Atlantis: Season Five
First Aired: August 1, 2008
First Aired: August 1, 2008
The team boards the Daedalus when it shows up abandoned in orbit, only to find themselves skipping through parallel universes.
“The Daedalus Variations” Facts:
- Writer Alan McCullough originally conceived of a room inside Atlantis that shifted from one reality to another.
- This episode had one of the largest visual effects budgets of the series, up there with “Rising” and “Be All My Sins Remember’d.”
- The team leaps from reality to reality, showing other versions of the world we know and love. The Daedalus itself is from a reality where Steven Caldwell doesn’t command the ship.
- The awesome warrior aliens that the team must fight off were never named on screen, and were not seen again in the series. The species may exist in our universe, and had the series gone on it might be only a matter of time before our Atlantis team encountered them.
- In an early draft the episode carried the temporary title “The Flying Dutchman” — referring to a ship at sea that sails forever with no home and no harbor.
“The Daedalus Variations” on GateWorld:
- Episode Guide
- Episode Transcript
- Fan Reviews
- Photo Gallery
- Screencap Gallery
- Discussion Forum
- Interview with writer Alan McCullough (2008)
- “The Daedalus Variations” Podcast
- Atlantis Season Five Podcast
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This was one of my favorite episodes of SGA. I really wish we could’ve learned more about the aliens they encountered in one of their reality jumps.
Agree about the aliens. They were some hardy baddies, really could have given the Wraith a run for their money. Definitely looked like they were putting pressure on Atlantis at least.
Agree with the above posts. Wonder what they were called?
I disagree with all 3 of you in a way. I love this episode but I didn’t want to see those aliens again they were to much like the borg off startrek
I always thought it could’ve been a cool twist if in that reality, they were the Wraith. I mean, we already know in alternate realities Wraith biology can vary (Todd having psychic abilities in the Vegas reality), maybe they were just a more extreme variance. There was obviously no rhyme or reason to the types of realities they were visiting – hitting one where the sun has aged more and the planet is missing implies the points of divergence could’ve been millions of years ago. If the Wraith had evolved differently, as long as it still resulted in the Ancients… Read more »
Loved this episode. One of my favorites. Wish we had gotten to know more about the aliens. They were much more interesting than the evil Asgardians.