Richard Woolsey was alone in his office when he saw a bright light flash into existence in the gate room. He frowned, that wasn't right. There was no one around since he had told everybody Rodney was going to activate one of his devices, prompting a mass exodus. Curious Woolsey left his office, grabbing a weapon on his way out just in case, and cautiously crept into the main control room. He peeped round a bank of computers and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw who was standing beside the gate. He stood and made his way over. "Rodney, you're back! John said you would turn up before too long. From what he was telling me it sounded like you've had quite an adventure."

Mckay smiled back at Woolsey before he noticed the empty control room. His face fell a little. He'd been looking forward to making a grand entrance. Where is everyone?" He asked, sounding downcast.

Woolsey stuffed his weapon in his pocket and went over to Mckay. "They learned that one of your devices was going to be turned on and they all...left." He said, his voice trailing away when he saw just how disappointed Mckay was. "I'm sorry."

Mckay waved his hands in a dismissive gesture. "Oh, don't apologize. It's not your fault they're all being pathetic. My devices aren't that bad...name me one occasion why things went badly wrong."

Woolsey considered this for a moment. Oh he could think of several. "What about the one which created tiny gates which kept randomly transporting people to different parts of Atlantis? Or the one which sucked all the power from our shields and weapons just as a Hive ship appeared in orbit?" He asked, crossing his arms across his chest with a smug expression.

Mckay sniffed. "The power draining was due to a miscaluation that I quickly sorted out."

"Not quickly enough to stop the Wraith damaging a large part of the city." drawled a voice from behind him.

Mckay spun round and fixed John Shepherd with an annoyed glare. "Well thanks for having so much faith in me." He huffed, his brows furrowing. He fell silent and watched as Shepherd and Ronin carefully laid his device in the center of the floor and backed away from it. Mckay rolled his eyes. "Oh for gods sake, please stop treating it as though its an infectious disease. As far as I know without having tested it the device is perfectly safe."

"You are always so reassuring Rodney." Shepherd joked, still eyeing the device with mistrust. He knew what Mckay and technology could be like.

Muttering darkly under his breath Mckay began typing commands into the device, readying it to start up the complicated programming needed to make it work. Silence fell for a while until Woolsey, who was bursting with curiosity about the Enterprise because Shepherd hadn't told him much, was unable to remain quiet any longer.

"Who were those people by the way?" Woolsey asked. "John explained a little bit about them but I'd like to know more. He never even told me what their names were."

Even though the question was directed at McKay it was Shepherd who actually answered. "There was Captain James Kirk, Spock and..."

"Leonard McCoy." finished Woolsey, suddenly excited.

McKay stopped typing long enough to stare at him. "How do you know that?" He demanded. "I thought John hadn't told you."

Woolsey shook his head and smiled, feeling a little dazed. He couldn't believe it could actually be them. "I'm guessing by your confusion Rodney that you didn't watch reruns of old programs back on earth. My particular favorite was a sci-fi show called Star Trek which was all about the crew of the USS Enterprise and the adventures they used to have." He paused, looking thoughtful. "Do you think they are the same people?"

"Maybe." said Mckay in answer. "Maybe the programmes were an echo or whisper creeping through from their universe into ours." He finished typing the final commands into his device and headed across to one of the computer terminals. He clicked an icon and an image of the USS Enterprise floating above Atlantis appeared upon one of the screens. "God, I hope this works." He murmured to himself before returning to stand by his device.

At first in the first few moments after Mckay had pushed the button it didn't seem like there was anything happening since to them the Reality Bridge was invisible. Even the crew of the Enterprise were only aware of a bright white flash as the bridge opened up, sucking them back into their own universe. Down in the control room they didn't even see the flash. One moment the Enterprise was there and the next it was gone.

"Safe journey my friends." McKay said smugly. His device had worked and nothing had blown up or broken. A resounding success. A slight sadness tainted his joy because he would never see Kirk, Spock or McCoy ever again.