Stargate: Atlantis

Stargate: Atlantis (2004)

8 corrected entries in season 1

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The Storm (1) - S1-E10

Corrected entry: Sheppard initially leaves one radio for Commander Kolia so they can speak. It is of Earth design. However, Sheppard takes one radio from a Geni soldier he killed and speaks to Kolia on the Earth design radio instead of simply using his headset, as before. (00:40:50 - 00:42:50)

bachba

Correction: U.S. Mill. Spec. Radios are full Band (100kHz-2GHz), Genii radios are analog (due to their level of technology-beginning atomic) so anybody can zero in on the frequency.

Letters from Pegasus - S1-E17

Corrected entry: Dr. McKay repeatedly mentioned how they would only have a connection between the Pegasus Galaxy and the Milky Way Galaxy via Stargate for 1.3 seconds. Yet when the Milky Way galaxy is dialed, the wormhole lasts approximately 11 seconds. (00:42:30)

Correction: The earth gate activated then shutdown in 1.5 sec.

Thirty-Eight Minutes - S1-E4

Corrected entry: When they remove the alien bug from Sheppard's neck, Ford tries to revive him with the defibrillator. As it fails, they agree to move Sheppard through the event horizon of the stargate, because this would prevent him from dying, and Teyla pulls Sheppard into the gate. The problem is that everything what goes through the gate is dematerialized, so Teyla couldn't pull Sheppard into the gate, since by the time he is pulled into the gate completely, Teyla has long been disappeared. (00:34:35)

Correction: The Stargates use technology that is so advanced it's almost magic. Since people do walk through them and pull things through them, the Ancients clearly designed them to make it possible. After all, how useful would they be if you couldn't take anything through them but what you are carrying?

Grumpy Scot

Hide and Seek - S1-E3

Corrected entry: When Lt. Ford and another soldier are trying to evade the entity, but are faced by a closed bulkhead, Dr. Weir tells them to turn around go down the corridor and take the exit to the west. How are they to know which way is easy and west in a building that they have not been in for that long? Isn't turn left or right a lot quicker and easier, especially where instructions are given from a civilian. When someone asks for directions in the street how often do you say take the second turn on the East, or take the second left?

Correction: When you ask someone for directions in the street, they usually aren't in the military, or, as in Weir's case, associated heavily with the military. There's nothing wrong with Weir's directions; it's just your opinion that he shouldn't use east and west and an opinion does not make a mistake. And as for how they're supposed to tell where East and West is - easy, they have a compass, part of standard issue kit.

Tailkinker

Before I Sleep - S1-E15

Corrected entry: In "Ancient Elizabeth's" flashback when the team first arrives in the city the consoles in the gate room are turned off and covered with drop sheets. Towards the end of the Episode when "Ancient Elizabeth" Is left alone in Atlantis 10,000 years in the past she can be seen shutting down the consoles and covering the consoles with drop sheet, In which case the drop sheets should have never been on the consoles in her timeline, because Liz's Ancient self did not exist in that timeline. And the Ancients didn't shut down their consoles or cover them up when they evacuated Atlantis.

Correction: The assumes her method of timetravel creates multiple timelines, the Back to the Future method. But she could have travelled in a way that has no effect on history at all, the Bill and Ted method.

Childhood's End - S1-E6

Corrected entry: After returning from Atlantis base Dr. McKay says he landed the jumper a little outside of the range of the EM-field. At the end of the show, when the field is reactivated, he says he found a way to increased the range of the device by some 50 percent. As the jumper has been landed outside of the area previously covered by the field, he should now be inside it again, however the jumper still is able to start (you can hear the engines coming on-line).

Christoph Galuschka

Correction: There is nothing to suggest the EM field is spherical with the generator at the center. McKay could have enlarged it in a triangular shape with the kids village at one point, leaving the jumper safely outside it.

Grumpy Scot

Correction: It is not an error if a character is wearing a necklace that does not match the character's own initials. There are many plausible reasons to wear such a neclace, such as the neclace belonged to someone she loved or missed.

Correction: Why would you say that? While it's not a good idea to store a gun in a loaded condition, people accidently shoot themselves almost everyday with "unloaded" guns.

The Hive (2) - S2-E11

Visible crew/equipment: After taking the enzyme, Mckay is talking to himself as he dials the gate. When he goes to push the centre button, an arm moves on the opposite side of the DHD. (00:09:35)

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Dr. Rodney McKay: All I know is that she's not who she's pretending to be.
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: And you know this because...?
Dr. Rodney McKay: What, I'm not allowed to have intuition?
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: You? No.

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Trivia: In the final episode, 'Enemy at the gates' Sam Carter says that the new ship is to be named the General George Hammond in memory of the character Hammond who had died of a heart attack. This is a tribute to Don S. Davies, who played Hammond, who sadly died of a heart attack in June 2008, shortly after filming Stargate Continium.

Jeff Walker

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The Siege (1) - S1-E19

Question: It was said earlier in the show that the Atlantis crew did not have enough power to dial Earth. Earth Control had no idea of the fate of the Atlantis crew until they sent the video package telling them what was going on, then Earth Control sent reinforcements to help out. My question is; if Earth Control was able to send reinforcements to Atlantis to help out, why could they not send a crew to check on the status of Atlantis? They knew the Atlantis crew made it in the 1st episode.

SAZOO1975

Chosen answer: Because the ZPM allowing them to dial Atlantis was being used at the Antarctic defense outpost. They couldn't risk making Earth vulnerable to attack from Anubis by depleting it with repeated dialing to the Pegasus galaxy. Once they knew Atlantis was in serious danger, they had no choice.

Grumpy Scot

ZPM from Antarctic was depleted in first dial, dial in Siege was done via ZPM from Egypt (SG-1: Moebius Part-1/2).

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