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Dr. Rodney McKay is a fictional character portrayed by David Hewlett in the TV series Stargate Atlantis.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Rising (season 1), they were 36 years old.
They appear in all 99 aired episodes and have accumulated 8550 positive votes.
The character of Dr. Rodney McKay is mainly associated with Lt. Colonel John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan and Dr. Elizabeth Weir.

Dr. Rodney McKay

by David Hewlett

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Episodes99

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    Rising

    episode S1.E1 july 2004
    A team of scientists think they have found the location of the long lost city of Atlantis. It can be reached by a Stargate address that leads to the Pegasus galaxy.
  • 7.4
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    Hide and Seek

    episode S1.E2 july 2004
    Rodney can't remove an Ancient device that makes him invincible but prevents him from eating or drinking. Meanwhile, there are power malfunctions throughout the city and one of the Athosians mentions seeing a shadow.
  • 7.6
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    Thirty Eight Minutes

    episode S1.E3 july 2004
    Sheppard gets bitten by a Wraith-like bug and is dying. While the puddle jumper returns, it gets stuck in the Stargate. There's 38 minutes to find a solution.
  • 7.1
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    Suspicion

    episode S1.E4 august 2004
    There's suspicion of a Wraith collaborator and some of the team suspect the Athosians. Ford and Sheppard find land on Atlantis' planet.
  • 7.2
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    Childhood's End

    episode S1.E5 august 2004
    Rodney investigates a ZPM from a planet whose inhabitants kill themselves when they turned 25 years old to prevent the Wraith from feeding on them.
  • 7.4
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    Poisoning the Well

    episode S1.E6 august 2004
    Atlantis offers help to the Hoffans, who are working on a defense against the Wraith.
  • 7.5
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    Underground

    episode S1.E7 august 2004
    Atlantis wants to trade food with the Genii, a simple civilization who turn out to be not so simple. They are planning a nuclear attack against the Wraith.
  • 7.8
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    Home

    episode S1.E8 september 2004
    A strange energy generating fog allows travel back to Earth. But something's wrong.
  • 8.2
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    The Storm

    episode S1.E9 september 2004
    Two hurricanes are approaching Atlantis and an evacuation is necessary. The leader of the planet taking them in tells the Genii about the situation.
  • 8.3
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    The Eye

    episode S1.E10 january 2005
    McKay and Weir start repairing the grounding station, while Sheppard tries to fight Kolya. The puddle jumper on the mainland enters the eye of the storm.
  • 7.8
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    The Defiant One

    episode S1.E11 january 2005
    Major John Sheppard, Rodney McKay and two scientists explore a planet where a Wraith spaceship, which crashed there 10,000 years ago, during the Atlantis-Wraith War, is still sending a SOS signal.
  • 7.3
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    Hot Zone

    episode S1.E12 february 2005
    A team of scientists, including McKay, Zelenka and Ford, are exposed to a deadly virus. Sheppard goes after one of the scientists trying to escape.
  • 7.6
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    Sanctuary

    episode S1.E13 february 2005
    Sheppard invites a priestess, who claims to not know about a weapon protecting her planet from the Wraith, to Atlantis to discuss asylum for refugees.
  • 8.1
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    Before I Sleep

    episode S1.E14 february 2005
    It's Elizabeth's birthday and she gets a very special gift: a woman who has been in stasis in an Atlantis' laboratory for 10,000 years and is actually herself.
  • 7.5
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    The Brotherhood

    episode S1.E15 february 2005
    The team is on Dagan, where they must find key stones to retrieve a ZPM. Zelenka finds out Atlantis has a deep space scanner.
  • 7.4
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    Letters from Pegasus

    episode S1.E16 march 2005
    McKay finds a way to send a message to Earth, leaving space for personal messages. Sheppard and Teyla are off to spy on the Wraith fleet approaching Atlantis.
  • 7.2
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    The Gift

    episode S1.E17 march 2005
    Teyla is haunted by nightmares, leaving her agitated. After seeing a psychologist, an old Athosian woman tells her a secret about her ability to sense the Wraith.
  • 8.3
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    The Siege: Part 1

