Five futures that didn't come to pass
Title: Five futures that didn't come to pass
Author: Shenandoah Risu
Rating: PG-13
Content Flags: a few cliches
Spoilers: all of SGU
Characters: the Destiny folks
Word Count: 470
Summary: What would have been really cool but also downright impossible. But who knows?
Author's Notes: Written for prompt set #129 at sg1_five_things.
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Five futures that didn't come to pass
While she is in stasis, TJ will figure out she can interface her mind with Destiny’s data base. Over the years her body is frozen she will work her way through the entire repository of knowledge, and sure enough, she will find a treatment for her latent fatal condition. Upon waking she will get to work immediately, assisted by many of the crew, and within a month they will have mastered the configuration of the gene-modification feature in the neural interface chair and successfully eliminate the disease, as well as a host of others from various crew members.
Dale Volker and Ronald Greer will retrieve a mysterious piece of technology from a planet whose population had apparently ascended, leaving everything as it was, and while the passing time had taken its toll on the structures the strange device had survived intact. It will turn out to be a means to restore Dr. Park’s sight, and Lisa will never forget her two husbands hugging and kissing her and each other when she sees them again for the first time after all these years.
Nicholas Rush will turn out to be a champion knitter. Over the years his interest in Destiny will wane considerably, as he will turn his eye towards ascension himself, and he’ll find knitting to be a way to free his mind and put aside all conscious thought. Meanwhile the crew will enjoy a vast amount of knitted goods - from rugs to table cloths to cardigan sweaters (which Colonel Young in particular will covet highly, especially the really frumpy ones), all lovingly crafted with available and acquired materials.
They will still be learning from the ancient data base when Leanne Barnes will find a way to make male pregnancies possible. Everyone will be stunned at the amount of men who want to carry a child, but the first one to successfully do so will be - to everyone’s surprise - Ronald Greer. Darren Becker, Dale Volker and Airman Dunning will come in a close second. They will all get quite proficient at performing Caesarian sections, and Destiny’s population will receive a much-needed boost.
Chloe will train her pet squid from the jungle planet to produce shiny golden drops of deadly poison on command (it will “shake tentacle”, “dance” and “roll over”, too), and after that they will have plenty of the cure-all available. Matthew Scott will still get the occasional cold creeps up and down his back when he’ll see the creature leisurely draped around her neck (she’ll call it “Fluffy”), but it will turn out to be rather docile, once its diet will have been switched from human flesh to Becker’s Purple Sweet Potato mash, which it will gulp down with gusto and little mewling sounds that will make everyone smile and go “awww”.