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Radek Zelenka makes his first appearance in the Season 1 episode {{sgcite|Thirty-Eight Minutes|Atlantis}} where he works in a [[Puddle Jumper (Stargate)|Puddle Jumper]] to help free [[John Sheppard (Stargate)|Sheppard]]'s team in another Puddle Jumper that is stuck in an active [[Stargate (device)|Stargate]].<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=Thirty-Eight Minutes| title=Thirty-Eight Minutes| series= Stargate Atlantis| serieslink=Stargate Atlantis}}</ref> Zelenka and McKay later work on figuring out a way to protect [[Atlantis (Stargate)|Atlantis]] from the massive hurricane heading.<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=The Storm (Stargate Atlantis)| title=The Storm| series= Stargate Atlantis| serieslink=Stargate Atlantis}}</ref> |
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===Season 1=== |
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Zelenka inadvertently discovers Atlantis' deep-space sensors in {{sgcite|The Brotherhood|Atlantis}} and detects three [[Wraith Hive-Ship]]s on their way to the city.<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=The Brotherhood (Stargate Atlantis)| title=The Brotherhood| series= Stargate Atlantis| serieslink=Stargate Atlantis}}</ref> In {{sgcite|The Siege|Atlantis}}, Zelenka devises a [[computer virus]] to protect the Ancient database from falling in the wrong hands, should Atlantis become lost to the human expedition. Zelenka also aids McKay in completing the Genii [[nuclear bomb]]s that would be used to destroy two Wraith hive ships.<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=The Siege (Stargate Atlantis)| title=The Siege, Part 1 & 2| series= Stargate Atlantis| serieslink=Stargate Atlantis}}</ref> "[[Duet (Stargate Atlantis)|Duet]]" shows Zelenka off-world for the first time, where he faces the task to restore McKay and Cadman to her proper body after their capture in a Wraith dart.<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=Duet (Stargate Atlantis)| title=Duet| series= Stargate Atlantis| serieslink=Stargate Atlantis}}</ref> He works alongside McKay on an experimental Ancient power generator, [[Project Arcturus]], but McKay not listening to Zelenka's advice causes the death of a scientist.<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=Trinity (Stargate Atlantis)| title=Trinity| series= Stargate Atlantis| serieslink=Stargate Atlantis}}</ref> Zelenka discovers a second Wraith Hive ship heading towards Atlantis in {{sgcite|Inferno|Atlantis}}.<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=Inferno (Stargate Atlantis)| title=Inferno| series= Stargate Atlantis| serieslink=Stargate Atlantis}}</ref> In {{sgcite|No Man's Land|Atlantis}}, Zelenka and [[Lorne (Stargate)|Major Lorne]] are on-board the ''[[Aurora class battleship|Orion]]'' when they engaged a hive ship in combat, but the Daedalus beams them out.<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=No Man's Land (Stargate Atlantis)| title=No Man's Land| series= Stargate Atlantis| serieslink=Stargate Atlantis}}</ref> Zelenka appears in the ''Stargate SG-1'' episode {{sgcite|The Pegasus Project}}, where he notifies Dr. Weir of a Wraith hive ship moving towards the ''[[Daedalus class battlecruiser#Odyssey|Odyssey]]''.<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=The Pegasus Project| title=The Pegasus Project| series= Stargate SG-1| serieslink=Stargate SG-1}}</ref> In {{sgcite|Tao of Rodney|Atlantis}}, Radek is badly wounded, but [[Rodney McKay|McKay]], who acquired [[Ancient (Stargate)|Ancient]] healing powers in the episode, heals him. McKay later admits that Zelenka is "a brilliant scientist and a decent human being" and apologizes for so often putting him down. In Season 4, Zelenka is instrumental in the attempts to repair Atlantis when it is stranded in space. |
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Zelenka has come through many times for the expedition. When [[John Sheppard (Stargate)|Sheppard]]'s team [[Puddle Jumper (Stargate)|Puddle Jumper]] was stuck in an active [[Stargate (device)|Stargate]], he went to work in another Puddle Jumper to try to isolate the control pathways of the engine pod so McKay could retract the frozen, extended engine pod.<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=Thirty-Eight Minutes| title=Thirty-Eight Minutes| series= Stargate Atlantis| serieslink=Stargate Atlantis}}</ref> |
