On fics and naquadah reactors
Whew! I go away (mostly) for just over a week and find you've all been busy while I'm gone.
First of all, a belated happy birthday to
moonshayde, whose birthday was last week! Would you like a birthday ficlet, even at such a late date? Your tastes are so wonderfully diverse that you'll have to give me a prompt for what you'd like. :) Keep to classic SG-1, if you don't mind; I don't like seasons 9-10 enough to be able to give Vala or Mitchell a good voice.
In other news, I am utterly squeeful about my
sd_ficathon assignment! About the whole ficathon, really. I had no time to sit down at the keyboard until today, but I finally got the first part written. I know they're going to face an ethical dilemma in the second half of the story, and I'm not sure which way to go. I think I'll just get there, and let Sam and Daniel decide for themselves. The characters usually know better than I do, anyway.
I've been thinking about my least favorite thread in SG-1 canon lately: the NID and its rampant abuse of power. While that's a subject worthy of an entire essay - and one that I really hope to write someday - I do find myself wondering why the SGC was so vulnerable, especially at budget-time. If they have naquadah reactors to spare any time a team 'Gates to a planet without a DHD - and already in S3, that was so routine that they actually suggested it as a reasonable option to going to a planet that they knew didn't have a DHD, in New Ground - then why don't they have the entire building hooked up to one or two naquadah reactors, to supply themselves with all power they need? And why isn't the technology they've brought back factored into the budget, giving them enough debit to keep going from one year to the next? I'm pretty sure there's a canon reference to it costing a million dollars just to turn the lights on, or something. If that's the case, why aren't they using the technology they have to offset the costs?
I know the real answer is, "Either the writers didn't think of it, or it was easier to write conspiracy storylines than utilize actual sense." But I would love to have an in-story explanation that would actually work.
First of all, a belated happy birthday to
moonshayde, whose birthday was last week! Would you like a birthday ficlet, even at such a late date? Your tastes are so wonderfully diverse that you'll have to give me a prompt for what you'd like. :) Keep to classic SG-1, if you don't mind; I don't like seasons 9-10 enough to be able to give Vala or Mitchell a good voice.
In other news, I am utterly squeeful about my
sd_ficathon assignment! About the whole ficathon, really. I had no time to sit down at the keyboard until today, but I finally got the first part written. I know they're going to face an ethical dilemma in the second half of the story, and I'm not sure which way to go. I think I'll just get there, and let Sam and Daniel decide for themselves. The characters usually know better than I do, anyway.
I've been thinking about my least favorite thread in SG-1 canon lately: the NID and its rampant abuse of power. While that's a subject worthy of an entire essay - and one that I really hope to write someday - I do find myself wondering why the SGC was so vulnerable, especially at budget-time. If they have naquadah reactors to spare any time a team 'Gates to a planet without a DHD - and already in S3, that was so routine that they actually suggested it as a reasonable option to going to a planet that they knew didn't have a DHD, in New Ground - then why don't they have the entire building hooked up to one or two naquadah reactors, to supply themselves with all power they need? And why isn't the technology they've brought back factored into the budget, giving them enough debit to keep going from one year to the next? I'm pretty sure there's a canon reference to it costing a million dollars just to turn the lights on, or something. If that's the case, why aren't they using the technology they have to offset the costs?
I know the real answer is, "Either the writers didn't think of it, or it was easier to write conspiracy storylines than utilize actual sense." But I would love to have an in-story explanation that would actually work.