Author's note: A small attempt at humor, though I'm not entirely sure I succeeded. It's not my best, but it's the only thing I've been able to finish. I left this as dialogue on purpose; I thought it sounded better this way.
Disclaimer: I don't own SGA. Other people with much more money own it. Besides, if I owned it I'd be driving a much nicer car.
"What is that?
"I'm not sure…"
"Are you getting any readings from it?"
"….No, nothing."
"I have never encountered anything like this before."
"Me either. It's kind of…."
"Freaky?"
"I was going to say ugly, but that works too."
"Maybe it's a sculpture of some kind.'
"What?"
"I must say that I agree."
"Are you kidding me? That is not art. That's…. well, I don't know what it is, but it's definitely not art."
"You'd be surprised at what some people call art. I had a girlfriend who was into modern art, she used to drag me to all these stupid galleries. In one of the exhibits someone had glued a rubber chicken to an axe and put it on display, and that was normal compared to some of the other stuff there."
"What does that have to do with our current situation? That thing is not art, and that's final."
"Kind of looks like a snowman."
"A mutilated, partially- melted snowman maybe."
"What is a snowman?"
"It's a man you build out of snow. A snowman."
"Oh."
"Sounds dumb."
"Yes, well no one asked you, did they?"
"You know, it does sort of look like a snowman."
"Or maybe a giant beer bottle."
"Leave it to you to think of alcohol, Colonel."
"You know what? You're both wrong. It's a lump of rock. Can we go now?"
"Yeah, I don't think there's anything else we can do here. We'll take it back with us and maybe someone will be able to figure out what the hell it is."
"We can't take it back with us! It could be a weapon of some kind!"
"I thought you said you didn't get any readings from it."
"That doesn't mean anything. It could be inactive at the moment."
"Fine. Can we at least take some pictures?"
"Yes, yes,that we can do."
"You know, it kind of looks like this lamp my mom had when I was a kid…"
"Art appreciation 101 in the Pegasus galaxy….what's next, great musical compositions of the Ancients?"
"What was that, Dr. 'I'm Smarter Than Everyone in the Galaxy' ?"
"Nothing, nothing."
"That's what I thought."
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