- 10.0/101 votes
#1 - Season of Miracles
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/21/1996
As Christmas approaches, Brian questions his faith when he learns that Dr. Mike cannot save the sight of the Reverend.
Director: Carl Binder
Writer: Carl Binder
- 8.5/1019 votes
#2 - Lifeline (3)
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/2007
Colonel Sheppard and his team embark on a risky mission to steal a Z.P.M. power module from the Replicators -- but must rely on a compromised Dr. Weir to succeed.
Director: Martin Wood
Writer: Carl Binder
- 8.4/1018 votes
#3 - McKay and Mrs. Miller
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 9/7/2006
Rodney McKay is reunited with his estranged sister back on Earth, who has given up a brilliant career as a scientist to raise a family.
Director: Martin Wood
Writer: Carl Binder
- 8.3/1019 votes
#4 - Midway
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/2008
Teal'c visits Atlantis to counsel a headstrong Ronon, who is up for review by the I.O.A. But the two must work together when the Wraith invade the Midway space station in order to reach Earth.
Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: Carl Binder
- 8.2/1019 votes
#5 - 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: Carl Binder
- 8.1/1018 votes
#6 - 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
- 7.9/1018 votes
#7 - Before I Sleep
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/6/2004
A woman is found in suspended animation in Atlantis, and the team is shocked to see that it is Dr. Weir herself, who tells them of her trip 10,000 years into the city's past.
Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: Carl Binder
- 7.9/1016 votes
#8 - Progeny
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 8/10/2006
Weir and the team visit an advanced civilization that split off from the Lanteans thousands of years ago, but discover that they may not have left Atlantis in peace.
Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: Carl Binder
- 7.9/1017 votes
#9 - 200
Season 10 Episode 6 - Aired 8/18/2006
Martin Lloyd seeks out SG-1 for assistance when his failed TV show based on the real Stargate program becomes a feature film.
Director: Martin Wood
Writer: Carl Binder
- 7.8/1017 votes
#10 - 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
- 7.8/1017 votes
#11 - The Game
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 12/17/2006
Sheppard and McKay discover that their competitive video game has been controlling a planet of real people, who now stand on the brink of war.
Director: William Waring
Writer: Carl Binder
- 7.8/1018 votes
#12 - The Prodigal
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 11/6/2008
Michael Kenmore has infiltrated Atlantis with an army of his Hybrids, and closes off Stargate Operations and the surrounded levels to prevent anyone from taking it back. His plan; take Teyla Emmagan and her child to perfect his Hybrids, and to destroy the base when they're done. Meanwhile, Lt. Colonel John Sheppard, Dr. Rodney McKay and a team try to take back the city before Michael leaves with what he wants.
Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: Carl Binder
- 7.7/109 votes
#13 - Epilogue (2)
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/25/2011
While attempting to return a group of colonists to their home, the crew finds that the planet is on the verge of seismic destruction.
Director: Alex Chapple
Writer: Carl Binder
- 7.6/1017 votes
#14 - Letters from Pegasus
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/10/2005
With a brief opportunity to send a data transmission to Earth, members of the Atlantis expedition compose video messages home to their loved ones.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: Carl Binder
- 7.6/1017 votes
#15 - 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
- 7.6/1017 votes
#16 - 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
- 7.6/1017 votes
#17 - 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
- 7.6/1017 votes
#18 - Phantoms
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 9/14/2006
Sheppard and Ronon are influenced by a mind-altering device created by the Wraith while on a mission to rescue a lost team.
Director: Martin Wood
Writer: Carl Binder
- 7.6/1017 votes
#19 - Echoes
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/26/2006
The inhabitants of Atlantis begin to suffer ill effects when the planet's whale population begins migrating to the island city, bringing an unexpected harbinger of doom.
Director: William Waring
Writer: Carl Binder
- 7.6/1018 votes
#20 - Vengeance
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 1/28/2007
The Atlantis team investigates the disappearance of one of their allies, only to find an old enemy engineering a race of powerful monsters.
Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: Carl Binder
- 7.6/105 votes
#21 - Drums of War
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/8/2015
The friends need to identify the Horseman of War and his victim whilst at an international energy summit.
Director: Guy Norman Bee
Writer: Carl Binder
- 7.5/1016 votes
#22 - Quarantine
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/17/2008
An automated lockdown traps Atlantis personnel in various parts of the city, each of them hoping the others will come to their rescue.
Director: Martin Wood
Writer: Carl Binder
- 7.4/1018 votes
#23 - Tracker
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 9/18/2008
Dr. Jennifer Keller is kidnapped by a runner named Kiryk. While Dr. Rodney McKay and Ronon Dex tracks them, Kiryk takes Keller to a seriously injured young girl. She must do it fast, since the Wraith have found him, and are hunting them down.
Director: William Waring
Writer: Carl Binder
- 7.3/1017 votes
#24 - The Real World
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 8/17/2006
Elizabeth Weir wakes up in a mental institution, where she is told that the expedition to Atlantis and the Stargate are figments of her imagination.
Director: Jule Gilfillan
Writer: Carl Binder
- 7.3/1017 votes
#25 - The Ark
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/2007
The team discovers the last of a civilization in suspended animation, whose survival is at risk when their station is critically damaged.
Director: Martin Wood
Writer: Carl Binder