User:Dreadfullyboring/sandbox/Alien Technology Activation Gene

In the Stargate television shows, the Ancient Technology Activation or ATA gene is a specific set of genetic codons present in the DNA of the Ancients. The Ancients used the ATA as a "genetic key", so only Ancients can operate their technology. Humans possessing the ATA gene are also able to interact with Ancient technology.

Dr. Carson Beckett of Stargate: Atlantis is the discoverer and a human carrier of the Ancient Technology Activation gene.

In "Hide and Seek", Dr. Beckett creates the Tau'ri Gene Therapy, or ATA Gene Therapy, retroviral therapy that splices the ATA gene into normal human DNA with a 48 percent success rate.

Dr. Rodney McKay asks why they haven't done ATA Gene Therapy before, to which Beckett simply responds that it is legal in the Pegasus Galaxy.

McKay volunteers to be the first human trial. The treatment was successful. It has since enabled McKay not only to further his research on Ancient technology, but also to pilot Ancient Puddle Jumpers. (SG1: "Lost City, Part 2", "It's Good to Be King", "Rising", "Hide and Seek", "Enemy at the Gate")

Humans possessing the ATA gene naturally

• Lt. General Jack O'Neill ("Lost City, Part 2")
• Lt. Colonel John Sheppard (SGA: "Rising")
• Dr. Carson Beckett (SGA: "Rising")
• Dr. Beckett's clone ("SGA: Enemy at the Gate")
• Sgt. Markham (SGA: "Thirty-Eight Minutes")
• Dr. Miko Kusanagi (SGA: "The Gift")
• Joe Spencer ("Citizen Joe")
• Major Evan Lorne (SGA: "Condemned")
• Harmony (SGA: "Harmony")
• Capt. Hugh Griffin (SGA: "Grace Under Pressure")
• Dr. Carolyn Lam ( Moebius Squared)
• Dr. Eva Robinson ("Legacy: Homecoming")
• Dr. Peter Grodin (SGA: "Rising")

Races possessing the ATA gene Naturally

• The Ancients
• Arxanti (Ancient descendants) ("The Cost of Honor")
• Dalerans (Ancient descendants) ("The Chosen")

Humans possessing the ATA gene By Tau'ri gene therapy

• Dr. Rodney McKay ("Hide and Seek")
• Col. Dillon Everett (SGA: "The Siege, Part 2")
• Some of Col Everett's troops (SGA: "The Siege, Part 2")
• Lt. Morrison (SGA: "Misbegotten")
• Otho (SGA: "The Tower")
• Marie ("Legacy: Homecoming")
• Lt. Col. Melissa Hocken (SG1:"Allegiance")

Devices Controlled by the ATA gene

• Atlantis Base
• Throne Chair
• Puddle Jumpers
• Personal shield SGA: "Hide and Seek"
• Life signs detector
• Ancient Communication Stones (SG1: "Citizen Joe")
• Ancient Communication Terminal
• Ancient Defense Weapon
• Atlantis Repository
• Ancient Spacecraft
• Ancient Time Travel Device