The premiere of the second season took place in the USA on July 15, 2005 , and it continues the story from the moment where the first season ended. Atlantis managed to avoid the destruction of the city by the rafts, but made them believe that the station was actually destroyed, and the expedition members also managed to establish unsystematic contact with the Earth thanks to the new linear cruiser of the Earth - Daedalus and the new MNT . Shepard gets promoted to lieutenant colonel, and former fugitive Ronon Dex replaces Lieutenant Ford's place on the team.
| Stargate: Atlantis. Season 2 | |||||
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| A country |  USA ,  Canada | ||||
| TV channel | Syfy | ||||
| First impression | July 15, 2005 - January 30, 2006 | ||||
| Number of episodes | 20 | ||||
| DVD release date | Region 1 : March 6, 2007 Region 2 : February 26, 2007 Region 4 : November 8, 2006 | ||||
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This season's storyline is based on Dr. Beckett ’s research to create a retrovirus capable of turning rafts back into humans. Although the first experiments with the unfinished virus lead to a deplorable result with a girl-raff and almost end with the transformation of Shepard into the Iratus bug, studies of the improved version lead to mixed results with Michael's raff. The season ends again with an “ambiguous ending” when the reef fleet begins its flight to Earth.
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| room | Title and Summary | Premiere date |
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| 2.01 | “ The siege. Part 3 " ( Eng. The Siege. Part 3 ) Major Sheppard was rescued by the Earth cruiser Daedalus , who had arrived to help Atlantis. The ship brought to Atlantis MNT , they raise a shield over the city. At this time, Lieutenant Ford was found in the city, the raff managed to introduce an enzyme into it, which changed Aiden. The Azgardian weapons and their beam technologies bring down several ships, but there are too many left. | July 15, 2005 |
| 2.02 | The Intruder Dr. Weir , Dr. Mackay, and Lt. Col. Sheppard are returning to Atlantis from Earth on the Daedalus when strange problems begin to occur on board. Rodney concludes that they are to blame for a computer virus loaded with rafts. | July 22, 2005 |
| 2.03 | The Runaway ( Runner ) In search of Ford, the team of Lieutenant Colonel Sheppard falls on the planet where Ronon Dex , a fugitive, lives. Rafe come to this world to hunt him, and he hunts them. A transmitter is inserted into his back, so Dex cannot leave here. Beckett is ready to help him. | July 29, 2005 |
| 2.04 | Duet Rafe's arrow picked up Dr. McKay and Lieutenant Kedman . The ship is shot down, but you can get only one. By chance it turns out to be Rodney. But it also turns out that Zelenka made a mess of something, so Kedman’s consciousness lives in Mackay, in addition to his consciousness. | August 5, 2005 |
| 2.05 | " Prisoners " ( English Condemned ) The Atlanteans discovered a planet where the gates are located on an island serving as a prison. The prisoners were extremely aggressive, but the authorities came to the aid of the guests on time. So Sheppard’s team discovered that in the Pegasus galaxy, under the very nose of the reefs, there is a fairly technically advanced civilization. The only suspicion is what price they pay for the possibility of such a development. | August 12, 2005 |
| 2.06 | Trinity [1] In the orbit of one of the planets, many shipwrecks were discovered, clearly dead in a terrible battle. Some of them definitely belonged to the reefs. On the planet itself, the only surviving object is the weapons of the Ancients, but Mackay’s attention was attracted to her power source, it would work better than the MNT. Rodney decides that he can fix all the mistakes of the Ancients by restoring both the generator and the weapon. | August 19, 2005 |
| 2.07 | " Instinct (the first part) " ( Eng. Instinct ) The villagers of one of the planets are terrorized by an unknown monster, according to the description, suspiciously reminiscent of a reef. Sheppard’s team volunteers to help the locals capture him. After some time, searches lead them to the cave, where an elderly man and a girl-reef live. The old man claims that he was able to synthesize a drug that helps the raff eat normal food. | August 26, 2005 |
| 2.08 | " Transformation (second part) " ( Eng. Conversion ) The wound received by Sheppard on the previous mission suddenly healed. After a while, everyone begins to notice oddities in John's behavior. Dr. Beckett discovers that a retrovirus has entered the blood of a lieutenant colonel, which must block the DNA that he inherited from the Iratus beetle in the DNA of the rafts, but acts in exactly the opposite way. If a team of doctors fails to urgently restore Sheppard at the genetic level, he will turn into an insect. | September 9, 2005 |
| 2.09 | Aurora Further study of the technologies of Atlantis reveals the ship of the Ancients on the very outskirts of the Pegasus galaxy. Sheppard’s team at Daedalus goes after him, but they discover that the raises are ahead of them. The reconnaissance ship manages to be destroyed, but it is necessary to hurry, because the raises managed to call for help. On the Aurora , the Atlanteans find about 2,200 stasis chambers with extremely aged Ancients inside. McKay discovers that the cameras maintain a mental connection with each other, creating a kind of virtual environment. Sheppard plunges into one of the cameras to enter the network. There he discovers the entire crew of the Aurora, who is in a hurry to return home, not suspecting that everything around is not real. Meanwhile, Ronon and Theila are found in one of the reef chambers. | September 23, 2005 |
