Line #7 Recap/StargateAtlantisS01E14Sanctuary


1	--> ''Athar provides all that we need.''
2	---> -- '''Chaya Sar''', High Priestess of Athar
3
4	The episode opens with the team desperately flying a puddle jumper away from a few Wraith darts, just when it looks like it's all over, a huge ball of lightning passes through the ships.
5
6	The darts are destroyed, and the jumper is unaffected. The team lands on the surface to investigate the mysterious weapon but the natives they meet seem to have no idea what they're talking about, praising the local deity "Athar" for the rescue.
7
8	One thing leads to another, and we meet High Priestess Chaya Sar whom Sheppard promptly falls in love with. Chaya is invited back to Atlantis in the hopes of discovering exactly what the lightning was and perhaps finding a way to use "Athar's power" to defend the city.
9
10	[=McKay=] is distrustful of Chaya, due to her suspiciously flawless health and the ability to activate an ancient device. Chaya and Sheppard go on a picnic and make out for a bit.
11
12	During a meeting the next day [=McKay=], with permission from Weir, discreetly scans Chaya to ascertain whether or not she is what she claims to be. Midway through the meeting, Chaya calls him out on it but [=McKay=] counters, calling her out on being an ancient, calling it "The only logical explanation". To everyone's surprise, Chaya admits it.
13
14	After experiencing visions of the Wraith attacking her homeworld, Chaya runs trough the stargate to defend her people. John chases after her in a puddle jumper and arrives in time to see the Wraith forces being wiped out.
15
16	On the planet, Sheppard and Chaya (or is it Athar?) have a heart to heart wherein she explains protecting the planet from the wraith caused her to be exiled from the ancients, and her punishment for that is to protect ''only'' this planet. Sheppard and Chaya share their souls and the screen fades to black.
17
18
19	!!Tropes
20
21	* BluntYes: Sheppard's response to Teyla's incredulity.
22	-->'''Sheppard:''' I am an ambassador and she is a diplomat.\
23	'''Teyla:''' On a late night... ''picnic''?\
24	'''Sheppard:''' Yes.
25	* BoldlyComing: Lampshaded mercilessly by [=McKay=].
26	-->'''[=McKay=]:''' It is very [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries 1967]] of you.
27	: :And then again, later:
28	-->'''[=McKay=]:''' Oh my God! He ''is'' [[TheKirk Kirk]]!
29	* LoveAtFirstSight: Sheppard and Chaya. Lampshaded by [=McKay=] with an eye roll. Later he says:
30	-->'''[=McKay=]:''' You got Sheppard to watch her? That's like asking the fox to guard the henhouse!
31	* MayflyDecemberRomance: Sheppard and Chaya.
32	* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Definitely [=McKay=]'s approach, which he takes a lot of flack for. Chaya however isn't bothered by it at all. When Sheppard apologises for [=McKay=]'s behaviour, she points out that [=McKay=] is simply acting according to ''his'' beliefs, making him no different from her people who act according to theirs. This episode is one of those weird unclassifiables, in that, while the people of Proculus are being deceived, they also really ''are'' protected and cared for by a nigh-omnipotent being.
33	* PerfectHealth: Chaya's is cause for concern, because as Beckett notes, humans generally aren't perfectly healthy, especially those living in a pre-Industrial Age society that has no means of keeping them that way. The only way that they could be if some outside force was responsible, and he's right.
34	* RevealingSkill: [=McKay=] suspects Chaya to be more than she appears and Weir gives him permission to covertly scan her during a meeting. Chaya calls him out on it during said meeting, but as [=McKay=] points out, that she could tell what he was up to proves him right.
35	* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: [=McKay=] voices his concerns about Chaya to Weir, despite not having any proof.
36	-->'''[=McKay=]:''' What, I'm not allowed to have intuition?\
37	'''Weir:''' You? No.
38	* {{Superweapon}}: What Chaya's defense of Proculis looks like, and what the team initially assumes is hidden on the planet somewhere.
39	* {{Unishment}}: When Chaya uses her powers to save her homeworld, the Ancients punish her by... forcing her to stay there and protect her homeworld. However, she's not allowed to help anyone else at all, and has to live with that knowledge.

Context Recap / StargateAtlantisS01E14Sanctuary