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Recap / Stargate Atlantis S04 E01 "Adrift"

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We need you here, Elizabeth.
Dr. Keller

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  • Asteroid Thicket: The episode in fact references the game "Asteroids" by name, as they deploy Jumpers to blast away the asteroids before they hit Atlantis.
  • The Caper: McKay proposes stealing ZPMs from the Asuran homeworld to save Atlantis, explicitly referring to it as a "heist".
  • Nanomachines: Now make up much of Dr. Weir.
  • No Gravity for You: The Artificial Gravity is shut off in the sections being decompressed, so the poor grunts running for safety are left floating just before the shield passes over them and leaves them in vacuum.
  • No OSHA Compliance: The Ancient's paranoia over safety unintentionally turns Atlantis into a deathtrap. The computer, realizing that maintaining the shield at its standard size will result in failure, begins to shrink the shield while decompressing the affected sections and disabling artificial gravity to conserve power. Unfortunately, it does this while people are still in those sections, and the gravity precedes the decompression, leaving those individuals floating helplessly as they're left to die in a vacuum. Granted, these are pretty dire circumstances, but that doesn't change the fact that the system is intentionally dooming whoever gets trapped there to die.
  • Thrown Out the Airlock: Happens to the squad that were on one of the piers when the shield began shrinking to conserve power, causing their section to loose atmosphere and decompress.

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