Title: Anthropology and Aliens
Rating: PG
Category: Bones/Stargate Atlantis crossover. Zack Addy. Diary. Spoilers for Bones season 2 finale. AU.
Summary: Zack Addy isn't in Iraq, he's in another galaxy.
A/N: I DON'T KNOW WHY!! I had the idea for this when I was trying to come with an ending for "Past in the Present" a short SG-1/Bones crossover. You don't need to read that to understand this though. Each chapter will probably be quiet short. Ignore any sciency rambly bits you don't understand :p
Chapter 1: Cover Story
I feel that there is an 80 probability - despite my knowledge of encryption - that if I should ever finish this task and be released from my duty, this journal will be discovered and destroyed for security reasons. However conservative estimates of my chance of survival are currently only at 40 and so I may as well write this for my own perusal and enjoyment whilst I can.
I feel that Iraq is a good cover story. It to is remote, dangerous and would not provide much opportunity to pop home for a visit. Communication is probably as difficult between remote regions of Iraq and Michigan as it is between the Pegasus galaxy and home. I have considered the fact that on those rare visits home they have promised me, they might smear me with fake tan. It seems logical to give me the appearance of a man who has been living in harsh conditions in the Middle East rather than in a city floating on an alien ocean in another galaxy. Perhaps I should grow my hair again.
I am currently in my quarters aboard the Daedalus avoiding having a blood test that will apparently determine if I have a gene that allows me to operate certain kinds of Ancient technology. I believe they are deliberately using simple terminology when they say gene, perhaps for the sake of the military personnel who, though very good at shooting things, have thus far not proved very stimulating in conversation. An exception to this rule would be Lt. Colonel Carter who I met at the SGC, whom I believe has an IQ comparable to mine, and much better social skills. Returning to the issue of the genetic test, to say that one has an entire extra gene possessed by the Ancients but not other humans implies that one must be a direct descendent of the Ancients. If Ancients did interbreed with humans when they both inhabited the Earth and managed to break the biological species barrier and produce fertile offspring that it is my belief that said gene would be much more common. I believe they are actually talking about a random mutation in an allele of a gene that all humans posses, most likely a transcription factor.
There is a large pile of files here for me to read, and hopefully one of them will contain the answers I seek on the subject matter. Hopefully after I have finished them tomorrow I will have the opportunity to examine more closely the engines of the ship, as well as its shield generators. I have been promised the chance to use my engineering skills as well as my main role as a biological anthropologist, as long as somebody called Dr. Rodney McKay judges I won't blow us all up.