8.6/101,155 votes#1 - The Siege (3)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 7/15/2005
The Daedalus arrives to defend Atlantis from the Wraith onslaught, but it may not be enough when the team discovers that an even larger armada is on the way.
Director: Martin Wood
Writer: Martin Gero
7.4/101,021 votes#2 - The Intruder
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/22/2005
The Daedalus is infected by a Wraith computer virus, while members of the expedition hope to return to Earth.
Director: Peter DeLuise
Writer: Paul Mullie, Joseph Mallozzi
7.9/101,098 votes#3 - Runner
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/29/2005
Sheppard and his team attempt to locate Lieutenant Ford, only to find themselves captives of a former soldier who is being hunted by the Wraith.
Director: Martin Wood
Writer: Robert C. Cooper
8.0/101,223 votes#4 - Duet
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 8/5/2005
A run-in with a Wraith Dart leaves the consciousness of a precocious Atlantis security officer trapped in Dr. McKay's mind.
Director: Peter DeLuise
Writer: Martin Gero
7.3/101,020 votes#5 - Condemned
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 8/12/2005
The Atlantis team finds a culture that lives in relative safety from the Wraith, because they hand over their criminals to the Wraith -- and crash-land in the volatile penal colony.
Director: Peter DeLuise
Writer: Carl Binder, Sean Carley
7.5/101,032 votes#6 - Trinity
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 8/19/2005
McKay puts the team at risk when he tries to perfect unfinished Ancient technology that wiped out a civilization. Ronon Dex discovers that he is not the lone survivor from his world.
Director: Martin Wood
Writer: Damian Kindler
7.4/101,032 votes#7 - Instinct
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 8/26/2005
The team discovers a young Wraith girl who has been raised by a human, and is in hiding from the people of her human village in fear of her life.
Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: Treena Hancock, Melissa R. Byer
7.3/101,003 votes#8 - Conversion
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 9/9/2005
Colonel Sheppard begins to undergo a disturbing physical transformation after being exposed to Beckett's anti-Wraith drug.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Robert C. Cooper, Martin Gero
8.3/101,125 votes#9 - Aurora
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 9/23/2005
When the team finds an Ancient warship adrift on the edge of the galaxy, its crew still alive, Colonel Sheppard enters their virtual reality stasis to communicate with them.
Director: Martin Wood
Writer: Brad Wright, Carl Binder
7.5/101,000 votes#10 - The Lost Boys (1)
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 9/23/2005
The team is captured by the missing Lieutenant Ford, who is now leading a group of young men who are taking the Wraith enzyme -- and who wants the team's help in a suicide attack against a hive ship.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Martin Gero
7.9/101,005 votes#11 - The Hive (2)
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/16/2005
Colonel Sheppard and his team find themselves prisoners of the Wraith following Ford's attack on a hive ship. Dr. McKay goes to great lengths to help them.
Director: Martin Wood
Writer: Carl Binder
7.7/101,078 votes#12 - Epiphany
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/2005
Sheppard finds himself on a planet where time passes more rapidly, with no way to contact his team or return to Atlantis.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Brad Wright, Joe Flanigan
7.6/101,084 votes#13 - Critical Mass
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/5/2005
When an operative of the Trust plants a bomb in Atlantis, the team must find a spy within their own ranks before the Wraith arrive and discover the city.
Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: Carl Binder
7.7/101,083 votes#14 - Grace Under Pressure
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/10/2005
When Dr. McKay is trapped underwater in a sinking Puddle Jumper, his only chance for survival may be an hallucination of Samantha Carter.
Director: Martin Wood
Writer: Martin Gero
7.1/10988 votes#15 - The Tower
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/19/2005
The team finds a world that possesses Ancient defense technology, where Colonel Sheppard finds himself a pawn in the rivalry between the heirs to the throne.
Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: Paul Mullie, Joseph Mallozzi
6.8/10996 votes#16 - The Long Goodbye
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/2/2006
The team discovers two pods that contain the minds of alien beings, who take control of Weir and Sheppard's bodies to continue their personal war.
Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: Damian Kindler
7.7/10970 votes#17 - Coup D'etat
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/9/2006
After a team from Atlantis goes missing, the expedition finds itself in the middle of a Genii coup.
Director: Martin Wood
Writer: Martin Gero
7.9/101,076 votes#18 - Michael
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/16/2006
An amnesiac young Lieutenant in Atlantis suffers from disturbing nightmares that he is a Wraith, only to make a shocking discovery about himself.
Director: Martin Wood
Writer: Carl Binder
8.1/101,031 votes#19 - Inferno
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/23/2006
Sheppard's team meets a civilization about to be destroyed by a super-volcano, and is trapped there when the Stargate is destroyed during the evacuation.
Director: Peter DeLuise
Writer: Carl Binder
8.4/101,026 votes#20 - Allies (1)
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 1/30/2006
Michael and his Wraith faction arrive at Atlantis to propose an alliance, hoping to use the retrovirus to transform their Wraith enemies into prey.
Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: Martin Gero
The Best Episodes of Stargate Atlantis Season 2
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With the Ancients' city of Atlantis discovered in the Pegasus Galaxy by Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Major Sheppard lead a scientific expedition to...
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"The Siege (3)" is the best rated episode of "Stargate Atlantis" season 2. It scored 8.6/10 based on 1155 votes. Directed by Martin Wood and written by Martin Gero, it aired on 7/15/2005. This episode is rated 1.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Intruder".