    episode S1.E18 march 2005
    McKay and Zelenka come up with a plan to repair the Ancients' weapon satellite. Bates and Teyla get into a fight. He is found unconscious and badly injured shortly afterwards.
  • 8.6
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    The Siege: Part 2

    episode S1.E19 march 2005
    All hope seems lost, until Colonel Everett arrives suddenly from Earth. He is determined to defend the city until the arrival of a ZPM, brought by a new ship.
  • 8.6
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    The Siege: Part 3

    episode S2.E1 july 2005
    The Daedalus arrives and the two hive ships are destroyed. Atlantis seems saved, then Zelenka detects 12 more ships. Ford seems changed after a fall in the water.
  • 7.4
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    The Intruder

    episode S2.E2 july 2005
    McKay, Sheppard, Beckett and Weir are on the Daedalus. McKay finds a Wraith virus that is infecting ship systems and sending a signal to the Wraith.
  • 7.9
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    Runner

    episode S2.E3 july 2005
    The team is searching for Ford on a planet. Teyla and Sheppard are taken hostage by a stranger, while Ford tries to convince McKay that he's normal.
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    Duet

    episode S2.E4 august 2005
    After an attempt to retrieve McKay and Lt. Laura Cadman from the memory banks of a Wraith dart, Cadman gets stuck in McKay's mind.
  • 7.3
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    Condemned

    episode S2.E5 august 2005
    The team discovers a planet where the Stargate is kept on a prison island to keep the Wraith satisfied. Their magistrate is willing to trade a rare mineral.
  • 7.5
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    Trinity

    episode S2.E6 august 2005
    The team discover an Ancient project to create the ultimate power source. McKay thinks he can finish it. Ronon finds out he is not the only surviving Satedan.
  • 7.4
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    Instinct

    episode S2.E7 august 2005
    The team find a hidden Wraith girl, cared for by a man with a serum that he claims can satisfy her hunger. Beckett wants to perfect a retrovirus that can turn Wraith into humans.
  • 7.3
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    Conversion

    episode S2.E8 september 2005
    Sheppard is infected with the Wraith retrovirus and slowly turns into an Iratus bug. To provide a treatment, stem cells must be retrieved from one of their eggs.
  • 8.3
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    Aurora

    episode S2.E9 september 2005
    McKay finds an Ancient warship adrift in space. Sheppard finds out they are carrying a communique that mentions a weakness in Wraith technology.
  • 7.5
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    The Lost Boys

    episode S2.E10 september 2005
    The team is captured by Ford and are forced to take the Wraith enzyme. Ford has a plan.
  • 7.9
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    The Hive

    episode S2.E11 january 2006
    Sheppard's interrogation is suddenly aborted. Teyla senses another hive ship has arrived. Meanwhile McKay tries to convince his guard to call in help.
  • 7.6
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    Epiphany

    episode S2.E12 january 2006
    The teams discovers a ridge that can only be entered through a door. Sheppard gets pulled in by a field. McKay discovers time goes very fast behind it.
  • 7.6
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    Critical Mass

    episode S2.E13 january 2006
    The Trust, a Goa'uld terrorist organization, has planted a bomb in Atlantis.
  • 7.7
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    Grace Under Pressure

    episode S2.E14 january 2006
    McKay and a pilot crash with a puddle jumper into the ocean on Atlantis. They start to sink.
  • 7.1
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    The Tower

    episode S2.E15 february 2006
    Colonel Sheppard's team finds a world where the leader lives in a tower that possesses the power to stop Wraith attacks.
  • 6.8
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    The Long Goodbye

    episode S2.E16 february 2006
    The team discovers two life pods with a dying woman and man in it. Upon opening Weir gets imprinted with the mind of the woman. She asks a special favor.
  • 7.7
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    Coup D'etat

    episode S2.E17 february 2006
    While Teyla and Ronon investigate the mysterious death of Major Lorne, the Genii Ladon Radim contacts Atlantis. He wants to trade a ZPM for weapons supplies.
  • 7.9
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    Michael

