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Stargate Atlantis is a science fiction television series created by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper as a spin off from its sister show, Stargate SG-1. The series resumes the story of the "Lost City" and "New Order" episodes of SG-1, where a military team led by Colonel (now Brigadier General) Jack O'Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, Major (now Lt. Colonel) Samantha Carter and the Jaffa Teal'c, use ...
The story of Stargate Atlantis follows the events of Stargate SG-1's seventh season finale episode "Lost City" and eighth season premiere episode "New Order", in which the cast of that series discovered an Antarctic outpost created by the alien race known as the Ancients.
The fifth and final season of the military science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis commenced airing on the Sci Fi Channel in the United States on July 11, 2008, concluded on the same channel on January 9, 2009, and contained 20 episodes.
Richard Ian Cox, who appeared in "The Defiant One", previously appeared in the season 3 Stargate SG-1 episode "New Ground" as Nyan. "Letters from Pegasus" is the first clip show episode of Stargate Atlantis. The title of this episode was inspired by the 1987 PBS TV documentary Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. [5]
GateWorld rated the episode with four stars (out of a possible four), only one of two episodes in the season to do so. [13] "Be All My Sins Remember'd" achieved 9.52 out of 10 from the GateWorld fan rating, making it one of only seven episodes in the Stargate franchise to have a fan rating higher than 9.5 at the time. [14]
Many of the stories take place at different points in the Stargate timeline, with "Shell Game" taking place after the Stargate SG-1 episode "The Pegasus Project", whilst "Zero Point" takes place after the Stargate Atlantis episode "Reunion". [8] [9] A second series was announced by Big Finish in January 2009 for monthly releases starting that May.
Even though "Enemy at the Gate" is the final episode in the series, its production number was 519, leaving 520 for "Vegas", which was filmed on location in Las Vegas, Nevada. [1] The shooting of "Enemy at the Gate" overlapped with "Vegas", which was not unusual as Atlantis used to film multiple episodes at the same time during its run. [2]
In the Stargate Atlantis episode "Rising", after studying the Ancient outpost discovered on earth, a Stargate address for Atlantis in the distant Pegasus galaxy is uncovered. Dr. Elizabeth Weir leads an expedition team through the Stargate where they uncover the Atlantis on the bottom of the ocean. As the city runs out of power, it rises to the ...