Nikki- A Stargate is a large ring made out of an alien metal. When used it opens a stable wormhole to other planets and people or objects can go through it. It's the entire basis of the stories under the Stargate Sg-1 category. I suggest trying to watch an episode. I would make a little more sense, or confuse you more, depending on the episode you see. Thanks for the review.
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"Hey Danny. What's up?" Jack asked as he entered the office of the base's archaeologist, Dr. Daniel Jackson.
"I'm checking my e-mail and trying to translate this artifact." Daniel answered, pointing to a circular slab on his desk.
"Speaking about e-mail. I got your e-mail about having a base newsletter today. I think that's a great idea. And it would be more reliable than the SGC grapevine." Jack told him, remembering why he had come.
"Jack, I sent that e-mail a week and a half ago. You got it today?" Daniel asked.
"Yeah. I had to ask an SF to help me find my office. Then Major Carter helped me get into my e-mail." He answered.
"You have an office?" Daniel asked.
"Apparently." He answered. "It was really neat, but I had to dust. There was dust everywhere."
"It probably had to do with the fact that you've never been in there. I'm surprised the door worked." Daniel retorted.
"I'll let you get back to work. I have about 500 more e-mails to check. What does it mean when there is the word 'memo' before a number in the subject line?" Jack asked.
"The word 'memo' means the e-mail is a memo and the number is the date it was sent." Daniel answered, surprised. "You really have never checked your base e-mail?"
"I didn't even know I had an office let alone a computer and e-mail. And I wondered why I didn't get any of the memos." Jack finished. "Bye." And he turned and left.
Upon entering his office he looked around, then sat in his chair and looked at the computer. He looked at the total e-mail count and gasped. Since he had left to see Daniel the number of e-mails in his box had tripled. Apparently someone had resent the memos to him many times when he hadn't gotten to them. He picked up the phone and dialed the number to Sam's Lab, when she answered the phone on the other end he let out a sigh of relief.
"Major, I need some help. I have about 2000 e-mails on here and most of them are the same. Is there some way to organize them." He spoke into the phone.
"Colonel? Yeah, of course. Your in your office?" She asked from her lab.
"Yeah." He answered.
"I'll be there in a couple minutes, sir." She stated.
"Thank you, Major." He said before hanging up. He looked at the screen one more time and put his face in his hands. This was going to take a while.
He didn't lift his head until he heard a knock on his door. "Enter." He called to the knocker and Sam opened the door. She walked in and he got up to let her have the chair. "There are too many e-mails in there for me to read and most of them are duplicates." He complained, pointing at the computer.
"What do you want me to do, sir?" She asked.
"Can you delete duplicates so that I have only one of each e-mail and make a special folder or something for memos?" He asked her.
"Okay. I'll start with the memos." She said, sitting down. She typed on the computer for a while and clicked a whole bunch of things. Jack stood behind her and looked at the screen. The total in the Inbox had gone from 2000 to about a hundred. There was also a folder titled 'Memos.' It now held 1900 unread e-mails. Sam double-clicked on the 'Memos' folder and a new page showed up. It took forever to load. She then showed Jack how to look through the subjects. Her instructions were to find as many as he could with the same date. When he found them he would look through them and if the were the same he would read one and delete them all. Then move on to the next date.
"Thanks, Carter." He said looking up from the screen. She had moved to behind his screen and he had moved back to his chair.
"Call me again if you need help, sir." She told him and turned to the door.
"I will, Major." He responded and she left.
Jack spent the rest of the day sifting through his e-mail and by the end of the day his computer was much faster and he had sent some e-mails to Daniel and Sam.
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Daniel sat in his office. He had finished translating the artifact the had occupied his desk and sent it to be put in storage. It was 1700 now and he was checking his e-mail again. He looked at his Inbox. 15 new e-mails. He pulled a piece of paper and a pencil from the pile of mess on his desk and cleared a space next to his keyboard.
Half an hour later12 of the new e-mails had been more responses to the newsletter idea. He added the names to the list he had started when he sent the e-mail. A total of 53 people wanted to get the e-mail as of now. The other three e-mails were from Jack. He had cleared out his Inbox and gone through his memos and was learning to send e-mails.
E-mail checking was done. He quickly signed of and picked up his phone.
"General Hammond, please." He asked the secretary on the other line.
"Hammond."
"General Hammond. I have a list of people who want the newsletter and some ideas they've suggested. I was wondering if I could come down and run these things by you." He stated to the phone.
"I'm not busy, so why don't you come to my office now?" Hammond questioned.
"Okay. I'll be there in a minute." He said hanging up. He quickly gathered the papers he had been taking notes on. And rushed off to General Hammond's office. He stopped jogging when he saw the door and walked calmly to it. He knocked on the door and waited for an answer.
"Enter." General Hammond said from the other side of the door. Daniel walked quietly into the room and shut the door behind him.
"This is a list of people who have told me they would like the newsletter e-mailed to them." Daniel spoke confidently, while shuffling through his papers. He found the one he was looking for and handed it to the General.
Hammond looked the paper over and nodded. "Okay."
"These are some ideas that they had." Daniel said handing him another piece of paper.
Hammond read the paper and looked up. "This is all okay, except the Gag section. I have no problem with putting in jokes or something, but nothing to give people ideas. I have to deal with enough pranks from the people on this base without giving them any new ideas. I also have an idea. I think it would be beneficial to put in a section about new developments from the Science and Archaeology Departments. That way everyone can see what you guys do."
"I can deal with that. And I'm sure Sam can help me write the New Developments section. Anything else?" Daniel assured.
"Yes. Just a small thing though." George Hammond began. "I want you to find something Colonel O'Neill can do to work on this newsletter."
"Colonel Jack O'Neill?" Daniel asked, surprised.
"The one and only, Dr. Jackson." Hammond stated. "When he gets bored he reeks havoc on my base. I need you to find something he can do on here to occupy him. Give a small column to write or something. Nothing too big and nothing that he can use the wrong way, to make more havoc."
"I'll try." Daniel said, thinking over the jobs he could give Jack. "Thank you for seeing me." He stood up and left, making his way back to his office. Finding a job for Jack was going to be hard.
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Author's Notes: I kinda sidetracked on this chapter with the computer and office thing, but I had so much fun writing it that I wanted to share it. I hope you don't mind.
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