    episode S2.E18 february 2006
    Michael Kenmore, a new lieutenant, awakes in the infirmary and doesn't remember a thing. The other expedition members are very concerned about his well-being as he seems different.
  • 8.1
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    Inferno

    episode S2.E19 march 2006
    Atlantis helps with repairing an Ancient shield generator on Taranis. They discover the Taranians are in possession of an Ancient warship.
  • 8.4
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    Allies

    episode S2.E20 march 2006
    The hive ship approaching Atlantis is Michael's. He wants a trade: the retrovirus for not revealing the secret of Atlantis and insights on Wraith technology.
  • 8.3
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    No Man's Land

    episode S3.E1 july 2006
    Fallen into the Wraith trap, McKay initially resigns to fatal captivity in a cocoon, but Ronon keeps struggling to attempt escaping, or at least taking some Wraith down with them. Sheppard managed to hide his glider on the very hive ship, seeking a way out, surprised to get radio contact with Michael, who seeks revenge after the ingrate queen has him semi-restrained as 'too human' suspect. While they try to sabotage the hive and maybe escape, the Daedalus and Orion race just in time to fight the two hive ships before they may attack earth. Weir is summoned to SGC for a pointless grilling by the International Oversight Advisory, finding them bureaucrats unable to risk a decision beyond questioning what was already done. So she returns, never mind the career risk compared to a Wraith culling. Sheppard manages to reach the Daedalus and his party comes up with a daring plan to overpower the hive with the weaponized retrovirus, despite bombarded damage compromising even their life-support systems.
  • 7.3
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    Misbegotten

    episode S3.E2 july 2006
    Sheppard and the others are now in control of the one remaining hive ship with most of the Wraith transformed into human form, courtesy of the retrovirus. They do learn something interesting about female Wraiths, however. After they return to Atlantis, the question becomes one of what to do with the Wraiths who are again human, especially Michael who has proved to be quite helpful. Elizabeth Weir meanwhile is surprised to hear that she is to return to Atlantis as the expedition leader. She will be accompanied however by Richard Woolsey who is to review her leadership and make recommendations to the International Oversight Advisory on whether she should be allowed to continue.
  • 6.7
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    Irresistible

    episode S3.E3 july 2006
    Sheppard and the team continue their visits to new planets. McKay is tired of all these visits and is keen on implementing a series of gates that will allow them to travel from Atlantis to Earth in a mere 30 minutes without using the power of a ZPM or the two weeks it takes them on the Daedalus. He takes a somewhat different tack however when he sees all of the very friendly young women in the village. Their leader, Lucius Lavin, seems to be a very affable sort and has the locals eating out of their hands. He claims to be an apothecary of sorts and have a cure for every disease, which is certainly of interest to Dr. Beckett. Lavin is invited to Atlantis and soon everyone, including Elizabeth Weir and McKay have fallen victim to his charms. It's left to Sheppard to sort it all out.
  • 8.2
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    Sateda

    episode S3.E4 august 2006
    After a group of people capture and give Ronon to the Wraith, he becomes a runner again, but this time he's left in his home planet, Sateda, where the Stargate has been disabled.
  • 8
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    Progeny

    episode S3.E5 august 2006
    The Atlantis expedition encounters a highly advanced race, the Asurans. They initially believe them to be the Ancients. However, this new race is just a new face of an old nemesis.
  • 6.8
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    The Real World

    episode S3.E6 august 2006
    Dr Weir finds herself on Earth where, to everyone else, the Atlantis Expedition was just her delusion.
  • 8.7
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    Common Ground

    episode S3.E7 august 2006
    John Sheppard is kidnapped by the Genii and is in the company of a Wraith.
  • 8.4
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    McKay and Mrs. Miller

    episode S3.E8 september 2006
    Rodney's sister is brought to Atlantis to make use of one of her theories.
  • 7
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    Phantoms

    episode S3.E9 september 2006
    A device that creates hallucinations affects the team off-world.
  • 8.2
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    The Return: Part 1

    episode S3.E10 september 2006
    The Atlantis expedition must turn to an old friend for help as the Asurans prepare to invade the city.
  • 8.6
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    The Return: Part 2

