Pico day 22

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

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May the magic be with us all!

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Still on with Terminus

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Typing up Chapter 9 is a slow process, especially as I've got so many other things to do I never had the time for during school term. But I'm making headway, as you can see on the snipped below.

I've also started laying the grounds for the rest of "Brothers-in-Arms". I read through the existing chapters, made a list of events that already happened; then I went through the last 9 chapters of the original novel the story is based on and made a list of the canon events I actually can and/or want to use. I hope that I can start writing tomorrow, as most of the research has been done years ago, I just have to read through it and refresh my memory.

Excerpt:

If not ten, but fifteen minutes later Geordi returned to Engineering, carrying a PADD with odd diagrams and detailed instructions on it. He handed it to Alfonse Pacelli, one of the enlisted specialists that nominally belonged to the science division but actually worked for Engineering most of the times.

“Here,” he said. “I want lots of these things, preferably yesterday, or the day before. As many as you and your team can churn out within the next hour and a half.”

Pacelli studied the PADD with interest. “What are these things?”

“According to Ensign Rina, and I quote, they’re 98.6-degree objects within a carbon dioxide shell(*) that can mimic organic life for a limited time,” Geordi replied. “We have to fool that alien killing machine somehow, and these little gizmos are supposed to do the trick.”

“Wow!” Pacelli’s eyes grew bigger and bigger as he was reading the instructions. “I’ve never seen this kind of technology before.”

“It’s Bridrani,” Geordi explained. “They’re damn good engineers and Ensign Rina is a certified genius, so I trust that it’s doable.”

“Oh, absolutely!” Pacelli agreed. “It will be a bit tricky, but we can do this.” He graduated the Starfleet Technical Services Academy with honours, so his confidence was well-grounded.


*My apologies if the technobabble sounds stupid. It's quoted from the actual rejected first draft for the TNG-episode "Unnatural Selection". So, you see, it's not my fault at all!

RE: Still on with Terminus

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

It sounds canonical, oh yes (I feel for you, my fandoms also have canonical techno-and-scientific nonsense I have to try and work within without wincing too hard :)

RE: Still on with Terminus

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Stargate does have its moments, yeah. Starting with the, well, Stargate itself.
But I love both SG-1 (up to Season 8) and Atlantis.

RE: Still on with Terminus

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Me too - in fact this story is an AU taking the premise that when Daniel died (yet AGAIN) in The Reckoning, instead of coming back to the SGC, he got sent to Atlantis.

And stayed there :)

This is because I think he should soooo have been allowed to, poor man, and Daniel and Rodney are wonderful together

RE: Still on with Terminus

[saki101.livejournal.com]

I am in awe not only of your steady progress, but its organisation and method! Too often, I cannot find my notes for old projects. I am going to try to mend my ways.

That sounds like a clever solution for tricking the aliens. Yes, canon technobabble is often a huge challenge. Man from UNCLE had some amazing canon stuff happen. The fic is almost always better.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, I don't always find my notes, either. It's all right as long as they're lying in an untidy heap on the floor next to my bed, but you can't keep them there for years. As soon as I put them away safely, so that I would be able to find them later, a black hole opens and swallows them.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Back in England I had the heap by the bed, the heap by the chair in the sitting room & the heap by the desk -- unfortunately Mr EA got to pack all but the first...

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Ah.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

One of the things we're trying to work on in the new house is how I can file more tidily...

RE: Still on with Terminus

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

Ah, technobabble. Where would sci-fi be without it? I like Geordi's comment on the talents of the Bridrani and of Rina.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

As Jack Harkness said once, technobabble is good for the soul. *g*

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[akane42me.livejournal.com]

I like this a lot! And I love technobabble. Always have:)

Excellent progress! Very impressive!

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[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I'm glad Rina gets to do something with hir brain, rather than just hir pheromones :) And the technobabble sounds suitably babbly...

Super glad you've managed to excavate your notes on the Cadfael story -- that's always half the battle of restarting these dinosaurs.

RE: Still on with Terminus

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a very clever plan of Rina's! Hopefully they can pull it off without any disasters!

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[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Great progress there.