david lee gallagher played michael the wraith on stargate atlantis.
david lee gallagher played michael the wraith on stargate atlantis.
who played michael the wraith on stargate atlantis?
david lee gallagher
bullet::::- "michael", played by connor trinneer and brent stait ("allies") (seasons 2–5) – a wraith who the atlantis expedition transformed into a human in season 2's "michael" in their first successful test of dr. carson beckett's wraith retrovirus. as the process eliminates memory, atlantis personnel give michael a fabricated history and attempt to integrate him into the city, but michael eventually learns the truth. he escapes custody and reverts into a wraith, rejoining his people. in "allies", it is revealed that the other wraith do not accept him either since his transformation. after several bitter experiences with the atlantis expedition and his fellow wraith in seasons 2 and 3, michael sets about building his own personal army in "vengeance", mixing iratus bug dna with that of humans to create a new creature, destroying several human populations in the process. in "the kindred", michael is revealed to be responsible for distributing the hoffan wraith-poisoning drug to several human worlds, and for the abduction of the athosians in "missing" to use in his experiments. michael has subjected himself to the treatments, and no longer possesses the wraith feeding organs. following the events of "the last man" and "search and rescue", the "daedalus" destroys michael's cruiser. in "the seed", the ioa believes michael to be dead, although the atlantis team suspects otherwise. he "did" survive and invaded atlantis later but was defeated and finally killed by teyla who knocked him off atlantis' control tower sending him falling thousands of feet to his death.
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the wraith have a diminished presence in the third season and fourth seasons, with the introduction of the asurans, a hostile race of replicator nanites, and the return of michael as a now-separate threat from the wraith. in the season 4 episode "lifeline", dr. rodney mckay activates the wraith attack command in the replicator base code. the wraith once dealt with the replicator threat by using a computer virus to deactivate the command, but due to mckay's meddling this is no longer effective. the war takes on a new dimension when the replicators begin annihilating human worlds to deprive the wraith of their food supply, forcing the wraith and atlantis into a reluctant alliance to find a way to defeat them. in "be all my sins remember'd", seven hive ships fight alongside earth and traveler forces over asuras to eliminate the replicators once and for all. it is later revealed that at least a dozen hive ships were destroyed in the wraith's conflict with the asurans. after a wraith named todd gets his hands on several zpms, he tries to reactivate the wraith cloning facility and take over the galaxy with a new army of his own, but he is betrayed to a rival hive which attempts the plan, but has their queen killed and the facility destroyed. at the end of season 4, the wraith suffer another blow at the hands of michael, who distributes the hoffan drug to random human populations, making them poisonous to the wraith but exacting a great toll on human lives in the process. according to "stargate atlantis" writer carl binder, the wraith have been weakened by these conflicts, leading to "a new order to the galaxy" that will be explored in season 5.
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