Stargate: Atlantis
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Maj. John Sheppard: "You're going to be fine"?"Beckett'll figure this out"? You really suck at the whole "bedside manner" thing.
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: I know. I'm sorry.
Maj. John Sheppard: But I appreciate the effort.

Maj. Lorne: I was hoping Lt. Ford would recognize a friendly face and turn himself in.
Dr. Rodney McKay: You mean me?
Maj. Lorne: Well, you were friends, weren't you?
Dr. Rodney McKay: Oh yeah, when we weren't out on harrowing missions, we used to hang out together. I'd share my dreams of self-sustaining fusion, he would talk about how you could sever a man's torso with a P-90.

Teyla Emmagan: Do you kill all your violent criminals on Earth?
Dr. Rodney McKay: Certain countries, yes.
Maj. John Sheppard: Do we need to get into this right now?

Dr. Rodney McKay: I'm not sure I can fix this.
Dr. Peter Grodin: You can fix anything.
Dr. Rodney McKay: Who told you that?
Dr. Peter Grodin: You did. On several occasions.

Dr. Rodney McKay: I'm sorry. It's just... I react to certain doom in a certain way. It's a bad habit.

Eldon: The technology on this ship is far more advanced than the Olesians'.
Dr. Rodney McKay: How ironic, then, to have been shot down by the cast of "Braveheart."

Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: Carson?
Carson Beckett M. D.: Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: How are you doing?
Carson Beckett M. D.: Oh, just peachy, thanks. You?
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: I'm sorry to put you in this position, but you're the only one besides Colonel Sheppard and General O'Neill who've actually fired a drone from that chair.
Carson Beckett M. D.: Ironically, they're the two people I nearly killed when I did that.

Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: You were right.
Carson Beckett M. D.: Lovely... About what?
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: Your theory of the Wraith evolving after the Ancients arrived in the Pegasus Galaxy.
Dr. Rodney McKay: You've got to be kidding me.
Dr. Zelenka: Pay up.

Maj. John Sheppard: You know, Rodney, you were great back there. Wanna take the stick?
Dr. Rodney McKay: Really?
Maj. John Sheppard: No.

Commander Acastus Kolya: My name is Commander Kolya.
Maj. John Sheppard: "Kolya", that's a difficult name to pronounce. Is that a first name or a last name?

Maj. John Sheppard: Well, leave it to convicts to know the best way to tie people up.

Marin: The island is a penal colony. The prisoners usually don't cause much trouble, as long as you don't try to land there.
Dr. Rodney McKay: Well, you could put up a sign.

Maj. John Sheppard: Hi, folks. I hope I didn't crash-land on anybody.

Show generally

Factual error: Anytime a character fires a missile at an airborne target, it's invariably from an M136 antitank launcher. The M136 is designed to hit relatively slow moving ground vehicles and is useless against fast moving airborne targets. (This is because used M136 tubes can't be reloaded and are very cheap to use as props).

Grumpy Scot

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Trivia: In the final episode, 'Enemy at the gates' Sam Carter says that the new ship is to be named the General George Hammond in memory of the character Hammond who had died of a heart attack. This is a tribute to Don S. Davies, who played Hammond, who sadly died of a heart attack in June 2008, shortly after filming Stargate Continium.

Jeff Walker

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The Siege (1) - S1-E19

Question: It was said earlier in the show that the Atlantis crew did not have enough power to dial Earth. Earth Control had no idea of the fate of the Atlantis crew until they sent the video package telling them what was going on, then Earth Control sent reinforcements to help out. My question is; if Earth Control was able to send reinforcements to Atlantis to help out, why could they not send a crew to check on the status of Atlantis? They knew the Atlantis crew made it in the 1st episode.

SAZOO1975

Chosen answer: Because the ZPM allowing them to dial Atlantis was being used at the Antarctic defense outpost. They couldn't risk making Earth vulnerable to attack from Anubis by depleting it with repeated dialing to the Pegasus galaxy. Once they knew Atlantis was in serious danger, they had no choice.

Grumpy Scot

ZPM from Antarctic was depleted in first dial, dial in Siege was done via ZPM from Egypt (SG-1: Moebius Part-1/2).

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