Conrad Roxanne - Stepping Through The Stargate Science, Archaeology And The Military In Stargate Sg1

BenBella Books Edition October 2004

Highly Top Secret 2004 Bill Fawcett
Stargate Trek 2004 David Gerrold
Through the Apple 2004 Catherine Asaro and John Cannizzo
Yasureyoubetcha: SF-Speak That Doesnt Make You Wince 2004 Melanie Fletcher
Exploring the Archaeology of Stargate SG-1 2004 Sue E. Linder-Linsley
Artificial Intelligence and Genuine Stupidity 2004 Jim Butcher
Help! The Aliens Have Landed and Taken Over My Brain 2004 Fran Terry
Time Travel for Beginners 2004 John Gribbin
We Need You Back 2004 J.C. Vaughn
Spin the Gate 2004 Ann Wortham
Where Am I? 2004 Daniel C. Dennett
I Think Hes Called Homer 2004 Susan Sizemore
Stargate: The Final Frontier? 1978 Dr. Sten Odenwald
When in Rome, Dont Wear That 2004 Roxanne Conrad
Im Not an Archetype But I Play One on TV 2004 Kelley Walters
Fear and Loathing on Cimmeria 2004 Bradley H. Sinor
A Season of Stargate 2004 James Tichenor
The Villains I Love to Hate 2004 P.N. Elrod
Creativity, Continuity and the Modern Licensed Comic Book 2004 James Anthony Kuhoric
Jacks Brain: What Were the Asgard Thinking? 2004 Julia Blackshear Kosatka
Vacuum Tubes and Intergalactic Portals 2004 Gina McGuiness
Ruminations From a Rat Bastard 2004 Tom McBeath

Additional materials 2004 P.N. Elrod and Roxanne Conrad

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stepping through the stargate : science, archaeology and the military in Stargate SG-1 / edited by P.N. Elrod and Roxanne L. Conrad.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 1-932100-32-6

1. Stargate SG-1 (Television program) I. Elrod, P. N. (Patricia Neal) II. Conrad, Roxanne.

PN1992.77.S738S74 2004

791.4572--dc22

2004012939

Cover design by Todd Michael Bushman
Interior designed and composed by Paragon PrePress, Inc.

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Bill Fawcett

David Gerrold

Catherine Asaro & Dr. John Cannizzo

Melanie Fletcher

Sue E. Linder-Linsley, MA, RPA

Jim Butcher

Fran Terry, M.D.

Dr. John Gribbin

J.C. Vaughn

Ann Wortham

Daniel C. Dennett

Susan Sizemore

Dr. Sten Odenwald

Roxanne Conrad

Kelley Walters

Bradley H. Sinor

James Tichenor

P.N. Elrod

James Anthony Kuhoric

Julia Blackshear Kosatka

Gina McGuiness, Col. USAFR (ret)

Tom McBeath

T HERE ARE TWO STORIES about how this book came about. In the interest of fairness, both will be presented, and you can judge for yourself.

ROXANNES (LARGELY FICTIONAL) VERSION

Hey, Roxanne Conrad says to P.N. Elrod on the phone one day, about two years ago. Are you watching this show thats on the Sci-Fi Channel now, Stargate SG-1? The one that was on Showtime?

Never have, says P.N. (aka Pat).

Its pretty good.

Yeah? Well, its not like Ive got time for....

That Jacks pretty cute. Youd like him. Im all about that Daniel guy, but still....

Thats great, but Ive got these deadlines and....

Its Richard Dean Anderson.

There is a brief, significant pause on the phone, and the sound of a remote being picked up. What channel was that again?

And so it begins. At least in the fictional land of Roxanne.

Well, however it happened, two years later, two otherwise sensible professional writers still have the bug. We have the BDUs. We have the patches. We have the DVDs (I even ordered them from Britain, as the American releases werent coming fast enough, dammit). We learned the words to the theme song, and sing it on command. Well talk Stargate at the drop of a boonie hat.

Personally, I never imagined wed get the opportunity to put together our dream project... finding others who share our fascination, and putting their words in print. BenBella Books has given us the chance to make this a reality, and Ive been amazed at the people we found lurking out there, willing to contribute a line or two to the book, and quite a few (youd recognize their names) whove just given us encouragement and cheered from the sidelines.

Between these covers youll find NASA astronomers and physicists, Air Force officers, highly honored philosophers, special effects wizards, actors, screenwriters, medical doctors and best-selling tale-tellers. In short, its a humbling group with which to be associated, and Im amazed that we managed to somehow take this project from a wistful idea at a convention all the way to the Embarkation Room... and beyond.

Thats Gate room, not Embarkation room, Rox. Jeez, get it right, will ya??? Huh, what? I get to tell my side now? Yasureyoubetcha! Gather close, campers....

No, Rox, sorry, youve got it ALL wrong on how this started. I never had Showtime and only saw the series when it aired on a local channelif they bothered to air it. Youre the one whos got more reception hardware in your TV room than NASA and kept track of thingsIve been trying to cut back on my viewing! But you wouldnt take no for an answer, would ya?

I distinctly recall you and another bud writing back and forth about Stargate SG-1 on a board while I was just kibitzing, enjoying the interplay. You guys were so a-flutter about the charms of Daniel, and I couldnt understand why you two never seemed to notice that ONeill and Tealc were also scorch-worthy hotties.

So I put my two cents worth in on the oversight, and in a strangely brief span of time got thoroughly caught up in your shared insanity, but by then I didnt care. I was having way too much fun.

Thats the truth, gentle readers, of how our paths to the Gate converged. But the wholesale addiction DOES include our going to a military surplus store and acquiring combat boots and olive drab BDUs, locating official SGC patches to put on them, sprinkling our conversations with phrases like Sweet!, Got your six and Ya think?, and ultimately my making camouflage slipcovers for my couch, car seats, work desk... IS ALL ROXS FAULT! IT WILL ALWAYS BE ROXS FAULT!!!!