    episode S3.E11 april 2007
    The team returns to Atlantis in an attempt to regain control of the city.
  • 7.6
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    Echoes

    episode S3.E12 april 2007
    Teyla witnesses what appear to be an Ancient apparitions, which soon other people start to see.
  • 6.6
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    Irresponsible

    episode S3.E13 april 2007
    The team investigate rumours of an invincible hero off-world, only to find Lucius Lavin again manipulating a hapless village.
  • 8.3
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    Tao of Rodney

    episode S3.E14 may 2007
    When Rodney uses an Ancient device, he gets special powers, but soon Dr Weir discovers it's a double-handled gift: if he doesn't ascend, he'll die.
  • 7.9
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    The Game

    episode S3.E15 may 2007
    The Atlantis team finds a program in the Atlantis database which throws Mckay and Sheppard into a Simsesque game that could destroy two civilizations in the Pegasus Galaxy.
  • 7.3
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    The Ark

    episode S3.E16 may 2007
    The team boards a crippled space station to discover people have been preserved there with the hope to outlive their enemy, the Wraith.
  • 8.3
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    Sunday

    episode S3.E17 june 2007
    With everyone having a Sunday off - something recommended by psychologist Dr. Heightmeyer - all of the members of the Atlantis team pursue leisure activities. Rodney McKay and Carson Beckett are scheduled to go fishing; Sheppard decides to teach Ronon Dex about golf; Teyla spends some time in the gym; and Elizabeth Weir has a lunch date with the handsome Mike Branton. Their day off however is interrupted by a powerful explosion near the mess hall killing and injuring several members of the team. McKay thinks he knows the cause of the problem - a device found by two junior members of his team may have turned some of them into walking time bombs by creating explosive tumors in them.
  • 7.4
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    Submersion

    episode S3.E18 june 2007
    The Atlantis team finds an Ancient underwater research facility and puts a team together to check it out.
  • 7.4
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    Vengeance

    episode S3.E19 june 2007
    After losing contact with the new Taranin (the people rescued by the Atlantis team when a super volcano threatened to destroy their planet) settlement, Sheppard's team leaves to investigate. Finding the town deserted, they move to investigate an extensive subterranean tunnel system. What they find there holds dark tidings for the entire Pegasus Galaxy.
  • 8.6
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    First Strike

    episode S3.E20 june 2007
    After learning the Asurians are building a fleet of ships, Earth sends its newest ship, the Apollo, under the command of Colonel Abe Ellis to initiate a preemptive first strike to stop them from attacking Atlantis or worse, Earth itself.
  • 8.5
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    Adrift

    episode S4.E1 september 2007
    With a damaged ZPM, and diminished hopes of survival, the Atlantis team finds themselves stranded in the middle of empty space with hardly any time before they run out of power completely. Dr. McKay is challenged to the max as he tries to find a way to save Atlantis from its doom. Meanwhile, Dr. Keller races to treat Weir's increasing head injuries, but the only answer she can come up with could have grave results for everyone on board.
  • 8.5
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    Lifeline

    episode S4.E2 october 2007
    The Atlantis team, along with Weir and now with the ability to make large hyperspace jumps in only a puddle jumper, must now journey to the replicator home planet to steal one of their many ZPMs to bring the city back to life, and finish the journey to their new planet.
  • 7.5
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    Reunion

    episode S4.E3 october 2007
    While on a regular mission, Ronan runs into some Satedan friends from his past. As old emotions start to return, new thoughts come with them, one of which involves leaving Atlantis. But could danger be lurking just around the corner?
  • 7.1
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    Doppelganger

    episode S4.E4 october 2007
    While exploring a new planet, Sheppard started to watch a strange crystal. He doesn't know why, but he had to touch it. Back on Atlantis, everybody but him started to have some bad nightmares.
  • 7.7
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    Travelers

    episode S4.E5 october 2007
    Sheppard is kidnapped by a group of people living in a starship fleet. They were telling him that they were living on these ships for a long time, due to the war with the Wraith. He was forced to help them make an Ancients ship fly. Sheppard tricked them and flew with the ship, and 3 of the kidnappers.
  • 8
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    Tabula Rasa

