my fever dreams are so plagiarized, omfg!

[mylittleredgirl]

I awake from bizarre Atlantis fever-dream, and go "Dude! That was cool!" And then "Wait... that sounds... familiar."

Apparently, my subconscious, being too sick and lazy to come up with its own plotline for the day, reached into a grab bag of Star Trek episodes and tossed them into the Atlantis universe. In a blender, in the Atlantis universe.

I will colour-code the references for you, because... um, well, because I still have a high fever and it amuses me:

Classic / The Next Generation / Deep Space Nine / Voyager / Enterprise

So. Atlantis. Except it's not really Atlantis. It's some kind of mirror universe ("Mirror, Mirror" or "Crossover"), and it's occupying the exact same space and time that *our* Atlantis is occupying ("Deadlock"). This mirror split off fairly recently, and the connection between them is somehow Dr. Weir -- she's the only one from *our* Atlantis being at all affected by this anomaly, because it's All About Her, or Because Of Her somehow ("All Good Things...").

Over in mirror!'lantis, all is not well. First of all, they (and possibly our Atlantis as well, still not sure about that) are existing in a time loop ("Cause and Effect") which is making them relive the same few hours or days or whatever over and over again. Not only that -- they're all getting unhinged, either because the lack of sleep ("Night Terrors") is somehow carrying through the time loops, or because whatever *caused* the alternate-universe-ing / time-loop thing is poisoning them and driving them crazy (That one Enterprise episode whose title I can't remember but I always refer to as "Night Of The Living Vulcans").

Like in our universe, their Lizzie is affected most and first, and this craziness induces her to jump John Sheppard in a turbolift in repeated timeloops and it is all Violent And Angry Jumping in at least one of them, for, you know, the craziness ("Man of the People" -- which, incidentally, is the episode I fell asleep watching when all this feverish madness began). The mirror!'lantis people start to realize that something is Very Very Wrong, but are powerless to fix it ("Course: Oblivion").

Meanwhile, back in regular!'lantis, Lizzie is kinda sick and hallucinating and babbling all this stuff and possibly dying ("Twisted"), and weird technobabbly things are happening because of the mirror!verse having split off. Shep and Teyla (and possibly Ford and McKay, that part kept swooshing in and out) hop in a puddle-jumper and fly outside the range of the anomaly to... like... scan it or something. And somehow manage to switch into the alterna!verse long enough to go *visit* the alterna'lantis and see how scary and bad things have gotten over there.

And... somehow, this gaping plothole brought to you by this being a dream, the have to reintegrate the two mirrors or, like, the fabric of the universe will implode or Lizzie will die or something, and equally nebulously, that happens! MAGIC. But because Lizzie is somehow the link that's connecting the two 'verses, all of alterna'lizzie's memories get whooshed into her. (... I don't remember what episode that idea's from, but I'm SURE it has happened on Star Trek.)

Let it be said that I very much love my brain for how it entertains me.

Now hopefully all my shrieking at the sci-fi gleee on the television will keep me awake. :) Laaaaaaaa.

Comments

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Hee. You SO need to write that.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Even though every inch of it has been done before?

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

YESH!!!

Everything is warmed-over something. There's like, what, ten plots out there?

...besides, I don't think it's been done in that combo before?

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Well, probably not, because that's like eight times more sci-fi-anomaly-plots than any sane story would have!! I have no idea how to sort out or write the necessary science babble to tie it all together!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Awww. *brain is flattered*

I seriously appreciate it sometimes, yes. It's making being sick much more interesting.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

:) YAY!! Of course, you've never known me not sick, but I'm not usually sick like this! I like my brain. It makes things fun.

