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Stargate Atlantis: Trinity

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Ronon Dex discovers that a small number of his people survived the Wraith attack on his planet, including his former military trainer, with whom he has unfinished business. Meanwhile, McKay puts Atlantis at risk when he tries to unlock the secrets of an Ancient power source. Read full recap »

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Writers:: Damian Kindler

Director:: Martin Wood

Stars:: Rachel Luttrell (Teyla Emmagan); David Hewlett (Dr. Rodney McKay); Jason Momoa (Ronon Dex); Paul McGillion (Dr. Carson Beckett); Torri Higginson (Dr. Elizabeth Weir); Joe Flanigan (Major / Lt. Colonel John Sheppard)

Recurring Role:: Mitch Pileggi (Colonel Steven Caldwell); Chuck Campbell (Technician/Chuck); David Nykl (Dr. Radek Zelenka)

Guest Star:: Mark Pawson (Dr. Collinsworth); Sean Campbell (Solen Sincha); Christopher Gauthier (Mattas); Mark Hoeppner (Bartender); Terry Howson (Kell); Barry Greene (Hendon)

The planet that Ronon and Teyla travel to is named Belkan. The inhabitants possess a disease-resistant strain of flax seed which could potentially double the crop yield on the Athosian mainland. edit »
Goof: When Ronon meets up with his old military buddy in the bar he says "For years I believed I was the only survivor" But when he first got to Atlantis he was surprised at the images of his planet destroyed, he was obviously expecting there to still be a civilization, with many survivors. edit »
When Weir yelled at McKay for destroying three-quarters of the solar system, he abruptly corrected her, stating it was five-sixths. You would think he would not correct that to cushion his bruised ego, since five-sixths is greater than three-quarters. edit »
The Ancients' term for their weapon was Project Arcturus. If the project was successful it would have produced the power equivalent of twenty-five fully powered zero point modules by drawing energy from this universe rather than a self-contained region of subspace as with Z.P.M.'s. edit »
Goof: There is a lot of debris in orbit over the Durandanes planet. All of it should have been drawn into the planet's atmosphere within 10,000 years. edit »

International Airdates:

-This episode aired in Canada on August 22, 2005 on The Movie Network and October 17, 2005 on Movie Central.
-This episode aired in the UK on November 23, 2005 on Sky One.
-This episode aired in Australia on March 1, 2007 on Channel 7.
-Syndication Premiere: October 28-29, 2006. edit »
Sean Campbell (Solen) previously played a sergeant in the Stargate SG-1 episode "1969"and Solek in "Company of Thieves." edit »

Sheppard: The place won't be safe very much longer.
McKay: I can bring it back under control. Just give me a second.
Sheppard: No you can't!
McKay: One second!
Sheppard: I've seen this before, Rodney: pilots who wouldn't eject when something went wrong, trying to fix their planes (smacks desk) right until they hit the ground.
McKay: Okay, we need to leave. I've waited too long. The weapon can't discharge enough power to avoid a catastrophic overload. This whole planet is going to go up. Not that your speech wasn't working. edit »
McKay: Harry K Daghlian.
Sheppard: Who?
McKay: He was a scientist -- worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. He was only twenty-six years old. Accidentally irradiated himself while performing a critical mass experiment on two half-spheres of plutonium. Took him a month to die. While his body was slowly shutting down from radiation poisoning, you know what he did with his last thirty days, hmm? He worked. He tried until his last breath to understand what had happened to him so that others could learn from the tragedy, so that his work, his death, wouldn't be rendered meaningless. Now, have you considered what would have happened if they'd just shut the Project down after that? edit »
Sheppard: A member of your team is in the morgue.
McKay: And I am responsible for his death, yes. I am painfully aware of that. I sent him in there and I will have to live with that for the rest of my life. (His voice breaks briefly.) But we have a responsibility to understand what happened and learn from it. edit »
McKay: Yeah, but at the end of the day the outpost was still standing and that means, uh ... well, I'm not sure what that means, but it means something definitely worth finding out. edit »
McKay: Hold on. I'm picking up faint energy readings coming from ... (he turns back round, looks out of the windscreen and points) ... there. (He looks at the building.) That would explain how they were able to put up such a good fight.
Sheppard: How?
McKay: Because ... they were Ancients. edit »

Title:

The title "Trinity" refers to the New Mexico test site where the U.S. first succeeded in detonating an atomic bomb, on July 16, 1945. edit »

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