Ok, we took off a few days from my begging for a job writing on Stargate. Time we get back to that I think. I’m not sure what to write this time. Another thing I’ve been thinking about is traveling to and from Destiny. The issue has always power generation. This is a topic explored all throughout the Stargate franchise. One of my favorite characters has always been Jeannie Miller and only a little because I’ve always had a little bit of a crush on Kate Hewlett. I imagine that Jeannie now, this much time later with her child grown and studying at university, Jeannie and her husband now live mostly on Atlantis, or at least splitting her time between Atlantis and the SGC. Her greater focus has always been researching and practical implementation of new and prototype power generation. So, of course, that’s been her work this whole time, or at least majoritively. Over the years she helped advance the naquadah generator technology to the point where linking a dozen or so to the Atlantis gate, with some slightly more efficient internal power systems, can sustain a stable wormhole to Destiny for about 3.8 seconds. Possibly long enough to send one person with considerable risk but we’ve worked out that we can well enough send through a couple crates of supplies in that time. This touches on my earlier post about Destiny. Accounting for refinement and production, this could allow for care package drops something like every seven to ten months or so. All the same, Jeannie continues her research into Zero Point Module research.
As I imagine all this, the ZPM research leads her almost directly to the original research programs for the Destiny’s power systems. I like to think that Destiny’s power system drawing from stars is to start, a roundabout path to the Zero Point Energy solution. It makes sense to me that Jeannie would find the older research documents while looking for the research we’re already familiar with. What I’m thinking right now, over the season, with the information she’s found, she starts reverse engineering Destiny’s solar collectors so our newest ship the X-312 can start running some experiments. I haven’t written up much yet on the newest Tau’ri spaceship but I imagine that by this time, we’ve started at least building a ship with a dedicated gate room. We’ve seen this done on numerous Goa’uld ships, the Alkesh commandeered by The Trust, and oh yeah, Destiny. It should be possible by this time with the advancement in naqudah generator technology to at least manage galactic gate travel. Intergalactic gate travel, say from Milky Way to and from Pegasus may be pushing it still. Ya know, until Jeannie figures out how to adapt stellar collection systems for the new ship…
Anyway, this has been another installment of Tim begging to write for Stargate. If anyone reading this has any way to put it this in front of Martin Gero so that I can talk him into giving me a job, I would really appreciate that! Seriously, though, come on. Just send him a link or something. What’s the worst that could happen? Pretty Please?
