A quick update, I’ve had a few more job interviews this last week. I haven’t heard anything from any of them yet. I have another interview scheduled and I’m still sending out resumes and applying everywhere I can. So, we’ll see what happens.
I got my phone service back for a bit so, I’ve been watching Stargate again while I have access to PlutoTV. I was reminded recently of another fun loose end that could be visited in a new upcoming Stargate series. There is an episode where O’Neill is cloned by a rogue asgard. The clone doesn’t shake out right and results as being a clone of O’Neill at age fifteen. With the clone’s impending death close at hand, the team works out a way to save his life. And the young clone is set up with a normal civilian life, going back to high school and living his life without the Air Force or specifically the stargate but of course with O’Neill’s experience and memory. This got me thinking about some things.
It’s been around fifteen years since then. That puts the clone’s age into his thirties. So, I’m thinking that a Jack O’Neill who doesn’t get to be a pilot, a Special Forces Operator, not traveling through the gate, would ultimately get a little restless. Maybe he sticks it out in high school, experiences a little bit of the childhood he didn’t get the first time around. And then decides to go to college in lieu of joking the Air Force. Studies engineering thinking he likes well enough boating, why not learn how to build and maintain boats. He spends a few years as mechanic and hobbyist shipwright. Building his own boat while repairing and modifying others’ boats. I’m thinking it isn’t very long before he winds up getting in touch with some less-than-noble elements.
While trying to get certain law enforcement agencies to deal with these elements and being disregarded at every turn, not being able to exercise his lost clout and all, he takes matters into his own hands. Between his vigilantism and Robin Hood style smuggling Johnny O’Neill starts dealing in alleged alien technology. Eventually, I see Johnny getting his hands enough equipment to essentially build a custom goa’uld scout ship.
I’ve only thought about for this for a few minutes at this point so I haven’t thought through much more than this. I’m working to figure out how best to tie into upcoming series. Maybe he gets recruited into some sort of NID outfit. Maybe the NID knows who he is or at the very least what this O’Neill has been doing in recent years. Who knows? Maybe the Stargate program recruits him as a civilian contractor and puts him on a newer SG team.
And now we’re to that point in the post where I ask anyone to put this in front of Martin Gero. As the Showrunner for the upcoming Stargate series I’m pretty sure he’s the person I need to be begging for a job writing on Stargate. Soooo, if anyone reading this just happens to know Martin Gero, please show him my posts so I can work to talk him into giving me a job. I need to finish the screenplay I started but I’m a whole third of the way through.
I’ll make a deal with you. Someone helps me get in touch with Martin Gero and I won’t blow the opportunity. And then I’ll buy you a cheeseburger…or cookies…whatever. I get a job writing for Stargate and I’ll be able to afford a few different kinds of snacks.