    episode S4.E6 november 2007
    Rodney McKay awakens in his lab, tied to a chair and with no memory of who or where he is. He did seemingly leave himself a video message telling him to look for Teyla. The problem began some 14 hours before when Dr. Katie Brown returned to Atlantis with plants from a planet she had visited. The plants had been cleared through the normal quarantine procedure but she is soon afflicted with severe headaches and loss of memory, eventually falling into a coma. Memory loss begins to afflict other members of the crew but they soon become distrustful of one another, making conclusions based on false assumptions and a misreading of the situation. Fortunately, there are two members of the team who seem to be immune.
  • 7.1
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    Missing

    episode S4.E7 november 2007
    Teyla and Dr. Keller go to the Athosians' new planet, where they discover that the Athosians have gone missing. It seems to be the work of a warrior tribe, the Bola Kai.
  • 7.8
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    The Seer

    episode S4.E8 november 2007
    Having been told by the Genii spy on New Athos that her people were still alive, Teyla asks permission to visit a man named Davos who is a legendary seer and may be able to help her. When they arrive, Dr. Keller realizes that the man is dying. His ability to see the future is real, but the snippets of the future he is able to show them are open to interpretation. John is called back to Atlantis when they receive a message from the Wraith whose life he had previously saved. He offers to work with McKay to fix the nano virus that is now malfunctioning. As if this weren't enough happening, Richard Woolsey arrives from Earth to undertake Samantha Carter's 3 month evaluation.
  • 7.7
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    Miller's Crossing

    episode S4.E9 november 2007
    When McKay's sister Jeanie is kidnapped, the team returns to Earth to find her.
  • 8
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    This Mortal Coil

    episode S4.E10 december 2007
    When what appears to be a satellite crashes into Atlantis, the team becomes aware of strange behaviour on the base.
  • 9
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    Be All My Sins Remember'd

    episode S4.E11 january 2008
    The Atlantis team decides to attack the numerous ships of the Replicators, with the help of uneasy alliances.
  • 8
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    Spoils of War

    episode S4.E12 january 2008
    A transmission from space leads the team to the discovery of a breeding ground for Wraith soldiers.
  • 7.4
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    Quarantine

    episode S4.E13 january 2008
    The entire city locks down for a false quarantine, leaving people stranded with a decreasing amount of oxygen, while Rodney is unable to reach a computer.
  • 7.2
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    Harmony

    episode S4.E14 january 2008
    Sheppard and McKay must escort a prospective queen as part of their diplomatic duties, unaware that an ambush has been set by some familiar enemies.
  • 7.3
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    Outcast

    episode S4.E15 february 2008
    After returning to Earth for his father's funeral, John Sheppard discovers the existence of a human form Replicator loose on the population.
  • 7.4
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    Trio

    episode S4.E16 february 2008
    Keller, Carter and McKay are stranded in an abandoned Genii mine while off-world.
  • 8.9
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    Midway

    episode S4.E17 february 2008
    The IOA is conducting interviews back on Earth to ensure that any personnel serving on Atlantis (in particular, aliens) are suitable for their roles. The episode opens up with a pregnant Teyla having been interviewed and reporting back to Atlantis. Ronon is next. Col. Carter is unsure about Ronon's ability to handle the IOA's interview and therefore asks Teal'c to come to Atlantis in a coaching capacity for Ronon. After a rocky start to their relationship, Ronon and Teal'c return to Earth, via the series of Stargates and a Midway Station, that McKay had previously designed. The Midway Station between the Milky Way and Pegasus galaxies serves primarily as a place for those traveling between the galaxies to serve a 24 hour quarantine. While Teal'c and Ronon are serving their quarantine in the extremely cramped Midway Station, it is boarded by the Wraith, via the Stargate, with the intention to travel to Stargate Command on Earth. They achieve this objective, but only with Teal'c and Ronon in tow. What ensues is a battle between the Wraith and the duo of Teal'c and Ronon, for control of Stargate Command.
  • 7.7
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    The Kindred: Part 1

