| The Team (The good)
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Dr. Elizabeth Weir-Attractive, brilliant, but not one to seek the spotlight, Dr. Weir has worked behind the scenes in the U.S. government for several years. Though she's not the one who signs treaties, she has brokered a dozen of the most sensitive international accords in modern history. She has two Ph.D.s, teaches political science at Georgetown University, has served in embassies all over the world and speaks five languages. Though she began her career as a political activist lobbying against government spending on the military, she later decided the best way to stop weapons proliferation was to end the need for them. Placed in charge of Stargate Command by President Henry Hayes, she has now been asked to command the Stargate Atlantis team. |
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Maj. John Sheppard-Cobra, Apache, Sea King, Black Hawk, Osprey, Sea Harrier — you name it, he's flown it. The son of a respected Cold War colonel, Shepherd, while on duty in Afghanistan, disobeyed a direct order in an attempt to save the lives of three servicemen. His reputation tarnished, he yet remains a man of honor who puts the military first, while still mistrusting authority. When tapped to serve on the Stargate Atlantis team, he is at the end of his second tour at McMurdo, the U.S. Antarctic base, having requested a post as far from the world as possible. He gets to go an entire galaxy away when it's discovered that he is one of the very few humans possessing the gene allowing mental interaction with the mysterious technology of the Ancients, creators of the Stargates. |
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Lt. Aiden Ford-The boyishly good-looking young officer serves as Stargate Atlantis team's military second-in-command. Lost out on any priveleges on naming new technology in the episode "Rising" for naming the Puddle Jumper a "gateship. |
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Dr. Rodney McKay-As acerbic as he is brilliant, astrophysicist Dr. McKay is a scientist with long Stargate experience: Temporarily assigned to Stargate Command, he matched scientific wits with Major Samantha Carter when her fellow SG-1 team-member Teal'c was cut off from the Stargate while on another world (in "48 Hours") and as a Pentagon scientist parried with her again when the Stargate was approaching an extinction-level explosion (in the two-part "Redemption"). He now serves as chief scientific advisor on the Stargate Atlantis team. |
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Teyla Emmagan-The leader of a now primitive but once technologically advanced community on the planet Athos in the Pegasus galaxy, Teyla Emmagan befriends the Stargate Atlantis team and serves as their alien liaison. |
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