Stargate Atlantis (season 4)

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Stargate Atlantis Season 4
Promotional pre-air photograph
Country of origin	United States, Canada
Network	Sci Fi Channel
Original run	September 28, 2007 (Sci Fi Channel) – March 7, 2008 (Sci Fi Channel)
No. of episodes	20
DVD release date	Region 1: July 8, 2008 Region 2: August 4, 2008 Region 4: September 5, 2008
Previous season	Season 3
Next season	Season 5

Season four of Stargate Atlantis, an American-Canadian television series, began airing on September 28, 2007 on the US-American Sci Fi Channel. The fourth season concluded after 20 episodes on March 7, 2008 on Sci Fi. The series was developed by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, who also served as executive producers. Amanda Tapping (Col. Samantha Carter) joins the cast as a regular for 14 episodes, Jewel Staite (Dr. Jennifer Keller) was a recurring character for eleven episodes, while regular cast member Torri Higginson (Dr. Elizabeth Weir) was a recurring cast member for four episodes. Other season four regular cast members include Joe Flanigan, Jason Momoa, Rachel Luttrell, and David Hewlett as Dr. Rodney McKay.

1 Main cast
2 Episodes
3 Production
4 Broadcast and reception
5 DVD releases
6 Awards
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Main cast

[edit] Episodes

#	#	Title	SG Wiki	Directed by	Written by	Original airdate
61	401	"Adrift"	SG Wiki	Martin Wood	Martin Gero	September 28, 2007 (Sci Fi Channel)
After escaping the Asuran satellite weapon, Atlantis encounters further problems as their shield begins to severely deplete their taxed ZPM. With little resources, the team undertakes a myriad of repairs, while Dr. McKay and Dr. Keller are forced to make a tough decision.
62	402	"Lifeline"	SG Wiki	Martin Wood	Carl Binder	October 5, 2007 (Sci Fi Channel)
Colonel Sheppard's team and Dr. Weir must plan a daring infiltration of the Asuran homeworld, to steal a ZPM from the Replicators, power up Atlantis, and head to their new home. Meanwhile, Colonel Samantha Carter and the Apollo try and search for the lost city.
63	403	"Reunion"	SG Wiki	Will Waring	Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie	October 12, 2007 (Sci Fi Channel)
When Ronon finds his old companions, they tell how they survived when Sateda fell. Carter, new head of Atlantis, is reluctant to bring them to Atlantis, causing Ronon to decide whether to stay or live with his former allies, who harbor dark secrets on how they really survived.
64	404	"Doppelganger"	SG Wiki	Robert C. Cooper	Robert C. Cooper	October 19, 2007 (Sci Fi Channel)
After coming across a crystalline species similar to one that Jack O'Neill encountered ten years ago, Sheppard inadvertently carries it back to Atlantis after contact with it. As it moves into other members, it's bent on destroying them in nightmares in the form of Sheppard.
65	405	"Travelers"	SG Wiki	Will Waring	Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie	October 26, 2007 (Sci Fi Channel)
Sheppard is captured by a race of humans that have lived for generations in space to avoid any Wraith contact, and have heard of rumors about a powerful enemy against the Wraith, the Atlantis Expedition. Now they intend to use Sheppard to activate an Ancient Warship.
66	406	"Tabula Rasa"	SG Wiki	Martin Wood	Alan McCullough	November 2, 2007 (Sci Fi Channel)
A deadly disease courses through Atlantis, causing the entire expedition to lose their memories. The only catch is that Teyla and Ronon haven't, and they must convince everyone to work together and find a cure, before their memories are gone forever.
67	407	"Missing"	SG Wiki	Andy Mikita	Carl Binder	November 9, 2007 (Sci Fi Channel)
While on an offworld trip to New Athos, Teyla and Dr. Jennifer Keller find that the Athosian settlement has been abandoned, in the wake of the arrival of primitive warriors, who don't want them to get off of the planet alive, which raises a larger question, where are the Athosians?
68	408	"The Seer"	SG Wiki	Andy Mikita	Alan McCullough	November 16, 2007 (Sci Fi Channel)
Searching for the Athosians, the team finds Davos, a man who can see into the future, and he brings grave news about the destruction of Atlantis. Meanwhile, the Wraith captured by Kolya nearly a year ago, proposes an alliance, to shut down the Replicator attack code.
69	409	"Miller's Crossing"	SG Wiki	Andy Mikita	Martin Gero	November 30, 2007 (Sci Fi Channel)
Jeannie Miller is kidnapped by Henry Wallace on Earth, after Wallace determines that only she and her brother can save his child’s life using nanotechnology. McKay comes to the rescue, but inadvertently gets captured too, and the two must prevent Wallace's daughter's death.
70	410	"This Mortal Coil (Part 1)"	SG Wiki	Will Waring	Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie	December 7, 2007 (Sci Fi Channel)
After a mysterious Ancient drone collides into Atlantis, the team must wonder if the Replicators may have found the city... and if Davos' prediction about the destruction of the lost city will come true. Yet, things become even stranger, when Elizabeth Weir reappears.
71	411	"Be All My Sins Remember'd (Part 2)"	SG Wiki	Andy Mikita	Martin Gero	January 4, 2008 (Sci Fi Channel)
The team hopes to eliminate the Replicators once and for all, by recruiting a fleet of Hives to fight alongside the Daedalus and the Apollo. Unfortunately, not many ships flock to the cause, and the expedition might cause a chain of events that they won't be able to contain.
72	412	"Spoils of War (Part 3)"	SG Wiki	Will Waring	Alan McCullough	January 11, 2008 (Sci Fi Channel)
The Atlantis team successfully salvages a partially damaged Hive ship from their previous actions concerning their fight against the Replicators, and in the process, retrieve some critical information that may help in their never-ending battle against the Wraith.
73	413	"Quarantine"	SG Wiki	Andy Mikita	Carl Binder	January 18, 2008 (Sci Fi Channel)
An imposed lockdown of Atlantis traps several personnel in various parts of the city with people that they never expected, threatening to challenge various relationships that are spread throughout the entire expedition... and allowing others to bloom
74	414	"Harmony"	SG Wiki	William Waring	Martin Gero	January 25, 2008 (Sci Fi Channel)
Offworld on a familiar planet, Sheppard and McKay agree to escort a princess, Harmony, to some ruins where she can assume the title of queen. On their simple and routine mission, they find that a Genii contingent is hunting Harmony down, on the orders of her own sister.
75	415	"Outcast"	SG Wiki	Andy Mikita	Carl Binder	February 1, 2008 (Sci Fi Channel)
When Sheppard's father dies, he and Ronon return to earth to mourn his loss, but also discover that there has been an outbreak: A human-form replicator on the loose. Upon further investigation, they discover that it was actually created illegally by scientists on Earth.
76	416	"Trio"	SG Wiki	Martin Wood	Martin Gero	February 8, 2008 (Sci Fi Channel)
While offworld, Dr. McKay, Dr. Keller, and Col. Carter become locked in an underground cavern, with no apparent means for escape. To wile away the long hours, the three try to make the best of it, and attempt to get to know each other a little bit better.
77	417	"Midway"	SG Wiki	Andy Mikita	Carl Binder	February 15, 2008 (Sci Fi Channel)
As a request from Col. Carter, Teal'c makes a journey to Atlantis to help out Ronon, when he comes up for review by the I.O.A. After tensions rise between the two warriors, they learn disturbing news... a group of Wraith have made it to the Midway station, and Earth.
78	418	"The Kindred (Part 1)"	SG Wiki	Peter F. Woeste	Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie	February 22, 2008 (Sci Fi Channel)
As a mysterious new illness spreads throughout the Pegasus Galaxy, Teyla is convinced that the father of her child is trying to communicate with her through telepathic visions about what this plague is... but it turns out to be another face that Atlantis is familiar with.
79	419	"The Kindred (Part 2)"	SG Wiki	Peter F. Woeste	Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie	February 29, 2008 (Sci Fi Channel)
The team is stunned when Carson Beckett turns out to be alive and Teyla is captured. In order for her to return to Atlantis, the team must perform a daring rescue mission that could play right into Michael's plans. Teyla discovers important information about her people.
80	420	"The Last Man (Part 1)"	SG Wiki	Martin Wood	Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie	March 7, 2008 (Sci Fi Channel)
When Sheppard returns from a routine mission, he finds that Atlantis has been abandoned by everyone, and the city is surrounded by nothing but sand dunes for miles. Now, as the last man in the city, he must uncover the reason for this strange turn of events.

