Atlantis (Stargate)
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Atlantis is a fictional starship and city in the Stargate television franchise. It is the primary setting of the television series Stargate Atlantis (2004-2009), and it has been depicted in Stargate SG-1 as well as various spin-off fiction and products. In the show, Atlantis was constructed millions of years ago by the Ancients, who eventually abandoned the city in the distant Pegasus Galaxy. In 2004, after SG-1 uncover the location of the city, Elizabeth Weir led a civilian and military expedition, setting up a base of operation in the city.
Images of snowflakes became a key design motif used by production Bridget McGuire for the Ancient Outpost in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Lost City". The motif was then carried across to Atlantis
Price Tower in Bartleville, Oklahoma, which was designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright was amongst the influences for interior and exterior Atlantis set.
Photograph of cuprite-tenorite-chrysocolla ore. Brad Wright decided on copper colour pallet to be used throughout Atlantis, with bright reds to blue-green variations based on copper oxidizing, as pictured.
Rising (Stargate Atlantis)
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"Rising" is the pilot episode for season one of the military science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis, a Canadian-American spin off series of Stargate SG-1. The episode was written by executive producers Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, and directed by Martin Wood. The episode was the strongest episode of the whole series on Nielsen household ratings. The episode got strong reviews from major media publishers worldwide.
John Sheppard arrives in Atlantis
Cooper, writer and executive producer for the show with Wright
Director Martin Wood at Comic Con 2007