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{{sgcite|Hot Zone|Atlantis}} reveals that Zelenka has been given [[Carson Beckett|Dr. Beckett]]'s [[Ancient Technology Activation gene|ATA Gene]] Therapy, but it did not take effect.<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=Hot Zone (Stargate Atlantis)| title=Hot Zone| series= Stargate Atlantis| serieslink=Stargate Atlantis}}</ref> |
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While Zelenka usually only says the occasional short phrase in Czech, he effusively describes Atlantis rising from the ocean entirely in his native language in "[[Letters from Pegasus (Stargate Atlantis)|Letters from Pegasus]]". |
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While looking for structural damage in the city due to the storm, he and McKay played [[prime number|Prime]]/Not Prime. It was also revealed that he had been given [[Carson Beckett|Dr. Beckett]]'s [[Ancient Technology Activation gene|ATA Gene]] Therapy, but it did not take effect.<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=Hot Zone (Stargate Atlantis)| title=Hot Zone| series= Stargate Atlantis| serieslink=Stargate Atlantis}}</ref> |
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He inadvertently discovered Atlantis' deep-space sensors, which enabled the Expedition to detect the three [[Wraith Hive-Ship]]s that were making their way to the city. <ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=The Brotherhood (Stargate Atlantis)| title=The Brotherhood| series= Stargate Atlantis| serieslink=Stargate Atlantis}}</ref> |
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While Zelenka usually only says the occasional short phrase in Czech, he effusively described Atlantis rising from the ocean entirely in his native language in "[[Letters from Pegasus (Stargate Atlantis)|Letters from Pegasus]]". Team members were permitted to make recorded messages to send to their families, so long as they did not mention any classified material, i.e. that they were on another planet in another galaxy and the government had access to the technology to travel there. Lt. Aiden Ford, the person making the recording, spoke no Czech, but pointedly asked him if he had said anything that would require security clearance, to which he responded "Security clearance?" |
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When they thought they would have to evacuate the city, he devised a [[computer virus]] that would destroy the highly redundant Ancient database, should Atlantis become lost to the human expedition. He also aided McKay in completing the Genii [[nuclear bomb]]s, which would be used to destroy the two Wraith hive ships when delivered by a cloaked Puddle Jumper.<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=The Siege (Stargate Atlantis)| title=The Siege, Part 1 & 2| series= Stargate Atlantis| serieslink=Stargate Atlantis}}</ref> |
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After the Daedalus arrived with the [[Zero Point Module]], Radek took control of [[Atlantis (Stargate)#Atlantis Main Shield|shield]] operations in the Control Room while Rodney went to install the ZPM to power it. Afterwards, he helped Rodney interface the Puddle Jumpers' cloak systems with the shield so they could cloak the city and make the Wraith believe Atlantis self-destructed. When a Wraith enzyme-addicted Lt. [[Aiden Ford|Ford]] broke from the infirmary, he knocked Zelenka down in order to steal a Puddle Jumper.<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=The Siege (Stargate Atlantis)| title=The Siege, Part 3| series= Stargate Atlantis| serieslink=Stargate Atlantis}}</ref> |
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After the Wraith dart that had captured Dr. McKay and [[Laura Cadman|Lt. Cadman]] was shot down at Col. Sheppard's order, Dr. Zelenka travelled off-world for the first time (not counting his evacuation to Manaria during the storm on Atlantis) since his arrival to Atlantis to try to save them. He found out they were trapped inside the Wraith dart's teleportation device, but there was only enough energy to rematerialize one of them at the time. Sheppard told him to extract McKay, but Zelenka informed him that he could not tell which life sign was which. Sheppard just chose one, who turned out to be McKay, but a malfunction caused Lt. Cadman's mind to be trapped in McKay's body alongside his own. The team took the damaged Wraith Dart back to Atlantis to attempt to save Cadman, but the pressure of two minds in one brain has been too much for Rodney and Zelenka was forced to confront McKay and tell him so in no uncertain terms and to, please, go away and let him work. Finally, with the help of a sudden idea by McKay, they managed to restore Cadman to her proper body.<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=Duet (Stargate Atlantis)| title=Duet| series= Stargate Atlantis| serieslink=Stargate Atlantis}}</ref> |
