Mother’s day was yesterday.  I know a lot of good mothers who deserve recognition as such.  I would never say otherwise.  What I will say however, is that not everyone who has had children is a good person let alone parent.  Rule of thumb, if you’re asking yourself whether I’m talking about you, clearly you have given yourself reason to ask.  Work on that.  Happy mothers’ day to the mothers who’ve earned it.

     I finally got off my ass and got shit done for my California license.  Now I can kill myself happily knowing I’m not dying with utah driver license.  And yes, I leave utah uncapitalized on purpose.  I just have my interim license right now but within thirty days I’ll get the real thing.  It was so hot and I had to make two trips on the bus and in the heat but it’s done.  Now then, what to talk about.  How about some more of my nerving out about Stargate stuff so I can continue begging for a job writing on Stargate?

     I’ve touched on this briefly I’m pretty sure but the state of the Pegasus galaxy.  As things were left at the end of Stargate Atlantis, the city itself was on Earth in the Milky Way.  Michael is thought to be dead.  The wraith hive conflict is pretty well in full swing and at least wraith, Todd, if not his hive have the weaponized Hoffan drug and/or Beckett’s retrovirus, but as I recall still no effective means of delivery for either,  And the Tau’ri of Earth should now also have a few tons of wraith super-hive scrap to research, and possibly even one or two possibly usable ZPMs.  Anyone catch something I missed?  Please, I’d love to discuss any of this with someone else.  Feel free to reach out and we can talk about it.

     Moving on.  Like I’ve said before, in MY IMAGINING OF A NEW SERIES WHILE HAVING EXACTLY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE NEW IMPENDING SERIES…that is the point here.  I want to be apart of Stargate going forward and all my pining here would ideally get some notice and in turn, me a job writing for Stargate going forward.  So, Atlantis is back in Pegasus, on the most recent plant it occupied before flying to the Milky Way to fight the impending wraith threat there.  With another ZPM on Atlantis aside from more advanced naqudah reactors, regular commute between SGC and Atlantis is enjoyed by all.  Col. John Sheppard(Ret.) is the current leader of the Atlantis Expeditionary Coalition.  Dr. Rodney Mackay is of the Science Division on Atlantis.  Col. Anne Teldy is the commanding officer of military forces on Atlantis with her right hand, Maj. “Dusty” Mehra as Security Chief.  And this staffing is of course my ideal.  I would love for these performers to come back and reprise these roles but I fully understand that may not be an option in the big, stupid, real world.  Making everything stupid and not great.  At this point, Atlantis is effectively an extension of the SGC in Pegasus.  Exploring, researching, and for lack of a better word policing the galaxy.  More often than is preferred, more or less refereeing among various wraith factions warring and dragging humans into crossfire.

     There is essentially no more cooperation among many hives.  A few weaker hives clinging to their old ways and their very existence have joined together however, even then lack sufficient numbers to pose much a threat to any other hives.  Some hives manage to cull from time to time but that’s still pretty dangerous, what with their well poisoned and all.  Some hives turn to cannibalism, feeding on their brothers.  Some hives have found the means to turn wraith into human.  On occasion trying to use this technology on enemy hives and a little more often, using it to mean prep on board their own ships.

     One thing I’d like to see is some sort of return of Michael.  Sure, it looks like he died…again.  Sheppard even says right then some to the effect, we thought he was dead before.  Michael’s research and proven capacity for cloning leaves wide open the opportunity to return.  Even if Connor Trinneer doesn’t return, a Michael clone doesn’t have to be identical, given Michael’s work manipulating genetics.  There are many possibilities with this character and he was always one of my favorite things in this series specifically.

     Alright, that’s my Stargate daydreaming for today.  As usual, if anyone can get this in front of Martin Gero, please do.  If he knows I exist and that I’m doing this, I could have an opportunity to talk him into giving me a job writing for Stargate.  Until next time.

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?

Yesterday I was thinking that it’s been awhile since I watched Alita: Battle Angel.  I’m pretty sure I wrote a review back when I first watched it in the theater.  If not, then what’s seven years late?

