Childhood's End (Stargate Atlantis)
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| "Childhood's End" (Stargate Atlantis) | |
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| Season 1, Episode 06 | |
| Air Date (US): | August 13 2004 |
| Production No.: | 106 |
| Written by: | Martin Gero |
| Directed by: | David Winning |
| Guest Star(s): | Courtenay J. Stevens |
| Previous: Suspicion | Next: Poisoning the Well |
The Atlantis team suddenly loses control of their puddle jumper and crashes. The planet they've landed on has no one over the age of 25. They soon learn that upon turing 25, the people of this society commit suicide because they believe it keeps the Wraith from coming back to the world. The team discover this isn't the case when they try to find out what brought their puddle jumper down. They find a device powered by a Z.P.M (Zero Point Module) which acts as a sort of an electromagnetic pulse device which disables all electrical devices within the radius, including those of the Wraith and the Atlantians. Dr. Rodney McKay believes that the Z.P.M. will allow the Atlantis team to power the Atlantis shields and takes it upon himself to bring it back to Atlantis, but upon returning he is ordered by Dr. Elizabeth Weir to return it as the emitter is the only thing that is protecting the population of its home planet. Prior to McKay's re-activation of the emitter, a Wraith scout's radio, long deactivated due to the emitter's activity, becomes active and begins broadcasting a distress beacon. Wraith scouts are immediately dispatched, but the emitter is re-activated and the scouts are unable to broadcast any data back to their hive ship of origin. Template:Tvseries-stub