gone; the DHD wouldn't work. Then everything was suddenly okay. The planet was a potential alpha-site with flying monkeys as the highest life form.
   The city started to go wonky. McKay insisted it was nothing brought back by the jumper. No stargate, no lights and "help" on the only working computer. Dr. Weir was in it. Her consciousness was intact even though her Replicator body had been destroyed. After the evil Replicators were destroyed, the rebels tried to Ascend. They tried uploading themselves into subspace but got stuck there.
   Weir described her condition as like having a permanent bad migraine. She looked for Atlantis, seeking her only friends. She wanted to use McKay's device to build a Fran body for herself. The Atlanteans were suspicious. She offered some useful data and she couldn't replicate, thanks to McKay's modifications. Woolsey thought Oberoth could be in Fran II. He wanted to dump Weir's consciousness into a VR computer.
   The other 8 Replicator rebels detected Weir and headed for Atlantis. The city went wonky again. Let us have bodies, or else, said Koracen, their leader. The city started to sink. Stop, or we'll all die together, said Woolsey to get a negotiating position.
   The Replicators were allowed to have bodies; inside a forcefield; which didn't hold Koracen, who had his own agenda. Weir disasembled him. Then she took the rest of the Replicators through the stargate. Then ended up frozen in space; it was a space-gate.

506. The Shrine
McKay has been de-smarted! Dr. Keller was trying to fix him but he was so far gone that Jeanie, his sister, was brought to Atlantis using Daedalus and a Pegasus gate to say goodbye. There had been a snafu on his last mission; the valley containing the stargate had flooded and Sheppard and Co. were stranded for a long time with the water pressure keeping the gate open.
   McKay had a parasite in his brain; it was growing and it was too big for Dr. Keller to remove. Ronon knew a dangerous way to let McKay be his normal self and shed the "Second Childhood" condition for one day to let his sister say goodbye properly; but it involved visiting a shrine on a planet which had become a Wraith outpost. It came down to Keller, Woolsey and Sheppard vs Ronon & Teyla.
   Jeanie said, "We're taking him!" and that was that. A MALP was sent through the gate for the Wraith to blast, allowing a jumper to use a smoke-screen created by the MALP. McKay was reactivated at the waterfall. There was a radiation source there, which was upsetting the parasite.
   Dr. Keller decided she had to find a way to operate in the field whilst the parasite was in a shrunken condition. Lots of doubt over whether the operation would work. The parasite tried to wriggle away from the radiation source after being removed and Ronon blasted it. Job done.

507. Whispers
Major Teldy found another of Michael's laboratories in catacombs under an abandoned village. Dr. Beckett was diverted there when he was about to go forth and save the Pegasus galaxy from the effects of Michael's experiments. The major's team turned out to be all girls. There was a lot of trudging through woods involved. Beckett got to work with the young and very nice Dr. Alison Porter.
   The gang found stasis pods and lots of data in the catacombs. Michael had built monsters using DNA from humans, bugs and other species. There was a Mirellus lurking about in the abandoned village. He said everyone had moved to the next village as this one wasn't safe. Fog and darkness descended and torches stopped working. There were monsters around. The captain in Teldy's squad was killed.
   The 12 stasis pods were opened; by Mirellus; he was looking for his wife. Everyone took it in turns to go blundering around in the fog and get lost. The monsters were hunting by sounds, so they didn't need torches. It was assumed that Michael had abandoned them because they could't be controlled. Sheppard planned to lure them to a well, which communicated with the catacombs, and see off the monsters they hadn't managed to kill.
   Sheppard nearly blew himself up. Everyone ended up in the catacombs, hunting another monster, which was blown away. Then Dr. Beckett got to put himself about in the Pegasus galaxy, with that nice Dr. Porter, treating Michael's other victims.

