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Stargate: Atlantis (2004) - 21 corrections

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Dr. Weir says that the Atlantis gate is the only one that can dial back to the Milky Way from Pegasus galaxy. SG-1 has already confirmed that any stargate can travel intergalactically if it has the power. That's what the 8th chevron does. You need a Naquadah generator or Zero Point Module to provide the extra power though. [This is answered in episode #108, all the Pegasus Stargates are missing a crystal except for the Atlantis gate, this crystal allows it to dial to other galaxies.]
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Episode 1x12 (The Defiant One) The wraith grabs a loaded gun from a box from the jumper and fires it but nobody would ever keep a box full of loaded guns. [Why would you say that? While it's not a good idea to store a gun in a loaded condition, people accidently shoot themselves almost everyday with "unloaded" guns.]
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In the episode "Hot Zone", Elizabeth Weir's necklace is a "T", which matches the actress, Torri Higginson, not the character. [It is not an error if a character is wearing a necklace that does not match the character's own initials. There are many plausible reasons to wear such a neclace, such as the neclace belonged to someone she loved or missed.]
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The Stargate above the Wraith homeworld seems to float in space with no DHD, so where is the gate drawing power from whenever someone dials the gate? [You don't need power to be dialed into, and the portable dhd's on the jumpers power it for dialing out.]
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The wraiths' darts are using a transporter-like beam to collect people to feed on them. As it turns out, this device somehow stores information about the collected humans, without actually transporting the human aboard. Later, using this information, it is capable to reconstruct the human which was "transported" to the dart. Now, if it is possible, why would the wraith bother with those elaborate "harvesting-runs"? If they are capable to construct a whole human body based on some kind of stored information, they would surely be able to construct several human bodies based on the same information. This way they wouldn't have to hibernate themselves for hundreds of years (the primary reason of the hibernation is the depletion of their "feeding grounds" - this is one of the reasons why they such desperately wish to know Earth's location). [You have misunderstood the concept. The darts appear to work in the same way as the Star Trek transporters, in that you are momentarily stored in a buffer and then re-integrated. But with the darts, the people are stored longer, and reintegrated at a later date to be used as food. Once the human has left the buffer and been reintegrated, there is nothing left in the buffer to 'clone' or 'create' a new one.]
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It is stated throughout the series that the stargate dematerializes anything which passes through the event horizon. How then are people able to step into the gate? Their legs dematerializes immediately after passing the event horizon (and the stargate doesn't transmit the leg until the whole body is dematerialized), so that leg couldn't support their body when they step. They would literally fall into the stargate. [The Stargates use technology that is so advanced it's almost magic. Since people do walk through them and pull things through them, the Ancients clearly designed them to make it possible. After all, how useful would they be if you couldn't take anything through them but what you are carrying?]
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Season 4, Episode 4, "Doppleganger": Time Code 14:11, when Dr. Jennifer Keller is talking about her dream (basically re-telling the scene from the movie Alien when the parasite came out of the body of Teyla Emmagan), Ronon Dex says, "It sounds like that movie," referring to the movie Alien. He did not come from Earth and yet he knows already about Alien the movie. Sure, Lt. Colonel John Sheppard could have told him about it, but it seems curious that he just recalls it so vividly without ever seeing the movie. [By season four Atlantis is no longer cut off, Daedalus makes regular supply runs from Earth. Ronon has doubtless seen dozens of movies by this point.]
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Letters from Pegasus (series 1)

Dr. McKay repeatedly mentioned how they would only have a connection between the Pegasus Galaxy and the Milky Way Galaxy via Stargate for 1.3 seconds. Yet when the Milky Way galaxy is dialed, the wormhole lasts approximately 11 seconds. [The earth gate activated then shutdown in 1.5 sec.]
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Before I Sleep (series 1)

In "Ancient Elizabeth's" flashback when the team first arrives in the city the consoles in the gate room are turned off and covered with drop sheets. Towards the end of the Episode when "Ancient Elizabeth" Is left alone in Atlantis 10,000 years in the past she can be seen shutting down the consoles and covering the consoles with drop sheet, In which case the drop sheets should have never been on the consoles in her timeline, because Liz's Ancient self did not exist in that timeline. And the Ancients didn't shut down their consoles or cover them up when they evacuated Atlantis. [The assumes her method of timetravel creates multiple timelines, the Back to the Future method. But she could have travelled in a way that has no effect on history at all, the Bill and Ted method.]
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The Storm (1) (series 1)

Sheppard initially leaves one radio for Commander Kolia so they can speak. It is of Earth design. However, Sheppard takes one radio from a Geni soldier he killed and speaks to Kolia on the Earth design radio instead of simply using his headset, as before. [U.S. Mill. Spec. Radios are full Band (100kHz-2GHz), Geni radios are analog (do to there level of technology-beginning atomic) so anybody can zero in on the frequency.]
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Childhood's End (series 1)

After returning from Atlantis base Dr. McKay says he landed the jumper a little outside of the range of the EM-field. At the end of the show, when the field is reactivated, he says he found a way to increased the range of the device by some 50 percent. As the jumper has been landed outside of the area previously covered by the field, he should now be inside it again, however the jumper still is able to start (you can hear the engines coming on-line). [There is nothing to suggest the EM field is spherical with the generator at the center. McKay could have enlarged it in a triangular shape with the kids village at one point, leaving the jumper safely outside it.]
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Thirty-Eight Minutes (series 1)

