Home (Stargate Atlantis)
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| "Home" (Stargate Atlantis) | |
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| Season 1, Episode 09 | |
| Air Date (US): | September 10 2004 |
| Production No.: | 108 |
| Written by: | Joseph Mallozzi Paul Mullie |
| Directed by: | Holly Dale |
| Guest Star(s): | Don S. Davis Garwin Sanford |
| Previous: Underground | Next: The Storm/The Eye |
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 a 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 Pegusus Galaxy in a couple of months thanks to the installation of Asgard hyperdrives. Upon retunring 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. Hammond that Atlantis will now become a full military and McKay 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 halluncinations for each team member to stop them from dialing the Stargate and effectively killing off some the other mist beings. Weir convinces him that they will not dial Earth, but head back to Atlantis instead and they are released from the halluncinations.