508. The Queen
Sheppard & Co. were invited to a diplomatic meeting on the new hive ship of Todd, the Wraith.Keller told him there's a gene therapy which removes the need for Wraith to feed on humans, which is a huge risk now that Michael has spread the Hoffan anti-Wraith drug throughout the galaxy. Surprise! Todd had exaggerated his clout level and they had to convince the queen of his alliance: the Primary.
   Tayla, with Wraith DNA, had to be modified (reversibly) to look like a Wraith queen as Todd's queen was dead. Sheppard thought that even if the Wraith were modified, they'd still be out to enslave the galaxy. He wanted to let the Wraith kill one another off. Teyla wanted to save thousands of human lives.
   Todd, of course, had his own agenda. As soon as Todd and his 'queen' were aboard, the Primary's hive went to hyperspace. Todd knifed the Primary to death and made Teyla take the credit and become the new queen of the alliance. Teyla got into a shooting match with a rival hive, which was trespassing on the Primary's feeding ground.
   Sheppard got 'Kenny', Todd's deputy, to take his gang and a jumper to a planet with a stargate so that he could catch up with Teyla. Sheppard was able to blast the intruder enough to let Teyla's hive destroy it. He and his team snuck aboard and were captured quickly. Teyla told them to hang loose; spied upon by her second in command.
   Todd killed the 2ic when he attacked Teyla. She left him in command and headed back to Todd's original ship. Todd wanted to delay using the treatment until things had settled down. How Sheppard & Co. were released was not revealed. Teyla was de-Wraithed back on Atlantis. She and Sheppard had realized that getting control of the Wraith alliance had been Todd's plan all along.

509. Tracker
McKay had volunteered to go off-world with Dr. Keller on his day off. He was bent out of shape when Ronon joined them. They went to a village which was suffering from influenza imported from Earth. Keller was kidnapped by a big, stroppy bozo, so it was just as well Ronon was along to track them.
   Wraith turned up as McKay reached the gate to call for help. Kyryk was a runner. And he had a teleportation device, which let him sneak up on Wraith and kill them. He wanted Keller to treat a little girl; the last survivor of a colony which had been wiped out by the Wraith because he had visited it.
   Celise had an infected leg. Keller said she needed treatment on Atlantis. Wraith arrived. Keller had to kill one when Kyryk was zapped. She fried his tracker using her defibrilator; which meant that the Wraith tracker which McKay was using stopped working. His teleporter was also fried.
   Keller had to stop Ronon from killing Kyryk. McKay patched the teleporter and Kyryk slew enough Wraith to be able to use the stargate and lead them somewhere else. Celise was fixed up back at Atlantis, and Keller arranged for her to be adopted on the flu planet.

510. First Contact (1/2)
Dr. Jackson visited Atlantis in search of a secret lab belonging to the Ancient Janus. He was stuck with McKay. Woolsey was off to negotiate with Todd about Keller's modification for the Wraith so Sheppard had to stay in Atlantis and be in charge. Despite McKay's obstructions, Daniel found the lab. All the data was too encrypted to access.
   Todd didn't want to hear Woolsey's speech when he boarded Daedalus. He wanted Keller to get on with treating some test subjects. Switching on the secret lab activated a beacon and BGs arrived and flew right through the city's shield with their Ancient technology. 3 intruders invaded the secret lab. One was killed, the others got away with Daniel & McKay.
   The gang realized they'd made first contact with an advanced civilization. The dead alien blew up when Zalenka tried to cut its armoured suit open. The aliens were after a device in the lab, not their prisoners. But McKay was told to get it working. He thought it was an end-game machine, which would make only Wraith ships explode if they tried to enter hyperspace. And the gadget had an unforseen side-effect, which was why Janus had abandoned it.
   When Daniel's life was threatened, McKay switched on the Altero device. Todd lost a couple of cruisers, when they tried to support another alliance hive, which had come under attack. So Todd took over Daedalus. The BGs shot McKay before he could tell us what the side-effect is. Zalenka found that the stargate on Atlantis was about to explode. He managed to put the shield round it but that wasn't enough. The city's central tower was rocked by an explosion. Continua . . .

