Stargate Atlantis premiered sustaining "Rising", a movie-style both-embellishment episode, which guest starred Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks and Robert Patrick.

Atlantis was originally designed to succeed Stargate SG-One, when its seventh year & another feature pic. While SG-One was renewed for an eighth year, a meant motion-picture show became a episode "Lost City" & a setting of Stargate Atlantis was moved to the Pegasus galaxy.

Summary
Watch Stargate for a other general sum-up of the universe this series is placed within, & Stargate SG-1 for how cases develop transpired for a plot to Atlantis.

Inside Stargate SG-One seventh year finale "Lost City", a SG-One noticed a outpost manufactured per race called the Ancients in Antarctica. Fallowing a cases of Stargate SG-One eight year opener "New World", an international team is sent to investigate a to outpost. Before long, Dr. Jackson discovers location of the greatest city created per Ancients, Atlantis.

the series follows a escapade of a class action of man of science & soldiers that take a even of these-way hike to this misused city of Atlantis in the Pegasus Galaxy. Rather a SG teams of Stargate SG-1, a newly team's have of the Stargate has brought humanity into email by having more cultures, a select few homo & a bit of alien, a few friendly & a select few quite hostile.

Races
Human civilizations
Upon their arrival to a Pegasus galaxy, the Ancients seed many planets by having mortal life. Virtually all of the babies come pre-industrial civilizations, however two or three stand developed supplementary advanced technology.

Major man civilizations include:

Athosians: A pre-industrial civilization, a Athosians were a number 1 Pegasus indigene the Atlantis expedition found. When their planet was culled per Specter, it moved to Atlantis. Tau'ri: The humans from Earth, arrived to the Pegasus galaxy in search of the mythical city of the Ancients, Atlantis. Genii: An advanced, militaristic culture with a technology level similar to mid-20th century Globe, that hide under the mask of elementary, Amish-like farmers.

Non-human races
Ancients (Alterans)
The historical, technically extremely advanced race that another time existed on Earth and other planets across out a Milky Way galaxy and come a builders of the Stargates. A Ancients moved from either Globe to the planet in the Pegasus galaxy which Stargate Atlantis is placed (understand A City following), ingesting their spacefaring city Atlantis by using the two, sequentially to spread recently life. In a freshly galaxy, it faced an enemy, the Wraith, that, although they experienced inferior technology within comparison a Ancients, overwhelmed the children in prices. Besieged within Atlantis, a unexpended Ancients retreated to Globe, passing in non simply a legend of Atlantis however as well their Ancient Gene to the Greeks. a little fraction of the Terrestrial individual race however carries the cistron expression of the Ancients ("Ancient Technology Activation", or ATA) that allows them to use Ancient technology, most prominently Maj. John Sheppard of the Terrestrial human expedition team. Dr. Carson Beckett of a Terrestrial human expedition team is experimenting by using transferring the ATA cistron expression by means of in vivo retroviral gene therapy.

Wraith
This hive-depending mintage drove a Ancients away from a Pegasus galaxy as much as 8000 BC, and come presently a antagonists of Stargate Atlantis. It maintain hundreds to thousands of worlds populated by homo as a source of food, & it feed off a vitality of more beings. the Specter watch the cyclic feeding pattern: it put in a dormant/hibernation stage for even several years or generations, so sweep through the Pegasus galaxy to "cull their human herd", & eventually prevent while there are good plenty surviving human being to maintain the breeding people for the next culling period. Although their technology is extremely advanced & parallels several Ancient technologies (a similarity between Wraith Darts & a Ancient jumpers, for example), a Spook forced a Ancients to abandon a Pegasus Galaxy through their overwhelming majority.

Planets

The city
A city of Atlantis hosts lot of a action in the series & is the source of good deal of the technology which the characters use. Atlantis however holds numbers of secrets from either her freshly mortal denizen.

The technology
A characters in Stargate Atlantis apply two Ancient & person being SGC technology, which occurs as mix of native human developments, altered Goa'uld techonology and gifts from the Asgard.

Cast
ST = Security Team member

For complete character lists, including dead characters, watch: Atlantis personnel in Stargate Atlantis Athosian characters in Stargate Atlantis Genii characters in Stargate Atlantis

Episodes
When of September 2005, Stargate Atlantis is in the midst of its 2nd year, sustaining Xxx episodes broadcasted. For the complete listings, look at List of Stargate Atlantis episodes.

Broadcasters
United States: Sci Fi Channel Australia: Seven Network Canada: The Movie Network, Z Télé (Québec) France: M6 Germany: RTL 2 UK: Sky One, Five Israel: Israeli Channel 1

Trivia

Colonel/Brigadier General Jack O'Neill and Dr. Daniel Jackson are the only characters to appear in the original Stargate film, Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.

Of a 5 original cast members, Joe Flanigan is the only U.s.. A more 4 (Torri Higginson, David Hewlett, Rachel Luttrell and Rainbow Sun Francks) are 100% American.

Paul McGillion (Dr. Carson Beckett) previously portrayed Dr. Ernest Littlefield, a number one human in the 20th Century to go through the Stargate, in the Stargate SG-1 Season One episode "The Torment of Tantalus".

Richard Dean Anderson (Jack O'Neill) and Michael Shanks (Daniel Jackson) are the only actors to appear in the pilots of both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.

Of a 5 original Stargate SG-1 cast members, Christopher Judge (Teal'c) is the only one who did not appear in the first season of the series. Corin Nemec (Jonas Quinn) and Ben Browder (Cameron Mitchell) are the exclusively more cast members world health organization hitherto keep around non appeared on the series.

A merely actors to play a equivalent character in each Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis are: Richard Dean Anderson (Jack O'Neill) Michael Shanks (Daniel Jackson) Amanda Tapping (Samantha Carter) Don S. Davis (General Hammond) Torri Higginson (Elizabeth Weir) David Hewlett (Rodney McKay) Beau Bridges (General Landry) Gary Jones (Sgt. Walter Harriman) Dan Shea (Sgt. Siler) Ona Grauer (Ayiana) Ellie Harvie (Dr. Lindsey Novak) Kavan Smith (Major Lorne)

This series follows a formula established by Stargate SG-1 in which often days major cases (viz. a introduction of a villain) come the fault of person curiosity. Including: The Spectre come "awakened" early fallowing a arrival of the Atlantis expedition in the Pegasus Galaxy.

Rodney McKay is extremely hypersensitive to citrus.