Introduction

The fourth season of Stargate Atlantis, an American-Canadian television series, began airing on 28 September 2007 on the US-American Sci Fi Channel.

The fourth season concluded after 20 episodes on 07 March 2008 on Sci Fi.

The show itself is a spin off of its sister show, Stargate SG-1.

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, David Hewlett, Rachel Luttrell and Jason Momoa.

Outline (Season 04)

Amanda Tapping (Col. Samantha Carter) joined the cast as a regular for 14 episodes, Jewel Staite (Dr. Jennifer Keller) became a recurring character for eight episodes, while regular cast member Torri Higginson (Dr. Weir) became a recurring cast member for four episodes.

Outline (Episode)

When Sheppard returns from searching for Teyla, he finds that Atlantis has been abandoned. The city is surrounded by a vast wasteland of sand dunes instead of the ocean it is supposed to be.

Sheppard is eventually contacted by a hologram of a much older McKay who explains that a freak accident flung Sheppard 48,000 years into the future.

Without Sheppard, the situation degenerated quickly in the Pegasus galaxy and while they eventually did find Teyla, she was already dead. Michael then perfected his hybrids and destroyed the Wraith. Ronon left Atlantis to fight him alone and died destroying one of his labs with Todd’s help. Carter ran a guerrilla campaign against Michael with a new ship, the Phoenix, but died when her ship was destroyed in battle, taking out three of Michael’s wraith ships in a Kamikaze run.

Afterwards, Richard Woolsey took over Atlantis and pulled back from helping the rest of the galaxy, causing McKay and Keller to leave and return to Earth. They fell in love, but Keller eventually died from complications from the Hoffan virus and McKay dedicated his life to finding a way to bring Sheppard back to change history.

After 25 years, he succeeded and managed to get now-Major General Evan Lorne to let him go back to Atlantis to implement his plan. After explaining everything to Sheppard, McKay puts him into stasis until such time as conditions are right to allow him to return to his own time.

Thanks to McKay’s efforts, Sheppard returns to the present 12 days after he left with Teyla’s location.

Sheppard leads a team to Michael’s base, but they find that they have arrived too early and set off a booby trap, causing the building to collapse on top of them.

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): Martin Wood.
• Writer(s): Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie.
• Release Date: 07 March 2008.
• Running Time: 43-45 minutes.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.