511. The Lost Tribe (2/2)
The tower is a wreck but Sheppard and Zalenka were alive. The gate and the control room were gone. McKay thought the Attero device creates radiation which makes stargates explode when activated as its unfortunate side-effect. So he had to shut it down. Todd contacted Atlantis to threaten to start killing prisoners, starting with Woolsey, if Sheppard didn't give him the device.
   Sheppard coughed up the planet to which Daniel and McKay had been taken. The space gypsies turned up to complain that their stargates were blowing up. Sheppard and Zalenka were able to use their old wreck of a spaceship to follow Todd. Luckily, Ronon escaped, taking Dr. Keller with him, and blasted the hyperdrive on Daedalus.
   The aliens told McKay that they didn't use stargates so they weren't worried about the side-effects of the anti-Wraith device. Their planet was dying and they needed to move out into the galaxy, and they didn't fancy having the Wraith around. The creatures in the big, scary suits turned out to be . . . a lost tribe of Asgard!
   Ronon freed the Daedalus crew. Daniel had to take charge when McKay started waffling. The bad Asgard strolled off with the control key for the device. Daedalus arrived at the planet. Todd and his people escaped in a 302, having programmed the ship to dive on to the Attera device.
   Sheppard arrived in the nick of time and he was able to get the gypsy ship to open a hyperspace window ahead of Daedalus to take it through the planet. McKay and Daniel used Asgard suits to switch the device off manually. McKay and a damaged Daniel were beamed aboard Daedalus. Then Sheppard blasted Janus' lab to bitz.

512. Outsiders
Sheppard made a supply run to Dr. Beckett on the day when a bunch of Wraith arrived. No darts and they weren't in attack mode. They wanted the survivors of planet hit with Michael's Hoffan plague; or the people who gave them shelter would be killed. Sheppard looked for another way out for the hosts.
   Some were willing to go along with relocation, others refused to abandon their homes. There were too many Wraith for Ronon and Teyla to clear the stargate. Jervis, the main sceptic, rounded up some refugees and delivered them to the Wraith. The rest were hidden in a mine. A Wraith hive arrived.
   One of the survivors offered Beckett to the Wraith. They got McKay too. The Wraith killed the stool pigeon. Beckett was told to take over the research of a failed Wraith boffin, who was killed when his cure for the Hoffan plague didn't work. Beckett went on strike. The Wraith commander tried to eat him; and croaked. Beckett had been exposed to the plague.
   McKay contacted Sheppard, who told him to take out the hive's weapons. The head of the village council duped Jarvis into leading the Wraith into an explosive trap in the mine. The Wraith at the gate were taken out, and the villagers were sent to Atlantis. McKay gimmicked a dart and got himself and Beckett dropped off at the gate when a dart tried to hoover people up!

513. Inquisition
The IOA wanted to encourage a Federation-style coalition in Pegasus but Sheppard & Co. ended up in a gas chamber on arrival. Oh, crap! We're doing the obligatory trial theme with lots of flash-backs. The gang had been taken through several stargates so there was no trail to the Star Chamber.
   One of the Coalition stooges went to Atlantis. Woolsey decided to be Sheppard's defence counsel. It looked like the Genii were behind everything; they wanted to be the big noises in Pegasus and they had a stooge on the tribunal. Woolsey realized that the only way to win was to cheat. So he bribed the Genii stooge.

514. The Prodigal
Ronon upset Woolsey by not filing mission reports. The city lost power everywhere but the control room. Teyla was zapped. The gate room and lots of other vital places were locked out. Michael had infiltrated the city using the jumper which he 'borrowed' and knocked out everyone at the top of the tower.
   He planned to stroll off with Teyla's baby after setting the self-destruct, and he had put a force field around the control and gate rooms. After they woke, Ronon and Banks took care of the hybrids in the gate room and freed Teyla. Sheppard wanted to use a jumper so McKay had to tackle repair jobs he'd been neglecting for 2 years.
   Michael activated the self-destruct. Sheppard had a mad plan to crash a jumper into the tower to take out Michael's jumper, which was powering the self-destruct. Teyla tried to bargain with Michael. Zalenka dropped the force field, letting McKay activate the gate and bite a chunk out of Michael's jumper with the event horizon, stopping the self-destruct.
   Sheppard had a fight with Michael on the outside of the tower and got his ass kicked. Teyla joined in, and got to stomp on Michael's fingers as he was hanging from a ledge. Splat! Ronon ended up in hospital, where he recorded a short and terse mission report for Woolsey.

