Other spins on Stargate
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beccaelizabethDreaming about classmates is awkward.
(tattoos. I haven't even seen them fully. with predictable results.)
also dreamed Jack O'Neill and Cameron Mitchell, and that we were running Stargate teams to protect 4 linked worlds. There was a cuneiform inscription we were supposed to be protecting that got stolen, and the backups were on another world. They had been being protected by this person from class, but I'd yanked them off world to do assault courses when they and Cam started fighting over me.
... really, my subconscious is embarrassing.
It was interesting in the dream because I was an acknowledged religious figure there was a lot of controversy about. I was a reincarnation, but it was the first time I'd reincarnated human. So some people saw me as a great teacher bridging the divide between peoples, and others thought I'd just lost all my points and was one step up from animal and couldn't possibly be much enlightened in my single human lifetime. Either attitude made my day job difficult ie protecting the worlds.
There was a bit with Rodney McKay, briefly, trying to do something technical.
Mostly in that section though I'd gone for desperate measures and gone down to the sea. People went to the sea to invite the loa in. Spirits lived in the water. You got ill enough, you got desperate enough, you met something that meant the end of your life anyway, you could go down to the sea and invite a spirit in. You wouldn't know what you would get. Some of them would ride you every minute your whole life, make a slave of you. Others would ride in back of your mind, see what it's like being human, maybe speak a couple times ever. Some were mean, rude, frightening, and exactly what you needed for that problem. Others were joyous, loving, sensual, fun... and you hoped only the ill people got them, cause they weren't up to much aside from healing. And nobody went to the sea but by their own choice, and everybody could, if they ran out of choices.
The goa'uld and tok'ra and playing false god is only one set of relations you can get out of that biology. Even with the genetic memory, getting 100% of them playing the same game the same way seems weird. So many more stories, so much more interesting, to have 'spirits' as varied and unpredictable as any other species.
Then it all went a bit Babylon 5, trying to set up a diplomatic station where everyone could meet.
Diplomacy would be a bit different if your symbiote could just up and walk a mile in someone else's shoes... and sign treaties for them...
both more empathy and more paranoia.
sometimes I think Stargate played with all the good toys and made them look like they've only got one game in them.
But it did play for ten plus years and 200 plus episodes, so it got through really quite a lot of toys in that time.
Still, fun to take the pieces and spin up something very different from them.
(tattoos. I haven't even seen them fully. with predictable results.)
also dreamed Jack O'Neill and Cameron Mitchell, and that we were running Stargate teams to protect 4 linked worlds. There was a cuneiform inscription we were supposed to be protecting that got stolen, and the backups were on another world. They had been being protected by this person from class, but I'd yanked them off world to do assault courses when they and Cam started fighting over me.
... really, my subconscious is embarrassing.
It was interesting in the dream because I was an acknowledged religious figure there was a lot of controversy about. I was a reincarnation, but it was the first time I'd reincarnated human. So some people saw me as a great teacher bridging the divide between peoples, and others thought I'd just lost all my points and was one step up from animal and couldn't possibly be much enlightened in my single human lifetime. Either attitude made my day job difficult ie protecting the worlds.
There was a bit with Rodney McKay, briefly, trying to do something technical.
Mostly in that section though I'd gone for desperate measures and gone down to the sea. People went to the sea to invite the loa in. Spirits lived in the water. You got ill enough, you got desperate enough, you met something that meant the end of your life anyway, you could go down to the sea and invite a spirit in. You wouldn't know what you would get. Some of them would ride you every minute your whole life, make a slave of you. Others would ride in back of your mind, see what it's like being human, maybe speak a couple times ever. Some were mean, rude, frightening, and exactly what you needed for that problem. Others were joyous, loving, sensual, fun... and you hoped only the ill people got them, cause they weren't up to much aside from healing. And nobody went to the sea but by their own choice, and everybody could, if they ran out of choices.
The goa'uld and tok'ra and playing false god is only one set of relations you can get out of that biology. Even with the genetic memory, getting 100% of them playing the same game the same way seems weird. So many more stories, so much more interesting, to have 'spirits' as varied and unpredictable as any other species.
Then it all went a bit Babylon 5, trying to set up a diplomatic station where everyone could meet.
Diplomacy would be a bit different if your symbiote could just up and walk a mile in someone else's shoes... and sign treaties for them...
both more empathy and more paranoia.
sometimes I think Stargate played with all the good toys and made them look like they've only got one game in them.
But it did play for ten plus years and 200 plus episodes, so it got through really quite a lot of toys in that time.
Still, fun to take the pieces and spin up something very different from them.
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Date: 2011-09-24 11:32 am (UTC)I spent the hour before having to get up semi-dreaming about what Teyla would do if she found herself on earth as a teen. She got a gig au pairing for a USAmerican family with children very recently adopted from China, because of course she can speak to everyone.
Your dream was much better.