When they remove the alien bug from Sheppard's neck, Ford tries to revive him with the defibrillator. As it fails, they agree to move Sheppard through the event horizon of the stargate, because this would prevent him from dying, and Teyla pulls Sheppard into the gate. The problem is that everything what goes through the gate is dematerialized, so Teyla couldn't pull Sheppard into the gate, since by the time he is pulled into the gate completely, Teyla has long been disappeared. [The Stargates use technology that is so advanced it's almost magic. Since people do walk through them and pull things through them, the Ancients clearly designed them to make it possible. After all, how useful would they be if you couldn't take anything through them but what you are carrying?]
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Hide and Seek (series 1)

When Lt. Ford and another soldier are trying to evade the entity, but are faced by a closed bulkhead, Dr. Weir tells them to turn around go down the corridor and take the exit to the west. How are they to know which way is easy and west in a building that they have not been in for that long? Isn't turn left or right a lot quicker and easier, especially where instructions are given from a civilian. When someone asks for directions in the street how often do you say take the second turn on the East, or take the second left? [When you ask someone for directions in the street, they usually aren't in the military, or, as in Weir's case, associated heavily with the military. There's nothing wrong with Weir's directions; it's just your opinion that he shouldn't use east and west and an opinion does not make a mistake. And as for how they're supposed to tell where East and West is - easy, they have a compass, part of standard issue kit.]
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Critical Mass (series 2)

If they can do the "twilight bark" thing with transmissions, then why can't they do it so send people? (Obviously using another planet instead of the Daedalus.) If they could do that, they wouldn't have needed the ZPM to get there in the first place. They could have taken it with them and used it in the wraith attack at the end of season one, then they would have 2 ZPMs. [There are no gates between galaxies so it wouldn't be possible to send people back without a ZPM, the distance is too great.]
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The Hive (2) (series 2)

In this episode, Sheppard says something about the puddle jumpers going into autopilot as soon as they enter the gate room; yet we have seen the puddle jumpers move about in the gate room not on autopilot, such as in "The Return". This could be that they disabled the autopilot, but the way it happens with the Wraith Dart seems like you can't shut it off. [The wraith dart probably does not have the ability to shut off the automatic autopilot, but a ship from atlantis probably would be able to.]
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Aurora (series 2)

In this episode, the replicators invade the newly Lantaen-controlled Atlantis and mind-probe the Lantaens, who easily succumb to this technique, before killing them. Given the brief amount of control Daniel Jackson was able to exercise over the replicator swarm in Stargate SG1 when he was also enduring a mind probe, and given that although previously-ascended Daniel Jackson still possessed only standard human brain physiology, it seems far more likely to me that the Lantaens, with hyper-evolved brain physiology and incredible mental discipline, would have easily controlled the replicators and ended both the immediate problem as well as the entire series. [Yes, but Pegasus human-form replicators are far more advanced than Milky Way replicators. They have evolved almost to the point of ascension and are mentally the equal of Lantaens.]
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Duet (series 2)

When Dr. Weir is talking to Ronan in the combat room about wanting to stay in Atlantis, she mentions in a conversation "Major" Shepherd. She should have said "Lt. Col." Shepherd, as he was promoted just before the "Intruder" episode(S2 ep2). She should know this because it was she who argued that he be promoted. [In the episode Major Shepherd gets promoted to Lt. Col., and in the next few episodes after, other characters are still getting used to his change in title. After calling someone Major for such a long time having to call some one Lt. Col. instead can make easy mistakes. So it is most likely she said Major automatically because it was what she is used to. As there is no set time period between episodes it is hard to say whether they should be used to his new title or not.]
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Siege, Part 3 (series 2)

When Ford escapes from the Atlantis base, he is flying a puddle jumper, which requires the Ancient gene. However, in the season one episode 'Hot Zone', Ford says he does not have the gene, because the gene therapy failed to work. Therefore he shouldn't have been able to fly the puddle jumper. [The original gene therapy is stated by Sheppard to be 48% effective. Dr. Beckett is almost certainly refining it constantly. It's not necessarily an all-or-nothing, you-only-get-one-try treatment. Some Ancient technology only requires the ATA gene to activate it, after that, anyone can operate it.]
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The Return, Part 2 (series 3)

When the drones are chasing the jumper, it goes under water to avoid them and the drones do not follow it. However, Beckett uses the same drones later to destroy an underwater target. [This is explained within the DVD episode commentary by Martin Gero and Paul Mullie. There was initially a scene showing that the replecators thought that the puddle jumper had crashed so the drones were withcalled. This had to be cut due to time.]
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The Return, Part 1 (series 3)

When Dr. Weir is distracting the scientist by talking about World of Warcraft, he says that he has a level 75 character. The maximum character level is 60 at the moment, and 70 with the forthcoming expansion pack. Not a character mistake, as he clearly knows enough about the game. [Who's to say the WoW game in the Stargate universe operates exactly as ours? Their base game, or the newest expansion could allow up to level 75 characters.]
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