Category: Season 3

An exploration of an apparently abandoned space station, built into a hollowed-out asteroid orbiting a planet, intrigues McKay – to the point that he restarts the installation’s reactor and triggers the reanimation of a frozen crew of two men who weren’t picked up by sensors. They were left behind to guard a device storing a thousand of their people to protect them from detection by the Wraith. Upon learning that his world and his family fell victim to the Wraith before they could evacuate to the station, one of the revived crew commits suicide by firing the engines of the station’s single shuttle and stepping into the incinerating blast. But the engines also burn through the asteroid itself, pushing it out of its orbit…and blasting into space the jumper used by Sheppard’s team to get there. With time running out, a rescue team from Atlantis arrives to retrieve the crew, but before they can evacuate, the sole surviving reanimated crew member takes the survival of his race – and Teyla’s life – into his own hands.

story by Ken Cuperus & Scott Nimerfro
telelplay by Ken Cuperus
directed by Martin Wood
music by Joel Goldsmith and Neil Acree

Guest Cast: Kenneth Welsh (Jamus), Joris Jarsky (Hersky), Kavan Smith (Major Lorne), Chuck Campbell (Technician), Gerry Durand (Marine)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Weir and Sheppard lead a team to find and board a mobile drilling platform built by the Ancients to tap into the ocean crust, but once on board, Teyla’s genetic link with the Wraith allows her to pick up on one nearby. But when Rodney performs a new sensor sweep, no Wraith is detected. Teyla tries to reach out to the Wraith with her mind, but even then she doesn’t find what she’s looking for – and yet moments later, she attacks Ronon and begins to cripple the drilling station’s systems. When the Wraith presence is finally revealed, so is its identity: the Wraith Queen who lead the final attack on Atlantis at the time the Ancients abandoned it. She’s been trapped beneath the sea for centuries, and ultimately killed and consumed her own crashed ship’s crew to survive. Now she wants to bargain for an opportunity to escape her underwater prison, but it’s not a negotiation she intends to enter without having the upper hand.

written by Ken Cuperus
directed by Brenton Spencer
music by Joel Goldsmith and Neil Acree

Guest Cast: David Nykl (Dr. Zelenka), Andee Frizzell (Wraith Queen), Michael Tayles (Dr. Graydon), Noel Johansen (Dr. Dickinson), Donna Soares (Coleman)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Contact is lost with a civilization that the Atlantis team helped relocate when their world was threatened by a supervolcano eruption. When Sheppard and his team explore an underground installation to search for survivors, they instead find human-sized insects hatched from enormous pods. They injure one when it tries to attack Ronon, and plant explosives to destroy a hatchery full of more pods. Leftover experiments are found too, attempts to accelerate the evolution of the insect life forms that merged with humans to create the Wraith. A backup team of Marines is captured by a Wraith dart, and then Teyla is captured in the underground tunnels – by none other than Michael, the human-Wraith hybrid created by Dr. Beckett’s experiments. Michael, now outcast from either humans or Wraith, has set out to create a new conquering race even more powerful than the Wraith, and he has no problems using Sheppard’s team as his next set of test subjects.

written by Carl Binder
directed by Andy Mikita
music by Joel Goldsmith and Neil Acree

Guest Cast: Connor Trinneer (Michael), Chuck Campbell (Technician), Ryan Booth (Lt. Negley), Samuel Polin (Creature), Brian Ho (Stunt Creature), Josh Blacker (Screaming Man)

LogBook entry by Earl Green