[daygloparker.livejournal.com]

Oh. DUDE. Write that RIGHT NOW or I will

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Ha! I was all "I can't write this, because NO PART of this is actually original." And now I'm like "Hmmm... this could be written and kinda cool..." except I can't sort out at all the necessary science-y bit to tie it all together. It made more sense when I was asleep and my fever was higher ;)

So... make suggestion? Or demand that I hand it over to you? :)

[daygloparker.livejournal.com]

Well... Janus had to build his timeship somewhere in Atlantis. Maybe they find his lab, and while she's there surveying their progress, a piece of Ancient equipment overloads and zaps Lizzie with a Magic Time Beam Thing. AAAAAAaaaaaand that's how the seperate realities are created and why she's the focal point of it. And if they don't fix it, the tear in the time-space-continuum-whatever will grow and grow and grow and the reality they know well disappear forever.

(Or maybe "Deadlock" really is just my favorite episode EVER.)

[alliesings.livejournal.com]

I totally have dreams like that whenever I'm sick. (And even when I'm not sick: I had a commandos-with-zats dream last night.)

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

I have freaking awesome dreams. With plots that carry over from night to night, often. *happy* It's the one thing that makes the sleeping-13-hours-a-night-still-from-mono thing bearable ;)

And COOL! Zats are funny.

[j-guda.livejournal.com]

Oh good, I'm not the only one who has weird Atlantis dreams.

Mine didn't go the Trek route... just Every Scifi Cliche Ever.

Rather than transports people travel around the city through mini, horizontal stargates (which by the by the vertical whoosh was seriously cool). Only something goes wrong (dun dun DUHN) while John, Liz, McKay and Ford go through a little worm hole together, and each time they come out in a different reality. Widower John stares soulfully at Lizzie and tells our John to take care of her (Say it with me now "Awww."). Wraith!Liz and Mckay try to capture them. Etc., etc., et al. Ford gives impassioned speech to wraith ravaged alt-pop about how each leap might be the leap home (swear to god I was waiting for Al to show up and yell at Gushie). Map of the city reveals giant space that has never been scene. They 'jump' to it. Ancient!Guy in giant meadow of yellow flowers was controlling trip the whole time, may or may have been Willard Scott (say it with me now "WTF?"), gives impassioned speech about learning from other realities and sends them home. John/Liz share soulfull moment and major kissage, McKay kisses the floor and Ford gives Tayla his Baseball cap (Yeah, I don't get that last one, either).

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

...Willard Scott? Did he tell you who was celebrating a birthday today?

[j-guda.livejournal.com]

hahaha! No, he just kinda glowed angelicly and when Ford asked him point blank if he was Willard Scott, he said something Oma Desala like about the weather. And Shep said something about Smuckers jam and Willard got pissed off and changed the subject. Mckay turned into a total fanboy though and kept asking what Al Roker was really like. I have a very very strange brain.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Dude... it's like... Sliders: Atlantis. That's frickin' awesome!!

Ford gives Tayla his Baseball cap (Yeah, I don't get that last one, either).

Doesn't matter, for is SO CUTE and full of squeeee!!! :)

[j-guda.livejournal.com]

Dude... it's like... Sliders: Atlantis. That's frickin' awesome!!

OMG it is! I never realized! Wraith = Cromags, it makes so much sense now! :D

Doesn't matter, for is SO CUTE and full of squeeee!!! :)

I know. I like my brain sometimes. :)

[roothekittykat.livejournal.com]

you know what, I agree with everyone else. You need to write it! :D

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, you know, we're all just fichounds. No one ever says "You know, I don't think you should write this thing that may be totally batshit crazy with the plot yet has potential for characters making out." ;)

Thanks for the encouragement :)

[roothekittykat.livejournal.com]

LoL:)

hey, I do have some dignity. If I thought it was a completely awful idea I wouldn't have replied! LoL;)

anything I can do! :D

[pellmelody.livejournal.com]

You should write this as a story. I might understand it better cause it boggled my warped little mind.

Oh, and you have to have porn in it. Yeah. *nods*

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Uh... I have no idea how to make it any clearer. I've been asking for suggestions, for I too am boggled.

[naushika.livejournal.com]

Your brain is a place I want to live in.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

I should let rooms. :)

Also, I LOVE your icon. And how very apt it is, oh yes.