Tao of Rodney
EPISODE #314ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 05.04.2007
SYNDICATION AIR DATE: 02.04.2008
DVD DISC: Season 3, Disc 4
WRITTEN BY: Damian Kindler
DIRECTED BY: Martin Wood
GUEST STARS: Kavan Smith (Major Lorne), David Nykl (Radek Zelenka), Leela Savasta (Esposito), Donna Soares (Coleman), Chuck Campbell (Technician)
ANALYSIS
- Sheppard mentions having spent six months with a group of ascension wannabes – a reference to his time with an isolated community living inside a time dilation bubble a year earlier ("Epiphany"). It was here that he learned techniques for reaching (or attempting to) ascension to a higher plane.
Though six months passed for him, for the rest of the team on the outside it was only a few hours.
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
- Will Rodney experience any lasting effects from his exposure to the Ancient ascension device?
- Will Rodney and his team be able to make use of any of the groundbreaking science he tried to record during his time of evolutionary advancement?
- Will Atlantis (or Earth) conduct any further tests of the device, perhaps even with human subjects – now that they know (in theory) how to reverse the process?