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if they have a pivotal role in the future, sg-1 has yet to discover it. sam's caution was a general, we can't let anythign slip warnign. imagine if they'd told michael to buy microsoft stock...whole fates would be changed because he bought stock meant for someone else.
or when(assuming he did) michael went to viet nam. what if he didn't cause they told him not to. maybe he saved a life. someone who had a pivotal role, maybe colin powel's life (just an example, dont' know if he went to nam)
anyway it was a warning that the simplest slip of the tongue culd have changed the future.
 
warnings of no tampering

I must have found it odd at the time, Skydiver.
They had the original no tampering discussion after finishing with the then Lieutenant ? Hammond and then had it all over again at that point. But, it could be that Nam was and still is a hot issue and no one wanted to get carried away with 20/20 hindsite, as you say.

I was odd that it just came off that way to me. I'm going to be straining my brain listening for anyone under 32 in the show with a father named Michael who may or may not have been in the war. :crazy:
 
someone mention hooked? man - i have so many unfinished stories lying around --- i don't know when/if i'll ever get to them all -- oh - and many of them have been sitting around for YEARS!! yes - i have a Highlander 2 part story that i've been working on for like 8 years! (stupid thing - i wrote it all in about a year, then went back over it - and i didn't like the way it was written, so i've started over -- haven't played with it much lately - need to get back to it)

but - i have 2 Stargate stories currently in progress -- one is just a jumble of notes waiting an inspirational starting point -- (basically - i need my Major Davis muse to wake up! dork's been snoring in the corner for over a week) the other is a JAG, Profiler, The Pretender, SG-1 x-over - yep - they'll all be there -- (this puppy's gonna take a while) -- had to do this -- my Harm Rabb muse poked me and started jabbering away -- (not complaining - just wasn't what i had initially planned - was gonna work on that other SG-1 story about Major Davis - oh well -- he's on hold again)

i do have my L&O/SG-1 x-over posted -- it's at apocrypha --

http://www.podengo.com/apocrypha/summer01/vacation.html

it's more of a 'snippet' into what could be a longer story - but b/c of the challenge restrictions, it ends the way it does and doesn't include all the 'other' stuff that could be there ---- so - i'll probably expand on it at a later date and send it on to apocrypha again -- as a full story ---

have fun!!
 
Originally posted by skydiver
if they have a pivotal role in the future, sg-1 has yet to discover it. sam's caution was a general, we can't let anythign slip warnign. imagine if they'd told michael to buy microsoft stock...whole fates would be changed because he bought stock meant for someone else.
or when(assuming he did) michael went to viet nam. what if he didn't cause they told him not to. maybe he saved a life. someone who had a pivotal role, maybe colin powel's life (just an example, dont' know if he went to nam)
anyway it was a warning that the simplest slip of the tongue culd have changed the future.
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Was much of Sam's past mentioned in "1969"? Jack had to be a teen (from the into cars remark about the '69 corvette being a mistake), Daniel was 4 1/2-years-old, how old was Sam? How much of her family has been discussed in the show as a whole? What's her mother's name?
 
from what i can tell, i don't think Sam is much younger than Daniel - (I think Daniel's supposed to be mid 30's - so Sam would be about early 30's? - this is a total guess) -- so, Sam, if she was born at all, would have been VERY young in '69 -- and per the 1st season ep "Brief Candle" - Jack is 40 - so, by the ep 1969, he would be 43 -- so -- my guess is he was born in 1957 or so, making him about 12 in '69 -- and he would probably have been interested in cars then - thus the comment about the 'vette --

but, like i said - mostly speculation - the only thing that's not is that Jack would be 43 by the ep 1969 - per his comment in Brief Candle ---
 
I'm sure if I head to the Sam fourm I'd get all the info. :)

I just had the wondering that Sam might have been a 'war baby' like my stepmother. My stepmother's parents married around the start of WWII and her papa was dead in France before they got to know each other.
 
the Sam forum would be a good place to start ----


my major focus in SG-1 centers around O'Neill and Davis -- so - everyone else - i don't seem to know so much about --- (which can be bad when you start working on a fic) -- but i can't 'get' Sam as well as i can the others -- i do okay w/ Daniel - but then there's Teal'c - who is kinda hard to work in - why? b/c i write more dialogue than i do description --- don't know why -- however - in one of the story ideas i have - i'm having a hard time getting Davis to work right - not really sure what the problem is there -- (aside from the fact that there is very little to go on from the show b/c we haven't seen him much) -- may have to shift and not make it so much from Davis' POV -- guess i can back out and write it from 3rd person omniscient -- have to see how things go ---
 
Ages

I want to know if Sam's had a PhD when she came into the SGC, why she's was still only a Major. That is *so* wrong.

