The BEST episodes of Stargate Atlantis season 3
Every episode of Stargate Atlantis season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Stargate Atlantis season 3!
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 - Common Ground
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/25/2006
Colonel Sheppard finds himself the prisoner of a Genii commander, along with a desperately hungry Wraith who has been separated from his hive.
#2 - The Return (2)
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/13/2007
The Atlantis team goes against orders to try and save Atlantis from Replicator control -- and to rescue General O'Neill and Richard Woolsey, who are trapped in the occupied city.
#3 - First Strike (1)
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/22/2007
An unstoppable energy weapon leaves Atlantis under siege after Earth launches a preemptive attack against a very powerful enemy's homeworld.
#4 - Tao of Rodney
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/4/2007
After an Ancient device gives Rodney superhuman powers, his enhanced brilliance is checked only by his impending death -- unless he can learn how to ascend.
#5 - Sunday
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/1/2007
The team tries to relax during a mandatory day off, until an explosion leaves three people dead -- and reveals that one scientist is a walking time bomb.
#6 - McKay and Mrs. Miller
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/8/2006
Rodney McKay is reunited with his estranged sister back on Earth, who has given up a brilliant career as a scientist to raise a family.
#7 - Progeny
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/11/2006
Weir and the team visit an advanced civilization that split off from the Lanteans thousands of years ago, but discover that they may not have left Atlantis in peace.
#8 - The Return (1)
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/22/2006
The Atlantis expedition is stunned to learn that a ship full of Ancients is returning to reclaim their lost city.
#9 - Sateda
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/4/2006
Ronon Dex is captured by the Wraith and returned to his homeworld, where he is haunted by his past as he is forced to once again become their prey.
#10 - No Man's Land (2)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/14/2006
The team desperately attempts to stop two Wraith hive ships from reaching Earth. Sheppard must rely on an old foe to rescue McKay and Ronon.
#11 - The Ark
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/18/2007
The team discovers the last of a civilization in suspended animation, whose survival is at risk when their station is critically damaged.
#12 - Submersion
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 6/8/2007
The team discovers an Ancient drilling station deep beneath the surface of the ocean, only to find that a Wraith queen is still alive there.
#13 - The Game
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/11/2007
Sheppard and McKay discover that their competitive video game has been controlling a planet of real people, who now stand on the brink of war.
#14 - Echoes
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/20/2007
The inhabitants of Atlantis begin to suffer ill effects when the planet's whale population begins migrating to the island city, bringing an unexpected harbinger of doom.
#15 - Irresistible
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/28/2006
Sheppard's team meets an obnoxious man who is adored by all thanks to a secret that he carries -- and who has an unexpected effect on them.
#16 - Vengeance
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/15/2007
The Atlantis team investigates the disappearance of one of their allies, only to find an old enemy engineering a race of powerful monsters.
#17 - Phantoms
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/15/2006
Sheppard and Ronon are influenced by a mind-altering device created by the Wraith while on a mission to rescue a lost team.
#18 - Misbegotten (3)
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/21/2006
The Atlantis team must decide the fate of a colony of Wraith they have turned into humans. Dr. Weir must defend her leadership when she is evaluated by the I.O.A.
#19 - The Real World
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/18/2006
Elizabeth Weir wakes up in a mental institution, where she is told that the expedition to Atlantis and the Stargate are figments of her imagination.
#20 - Irresponsible
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/27/2007
The team finds Lucius Lavin manipulating the people of another hapless planet, using Ancient technology to pose as an invincible hero.