Talk:Stargate: Atlantis

Anychance somebody could explain why Atlantis is very different to SG1? The operation is much less military and the episodes seam to feature only a couple of leads (instead of 4)
 * The reason why there is less militirisation in SGA is because the Atlantis Expedition mostly comprise of civilians and scientists, it is set in a non-military base and the leaders are civilian (apart from Carter of course). That should aswer your question. :) Matthew R Dunn 00:36, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Um, I'm very tempted to take out the plot section of this page as it practically summarizes Season 1 of Stargate Atlantis. Although if I did that, there really wouldn't be an article left. So I guess what I'm saying is, what could we put in place of the plot section that would make sense. And if we can't find anything, we should take out the plot anyway (as a last resort).&mdash;Anubis 10545 05:24, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Stargate Atlantis: May you rest in peace.&mdash;Anubis 10545 02:15, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Petition for renaming the article (slightly)
Should we change the name of the article? The heading of this article is the only place I can find where the title has a colon in between "Stargate" and "Atlantis". In all other places, it's titled simply as "Stargate Atlantis," not "Stargate: Atlantis". For that matter, none of the other series titles feature a colon, either.

As far as I can tell, "Stargate: Atlantis" should just be "Stargate Atlantis". Thoughts?

Supergeek Mike (talk) (Contribs) 00:07, April 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * there's your answer. it has a colon on the script but none on the mgm site.  02:36, April 26, 2010 (UTC)

Problems With Atlantis
I've recently been watching my Atlantis DVD collection, and on further thought have several problems with the series - largely to do with the idea of the Ancients losing the war, for a start how did the Wraith EVER get the numbers to defeat enough Ancient ships to steal the ZPMs to power their cloning facilities, why didn't the Ancients temporarily disable the gate network and use the Attero device and defeat them, why didn't they just wait eventually the Wraith would have run out of food - they need to go into hibernation to allow the human populations to regenerate - the Ancients could have waited until they did and wiped them out or the Wraith would have turned on each other and wiped themselves out, etc etc The Ancients were far superior technologically so it seems implausible if not impossible that they would have lost - anyone have any theories to counter my ideas??

1. the ancients were overconfident and sent their ships into wraith territory and were surrounded by ships and lost the battle. the wraith took the zpm and used it to clone their warriors hundreds of times.

2. because that would interfere with the ancients and the humans who try to escape the wraith only to find the gate has been disables and i doubt that the council would risk turning on the attero device.

3. i imagine that the human populations (and the ancients) were much greater back them when the war started, the wraith may not have needed to go into hibernation as there was more than enough food.

4.technological superiority doesnt win a war. if you have 1 man with a machine gun and 1,000,000,000 men with knifes, who do you think is going to win?

Escyos (talk) (Contribs) 06:18, August 16, 2010 (UTC)

How did they get the ZPMs it is unlikly that the ancients gave them it for there survival. How fast can the man reload the machine gan and how many rounds does he have? A scotsman (talk) (Contribs) 12:15, August 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * the shields failed under the stress and the wraith managed to get aboard. thats not the analogy i was going for, dont get so technical. Escyos (talk) (Contribs) 12:20, August 16, 2010 (UTC)