[fic] First, the News (SGA)
TITLE: First, the News
RATING: PG
SUMMARY: SGA. Five things edited out of Rodney McKay's Fresh Air interview.
14 Valentines: Women in the Arts
NOTES: Fresh Air is a program on National Public Radio, where host Terry Gross interviews people ranging from former Secretaries of Defense to the Beastie Boys. Thanks to cincodemaygirl for beta.
First, the News
1. TG: Today my guest is Doctor Rodney McKay, chief scientist of the Atlantis expedition of the recently declassified Stargate Program. Doctor McKay has spent nine years in the Pegasus Galaxy. Doctor, welcome.
RM: Thank you, Terry. You know, this studio's really, um, smaller than I expected. Can I, can I get a glass of water?
2. RM: . . . I've been shot nine and a half times, taken prisoner six times--sign right up, kids!--had two systemic allergic reactions, not counting that time that we all got this, well, I guess I'd call it a kind of alien dysentery, it was horrible, Simpson and I spent three days trying to keep the sewer system up to the task while we, ourselves were--
3. TG: What would you say to people who are apprehensive about becoming part of a galactic--or intergalactic--community?
RM: Well, it's . . . there are some people who shoot at you. There always are. But really, most of the people out there in Pegasus, and, I'm assuming, in the Milky Way, are just regular people. They're interested in us, and they're waiting. . . . Um. Not in an M. Night Shyamalan way, more like a Trek way, but, um, Vulcans and Andorians and the good guys, not so much the original series Klingons.
4. RM: Oh, we're all good friends. We go on missions together, we eat together, we sleep together, we . . . I mean, on missions, when we're offworld, there's, there's tent-sharing. Offworld. Clearly, we have our own quarters in Atlantis, we're obviously not sleeping together, no matter what the tabloids say, so really it's just offworld. In the tents, and, um, can we cut that?
5. TG: How hard was it to be literally across the galaxy from home for nine years?
RM: Well, the thing you have to remember is that those of us on the first wave, we--and I'm probably going to get in trouble for saying this--we weren't even a hundred percent sure that we'd be able to come back. And there's, there's a reason that you send people on a one-way trip to another galaxy, not that I'm not over that which I completely am. And now, now we're being hailed as heroes and Elizabeth--Doctor Weir--has been awarded the Peace Prize, which I'm sure she's going to lord over me, that she got a Nobel before I did, and it's all a really nice sort of "Fuck you," to the people who sent us on that one-way trip. [pause] I can't say "fuck" on National Public Radio, can I?
TG: No, not really. Shall we try that again?
RM: Yeah, I was kind of on a roll there. I just, you know, my point was that we've all gone at least a little native. Over there. And made it our home, and I, I, wouldn't trade it for anything.
RATING: PG
SUMMARY: SGA. Five things edited out of Rodney McKay's Fresh Air interview.
14 Valentines: Women in the Arts
NOTES: Fresh Air is a program on National Public Radio, where host Terry Gross interviews people ranging from former Secretaries of Defense to the Beastie Boys. Thanks to cincodemaygirl for beta.
First, the News
1. TG: Today my guest is Doctor Rodney McKay, chief scientist of the Atlantis expedition of the recently declassified Stargate Program. Doctor McKay has spent nine years in the Pegasus Galaxy. Doctor, welcome.
RM: Thank you, Terry. You know, this studio's really, um, smaller than I expected. Can I, can I get a glass of water?
2. RM: . . . I've been shot nine and a half times, taken prisoner six times--sign right up, kids!--had two systemic allergic reactions, not counting that time that we all got this, well, I guess I'd call it a kind of alien dysentery, it was horrible, Simpson and I spent three days trying to keep the sewer system up to the task while we, ourselves were--
3. TG: What would you say to people who are apprehensive about becoming part of a galactic--or intergalactic--community?
RM: Well, it's . . . there are some people who shoot at you. There always are. But really, most of the people out there in Pegasus, and, I'm assuming, in the Milky Way, are just regular people. They're interested in us, and they're waiting. . . . Um. Not in an M. Night Shyamalan way, more like a Trek way, but, um, Vulcans and Andorians and the good guys, not so much the original series Klingons.
4. RM: Oh, we're all good friends. We go on missions together, we eat together, we sleep together, we . . . I mean, on missions, when we're offworld, there's, there's tent-sharing. Offworld. Clearly, we have our own quarters in Atlantis, we're obviously not sleeping together, no matter what the tabloids say, so really it's just offworld. In the tents, and, um, can we cut that?
5. TG: How hard was it to be literally across the galaxy from home for nine years?
RM: Well, the thing you have to remember is that those of us on the first wave, we--and I'm probably going to get in trouble for saying this--we weren't even a hundred percent sure that we'd be able to come back. And there's, there's a reason that you send people on a one-way trip to another galaxy, not that I'm not over that which I completely am. And now, now we're being hailed as heroes and Elizabeth--Doctor Weir--has been awarded the Peace Prize, which I'm sure she's going to lord over me, that she got a Nobel before I did, and it's all a really nice sort of "Fuck you," to the people who sent us on that one-way trip. [pause] I can't say "fuck" on National Public Radio, can I?
TG: No, not really. Shall we try that again?
RM: Yeah, I was kind of on a roll there. I just, you know, my point was that we've all gone at least a little native. Over there. And made it our home, and I, I, wouldn't trade it for anything.