No Man's Land (Stargate Atlantis)

"No Man's Land (Stargate Atlantis)"

"No Man's Land" (Part 2 of 3) is the Season 3 premiere episode of the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis. It premiered on Friday the 14th of July 2006 as a part of the Sci-Fi Channel's new sci-fi Friday.

Plot

Two Wraith hive ships are on their way to Earth. It is up to the Atlantis team to rescue them and figure out a way to stop the Wraith from reaching a "new feeding ground".

After their temporary alliance with the Wraith backfires, the Atlantis team must find a way to stop two Wraith hive ships that are heading for Earth and which have captured Dr. McKay and Ronon Dex. The team calculates that the Wraith hive ships must exit hyperspace and stop in order to let their organic components rest. Dr. Weir orders Colonel Caldwell to attack the hive ships using the Daedalus and the Orion before she is ordered to return to Earth to account for her team's failures.

Colonel Sheppard, who was able to survive by latching his F-302 to the hull of a Wraith ship, is forced to rely on a now ostracized Michael to help him save McKay and Ronon. Ronon and McKay are able to free themselves from their cocoon prisons with a plan to sabotage the ship in a last act of heroism. Sheppard and Michael manage to link up with Ronon and McKay, and Sheppard is forced to convince Ronon not to kill Michael.

All plans collide as the Daedalus and Orion engage the hive ships while Sheppard, McKay and Ronon are still aboard. A monumental space battle occurs with the Daedalus damaging one of the hive ships (the one Sheppard, Michael, McKay and Ronon are aboard) when one nuclear missile manages to make it past the Wraith defenses. The Orion soon arrives and destroys the other hive ship. Unfortunately, the Orion had to sacrifice its shields in order to use its weapons, and it is quickly destroyed by the surviving hive ship. Fortunately, the Daedalus manages to beam the crew of the Orion to safety. Sheppard and the others manage to disable the hive ship's beam-jamming codes and are beamed aboard the Daedalus. The space battle continues and both ships suffer heavy damage. Unfortunately, the Daedalus has expended all of its nuclear warheads, and nearly all of its systems including the life support system are disabled, giving the crew approximately nine hours of air. In order to save themselves, the crew comes up with an insane and desperate plan to both survive and eliminate the Wraith.

The crew prepares the Wraith retrovirus and manages to beam it onto the hive ship, since the jammer codes are disabled. With most of the Wraith onboard turned into humans with no memories, the human boarding party meets almost no resistance save the Wraith Queen, whom they quickly eliminate. The Daedalus crew now has air, a number of Wraith prisoners, and a fully functional Wraith hive ship.

External links

• Official Stargate Atlantis site. MGM. Visited June 8, 2006.
• Summary from GateWorld. Visited May 14, 2006.