Review: 'Stargate: Atlantis' - Quarantine

“But wait, weren’t there other numbers?” - Teyla
“42” - Sheppard
“And what is that?” - Teyla
“It’s the ultimate answer to the great question of life, the universe and everything.” - Sheppard

It’s a snapshot of a typical day in the life of the city of Atlantis. McKay is visiting Katie Brown (Brenda James) to ask her hand in marriage. A much more noticeably pregnant Teyla visits Sheppard in McKay’s lab. Carter and Zelenka take the transporter together. And Ronon has another one of his sparring “accidents” that sends him to the infirmary for patching up by Dr. Keller (Jewel Staite).

Of course things go wrong. The city suddenly goes into "category 5 contagion" quarantine, and everyone gets locked up into different sections of the city. Oh, and communications are blocked, too. Darn McKay and his upgrades. Ah, too quick to judge because it ends up being a system malfunction caused by a weather anomaly.

Luckily, Sheppard knows McKay’s password. Unluckily, it appears the city is sending out a beacon to anyone listening in space and the only way to stop it requires being in the control room.

So, Sheppard does his best Batman impersonation and scales the tower. After a few window breaks and a few near falls, Sheppard turns off the beacon. Surprise -- now the self-destruct kicks in. Not good.

With the help of some of the staff, Sheppard manages to free Carter and Zelenka. After running out of C4 to blow up doors, the only way to the power room requires squeezing through the vents. Zelenka volunteers and is the hero of the day by restoring the system back to normal.

While this has been going on, we have McKay freaking out and accidentally revealing his proposal plans. Needless to say, the relationship ends (or at least takes a big step backwards) after Katie sees McKay in full freak-out mode. Ronon and Keller get closer … if you know what I mean. Okay, get your mind out of the gutter. But they did almost kiss. Looks like a new 'ship has begun.

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