10 Most Controversial Stargate Episodes

10. Stargate Atlantis, Season 3 Episode 15 - The Game

The character development in Stargate Atlantis between the main characters of Colonel John Sheppard and Dr. Rodney McKay is one of the series's most intriguing. The two have gone through many phases in their relationship, from enemies to teammates to close friends on par with a brotherhood.

While the two did eventually get over their inflated egos and learn to trust in each other as teammates, they still held a petty rivalry that almost led to a global catastrophe in the fifteenth episode of the third season.

In this episode, Shepard and his team travel through the Stargate to another planet, only to find out it is exactly identical to a world McKay and Sheppard were interacting with in what they thought was some sort of Ancient version of a video game.

It turns out this "video game" was actually an Ancient experiment where two civilizations of people were controlled through this video game computer.

McKay obviously took this godlike power straight to his head, creating his civilization to be technologically advanced and essentially worship him. He even put his own face as his civilization's flag.

Where the controversy comes into play for this episode is that McKay forced the women of his civilization to style their hairs and appearances to look exactly like SG-1s Captain Samantha Carter, who McKay was infatuated with.

This upset many fans, who felt that Carter was already overused sexually in SG-1, and McKay's infatuation came off as creepy and massive abuse of power over the lives of innocent women.