515. Remnants
Teyla thought Woolsey looked lonely. He was facing an IOC evaluation. Sheppard was on the mainland with some biologists, because he fancied the lady, when he was attacked and found himself being tortured by an undead Kolya; who claimed he was still alive thanks to Ancient technology from Lucius. He wanted Sheppard's IDC to bomb Atlantis.
   Meanwhile, Woolsey was being charmed by a Dr. Vanessa Conrad and the IOC wanted to send him back to Earth because of faulty judgement. McKay was his usual gittish self when Dr. Zalenka suggested a project; which recovered a gadget from the sea bed. Dr. Conrad told Woolsey to stand up for himself, so he confronted Chen of the IOC and asked what was in it for her.
   She admitted she would get the Atlantis job if she got rid of Woolsey. The gadget rescued from the sea contained the entire data from a dead silicon-based civilization and biological material to restart it on a suitable planet. McKay could either access the data and destroy the biological material or send the capsule to a better destination.
   Surprise! Sheppard and Woolsey were having hallucinations thanks to the AI in the device; the last hope for the Sekkari people as 50 other probes had failed. Ms Chen was told that she wasn't getting Woolsey's job so she sabotaged the IOC's preferred choice by giving Woolsey a glowing evaluation. The Sekkari device was delivered to another planet and McKay found that he'd been having Zalenka hallucinations.

516. Brain Storm
McKay was invited to a presentation on Earth by an old rival, so he took Dr. Keller along to try to prove that he wasn't a complete loser. Malcolm impressed Keller by sending a private jet to collect his guests and McKay was reunited with old 'friends' who remembered him as the guy who claimed that he'd had1 all of their ideas first.
   A rich guy called Kramer had financed Malcolm's claim that he could prevent global warming by dumping excess heat from the planet safely using a space-time matter bridge. McKay claimed it was his idea. No one was impressed. Malcolm tried to cool the compound in the desert by 10 degrees Fahrenheit but the the gadget wouldn't switch off and everyone was trapped inside a force field.
   McKay got the blame because he had tried to hack Malcolm's computer to prove that someone in the government had leaked one of his papers to Kramer. One of the guests was flash-frozen by freeze-lightning; a side-effect of the bridge. Kramer refused to call in the military and Dr. Keller's attempt to phone the SGC came to nothing. Keller made the gang of experts work together on the problem instead of bickering.
   McKay nearly killed everyone. The containment field failed, creating a mega-storm with twisters around the compound. Keller was stranded in a freezing room that was filling with water! Malcolm had to make McKay's idea work to demolish the bridge. The storm died and McKay hacked his way into the room with a fire axe and rebooted Keller.

517. Infection
Woolsey ordered the city to be cloaked when a Wraith ship approached; it was Todd's hive, a message from him was badly distorted and there were no life-signs. Everyone was in hibernation with no timer set to wake them up. Todd's original message said there had been a complication to Keller's gene therapy. His crew were dying and Atlantis was their only hope, and the only hope of treating other Wraith.
   The hive's organic systems were acting up but it took ages for anyone to spot the cause. The treatment had the side-effect of creating a cancer-like disease. Lt. Williams was eaten; literally, by teeth; by a crazy crew member whose feeding hand no longer worked. The structure of the ship kept changing and the dart bay was walled off.
   It took a revived Todd to realize what was happening to the ship. He suggested an ancient Wraith treatment of last resort at a planet 3 days away; but the ship wouldn't last that long. Wraiths got out of their pods and the Marines had a battle on their hands.
   Luckily, the hive broke in half with the good guys, and Todd, in the front half, which Todd was able to land in the sea on the planet below. Jumpers from Atlantis rescued everyone and Todd was freed to look for a queen iratus bug to try to cure himself because Sheppard had given his word and a deal is a deal.

518. Identity
There was some woman sneaking about Atlantis and her reflection in mirrors was Dr. Keller. It was a body-swap job like the one experienced by Daniel and Vala. Dr. Beckett was unable to find anything physically wrong with 'Keller' but she was obviously not herself. As proved by pulling a gun on McKay and trying to steal a jumper. Ronon shot her. Even Woolsey could see that Keller had been taken over.
   Neeva Casol and her 2 male companions were grave-robbers and killers. They had found a stone device, which was too big to steal, but Neeva has messed with it and Keller had touched a stone from Janus' lab. Keller woke up in gaol and facing a date with a guy with a headsman's axe for being involved in at least 5 murders!
   The gang freed Neeva's body (with Keller inside). They didn't believe the body swap story any more than the villagers the gang had been trying to rob. Neeva in Keller joined the party. The villagers killed one of the male thieves. The Neeva body was shot up a bit. Ronon blasted the stone device. Keller woke up in her own body after Beckett had removed a bullet. And her other accomplice shot Neeva.