MD's, when they finish their medica; school and are ready to start their residencies are promoted to Captain and at the completion of the residency program, automatically go to Major [unless they *really*screwed up.

So why was a PhD only a Captain?

"RL" says "BUZZZZZ! Wrong Answer!!!"

:rolleyes:
 
Re: Ages

Originally posted by Rowan
I want to know if Sam's had a PhD when she came into the SGC, why she's was still only a Major. That is *so* wrong.

MD's, when they finish their medica; school and are ready to start their residencies are promoted to Captain and at the completion of the residency program, automatically go to Major [unless they *really*screwed up.

So why was a PhD only a Captain?

"RL" says "BUZZZZZ! Wrong Answer!!!"

:rolleyes:
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well - she's "Dr" Capt Sam Carter in the 1st ep - so my guess is, she already had at least 1 PhD when she came to the SGC - so why it took until "Fair Game" for her promotion - i don't know --

and - this might also sorta explain the semi-odd promotion of Janet to Major sometime in (i think) season 3 (that i didn't know about, but remember someone mentioning somewhere) --

so - i'll agree w/ you Rowan - tho i know nothing of military stuff ('cept what i see on tv) -- and say - they goofed!
 
janet was promoted somewhere between foothold and maternal instinct. she had captains bars in foothold and major's clusters in MI.

as to sam's age, i'd place her around mid 30's. she was in the gulf war which means she'd be early 20's in 1990. add a decade and it puts her around 30-35ish.

that's interesting about the major thing rowan. the only frame of reference i really had was mash (army vs airforce i know) and all the doctors were automatically captains at least.
they seemed to play sam as realtively naive in the beginning, maybe they were afraid having her a major would age her too much.
course, if i understand the regs right, if she's within a rank step of jack and not necessarily under his command that removed the frat regs? or am i wrong. i seem to remember reading somewhere that if she were to be a lt. col and he a col. then it wouldn't be such a no-no.
it's possible they wanted to keep the distance.
then again i might be giving them too much credit for thinking ahead and it's more than likely them just not listening to thier military advisor.
 
I need more help with grammar in a fic. Skip's being a beta for me and got issues with some liberties I've taken.

can I write using lowercase 'stargate' or is it always 'the Stargate'? Can I make it generic?

is 'sir' capatilized when it's "Yes, Sir!" or is it "Yes, sir!"

I'm pretty hopeless and considering we spent a lot of time on this thread talking fic I'd bring it back up to get me out of this bind.
 
Grammer

I only cap 'sir' in 'Yes, sir' if I want the added emphesis of that 'snap' on the end of the phrase.

'Yes, sir' - standard reply. 'Yes, Sir.' - next up the line. 'Yes, Sir!' - I'll have it down ten minutes ago. But that's just the military in me talking.

I was taught if it a proper name, it's cap. and to me 'Stargate' is a proper name.

Who knows. A english major I'm not. I follow e.e.cimmings' lead on grammer and phrasing. :} My beta or my editor usually tells me what they want.
 
well if you equate the 'stargate' to 'the enterprise' for example then it should be cap'd. it is a proper name much like Cheyenne Mountain is cap'd or the Colorado River is cap'd when linked to a name but just river if you're referring ot a generic river.

as to the Sir. i do Yes sir.
but if sam goes "But Sir, shouldn't we..."
if the title is interchangable with a name it can be cap'd.
however my trusty dusty AP style manual says
'spell out and lowercase a title when it is substituted for a name: Gen. John J Pershing arived today. An aide said the general would review the troops.'

that's how the papers are supposed to do it....but either way could work...i worry less bout those than i do they're/their/there being interchanged upon a whim ;)
 
How about looking at it this way:

The Stargate

As opposed to

A stargate

:D
 
here is a site that i use frequently -- the examples used are based on "The Sentinel" but you should still get the idea. It's very well done and points out a lot of things most people probably don't even realize are 'mistakes' they make when writing fic --


http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/5307/guide.htm



the only 'rule' of HMG's i've broken is writing in 2nd person - BUT!! i did it to see if i could do it, and do it well! (still not real sure how well i did, but anyway) -- i wrote a Stargate fic from 'inside' Jack's head (which is a scary place, if ya wanna know! ;) )

most of the time 2nd person is done as 'choose your own adventure' -- b/c "YOU" are the character - so it makes sense, but for regular fic - i would suggest you get VERY comfortable writing 1st and 3rd person - from various POV's before branching into 2nd person - it's hard! i'll warn you! and it's very hard to make it work right. So, another suggestion, if you decide to undertake a story from 2nd person - make it a short one - the longer you make it, the harder it is to keep it straight --

i've really only ever seen 1 other story done that way - it was a Highlander story - from Methos' POV - very well done! (kinda inspired me to do my "Jack" story) -- and it was short --

so -- have fun!! and mind your grammar and spelling!!
 
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