The BEST episodes of Stargate Atlantis season 2
Every episode of Stargate Atlantis season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Stargate Atlantis season 2!
The story of Stargate Atlantis follows the cliffhanger episode on Stargate SG-1's seventh season finale "Lost City", where SG-1 found an outpost made by the race known as the Ancients in Antarctica. After the events of Stargate SG-1 season eight premiere "New Order", the Stargate Command sends an international team to investigate the outpost. Soon, Dr. Daniel Jackson discovers the location of the greatest city created by the Ancients, Atlantis. The story unfolds when the members of the expedition encounter the Wraith, the race that defeated the Ancients ten thousand years ago.
#1 - The Siege (3)
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/15/2005
The Daedalus arrives to defend Atlantis from the Wraith onslaught, but it may not be enough when the team discovers that an even larger armada is on the way.
#2 - Allies (1)
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/30/2006
Michael and his Wraith faction arrive at Atlantis to propose an alliance, hoping to use the retrovirus to transform their Wraith enemies into prey.
#3 - Aurora
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/23/2005
When the team finds an Ancient warship adrift on the edge of the galaxy, its crew still alive, Colonel Sheppard enters their virtual reality stasis to communicate with them.
#4 - Inferno
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/23/2006
Sheppard's team meets a civilization about to be destroyed by a super-volcano, and is trapped there when the Stargate is destroyed during the evacuation.
#5 - The Hive (2)
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/2005
Colonel Sheppard and his team find themselves prisoners of the Wraith following Ford's attack on a hive ship. Dr. McKay goes to great lengths to help them.
#6 - Condemned
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/12/2005
The Atlantis team finds a culture that lives in relative safety from the Wraith, because they hand over their criminals to the Wraith -- and crash-land in the volatile penal colony.
#7 - The Lost Boys (1)
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/23/2005
The team is captured by the missing Lieutenant Ford, who is now leading a group of young men who are taking the Wraith enzyme -- and who wants the team's help in a suicide attack against a hive ship.
#8 - Duet
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/5/2005
A run-in with a Wraith Dart leaves the consciousness of a precocious Atlantis security officer trapped in Dr. McKay's mind.
#9 - Epiphany
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/2005
Sheppard finds himself on a planet where time passes more rapidly, with no way to contact his team or return to Atlantis.
#10 - Michael
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/16/2006
An amnesiac young Lieutenant in Atlantis suffers from disturbing nightmares that he is a Wraith, only to make a shocking discovery about himself.
#11 - Trinity
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/19/2005
McKay puts the team at risk when he tries to perfect unfinished Ancient technology that wiped out a civilization. Ronon Dex discovers that he is not the lone survivor from his world.
#12 - Critical Mass
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/5/2005
When an operative of the Trust plants a bomb in Atlantis, the team must find a spy within their own ranks before the Wraith arrive and discover the city.
#13 - The Intruder
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/22/2005
The Daedalus is infected by a Wraith computer virus, while members of the expedition hope to return to Earth.
#14 - The Tower
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/19/2005
The team finds a world that possesses Ancient defense technology, where Colonel Sheppard finds himself a pawn in the rivalry between the heirs to the throne.
#15 - Coup d'Etat
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/9/2006
After a team from Atlantis goes missing, the expedition finds itself in the middle of a Genii coup.
#16 - Runner
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/29/2005
Sheppard and his team attempt to locate Lieutenant Ford, only to find themselves captives of a former soldier who is being hunted by the Wraith.
#17 - Conversion
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/9/2005
Colonel Sheppard begins to undergo a disturbing physical transformation after being exposed to Beckett's anti-Wraith drug.
#18 - Grace Under Pressure
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/12/2005
When Dr. McKay is trapped underwater in a sinking Puddle Jumper, his only chance for survival may be an hallucination of Samantha Carter.
#19 - The Long Goodbye
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/2/2006
The team discovers two pods that contain the minds of alien beings, who take control of Weir and Sheppard's bodies to continue their personal war.
#20 - Instinct
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/26/2005
The team discovers a young Wraith girl who has been raised by a human, and is in hiding from the people of her human village in fear of her life.