[edit] Production

With "Adrift", Amanda Tapping replaces Torri Higginson in the opening credits sequence, with Paul McGillion no longer appearing. This marks Amanda Tapping's first appearance as a main character on Atlantis.
Christopher Judge has a brief cameo as his Stargate SG-1 character Teal'c in "Reunion" and "Midway". Judge is the last original Stargate SG-1 regular to appear on Atlantis; the other three characters of the original SG-1 team all appeared in Atlantis' first season, as have Hank Landry and George Hammond. This leaves the other three characters who have, at one time, been regular characters on "SG-1" - Cam Mitchell, Vala Mal Doran and Jonas Quinn, although the first two visited the Atlantis city in the SG-1 crossover episode The Pegasus Project.
Jodelle Ferland, who played Harmony in "Harmony", had previously appeared in the episode "Flesh and Blood" of Stargate SG-1's season 10 as a young Adria. Crystal Lowe appeared in the episode "Emancipation" of Stargate SG-1's season 1.

[edit] Broadcast and reception

In September 2007, unfinished versions of "Adrift" and "Lifeline" were leaked onto the internet. Shortly after, fans who used iTunes to download "Adrift" discovered that they had in fact purchased "Doppelganger" instead, three weeks before it was set to premiere on Sci Fi Channel. The mix-up likely comes from the fact that "Doppelganger" was the first episode of the season to be filmed, and thus carries an internal production number of 401 at the studio. ^[1] Late in the season, "Midway" was another episode that was mistakenly released by iTunes several days before its airdate.
"Be All My Sins Remember'd" received a rating of 1.4 million viewers, the highest rated episode in the fourth season so far. It was also Sci-fi Channel's 2nd highest rated program in that week, first was a Sci-Fi TV movie "Beyond Loch Ness" with a rating of 1.7 million. The TV movie also happened to star Atlantis actor Paul McGillion and SG-1's Don S. Davis.
Stargate Atlantis, Season 4 has been aired on the following channels: Sci-Fi Channel, TV6(Sweden).

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[edit] DVD releases

DVD Name	Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
Stargate Atlantis Season 4	July 8, 2008	August 4, 2008	September 5, 2008
Season 4: Volume 1	TBA	June 2, 2008	TBA
Season 4: Volume 2	TBA	June 16, 2008	TBA
Season 4: Volume 3	TBA	June 30, 2008	TBA
Season 4: Volume 4	TBA	July 14, 2008	TBA
Season 4: Volume 5	TBA	July 28, 2008	TBA