Atlantis Season 2
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The second season of Stargate Atlantis was a period of exploration for the members of the Atlantis Expedition. Though Rainbow Sun Francks, playing Lt. Aiden Ford left the cast, Jason Momoa joined the cast as the character of Ronon Dex was created, and Paul McGillion, playing Dr. Carson Beckett, was upgraded to a regular character. Plot-lines from the first season were continued and expanded upon, and the season ended with Atlantis, and Earth, in a dangerous predicament.
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[edit] Plot
As the season opens, Atlantis is still under siege from the Wraith. Major Sheppard has just left on his suicide mission to nuke a Wraith hive ship in a Puddle Jumper. The nuke detonates and the hive is destroyed, but Sheppard is saved by the timely arrival of the Daedalus, sister ship of the Prometheus, which beams Sheppard out of his Puddle Jumper at the last minute. However, Atlantis is still under attack by other Hive ships.
Dr. McKay, as usual, comes up with a plan to save the day. A nuke is detonated above the city. The EMP temporarily blinds the Wraith's sensors, and they believe Atlantis has self-destructed. Meanwhile, Atlantis interfaces a Jumper's cloak with their shield, rendering the city invisible. The Wraith believe it destroyed, and they leave. This sets up an important theme of the season: the Wraith don't know about Atlantis' existence. Another important theme is that via the new ZPM, and the Daedalus, Atlantis is now in contact with Earth.
Following a return to Earth via the ZPM, Maj. Sheppard is promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and becomes Atlantis' permanent, rather than de facto military commander. The expedition also adds several new members, civilian and military, as the city can now support a much larger contingent. Throughout the season, the Deadalus will make numerous trips carrying supplies and personnel between Atlantis and Earth.
As it turns out, the Daedalus has been infected with a Wraith virus during the attack, and only McKay can disarm it. As the team searches for Lt. Ford, AWOL after the events of the opener, they encounter a Runner, one whom the Wraith hunt for sport, not food. McKay experiences some awkward moments when a female Atlantis officer enters his mind, and the team must escape from an island where prisoners are sent to be fed on by the Wraith. McKay's ego gets overinflated, then finally bursts, when he tries to make a failed Ancient experiment work.
Dr. Beckett works to develop genetically engineered retrovirus to strip the Iratus bug DNA away from the Wraith, rendering them human. However, an unfinished version is injected into a Wraith girl, and it has the opposite effect: she becomes a humanoid Iratus bug. Problems arise when she tries to feed on Sheppard, and begins to turn him into an Iratus bug as well.
The team discovers a damaged Ancient Warship floating through space, and comes onboard to investigate it. Sheppard's team finally catches up with Ford, and discovers he has built himself a private army with which to attack the Wraith -- and Ford insists on Sheppard's help for the mission. Among the intelligence Ford's band has gathered is that the Wraith are beginning to turn on each other, as they know there is not enough food to go around. The mission goes badly, however, and Ford is lost again.
Col. Sheppard is stuck in a time-dilation field where people try to Ascend, and it seems that the Goa'uld have infiltrated Atlantis. McKay is trapped in a sinking Jumper with a hallucination of Samantha Carter. While conducting a routine mission to another world, Atlantis 1 finds a City-ship identical to Atlantis. Dr. Weir gets involved in a double-double cross with the Genii, and Weir and Sheppard are later taken over by disembodied aliens. The team has to evacuate a settlement built inside a volcanic crater, but things get complicated when an Aurora-class warship is found there as well.
As part of Dr. Beckett's continuing work on the retrovirus, the team captures a Wraith as a test subject, making him human who at first has no memory of who or what he is. He escapes, however, revealing that Atlantis was not destroyed; but rather than come to destroy the city, a single Wraith hive ship comes to propose an alliance with the Atlantis expedition. It is a ruse, however; the Wraith capture Dr. McKay and Ronon, using information from Atlantis' database to make their way to Earth.
[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] Episodes
- 201: The Siege, Part 3 (of 3)
- 202: The Intruder
- 203: Runner
- 204: Duet
- 205: Condemned
- 206: Trinity
- 207: Instinct (Part 1 of 2)
- 208: Conversion (Part 2 of 2)
- 209: Aurora
- 210: The Lost Boys (Part 1 of 2)
- 211: The Hive (Part 2 of 2)
- 212: Epiphany
- 213: Critical Mass
- 214: Grace Under Pressure
- 215: The Tower
- 216: The Long Goodbye
- 217: Coup D'etat
- 218: Michael
- 219: Inferno
- 220: Allies (Part 1 of 3)
[edit] Novels
- Stargate Atlantis: Mirror Mirror (Preceded by Trinity and followed by Instinct)
- Stargate Atlantis: Halcyon (Preceded by Trinity and followed by The Lost Boys)
- Stargate Atlantis: Exogenesis (Preceded by Grace under Pressure and followed by Michael)
- Stargate Atlantis: Entanglement (Early season 2)
[edit] Audiobooks
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