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He worked alongside McKay while trying to make the experimental Ancient power generator, [[Project Arcturus]], work. While attempting to bring the power generator and weapon back online, a scientist was killed when the reaction breached containment. Zelenka returned to Atlantis, and figured out why the Ancients had abandoned this technology, but McKay refused to listen to him. But after the power generator exploded, McKay apologized to him off-screen.<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=Trinity (Stargate Atlantis)| title=Trinity| series= Stargate Atlantis| serieslink=Stargate Atlantis}}</ref> |
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While McKay was on a mission he discovered a second Wraith Hive ship heading towards Atlantis, possibly after the Wraith learned through Michael that Atlantis still exists.<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=Inferno (Stargate Atlantis)| title=Inferno| series= Stargate Atlantis| serieslink=Stargate Atlantis}}</ref> |
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===Season 3=== |
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Radek was on board the [[Aurora class battleship|Orion]] with [[Lorne (Stargate)|Major Lorne]] when they engaged a hive ship in combat. He managed to divert shield power to weapons, allowing the ship to fire; but the Orion was greatly damaged as a result and Radek told Lorne that they needed to evacuate immediately. The Daedalus beamed them out.<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=No Man's Land (Stargate Atlantis)| title=No Man's Land| series= Stargate Atlantis| serieslink=Stargate Atlantis}}</ref> |
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Several weeks later, Zelenka detected a Wraith hive ship moving towards the [[Daedalus class battlecruiser#Odyssey|Odyssey]] as her crew attempted to dial the Ori Supergate from the Pegasus Galaxy. Zelenka was unable to warn Odyssey due to interference from a black hole, but Dr. Weir successfully relayed the message through [[Stargate Command]].<ref>{{cite episode| episodelink=The Pegasus Project| title=The Pegasus Project| series= Stargate SG-1| serieslink=Stargate SG-1}}</ref> |
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Radek was later seen preparing to evacuate in {{sgcite|The Return|Atlantis}}. [[Carson Beckett|Dr. Beckett]] started to tell both him and [[Dr. Rodney McKay|McKay]] that out of everyone in the base he would miss them the most but never got to finish it since McKay's sarcastic comments interrupted [[Carson Beckett|Beckett]]. |
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In {{sgcite|Tao of Rodney|Atlantis}} Radek is badly wounded and healed by [[Dr. Rodney McKay|McKay]] using the healing power of the [[Ancients]] just as he is about to die. McKay also admits that he is "a brilliant scientist and a decent human being" and apologizes for all of the times he puts him down. Radek also works diligently to find a way to save McKay throughout the episode. |
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Zelenka is instrumental in the attempts to repair Atlantis when it is stranded, floating in space. Whilst out in a decompressed and open to the elements part of Atlantis, repairing the hyperdrive crystals, he is hit in the leg by a micro asteroid. Fortunately, the asteroid does not hit a major artery, and he recovers enough to walk. |
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==Translations== |
==Translations== |
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Revision as of 15:01, 16 February 2008
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Template:Tv-in-universe Template:Stargate character Dr. Radek Zelenka is a fictional character in the television series Stargate Atlantis, portrayed by David Nykl. The character was originally intended to be Russian, but upon discovering David Nykl could speak Czech they changed the character's nationality to Czech. Zelenka was intended to appear only in "Thirty-Eight Minutes", but he made such an impression that he became a semi-regular character.[1]
Zelenka is an Atlantis expedition scientist. He is an expert on Ancient technology, second only to Rodney McKay, and besides Czech, is quite fluent in English.
