Letters from Pegasus Week

[em_kellesvig]

More (re-interpreted) letters home.




Carson: Hullo, Mum! I hope this message finds you well. I trust your petunias are in full bloom by now. Oh, and I do hope you're keeping up with the ointment I gave you. If you've adhered to the regime, the toenail fungus should have cleared up by now.* I'm fine. Having a bit of a dry spell -- sad, isn't it? Although some of the Marines are quite charming. I'm having great fun dissecting sentient alien creatures and concocting bioweapons of mass genocide. They never let me do that on Earth for some reason. Well, take good care.

Love, Carson.



Bates: Hey, Bro! You, me, the LA Lakers! We'll do our manly bonding thing over nasty, heart attack inducing stadium food and overpriced, watered down beer while we watch rich, spoiled athletes throw a ball around and pretend they're actually relevant. We'll call it fun, and have a laugh or two, but we'll never look each other in the eye and say "I love you." Because, you know, that would be relevant.

Later, Bro.



Zelenka: Na dne more mame "failsafe" mechanismus. Obrovskou silou vytrhl kotvu mesta ze dna oceanu. My jsme... Zhrozili jsme... jsme... Zhrozili jsme se. Neuveritelny. Co se to deje, a ten hluk. Cele mesto se traslo jako pri zemetreseni. To bylo neco neuveritelnyho. A najednou se hneme. Cele mesto stoupalo, stoupalo nahoru, nahoru k hladine. To, to bylo neco neuveritelnyho. A veze prorazily hladinu a vyjeli jsme nahoru, nahoru. Vody, vlny vodopady. Vsechno tece z tech vejsek a vystrelili jsme nahoru uplne navrsek a najednou Slunce. Slunicko proste proudilo do vsech voken. Dosmrti, dosmrti na to nezapomenu.

[Translation: There is a "failsafe" mechanism on the ocean floor. With big power it ripped off the anchor of town from the bottom of ocean. We were... we were afraid... were... were... we were afraid. Unbelievable. What is happening, and that noise. The whole city was trembling as if it was an earthquake. That was something unbelievable. And suddenly we were moving. All the city was ascending, ascending up, up to the surface. That, that was something unbelievable. And the towers punched through the surface of water and we were going up, up. Waters, waves, waterfalls. All that water was falling down from that heights and we were shot up, absolutely on the top, and suddenly sun. Sun was simply shining to all windows. I will remember it to my death.]

Ford: You didn't say anything that would require security clearance, did you?

Zelenka: Security clearance?*



Miko: I am keeping busy with my job. (My boss is such an asshole.) I work hard, like everyone else, to ensure the success of this expedition. (A total asshole.) And also to please the leader of our science team. (OMG, what an asshole.) He's a very honourable and brave man. (And if he wasn't so brilliant, I'd kill him in his sleep.) He does not always remember my name, but I have enjoyed working for him very much. (He's better than Kavanaugh, that asshole.) Until then, I will continue to serve at his pleasure.* (WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE.)

Love, Miko



To General Jack O'Neill:

Everyone here is bugshit nuts.

Peter Kavanaugh, PhD



Ford: No fucking shit. They've all gone squirrely on me.

*Transcript/translation courtesy Gateworld/Letters from Pegasus



"Letters from Pegasus" 1x17

Comments

[rhia-starsong.livejournal.com]

Kavanaugh should've waited for Woolsey to be leader; they're the only two people who'd bring a dress shirt and tie to another galaxy. Also, the rest of this is hilarious. Wonderful job.

[ladysorka]

I. I would read Woolsey/Kavanagh.

I feel strange now.

[rhia-starsong.livejournal.com]

Hrm. I feel a little strange, too. I'm not sure I'd actually read it, but it sounds crazy enough that I might. ;)

[em_kellesvig]

I think the tie was his one personal item. That scares me a little. *grin*

[popkin16]

I always got the impression that Miko had a serious crush on Rodney, but it's fun to read this perspective!

[em_kellesvig]

Yeah, me too, but it's fun to play with fanon, isn't it? *grin*

[rissabby.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you did a shout-out to Gateworld for the translation. The fans over there are so dedicated that they posted transcripts of each episode within a couple of days of its first airing. And, they got translations done for all Radek's Czech. They are a great fandom resource.

[em_kellesvig]

While I'm not a member of Gateworld, I find it's an incredibly rich resource for information and its helped me a lot with these posts. Just getting names spelled right, checking dialogue -- so I can warp it, of course! -- and all sorts of other details. I can't thank them enough for being there. :)