    episode S4.E18 february 2008
    A plague of sorts is spreading across the Pegasus galaxy and Dr. Keller estimates that hundreds of thousands will die if they don't don't find a way to stop it. Her research shows however that the disease's origin is with the Hoff, who had been working on a way to kill the Wraith. Sheppard and the others think they know who might be spreading the virus and why. Teyla meanwhile believes she is receiving messages from Kanaan, the father of her child. She's getting his messages while sleeping and most think she's just dreaming. She follows the clues he gives her but she is taken prisoner by an old enemy who has very specific plans for her. In their search for Teyla however, Sheppard and McKay find someone completely unexpected.
  • 7.9
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    The Kindred: Part 2

    episode S4.E19 february 2008
    Slowly, everyone on Atlantis comes to terms with the sudden re-appearance of Dr. Carson Beckett who, he claims, has been Michael's prisoner for some two years. He tells them what he was doing in Michael's laboratory and they set off to find the kidnapped Teyla. Dr. Keller figures out just how he's come to there at all. Sheppard meanwhile has been using all of his contacts to try and locate Teyla but they come across someone from the past. Teyla in turn has found some of the Athosians alive but they are few in number as a result of Michael's experiments. Michael explains to her just what it is he wants from her as well as his own plans for the future.
  • 8.8
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    The Last Man

    episode S4.E20 march 2008
    After yet another fruitless search for the missing Teyla, Sheppard returns to Atlantis, only to find it deserted. Worse yet, the city isn't just abnormally hot, but the entire ocean has completely dried up, leaving a sandy desert! Sheppard then finds a hologram of an aged Dr. McKay, telling him that a solar flare had sent him 48,000 years into the future. Once he learns the demise of Atlantis and everyone on it, and worse yet that the sun in the solar system is dying and he won't survive there much longer, he and the holographic McKay must find a way to send Sheppard home and potentially change all of this.
  • 7.9
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    Search and Rescue

    episode S5.E1 july 2008
    Combat engineers from Atlantis work against the clock to rescue four of their colleagues who are now trapped in the rubble of Michael's medical compound. With Michael en route, they quickly locate McKay and Major Lorne but Sheppard and Ronon are far deeper and their rescue is not assured. When Michael's ship arrives, they decide to try to rescue Teyla who is in labor and close to giving birth. When it's all over, Col. Carter is recalled to Earth for a performance review but Richard Woolsey has some bad news for her.
  • 7.2
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    The Seed

    episode S5.E2 july 2008
    Dr. Carson Beckett is removed from stasis because he's the only one who can find the antidote to a mysterious virus that has incapacitated base personnel, beginning with Dr. Jennifer Keller.
  • 7.1
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    Broken Ties

    episode S5.E3 july 2008
    Ronon is abducted by a Wraith who tries to brainwash him.
  • 8.3
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    The Daedalus Variations

    episode S5.E4 august 2008
    An empty Daedalus is found orbiting the planet. The team goes to check it out and they are transported to an alternate universe.
  • 7.5
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    Ghost in the Machine

    episode S5.E5 august 2008
    A group of beings stranded in sub-space seek help from Atlantis to return to normal space. But their outrageous claims and erratic behavior strains the trust of their benefactors and forces a painful solution.
  • 8.6
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    The Shrine

    episode S5.E6 august 2008
    Rodney is infected with a deadly illness known as "second childhood" which diminishes his mind capabilities and makes him lose his memory gradually.
  • 7.3
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    Whispers

    episode S5.E7 september 2008
    Sheppard and Beckett battle zombie-like, Wraith-engineered mutants with a team of the best and brightest female SG members.
  • 7.8
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    The Queen

    episode S5.E8 september 2008
    Teyla risks her life on a daring mission aboard a wraith hive ship.
  • 7.8
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    Tracker

    episode S5.E9 september 2008
    Jennifer, Ronon and Rodney find themselves in the middle of a Wraith hunt when Jennifer is kidnapped by a runner, Kiryk, to help him with a humanitarian mission.
  • 8.9
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    First Contact