519. Vegas
When you run out of story ideas, go off-piste. Thus the Star Trekkers had Western and Nazi adventures and this penultimate episode made Sheppard a homicide cop in a Vegas haunted by a serial killer, who was inflicting Wraith-like chest wounds, draining the life out of victims and making them radioactive.
   Dr. Keller was a new M.E. brought in by the FBI and there was a guy dying of radiation poisoning in a motel room next door to where the Wraith, who had a human disguise kit, was holed up. Sheppard found himself sitting opposite the Wraith in a poker game; it could read minds and win every time.
   The Wraith did a runner when challenged, and survived jumping off a building; but in a damaged state. Sheppard was collected by Woolsey then Agent McKay tried to bully him. Then he went into the story of the stargate and alternate realities.
   There was another Wraith in custody to show to Det. Sheppard; a mad, rambling poetic version of Todd. McKay thought the Wraith at large was building a device and that's why he was being exposed to radiation and contaminating humans. Sheppard quit his job and drove away from Vegas. Then he realized where the Wraith was building his beacon to guide Wraith hives to Earth.
   Sheppard got himself and his car shot up. The Feds whistled up a pair of A10 tank-busters to take out the Wraith and his trailer. But after the device had torn a hole in the space/time continuum, which meant that other Wraith in other alternates would know where to look for Earth. Then McKay and Woolsey left Sheppard to die of his wounds in the desert.

520. Enemy at the Gate
Todd was okay again but he had been shot down by an underling, who had one of the ZPMs which Todd swiped from the Replicators and didn't tell the Atlantis crew about. They agreed that an underling on a hive powered by a ZPM was a threat which they could not tolerate.
   A prisoner on Atlantis again, Todd announced that when the underling had matched the ZPM to the hive's organic structure, it would be unstoppable. Sheppard told Todd: any funny business and you're dead. A cloaked jumper snuck up on the hive, which was growing an impenetrable hull, and was shot at; the hive could see approximately where it was. Sheppard dropped the cloak and the jumper was zapped.
   Daedalus was blasted to a standstill in a battle with the hive, which zoomed off into hyperspace. Dr. Kavanagh picked up the Wraith signal from the last episode giving the location of Earth. McKay said they would have to use the 2 remaining intergalactic ships to blast the hive when it stopped for hull regeneration. Apollo and Sun Zu were both blasted out of action and the hive kept going.
   Sheppard demanded Todd's other ZPMs to take Atlantis to Earth. He was sent back to Earth to man the Ancient weapon platform. Beckett got to fly the city instead of McKay, which upset McKay mightily. General Hammond was dead; heart attack, and a new ship, Phoenix, was to be renamed after him, Col. Carter told Sheppard.
   The hive arrived but parked in lunar orbit to finish its upgrades. Woolsey gave Ronon & Teyla a chance to stay in Pegasus; they declined. Sheppard was told the chair had been moved to Area 51 (because it violated some Antarctica treaty) when darts headed for Earth to attack it. The 302s went up to engage the darts but they were outnumbered, the chair was destroyed and Sheppard's 302 was damaged.
   He parked in orbit with a nuke, planning to sneak aboard the hive and detonate the bomb inside it. Atlantis dropped out of hyperspace for no apparent reason. The IOA tried to escape to the Alpha site but the Wraith were blocking Earth's stargate with the one on the hive. Realizing that the Atlantis gate was going to the hive, Ronon, Teyla, McKay and some others went aboard to cause trouble.
   Zalenka decided he had a solution which would either get Atlantis to Earth in a flash or destroy the city utterly. Ronon was killed. Sheppard sneaked his 302 aboard the hive. McKay told him not to let the nuke off; he'd rig a remote detonator. One of the Wraith obligingly restored Ronon to question him; and got shot to bits by the intruders!
   Atlantis arrived and started shooting at the hive as Sheppard was about to let off the nuke. McKay got the gang to the Alpha site. Ka-boom! No more hive. Atlantis, forced into a lower orbit, had to splash down in the sea. It ended up parked off San Francisco; cloaked, of course; in a naval exclusion zone.

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