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beccaelizabethDreamed Amy Pond got turned into a sort of a queen bee, human shaped but with added characteristics, like a sting that could convert others into her warrior, worker and drone bees, with total loyalty to her. The sting was positioned somewhere she only had to back into people or sit down and tada, instant slave.
So she was avoiding Rory and the Doctor and anyone else she knew and cared about. She couldn't not be a queen, she was going to collect people, but she did get to choose who.
The locals knew all about this weird thinking infection and would kill the infected on sight.
But SG1 were visiting, and they had no such knowledge.
So she got Jack as warrior, Sam as worker, and Daniel as a drone. Drones have all the sex but also stay around the queen the whole time so they're her closest advisors. Workers can be upgraded to queens with the right food. Or possibly anyone can, leading to mpreg possibilities, because the bee baby making organs were add ons in the abdomen, so the only one with no room for them would be Teal'c. The dream couldn't decide how the bee thing would interact with the jaffa, though being a bee protected against goa'uld infestation, so Teal'c just wasn't there.
Daniel's bee baby with Amy got podded out in a little jelly capsule. It was growing really fast but not instantly. And Amy would need to eat a lot to have another jelly egg ready. But it was still going to be a lot quicker than human reproduction where you can't make another one for the whole time the first one is growing.
Dream me got sent out to find an isolated sort of homestead to form a bee community in. I had to be careful and sneaky and not make people suspicious. So I was a shy rich person and hired someone to help find exactly the right place and said they could have 10%. And I had $100,000 and wanted to spend it fast. So they were a very helpful person then.
Everyone wanted to know why I wanted a big place to move into with a lot of unrelated people, so I said we were a religious community. Syncretist Buddhist Voodoo people.
Now I'm awake I'm wondering how that would even work. Do you try and enlighten the spirits? Do you let the Buddhas ride you?
In the dream though it explained the need for discretion, because people could be weird about the voodoo part, but really we were just nice Buddhist warrior monks minding our own business.
nope, no bees here, move along...
Somehow I don't think that should have worked very well.
So now I'm thinking, Warrior, Worker, Drone: it's kind of like Cliff, Shag, Marry, only even more creepy non-con with bonus involuntary body modification. But when capturing your favourite people, who becomes what? Because if Workers are supposed to be smart inventor people, Tony is an obvious Worker. But then he's not a Drone. And that would be sad.
Hathor had the Warrior-Jaffa and Drone-Pharoah parts going on. Which makes it super creepy happening to Daniel again. (It's super creepy anyway.) But the goa'uld weren't big on workers. Sam didn't get a job, and that's pretty stupid, because as we saw give Sam a lab, some alien tech to play with, and ten years? And she'll end up better than the source tech. Give her an extended life span and empire level industrial base and watch her make y'all unstoppable. Goa'uld are dumb.
Being a bee isn't the same as goa'uld possession, because you keep your own smarts and your own memories, and to some extent your own allegiances, like Amy staying away from her loved ones. You just also get this urge to form stratified communities by drafting unwilling yet useful people and then reproduce by making as many jelly egg babies as possible. So I'm trying to figure out if that's more or less creepy than being a prisoner in your own body, because it feels like stuff you're deciding to do, just... new stuff.
Kind of like Hathor's drug but more effective.
I think it's probably more creepy. Change your priorities and loyalties and, if it ever wears off, it'll feel like the biggest betrayal, and like you decided and wanted it. Even though the wanting to came from the queen bee, who was herself converted by an older queen who got captured.
The whole kill on sight thing is kind of understandable.
But I can see mad science designing the whole thing. More babies, and more babysitters, you just have to sting them. All advantage for the queen.
Just a teensy tiny bit of a problem for the free will.
So she was avoiding Rory and the Doctor and anyone else she knew and cared about. She couldn't not be a queen, she was going to collect people, but she did get to choose who.
The locals knew all about this weird thinking infection and would kill the infected on sight.
But SG1 were visiting, and they had no such knowledge.
So she got Jack as warrior, Sam as worker, and Daniel as a drone. Drones have all the sex but also stay around the queen the whole time so they're her closest advisors. Workers can be upgraded to queens with the right food. Or possibly anyone can, leading to mpreg possibilities, because the bee baby making organs were add ons in the abdomen, so the only one with no room for them would be Teal'c. The dream couldn't decide how the bee thing would interact with the jaffa, though being a bee protected against goa'uld infestation, so Teal'c just wasn't there.
Daniel's bee baby with Amy got podded out in a little jelly capsule. It was growing really fast but not instantly. And Amy would need to eat a lot to have another jelly egg ready. But it was still going to be a lot quicker than human reproduction where you can't make another one for the whole time the first one is growing.
Dream me got sent out to find an isolated sort of homestead to form a bee community in. I had to be careful and sneaky and not make people suspicious. So I was a shy rich person and hired someone to help find exactly the right place and said they could have 10%. And I had $100,000 and wanted to spend it fast. So they were a very helpful person then.
Everyone wanted to know why I wanted a big place to move into with a lot of unrelated people, so I said we were a religious community. Syncretist Buddhist Voodoo people.
Now I'm awake I'm wondering how that would even work. Do you try and enlighten the spirits? Do you let the Buddhas ride you?
In the dream though it explained the need for discretion, because people could be weird about the voodoo part, but really we were just nice Buddhist warrior monks minding our own business.
nope, no bees here, move along...
Somehow I don't think that should have worked very well.
So now I'm thinking, Warrior, Worker, Drone: it's kind of like Cliff, Shag, Marry, only even more creepy non-con with bonus involuntary body modification. But when capturing your favourite people, who becomes what? Because if Workers are supposed to be smart inventor people, Tony is an obvious Worker. But then he's not a Drone. And that would be sad.
Hathor had the Warrior-Jaffa and Drone-Pharoah parts going on. Which makes it super creepy happening to Daniel again. (It's super creepy anyway.) But the goa'uld weren't big on workers. Sam didn't get a job, and that's pretty stupid, because as we saw give Sam a lab, some alien tech to play with, and ten years? And she'll end up better than the source tech. Give her an extended life span and empire level industrial base and watch her make y'all unstoppable. Goa'uld are dumb.
Being a bee isn't the same as goa'uld possession, because you keep your own smarts and your own memories, and to some extent your own allegiances, like Amy staying away from her loved ones. You just also get this urge to form stratified communities by drafting unwilling yet useful people and then reproduce by making as many jelly egg babies as possible. So I'm trying to figure out if that's more or less creepy than being a prisoner in your own body, because it feels like stuff you're deciding to do, just... new stuff.
Kind of like Hathor's drug but more effective.
I think it's probably more creepy. Change your priorities and loyalties and, if it ever wears off, it'll feel like the biggest betrayal, and like you decided and wanted it. Even though the wanting to came from the queen bee, who was herself converted by an older queen who got captured.
The whole kill on sight thing is kind of understandable.
But I can see mad science designing the whole thing. More babies, and more babysitters, you just have to sting them. All advantage for the queen.
Just a teensy tiny bit of a problem for the free will.