    episode S5.E10 september 2008
    Dr. Daniel Jackson comes to Atlantis in search of a lost Atlantian room. The discovery reveals a new race. Daniel and McKay are kidnapped by the new race and are forced to finish a device which may kill the Wraith. Todd feels betrayed and takes the Daedalus.
  • 8.7
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    The Lost Tribe

    episode S5.E11 october 2008
    The new race that stole the device, not to mention Rodney and Daniel, turns out to be an old one meaning very old and well known to the human race. With an ancient grudge to settle, they force Rodney to activate the device against the Wraith with a side effect that could kill millions throughout the galaxy. That makes the Wraith mad so they abscond with the Daedalus to retaliate. Once again we lowly humans have to take control of a messy situation to keep the master races from wreaking havoc in the galaxy.
  • 7.1
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    Outsiders

    episode S5.E12 october 2008
    The Atlantis team endeavors to thwart Wraith plans to either find a cure for the Hoffan drug (which makes humans deadly to Wraith feeding on them) or exterminate all those infected.
  • 6
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    Inquisition

    episode S5.E13 october 2008
    Sheppard and his team are lured to a planet and are soon put on trial for crimes against the people of the Pegasus galaxy. In flashbacks, the three judge tribunal recounts the indictment against them including the re-awakening of the Wraith and the various missions where at least a few, if not more, innocent bystanders were killed. Sheppard does his best to argue that on balance, fewer were killed by their presence than would have been the case if they had never been there. A least one of the judges is clearly determined to find them guilty while a second seems far more sympathetic. It's left to Richard Woolsey, who has now joined them, to plead the rest of their case. A lawyer by profession, Richard clearly knows how the game is played and focuses on that third judge.
  • 8
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    The Prodigal

    episode S5.E14 november 2008
    When the power is shut down and most of the inhabitants are locked out of key controls, it is apparent that Atlantis has been taken over by an off-world group, soon identified as Michael and his hybrids. He is after Teyla's newborn child who is key in his quest to gain control of the Pegasus galaxy. While Sheppard and McKay try to get their hands on a jumper to launch an attack, Ronon and others who were taken prisoner by Michael during his initial invasion launch reprisals of their own. When Teyla manages to get away and hide, Michael gives her a simple choice: surrender herself and her child to him or he will use the city's self-destruct mechanism to kill everyone.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Remnants

    episode S5.E15 november 2008
    Radek discovers an alien device that Rodney finds holds serious surprises. Sheppard runs into a reincarnated Acastus Kolya who plans to attack Atlantis. An IOC representative arrives to replace Woolsey who receives advice from a mysterious woman.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Brain Storm

    episode S5.E16 november 2008
    Rodney finally invites Jennifer on a date; to attend a science conference with him. But petty jealousies arise at the conference that have to be suppressed when a proposed solution for global warming has potentially lethal side effects.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Infection

    episode S5.E17 december 2008
    A Wraith cruiser arrives at Atlantis and is strangely uncommunicative.
  • 7.1
    /10

    Identity

    episode S5.E18 december 2008
    An alien mind takes up residence in Jennifer's body and seems as confused as her colleagues are by her erratic behavior. Which begs the question; where is Jennifer?
  • 8
    /10

    Vegas

    episode S5.E19 december 2008
    The killings of a Wraith in Las Vegas are investigated by Detective John Sheppard - who knows nothing about life-sucking aliens from another galaxy.
  • 8.6
    /10

    Enemy at the Gate

    episode S5.E20 january 2009
    A hive ship turbo-charged with a ZPM has received the Wraith's message from a alternate universe containing the location of Earth. The ship is now heading for Earth.