     If you haven’t watched it yet…what the hell?!  Seriously, it’s been like seven years!!!  First off, the entire film is extraordinarily beautiful.  The design of everything is not just true to the art of Yukito Kishiro’s original art style but manga and anime as a whole.  Much of the anime I’ve watched has been late eighties throughout nineties and this whole film looks like the truest love letter to that era of Japanese art.  For that alone I love this film.  There are so many scenes throughout where you can tell they’re panels straight out of the manga.  And then watching the bonus features James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez spoke specifically how they worked to honor the original work and recreating such iconic panels in live action.  They even invited Yukito Kishiro to visit the set and preview some of their work.  He gave his blessing for the project and even found himself on the verge of tears seeing his work translated into live action and done so by someone whose work he had enjoyed himself, particularly being a fan of Terminator for so many years.  It was really nice watching these interviews.

     I want to speak a moment on Rosa Salazar in this film.  Her performance is astounding!  To start, when Yukito Kishiro met her the first thing he said was that she looks exactly like Gally and she started to tear up a bit.  She was already a huge fan.  Much of this film, in particular Rosa’s work was Performance Capture.  For anyone not familiar, that’s the step beyond Motion Capture.  With this technology they record facial movement with the body movement.  They modeled Anita’s face on Rosa’s and every moment Alita is on screen that is precisely Rosa Salazar’s performance.  Yeah, there’s more than a few moments I teared up, shut your face!  It’s a compelling story to which I relate.  Again, she is an extraordinary performer!

     Now, I’ve never watched any of the Avatar movies.  Blue people not Last Airbender.  I’ve never had any interest but I’ve always appreciated the technological advancements made through the production that first Avatar movie.  Watching the bonus features for Alita: Battle Angel I learned just how important that first Avatar movie really is.  Turns out that if Avatar didn’t play out well we’d have never gotten Alita.  At one point James Cameron had to make a choice, finish writing Alita or move forward with Avatar.  He chose to stick with Avatar but then fortunately, he had a conversation with Robert Rodriguez.  Rodriguez was a fan of Alita and most impatiently waiting for Cameron to make it.  Asking him about it Cameron started to think about Rodriguez picking up the baton with Alita.  Lucky for us Rodriguez accepted and now we have this great film!

     One thing to always keep in mind, things always turn out the best when the people involved truly appreciate and love the work.  I can’t think of anything done that was done well when everyone involved hated what they were doing.

I’ve had a long couple of days so far this week.  All fun so far!  Last night I went to another film maker’s meet up  and then today I got to go to the taping for a special episode of Let’s Make a Deal! hosted by Wayne Brady.  I can’t say anything about the show itself until this episode airs and they haven’t a projected airdate yet as of filming this morning.  It was a special episode because through it we celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of Star Trek.  Star Trek was pretty big thing in house growing up.  Principally because of dad.  It was one of those things he grew up with and in turn, made sure it was ever omnipresent in our home.  Whenever there wasn’t a Lakers game on we were watching The Next Generation.  And then later on most Saturday nights, The Original Series was on.  I’ll admit, there was a time I claimed to like Star Wars more and in fact to not like Star Trek at all.  First, that was a dark time for fandoms when it was one or the other, NO IN BETWEEN!  I know better now.  And second, I was young child.  Not liking Star Trek was the greatest rebellious act I could muster.  There’s been hundreds of hours of material created by people more familiar with Star Trek than I who explain the cultural significance of Star Trek.  You should find their content.  I’ll just say briefly, that Star Trek inspired much of our modern technology.  In the sixties we saw Dr. “Bones” McCoy read a person’s vitals with a handheld device wirelessly connected to a small computer that would then take that data and nearly instantaneous diagnose and extrapolate a suitable treatment.  Now, we have the Apple Watch that can record a rudimentary echocardiogram and transmit that information to your doctor.  The Tricorder, despite being technology in a science fiction series still felt like magic in the way it could access most if not all established human knowledge.  And now our cell phones being constantly connected to the internet and quite literally putting the sum of human knowledge at our finger tips.  Granted far too many people are still too dumb to recognize these things because they’re told not to.  Alas, just in the time since Star Trek was created, the average human lifespan has increased by a minimum of ten years.  Just since the beginning of 2026 I’ve caught posts and articles of something like seven or eight people having birthdays between one-hundred and one-hundred and five.  Last December Dick Van Dyke turned one-hundred.  In just sixty years we advanced in particular, medicine roughly as much as the previous one-hundred years.  That may not seem like much until you consider THAT progress was roughly equivalent to possibly the three-hundred years before then.

