In the beginning, Ronon and Sheppard talk about the figure skating comedy movie Blades of Glory (2007). In the dubbed German version, they are talking about something else completely, a fictional TV-show called "Duel of the Blades", where people compete in cutting vegetables with kitchen knives.
The Replicator is compared to the T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). The T-1000 was played by Robert Patrick who played Colonel Marshall Sumner, the commander of the Atlantis expedition's military contingent, in Rising (2004).