Appearances
Radek Zelenka makes his first appearance in the Season 1 episode Template:Sgcite where he works in a Puddle Jumper to help free Sheppard's team in another Puddle Jumper that is stuck in an active Stargate.[2] Zelenka and McKay later work on figuring out a way to protect Atlantis from the massive hurricane heading.[3] Zelenka inadvertently discovers Atlantis' deep-space sensors in Template:Sgcite and detects three Wraith Hive-Ships on their way to the city.[4] In Template:Sgcite, Zelenka devises a computer virus to protect the Ancient database from falling in the wrong hands, should Atlantis become lost to the human expedition. Zelenka also aids McKay in completing the Genii nuclear bombs that would be used to destroy two Wraith hive ships.[5] "Duet" shows Zelenka off-world for the first time, where he faces the task to restore McKay and Cadman to her proper body after their capture in a Wraith dart.[6] He works alongside McKay on an experimental Ancient power generator, Project Arcturus, but McKay not listening to Zelenka's advice causes the death of a scientist.[7] Zelenka discovers a second Wraith Hive ship heading towards Atlantis in Template:Sgcite.[8] In Template:Sgcite, Zelenka and Major Lorne are on-board the Orion when they engaged a hive ship in combat, but the Daedalus beams them out.[9] Zelenka appears in the Stargate SG-1 episode Template:Sgcite, where he notifies Dr. Weir of a Wraith hive ship moving towards the Odyssey.[10] In Template:Sgcite, Radek is badly wounded, but McKay, who acquired Ancient healing powers in the episode, heals him. McKay later admits that Zelenka is "a brilliant scientist and a decent human being" and apologizes for so often putting him down. In Season 4, Zelenka is instrumental in the attempts to repair Atlantis when it is stranded in space.
Template:Sgcite reveals that Zelenka has been given Dr. Beckett's ATA Gene Therapy, but it did not take effect.[11]
While Zelenka usually only says the occasional short phrase in Czech, he effusively describes Atlantis rising from the ocean entirely in his native language in "Letters from Pegasus".
In Template:Sgcite, Zelenka is one of Dr. Beckett's pallbearers when he dies, alongside McKay, Ronon, Lorne, Dr. Cole and Sheppard.
Translations
His frequent bursts of Czech are extremely popular among Stargate fans who speak the language. David Nykl has declared they are 50 percent translations of the script and 50 percent his own invention.[12]
- 1x04 – Thirty-Eight Minutes
- Můžeš mi dát ty nejnovější data, prosim? Já se s tímhle nemůžu hnout.: Please, could you give me the latest data? I can’t seem to solve this.
- Ne, tak aspoň, aspoň tři mi dej.: No. Give me at least, at least three.
- To je ono, my to máme.: That is it, we have it.
- 1x16 – The Brotherhood
- Ježiši, já s těma hercema nemůžu dělat: Jesus, I can't work with these actors.
- 1x17 – Letters from Pegasus
- Na dně moře máme „fail safe“ , mechanismus. Obrovskou silou vytrhl kotvu města ze dna oceánu. My jsme.. Zhrozili jsme jsme.. Zhrozili jsme se. Neuveřitelný, co se to děje a ten hluk; celé město se třáslo jako při zemětřesení. To bylo něco neuvěritelnýho. A najednou... se hneme. Celé město stoupalo. Stoupalo nahoru, nahoru k hladině. To, to bylo něco neuveřitelnýho a a a a a věže prorazily hladinu a vyjeli jsme nahoru nahoru a vody, vlny, vodopády, všechno teče z těch vejšek. A my... vystřelili jsme nahoru, úplně, úplně na vršek.. Slunce.... Sluníčko, prostě.... proudilo do všech oken. Do smrti, do smrti na to nezapomenu.:
On the bottom of the sea we have a failsafe mechanism. It pulled up the anchor of the city from the bottom of the sea with great force. We.... we were.... we were scared. That was incredible, what happened? And that noise. The whole city was shaking, it was like an earthquake. That was so incredible. And then we were moving. The whole city was rising. It was rising up, rising up to the ocean surface. It was, it was really incredible and the towers broke through the surface. We were going up. Water, waves, waterfalls were falling down from the heights. And we... we were shot up, right to the top. Sun... just shine... It was shining through all the windows. I'll remember it for the rest of my life... for the rest of my life.
