Home (Stargate Atlantis)

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“Home”
Stargate Atlantis episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 9
Written by	Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie
Directed by	Holly Dale
Guest stars	Don S. Davis as General Hammond Garwin Sanford as Simon Gary Jones as Walter Harriman
Production no.	109
Original airdate	September 10, 2004
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"Home" is an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis.

Plot

Upon exploring a planet Dr. Rodney McKay discovers that the Stargate draws its energy from the atmosphere, and believes that this would be enough energy to power up a wormhole to Earth. After consulting Weir, the team decides to dismantle the control crystal in Atlantis and transport it to the planet in order to dial an eight chevron to the Milky Way galaxy. The wormhole connects, and Stargate Command tells them that it is alright to travel back to Earth since the Prometheus is capable of reaching the Pegasus Galaxy in a couple of months thanks to the installation of Asgard hyperdrives. Upon returning to Earth, they find out that the Prometheus has had an accident and is not capable of transporting them back to Atlantis. Each team member slowly begins to realize that things are not as they seem. John Sheppard sees friends that had previously died in Afghanistan when he was serving with them, Dr. Weir is told by Gen. George Hammond that Atlantis will now become a full military and Sheppard is strangely in support of this. In his own reality, McKay notices that his scientific results are coming out as gibberish. As each team member comes to the realization that this Earth is not real, they find themselves in the embarkation room at Stargate Command with Gen. Hammond. But it is not the real Hammond, but rather a being of the original planet, which McKay mistook for highly charged mist. Mist-Hammond tells them that he had to create hallucinations for each team member to stop them from dialing the Stargate and currently they are unconscious. Since Teyla had no memories of Earth, she had to share Sheppard's memory. For many years, travelers had come through the Stargate and the unstable vortex effectively killed millions of mist beings. McKay realizes if they are unconscious, without food or water, they would eventually die. Mist-Hammond suggested that they return to their fantasies. Weir convinces him that they will not dial Earth, but head back to Atlantis instead and they are released from the hallucinations.

Trivia

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• The dog that appears in Dr. Weir's illusion is actually owned by actress Torri Higginson who plays her.^[1]
• The wormhole in this episode appears different to the standard used in Atlantis.
• Weir's Fiance Simon also played Narim in Stargate SG-1.
• General Hammond is only wearing two stars on his uniform (Major General) however Weir mentioned previously that he had been promoted to Lt. General and thus should be wearing three stars.

References

1. ^ "SFX profile: Torri Higginson", SFX magazine # 128, Future Publishing, 2005-03-16, pp. 36. 

External links

• Official Stargate Atlantis site. MGM. Visited June 8, 2006.
• Transcript from GateWorld. Transcribed by Callie Sullivan. Visited May 14, 2006.
• Review from GateWorld. Reviewed by Taylor Brown. Visited May 14, 2006.
• Production from GateWorld. Visited May 14, 2006.
• Gatenoise from Moon-catchin'. Visited June 23, 2006.