Writer:	Martin Gero
Director:	Martin Wood
Star:	Torri Higginson (Dr. Elizabeth Weir),  Joe Flanigan (Major / Lt. Colonel John Sheppard),  Jason Momoa (Ronon Dex),  David Hewlett (Dr. Rodney McKay),  Paul McGillion (Dr. Carson Beckett),  Rachel Luttrell (Teyla Emmagan)
Recurring Role:	Robert Picardo (Richard Woolsey),  Kavan Smith (Major Evan Lorne),  Gary Jones (Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman),  Heather Doerksen (Major Meyers),  Kirby Morrow (Captain Dave Kleinman),  David Nykl (Dr. Radek Zelenka),  Connor Trinneer (Michael Kenmore),  Trevor Devall (Hermiod (voice)),  Andee Frizzell (Wraith Queen),  Chuck Campbell (Technician/Chuck),  Beau Bridges (Major General Hank Landry),  Mitch Pileggi (Colonel Steven Caldwell)
Guest Star:	P.J. Prinsloo (Anders),  Angelique Naude (Young Female Scientist),  Brahm Taylor (Lathan),  Christopher Heyerdahl (Male Wraith),  Tamlyn Tomita (Chiniese Ambassador Shen Xiaoyi),  Andy Maton (British Ambassador Russel Chapman)

Rachel Luttrell voiced the "previously on Stargate Atlantis" line. (edit) The teaser for this episode is a mix of scenes from the end of the previous episode "Allies" and new footage showing more details of the battle. (edit) International Airdates:

-This episode aired in Canada on August 14, 2006 on Movie Central and September 11, 2006 on The Movie Network.
-This episode aired in the UK on October 18, 2006 on Sky One.
-This episode aired in Australia on February 21, 2008 on Channel 7.
-Syndication Premiere: September 22-23, 2007. (edit) Paul McGillion does not appear in this episode. (edit) Christopher Heyerdahl, who previously played Halling (who was last seen in "The Siege 1"), now plays a Male Wraith. (edit)

McKay: OK, fine – they're reserved for people working on getting life support systems operational. We need those people as clear-headed as possible.
Kleinman: And, by those people ...
McKay: Yes, *I* will be one of them. (edit) Lorne: It didn't work on [the Queen].
McKay: Oh. Beckett wondered if the females would be immune.
Lorne: Yeah. Something you might have mentioned before she almost killed me, Rodney.
McKay: I only thought of it now. (edit) Landry: How'd it go with the IOA?
Weir: Oh, you know. I mean, does anyone ever come out of an IOA
deposition saying; "That went well"? (edit) (after he found breathing gear)
McKay: Ah, now we're talking. How many more of these do we have?
Kleinman: Twenty in total.
McKay: How many people on board?
Kleinman: In and around the two hundred mark.
McKay: Oh, so I guess buddy-breathing our way through this one's out
of the question. (edit) Kleinman: I have a contact sir. A single Wraith ship, possibly a transport. It just left the hive and is on course for us. It's broadcasting a comm. On our frequencies.
Caldwell: What the hell do they want?
Zelenka: Maybe they want to surrender.
Caldwell: Not likely. Let's hear it.
(over comms, after he had been presumed dead)
Sheppard: This is Colonel John Sheppard. Authentication code Alpha Seven Tango Three. Please respond.
Caldwell: (to Kleinman) Open a channel. (to Sheppard) Colonel Sheppard. We'd written you off.
Sheppard: Don't get all emotional on me now. (edit)

Weir: General Landry has informed me that in light of fleet resources committed to fighting the Ori, the weapons platform in Antarctica, powered by a pair of Mark II generators, would be Earth's only defence.

Mark II Naquadah generators are capable of a 600% power increase over Atlantis' Mark I reactors. It was brought to Atlantis by Colonel Everett's team to power the City's Weapons Chair in the episode "Siege (2)." (edit) This is the first appearance of the International Oversight Advisory (I.O.A.) and several of its representatives including Richard Woolsey (Robert Picardo), Chinese Ambassador Shen Xiaoyi (Tamlyn Tomita), and British Representative Russel Chapman (Andy Maton). (edit) The Orion's hyperdrive managed to almost keep pace with the Daedalus in this episode, indicating it was equipped with the intergalactic version of Ancient hyperdrive unlike the Aurora which had the interstellar version. (edit) In this episode another Hive ship is destroyed by the Orion. This brings the total to eight since the expedition arrived in the galaxy. (edit) Goof: In the "Previously on" segment, the Wraith Queens 'Double' voice is only the male portion. The Female voice was phased out. (edit)

Sheppard: Let Mikey try it!

This is a line from a commercial from the 1980s for Life cereal, where two boys would give whatever food they had misgivings about to their younger brother, Mikey. (edit) Star Wars:

Sheppard claims he latched his 302 into the hull of the ship because he saw it in a movie once. This movie was most likely The Empire Strikes Back in which the Millennium Falcon latched onto a Star Destroyer. (edit)