Best moments10

  • 8.3
    /10
    88% of the votes

    Tao of Rodney

    episode S3.E14 may 2007
    When Rodney uses an Ancient device, he gets special powers, but soon Dr Weir discovers it's a double-handled gift: if he doesn't ascend, he'll die.
  • 8.4
    /10
    86% of the votes

    McKay and Mrs. Miller

    episode S3.E8 september 2006
    Rodney's sister is brought to Atlantis to make use of one of her theories.
  • 7.7
    /10
    84% of the votes

    Miller's Crossing

    episode S4.E9 november 2007
    When McKay's sister Jeanie is kidnapped, the team returns to Earth to find her.
  • 8
    /10
    82% of the votes

    Duet

    episode S2.E4 august 2005
    After an attempt to retrieve McKay and Lt. Laura Cadman from the memory banks of a Wraith dart, Cadman gets stuck in McKay's mind.
  • 7.2
    /10
    80% of the votes

    Harmony

    episode S4.E14 january 2008
    Sheppard and McKay must escort a prospective queen as part of their diplomatic duties, unaware that an ambush has been set by some familiar enemies.
  • 8.6
    /10
    78% of the votes

    The Shrine

    episode S5.E6 august 2008
    Rodney is infected with a deadly illness known as "second childhood" which diminishes his mind capabilities and makes him lose his memory gradually.
  • 8.7
    /10
    77% of the votes

    The Lost Tribe

    episode S5.E11 october 2008
    The new race that stole the device, not to mention Rodney and Daniel, turns out to be an old one meaning very old and well known to the human race. With an ancient grudge to settle, they force Rodney to activate the device against the Wraith with a side effect that could kill millions throughout the galaxy. That makes the Wraith mad so they abscond with the Daedalus to retaliate. Once again we lowly humans have to take control of a messy situation to keep the master races from wreaking havoc in the galaxy.
  • 8.8
    /10
    75% of the votes

    The Last Man

    episode S4.E20 march 2008
    After yet another fruitless search for the missing Teyla, Sheppard returns to Atlantis, only to find it deserted. Worse yet, the city isn't just abnormally hot, but the entire ocean has completely dried up, leaving a sandy desert! Sheppard then finds a hologram of an aged Dr. McKay, telling him that a solar flare had sent him 48,000 years into the future. Once he learns the demise of Atlantis and everyone on it, and worse yet that the sun in the solar system is dying and he won't survive there much longer, he and the holographic McKay must find a way to send Sheppard home and potentially change all of this.
  • 8
    /10
    69% of the votes

    Tabula Rasa

    episode S4.E6 november 2007
    Rodney McKay awakens in his lab, tied to a chair and with no memory of who or where he is. He did seemingly leave himself a video message telling him to look for Teyla. The problem began some 14 hours before when Dr. Katie Brown returned to Atlantis with plants from a planet she had visited. The plants had been cleared through the normal quarantine procedure but she is soon afflicted with severe headaches and loss of memory, eventually falling into a coma. Memory loss begins to afflict other members of the crew but they soon become distrustful of one another, making conclusions based on false assumptions and a misreading of the situation. Fortunately, there are two members of the team who seem to be immune.
  • 9
    /10
    69% of the votes

    Be All My Sins Remember'd

    episode S4.E11 january 2008
    The Atlantis team decides to attack the numerous ships of the Replicators, with the help of uneasy alliances.

Votes per episode

38
E1
57
E2
360
E3
152
E4
32
E5
156
E6
8
E7
29
E8
48
E9
60
E10
74
E11
101
E12
212
E13
68
E14
16
E15
199
E16
90
E17
11
E18
144
E19
75
E1
116
E2
35
E3
401
E4
74
E5
99
E6
12
E7
9
E8
119
E9
26
E10
85
E11
30
E12
36
E13
170
E14
36
E15
11
E16
8
E17
7
E18
257
E19
107
E20
16
E1
8
E2
21
E3
11
E4
69
E5
4
E6
5
E7
367
E8
68
E9
20
E10
108
E11
133
E12
14
E13
371
E14
261
E15
40
E16
14
E17
21
E18
8
E19
53
E20
262
E1
18
E2
2
E3
73
E4
13
E5
273
E6
3
E7
4
E8
311
E9
43
E10
272
E11
14
E12
22
E13
304
E14
6
E15
233
E16
5
E17
10
E18
16
E19
308
E20
45
E1
10
E2
15
E3
138
E4
26
E5
342
E6
3
E7
3
E8
25
E9
98
E10
213
E11
19
E12
7
E13
8
E14
12
E15
106
E16
24
E17
17
E18
27
E19
40
E20