Stargate Atlantis/Recap/S03/E20 First Strike

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    • E01 E02 Rising
    • E03 Hide and Seek
    • E04 Thirty-Eight Minutes
    • E05 Suspicion
    • E06 Childhoods End
    • E07 Poisoning the Well
    • E08 Underground
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    • E10 The Storm
    • E11 The Eye
    • E12 The Defiant One
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    • E15 Before I Sleep
    • E16 The Brotherhood
    • E17 Letters From Pegasus
    • E18 The Gift
    • E19 The Siege, Part 1
    • E20 The Siege, Part 2
  • S02
    • E01 The Siege, Part 3
    • E02 The Intruder
    • E03 Runner
    • E04 Duet
    • E05 Condemned
    • E06 Trinity
    • E07 Instinct
    • E08 Conversion
    • E09 Aurora
    • E10 The Lost Boys
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    • E12 Epiphany
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    • E15 The Tower
    • E16 The Long Goodbye
    • E17 Coup d'Etat
    • E18 Michael
    • E19 Inferno
    • E20 Allies
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    • E01 No Man's Land
    • E02 Misbegotten
    • E03 Irresistible
    • E04 Sateda
    • E05 Progeny
    • E06 The Real World
    • E07 Common Ground
    • E08 McKay and Mrs. Miller
    • E09 Phantoms
    • E10 The Return, Part 1
    • E11 The Return, Part 2
    • E12 Echoes
    • E13 Irresponsible
    • E14 Tao of Rodney
    • E15 The Game
    • E16 The Ark
    • E17 Sunday
    • E18 Submersion
    • E19 Vengeance
    • E20 First Strike
  • S04
    • E01 Adrift
    • E02 Lifeline
    • E03 Reunion
    • E04 Doppelganger
    • E05 Travelers
    • E06 Tabula Rasa
    • E07 Missing
    • E08 The Seer
    • E09 Miller's Crossing
    • E10 This Mortal Coil
    • E11 Be All My Sins Remembered
    • E12 Spoils of War
    • E13 Quarantine
    • E14 Harmony
    • E15 Outcast
    • E16 Trio
    • E17 Midway
    • E18 The Kindred, Part 1
    • E19 The Kindred, Part 2
    • E20 The Last Man
  • S05
    • E01 Search and Rescue
    • E02 The Seed
    • E03 Broken Ties
    • E04 The Daedalus Variations
    • E05 Ghost in the Machine
    • E06 The Shrine
    • E07 Whispers
    • E08 The Queen
    • E09 Tracker
    • E10 First Contact
    • E11 The Lost Tribe
    • E12 Outsiders
    • E13 Inquisition
    • E14 The Prodigal
    • E15 Remnants
    • E16 Brain Storm
    • E17 Infection
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    • E20 Enemy at the Gate
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Zelenka: They're ready. McKay: This is a bad idea, isn't it. Zelenka: We're here alone. We could make them not ready. McKay: They're building an Armada, Radek. I saw them - they showed me the pictures. I'd feel pretty stupid if we break this thing only to have the replicators show up and destroy the city. —McKay and Zelenka consider the ethics of building nukes for an unprovoked first strike.

Tropes:

• Conflict Ball: Weir's authority up for debate yet again for really no reason.
• Cool Starship: Atlantis
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: When they fly Atlantis off the planet.
• Crowning Music of Awesome
• The Danza: Technician Chuck's first name (Chuck) is finally revealed. He is presumably named for his actor, Chuck Campbell
  • He's definitely named after his actor; Tori Higginson (Dr Weir) Accidentally called the unnamed character by the actor's name on camera and it just kinda stuck.
  • Luckily, the fandom had already been calling him Chuck since he turned into an Ensemble Darkhorse sometime the previous season, making this an unintended example of Ascended Fanon.
• Explosive Instrumentation
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Dr. Keller is Kaylee from Firefly
• Ironic Echo: Ellis's "Go 12 rounds" speech, echoed later by Weir. And it's still a dumb thing to say.
• Like an Old Married Couple: McKay and Zelenka

Sheppard: Why don't you guys just make out and get it over with?

• Meaningful Echo: Sheppard objects to being placed in command of Atlantis on the grounds that it would make him "the man." This is the same objection that O'Neill raises to being placed in command of the SGC, although he ends up taking the job.
• Nuclear Option / Nuke'Em
• Season Finale
• You Look Familiar: Dr. Keller was the wraith girl Ellia in the second season episode "Instinct"