Author's Note: Found this in a file and thought I'd post it. No beta so all mistakes are mine. (Original Author's Note from February 08: So, I was relaxing and drabbled a bit with Stargate. Not my best piece of work by far but it's been a loooong time since I've written anything. *sigh* School can be so demanding. Here goes... Athena)
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*The SGC receives an incoming signal from SG1, the Iris is opened and Gen. Hammond walks into the Gateroom.*
Gen. Hammond: "Welcome back people, we debrief in a half-hour."
*SG1 settles in for the debriefing.*
Dr. Frasier stands up and addresses the group: "I've never seen anything like it! You must have had an awful mission, or...something. What happened?"
Daniel: "The indigenous people on P3X-797 were very friendly and open to trade. There culture is similar to that of the ancient Samarians and their language is just fascinating! For example…"
Jack cuts him off: "What Daniel is trying to say is that it was a routine meet and greet."
Janet: "That can't be! You all look fine, but all of your limbic systems went into complete shock shortly after you returned, and your epinephrine levels are rising and you're going into..."
*Jack gives her his patented I-have-no-idea-what-you're-talking-about look.*
Dr. Frasier: "To put it plainly sir, you're all completely stressed. There's not much we can do."
*Jack looks over at Carter*
Jack: "Is she talking about you?"
Carter: "No sir, I haven't been working overtime so much lately; I've been leaving early."
Teal'c: "Indeed CaptainCarter, is it not true that you and DanielJackson have spent most of your evenings this week in the astrophysics lab?"
*The Science Twins look at each other guiltily.*
Daniel: "Well...uh…we leave before midnight, don't we?"
*Carter looks at him hopefully.*
Carter: "I think so…Sir, we have no idea what this artifact could mean to modern medicine! It could seriously improve life for all of man-kind! We needed at least three days to fully study it."
Jack: "Kids, SG1 is a field team, you know that."
Daniel: "But the artifact pertains to the culture of P3X-797! They developed medical technology superior to ours while primitive man was still in the stone age, this artifact contains the equivalent of over a hundred pages of typed research. The script is so tiny it can't be seen by the naked eye. It's the find of the century!"
Jack: "Isn't that what you said about the temple we found on P4C-937?"
Gen. Hammond: "Is this another one of those Science vs. Military discussion again, Doctors?"
Dr. Frasier: "Sir, their epinephrine levels are continuing to skyrocket. This is getting dangerous."
Gen. Hammond: "What do you propose we do about it?"
Dr. Frasier: "I recommend they take a vacation."
Jack: "I'm all for that! There's a Simpsons Marathon running tonight."
Teal'c: "Do you not already possess a full inventory of this serially broadcast entity?"
Jack: "Yes, but..."
Carter interrupts and sighs: "But then there's the Super Bowl on Sunday."
Daniel: "What about the artifact? I was just starting to work on a translation of the exterior text!"
Carter: "And I still want to run some diagnostics."
Jack: "Oh don't worry Daniel, it'll still be there when you get back. You can always visit it when we return from our mission next week."
*Daniel and Sam look at Gen. Hammond and Jack pleadingly.*
Gen. Hammond: *sighs* "SG1, take a break. Please. That's an order!"
*The General gets up and walks to his office wondering why SG1 always had to be so difficult.*
If only he knew what he'd go through during the next seven years to get SG1 to take a break…the worst was yet to come.
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I didn't change much from the original version. I think there will be seven chapters, one for each year General Hammond ran the Stargate program. The rest will probably be in regular story form instead of script format. Hope you enjoyed!