- Drž se, miláčku.: Take care, honey.
- 2x04 - Duet
-No jo... Tak jo děcka, do toho, jdeme, jdeme, jdeme, musíme tohle dodělat, pojdte už, honem!: Yeah... Okay kids, come on, go go go, we have to finish it, come on, move on!
- 2x13 - Critical Mass
-Ty vole "Say hi to the kids for me", já ti dám, ty seš takovej vůl.: Damn it, 'Say hi to the kids for me' , you're gonna get it from me, you're such an idiot.
- 2x14 - Grace Under Pressure
-Do prdele, to je na hovno tohle to, kdo to vymyslel že budeme pod vodou tentokrát?: "For cryin' out loud", this sucks. We're gonna be under water this time - whose idea was that?
- 3x01 - No Man's Land
-I am trying, do prdele!: "Do prdele!" is a very impolite expression of anger and frustration. It literally means, "into the ass".
- 3x03 - Irresistible
- To je frajer teda, to je...: That's a cool guy, heh, that is...
- On letí, on tak krásně letí...: He's flying, he's flying so beautifully...
- 3x08 - McKay and Mrs. Miller
Měj se.: Take care. (said to Radek by Rod)
- 3x12 - Echoes
Zaplať pánbůh.: Thank goodness.
- 4x13 - Quarantine
-I'll have the power off in no time. Ježiš, to je neuvěřitelný, já jsem takovej debil! Si bude myslet, že jsem naprostej idiot. (peeps in) Nó, tak co mně zbejvá, no... Tohleto né...(groaning) Se sem nevejdu...fuj to smrdí! (looks down) Ježišmarija... (looks around) Jéžiš, to snad né...:
I'll have the power off in no time. Jesus, that's unbelievable, I'm SUCH a moron! She'll think I'm a total idiot. (peeps in) Well, what else should I do? No, not this again...(groaning) Don't fit here...ugh, this place stinks! (looks down) Jesus Christ... (looks around) Oh tell me it's not happening!
References
- ^ Gosling, Sharon. "Recurring cast". Stargate Atlantis: The Official Companion Season 1. London: Titan Books. pp. 131–133. ISBN 1-84576-116-2.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|origdate=(help); Unknown parameter|origmonth=ignored (help) - ^ "Thirty-Eight Minutes". Stargate Atlantis.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|serieslink=ignored (|series-link=suggested) (help) - ^ "The Storm". Stargate Atlantis.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|serieslink=ignored (|series-link=suggested) (help) - ^ "The Brotherhood". Stargate Atlantis.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|serieslink=ignored (|series-link=suggested) (help) - ^ "The Siege, Part 1 & 2". Stargate Atlantis.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|serieslink=ignored (|series-link=suggested) (help) - ^ "Duet". Stargate Atlantis.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|serieslink=ignored (|series-link=suggested) (help) - ^ "Trinity". Stargate Atlantis.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|serieslink=ignored (|series-link=suggested) (help) - ^ "Inferno". Stargate Atlantis.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|serieslink=ignored (|series-link=suggested) (help) - ^ "No Man's Land". Stargate Atlantis.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|serieslink=ignored (|series-link=suggested) (help) - ^ "The Pegasus Project". Stargate SG-1.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|serieslink=ignored (|series-link=suggested) (help) - ^ "Hot Zone". Stargate Atlantis.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|serieslink=ignored (|series-link=suggested) (help) - ^ GateWorld - Interviews: David Nykl (May 2006)
External links
- "Radek Zelenka" at GateWorld Omnipedia.
- "Radek Zelenka" at StargateWiki.