I often rail against organized religion…pretty much every chance I get, however, my point remains valid.  Science fiction is among the greatest necessities of human existence.  Insomuch that it precedes science fact.  Meanwhile, the superstition of religion, as exemplified profoundly in recent years, serves only those whose bastardize it for personal gain.  And in turn, only functions to hold us back as a people.

     I look forward to a time when this people actually move forward instead of clinging to fairly tales.  The way things are going, it’s unlikely even I’ll live that long.

     At any rate, I need to get back to the job hunt now.  I’m just waiting for one more refund to arrive, I need to finally get my California License, and then I need to be starting at least one job this week.  So, until next time.  Have fun!

Whoops.  I intended to do this earlier but I had a job interview, donated plasma, and then had to take care of something I can’t talk about right now.  Anywho, I mentioned before that I was going to talk about how working in Stargate Universe to a new series.  If I were so fortunate to be involved with a new Stargate series.  And again, if anyone can point out my posts to Martin Gero, please do so.  All I need is an opportunity to talk him into hiring me so I can be a part of Stargate.

     Now, here’s what I’m thinking to tie in Universe with a new series.  To start, Destiny jumping to the next galaxy didn’t quite go according to plan.  As I imagine it, Eli managed to fix the stasis pod in time.  However he’s woken up early per a new protocol he programmed that would revive him when a viable star enters sensor range.  This protocol works perfectly except it happened just nine or ten months in.  A rogue star born on the very edge of a fledgling galaxy and flung into the void barely grasped by the galaxy’s gravity.  Now awake again, Eli manages to steer Destiny into this star and having a considerable boost of power, he programs some orders into the repair robots and sets them about their work.  He takes some time to check in with Homeworld Security and working with MacKay they set up some plans for regular check-ins, and with recent developments in the advancement and progress of the naqudah generators, they manage to open wormholes from Atlantis to Destiny, sustaining a stable wormhole for 3.8 seconds using a dozen MK. 15 generators and effectively burning them out in the process.  This is not long enough to deploy fresh personnel but they do work up a process of sending through a care package.  Some supplies like food and water, newer tablets with accessible portions of the Ancient database, and possibly a generator or two.

     Eli goes in and out of stasis over time.  Researching whenever he has a moment, repairing what he can, working out.  If you haven’t seen David Blue lately that last bit will make more sense later.  As the robots repair things the overall condition of the ship improves and gradually the power issues become more manageable.  But by that time it’s been closer to fifteen years.

     The stasis pods on Destiny are at best first generation.  More likely they’re prototype in production.  Bètatest in a sense.  While life function is sustained, the whole aging problem isn’t entirely worked out.  Anyone comes back for this part of the story simply aged somewhat.  Anyone who doesn’t come want to come back, their characters are either locked in their stasis pods or their pods malfunctioned in one way or another and their lost.  Again, very old technology and such flaws were anticipated.

      I would write this as an episode later in the season to answer the obvious questions that arise from viewers seeing an established plan and process for communicating and supporting Destiny.  All of that introduced in the end of the first episode when MacKay transmits a care package to Destiny.  We then cut to Destiny in homage to the pilot episode of Universe with the gate spinning toward activation.  Then Eli is revived and when he goes to the gate room we see an apparatus set up by Eli to catch travelers and cargo coming through the gate, as he walks into the room to look over the fresh supplies and that’s when we reveal the new Eli.  He reads a note from MacKay and it’s time for him to get to work.

     Yeah, that’s how I envision, and only I envision it seeing as I’m not involved with any Stargate projects as it is.  Again, if anyone can put me in touch with Martin Gero, maybe we can make this a reality.