The Best Episodes of Stargate Atlantis Season 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After a team from Atlantis goes missing, the expedition finds itself in the middle of a Genii coup.

Director: Martin Wood

Writer: Martin Gero

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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