Yet more drabble-isation.
Still trying to learn stuff for exams, still having to look words up in the dictionary because all of a sudden, i'm questioning everything.
Still also all the fault of
kate and actually, maybe also a little the fault of
bluflamingo because her Lorne characterisations? (All her characterisations, but Lorne most especially) are a thousand and one kinds of amazing.
Anyway.
Epistemic Community: (not actually a drabble, yet)
a faction/mindset/trans-national networks of knowledge-based experts who define problems and posit solutions
Atlantis’ scientific community; the daily debates involved in keeping Atlantis liveable for humans.
Contingency:
something liable, but uncertain to occur, dependent on chance of future occurring.
Lorne had plenty of emergency plans for foiled first-contact missions. He even had one for occasions when a team leader ended up rip-roaringly drunk. What he didn’t have was one to deal with intoxication, a native commemoration ceremony and validation of certain fantasies that involved an entirely too-relaxed CO with a visiting Colonel who just happened to be on holiday from SG-1 at the precise time. After all, ‘three airmen walked into a village’ sounded entirely too much like the start of a bad joke, the kind that would leave Lorne naked, alone and calculating the thread-count of his bed-sheets.
Hubris:
arrogance or over-confidence; likely to result in disaster/ruin
Rodney was often initially dismissed as suffering from extreme hubris, and to those who saw him come running through the gate as the team fired backwards into the diplomatic-disaster of yet another local planet, felt that sooner rather than later they would be proved right. Unfortunately for their arguments, Rodney’s arrogance never actually progressed to outright hubris - he was as intelligent as he claimed, and more often than not, his thoughts, words and experiments were those that saved the day. Just, not the feelings of the less-than-genius level people that were forced to work within hearing range of his diatribes.
Still also all the fault of
kate and actually, maybe also a little the fault of
bluflamingo because her Lorne characterisations? (All her characterisations, but Lorne most especially) are a thousand and one kinds of amazing.
Anyway.
Epistemic Community: (not actually a drabble, yet)
a faction/mindset/trans-national networks of knowledge-based experts who define problems and posit solutions
Atlantis’ scientific community; the daily debates involved in keeping Atlantis liveable for humans.
Contingency:
something liable, but uncertain to occur, dependent on chance of future occurring.
Lorne had plenty of emergency plans for foiled first-contact missions. He even had one for occasions when a team leader ended up rip-roaringly drunk. What he didn’t have was one to deal with intoxication, a native commemoration ceremony and validation of certain fantasies that involved an entirely too-relaxed CO with a visiting Colonel who just happened to be on holiday from SG-1 at the precise time. After all, ‘three airmen walked into a village’ sounded entirely too much like the start of a bad joke, the kind that would leave Lorne naked, alone and calculating the thread-count of his bed-sheets.
Hubris:
arrogance or over-confidence; likely to result in disaster/ruin
Rodney was often initially dismissed as suffering from extreme hubris, and to those who saw him come running through the gate as the team fired backwards into the diplomatic-disaster of yet another local planet, felt that sooner rather than later they would be proved right. Unfortunately for their arguments, Rodney’s arrogance never actually progressed to outright hubris - he was as intelligent as he claimed, and more often than not, his thoughts, words and experiments were those that saved the day. Just, not the feelings of the less-than-genius level people that were forced to work within hearing range of his diatribes.