Stargate In Significantly Fewer Seasons, Season 4: Lost Cities

One of the things that made Stargate stand out against a ton of other intriguing but ultimately disappointing scifi series of the early twenty-first century was their willingness to take big risks with cast changes, spinoffs, and regularly poking fun of themselves in a very meta-fashion.

As a regular viewer, it was thrilling to see the series spin off an entire new cast and succeed in making an interesting show within the Stargate universe but that felt genuinely different, with different enemies, different plot devices, and different interpersonal character development. In this season, we meet the new cast members and see them completely diverge from the main cast. For Now.

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Season Four:
Lost Cities

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401 & 402: Lost City
(O'Neill, Jackson, Carter, Teal'c, Hammond, Harriman, Bra'tac, Weir, Anubis)

At the end of season one, O'Neill merged with technology and met the Asgards who were able to seperate him from the technology before it killed him. So it's deja vu all over again with the added pressure of an imminent attack on Earth by Anubis. Also, the lost city of Atlantis is...across the galaxy? in Antarctica? Oh, and Hammond has been promoted, and the new head of SGC is...a bureaucratic doctor?


403 & 404: New Order
(O'Neill, Jackson, Carter, Teal'c, Hammond, Harriman, Weir, Thor, Fifth)

With O'Neill indisposed, Weir and SG1 have to deal with the post-Anubis Goa'uld system lords while Carter and The Asgardians deal with the time-distilled Replicators.


405 & 406: Rising
(O'Neill, Jackson, Weir, McKay, Sheppard, Teyla, Ford, Beckett)

Weir hands over control of the SGC back to O'Neill, and takes a whole new crew to the lost city of Atlantis. But the trip requires so much power that it might be a one way trip. Particularly after the technology keeping Atlantis running starts to fail.  Oh, and they meet The Wraith who are more sharpy goth vampire than the Goa'uld, Asgardian, Jaffa, or Replicators.


407: The Storm
(Weir, McKay, Sheppard, Teyla, Ford, Beckett, Zelenka, Cowen, Kolya, Radim)

The Wraith aren't the only problem in the new universe, there's also the Genii, a race of humanoids intent on dominating the galaxy through war, oh, and there are hurricanes. Giant hurricanes threatening to destroy Atlantis.


408: The Eye
(Weir, McKay, Sheppard, Teyla, Ford, Beckett, Zelenka, Kolya, Radim)

A group of Genii soldiers have invaded Atlantis, and Sheppard is alone on the front lines against them. Also, those hurricanes are still bearing down on the city.


409: Prometheus Unbound
(O'Neill, Jackson, Hammond, Harriman, Novac, Vala)

Problems on Atlantis have reached the ears of the SGC, so Hammond, Jackson, and Harriman take a crew onboard the Prometheus bound for the other Stargate show, but their voyage is derailed by one of those there Goa'uld super solidery things, which hijacks Prometheus but, for some reason, doesn't kill anyone.


410: The Defiant One
(Weir, McKay, Sheppard, Teyla, Ford)

On a routine mission, Sheppard and McKay run into a seemingly abandoned Wraith ship on a desolate planet. Perfect opportunity for some calming research into their technology.


411 & 412: Reckoning
(O'Neill, Jackson, Carter, Teal'c, Carter/Selmac, Bra'tac, Harriman, Thor, Replicarter, Ba'al, Yu, Anubis)

The Replicators, commanded by Replicarter have become such a threat that the Goa'uld have asked to form an alliance with humanity and the Jaffa in order to destroy them. The Jaffa appear to have found a weapon powerful enough to end the conflict once and for all.


413: Before I Sleep
(Weir, McKay, Sheppard, Teyla, Ford, Beckett, Zelenka)

Those wacky ancients left behind a city rife with problems and the crew at Atlantis keeps having problems figuring out how the city works. Luckily, they discover that the Ancients left behind someone to help them out. But that someone is...Dr. Weir?



414: Threads
(O'Neill, Jackson, Carter, Teal'c, Carter/Selmac, Bra'tac, Harriman, Ba'al, Anubis)

Fallout from Reckoning means that the survivors have to deal with what to do now that the major war they've been fighting since the first season appears to be over. Meanwhle, Daniel might be ascending again, but until he figures out what to do, he's cursed to spend the rest of the time in...the set to Dead Like Me?