| 2.10 | “The Lost Boys (Part I) ” ( The Lost Boys ) During one of the missions, unknown attack the Sheppard team and lead to their planet. It turns out that these people are Ford’s gang, which he put on the enzyme. Now they are developing their own operations against rafts. In one of them, they needed the help of Sheppard, for which his team was captured, and in order to prove the benefit of the Weir enzyme in the future, Ford forced everyone to accept him except John by deception and force. | September 23, 2005 |
| 2.11 | “The Hive (Part Two) ” ( The Hive ) The remnants of Ford's gang and Sheppard's team are trying to escape from the camera on a hive ship . Along the way, John decides to help people mothballed in cocoons, and the fugitives are again caught in rafts. Gradually, the action of the enzyme begins to pass, and withdrawal begins in those taking it. Meanwhile, McKay manages to escape from the cave where he was kept by the Ford people, for help on Atlantis. | November 21, 2005 |
| 2.12 | Epiphany John finds himself in a field of time expansion, and while Rodney is only able to find out, Sheppard is desperate to wait for help and begins to explore the surroundings inside the field. He discovers a small settlement, the inhabitants of which spend all their time in meditation, following the path to the ascension. John still does not know that in a few hours, that the Atlanteans are looking for a way to rescue him, he will have to spend several months in the monastery. | November 28, 2005 |
| 2.13 | Critical Mass On Earth, at the Stargate Command Center , information was received that the goa'ulds who had captured the Trust were able to penetrate Atlantis and lay a bomb there that would detonate as soon as the wormhole opens on Earth - and this should happen in a couple of hours. Dr. Lee manages to come up with a way to use the Daedalus to send a message to Atlantis in time, but even after that the danger did not pass: the bomb launched a distress signal, which attracted the attention of the reef cruisers. While Mackay and Kedman are trying to find a way to save the city, Weir began to search for a scout. | December 5, 2005 |
| 2.14 | Grace Under Pressure The test of the jumper after the repair fails, and the ship falls into the ocean. The windshield could not withstand the pressure of the water, but McKay managed to disappear in time in the rear compartment of the jumper. From the concussion received during the fall, as well as from the eternal need to speak with someone, his consciousness gives rise to a vision of Samantha Carter . While Mackay is arguing with himself about salvation, Sheppard and Zelenka are preparing their rescue operation. | December 12, 2005 |
| 2.15 | The Tower Acquaintance with the next agricultural society brings a surprise. The villagers say that a tower has been protecting the planet for many generations. In fact, it turns out that the tower is extremely reminiscent of the central spire of Atlantis, and defensive weapons - guided missiles. The incident in the village leads to the fact that Sheppard is forced to attend an audience with the Lord Protector and get into the thick of the intrigues of the royal court. | December 19, 2005 |
| 2.16 | The Long Goodbye In the orbit of the moon of one of the planets, the Atlantean team finds two rescue capsules. During the examination, the energy transfers the woman's consciousness from the capsule to the Weir. The woman reports that their ship was destroyed by the rafts, and asks for a farewell to her husband, who is resting in the second capsule. When the man’s consciousness turns out to be in Sheppard, it turns out that the couple are not spouses, but old enemies who want to settle old accounts. | January 2, 2006 |
| 2.17 | Coup d'Etat While Sheppard is investigating the disappearance of Major Lorne’s team, one of the Jeni arrives in Atlantis, who is outlawed in his homeland. He asks Dr. Weir for help in overthrowing Chief Cowen . Elizabeth is ready to agree, but only in exchange for MNT. When a large group of genies arrives on Atlantis, but the module does not bring with it, the Weir begins to suspect a trap. Meanwhile, John again confronts Chef Cowen and discovers that the Jenai have decided to seize the fleet of paddle jumpers in order to destroy the wreck ships with their help, sacrificing their lives. | January 9, 2006 |
| 2.18 | Michael The young lieutenant regains consciousness in the medical unit of Atlantis, but does not remember anything about his past. Due to the fact that everyone is too attentive to him, Michael Kenmore begins to suspect that there is some secret in his past. It turns out that he was a reef and became an object for testing Dr. Beckett's retrovirus, which blocks the genes of the Iratus bug. Meanwhile, Ronon begins to suspect that the outward circulation of the reef into a person has not changed his consciousness. | January 16, 2006 |
| 2.19 | Inferno A team of Atlantians studied the technology of one of the planets when McKay discovered that one of the settlements is located directly on a giant volcano, and frequent earthquakes indicate an imminent and inevitable eruption. The Weir permits temporary evacuation of residents to Atlantis, but at this time the volcano wakes up and absorbs the gates. Sheppard’s team is trapped on the planet, the only way out is the faulty ship of the Ancients, identical to the Aurora found on the planet. Dr. Weir, for his part, sends the Daedalus to help, but the situation is complicated by the fact that a ship of reefs is approaching the planet. | January 23, 2006 |
| 2.20 | " Allies (first part) " ( Eng. Allies ) Civil wars between reef groups led Michael to return to Atlantis with a small group of like-minded people, who had once converted Beckett's retrovirus into a human being, to propose joining forces to fight the rest of the reefs. To do this, Carson must come up with a way to spread the retrovirus through the air. But while everyone hopes that they have found new allies, suspicions haunt Ronon. | January 30, 2006 |
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- ↑ Trinity is the name of the first atomic bomb test on Earth conducted by US scientists on July 16, 1945 at the Alamogordo training ground in New Mexico.