This Mortal Coil


 * Series: Stargate Atlantis
 * Episode: 410
 * Original air date: November 2007

"This Mortal Coil" is the title of the tenth episode and midseason finale of the fourth season of Stargate Atlantis. It is part one of a three-part arc, followed by Be All My Sins Remember'd and Spoils of War.

Summary
Not much is known about the plot for "This Mortal Coil". However, since it is in the same arc as "Be All My Sins Remember'd", we can infer that it features a quest to forge an alliance with a faction of the Wraith against the Asurans. See the article on "Be All My Sins Remember'd" for more details.

Production

 * Story By: Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie
 * Teleplay By: ...


 * Directed by: ...

Guest stars

 * Torri Higginson as Dr. Elizabeth Weir

Trivia

 * This episode is the first season four episode, as of July 3rd, 2007, in which Torri Higginson has a confirmed appearance.
 * The title for this episode, as well as the title for its continuation, "Be All My Sins Remember'd", comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act Three, Scene One, the famous "To Be or Not to Be" soliloquy,
 * To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
 * For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
 * When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
 * Must give us pause: there's the respect
 * That makes calamity of so long life;
 * ... Soft you now!
 * The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
 * Be all my sins remember'd.