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

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Oooh oooh oooh that's SO very good. YAY.

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.

Of course! :) :) For that is always how it is. *has watched lots of Star Trek, oh yes*

And "Deadlock" is indeed the best episode EVAR.

[daygloparker.livejournal.com]

Plus, you know, you can't have this kind of episode without McKay and Sheppard fighting about whether to let Lizzie keep going back and forth in between realities (because maybe she has some measure of control over it, even if it just a matter of PUSHING her mind to sense one more than the other).

Hot DAMN, this would rock as en episode. (But then, I'm predisposed to love the crap out of everything involving time travel/alternate dimensions.)

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. That's another good thought, because I hadn't considered that she was traveling back and forth. I mean, it was a dream, so there was no real reason for her to be badly affected by the continued existance of this other universe. She was just... aware of it in some way, as well as getting sick because of it.

I wonder how the one universe is continuing on with normal time while the other is looping... that doesn't make much sense... it's all quite confusing. Damn you, fever dreams with plotholes!!

But her being trapped between them... ooooh. *ponders more* This may be, like, 4 fics in one. Heh.

[daygloparker.livejournal.com]

Well... *pulls out geek degree* because she's one person occupying in the same spot in two places at once (in other words, being wedged between two realities), she's probably suffering from the temporal cascade failure thing that made AU!Sam get all wonky in "Point of View." That, combined with whatever hit her and caused the split in the first place? recipe for flu-like symptoms, methinks.

I wonder how the one universe is continuing on with normal time while the other is looping...
Caused by the tear, perhaps? That when time and space got ripped apart, it threw things off kilter, sort of like a record skipping if it gets knocked.

*needs to stop thinking so hard and geeking out so much about someone else's idea* You know, this reaction is exactly why taylorkate wrote her cracked-out-but-in-a-good-way time travel fic.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Thank you. I'm usually good at the technobabble explanations, but not when sick, so YAY YAY YAY for you! :) :)

Caused by the tear, perhaps? That when time and space got ripped apart, it threw things off kilter, sort of like a record skipping if it gets knocked.

Lizzie's not sick because of the different DIMENSIONS, it's because she's still attached to this time that's looping!! The farther they get from the time, the sicker she gets... and the more time it loops, the more the other universe degrades because it's separated from the "real" time of the universe!!

You know, this reaction is exactly why taylorkate wrote her cracked-out-but-in-a-good-way time travel fic.

Dude, AWESOME. And I totally need to you to think hard and geek out about this :) :) :) If you really want to write it, you're welcome to. Because otherwise I'll make you keep helping me!

[daygloparker.livejournal.com]

The farther they get from the time, the sicker she gets... and the more time it loops, the more the other universe degrades because it's separated from the "real" time of the universe!!

ahahaHAHAHAHA. YES. Every time the one dimension loops, the tear grows exponentially. Because time isn't SUPPOSED to loop and it's BREAKING DOWN. Like a BLACK HOLE.


Ahhh, I would love to write this, but I've already got a way-neglected Weir/time looping of massive portions fic on my plate. I am *so* predictable.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Because time isn't SUPPOSED to loop and it's BREAKING DOWN. Like a BLACK HOLE.

OMG if we were ever in the same room together we would talk ONLY IN TECHNOBABBLE OMFG.

Ahhh, I would love to write this, but I've already got a way-neglected Weir/time looping of massive portions fic on my plate.

Ha! YAY!! And... *sigh* I guess I'm back on the hook for this one, then ;)

[daygloparker.livejournal.com]

*suddenly feels like this icon is very appropriate*

*motivates you to write*

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

*snicker* *loves icon*

The funniest bit watching that scene today was me realizing that that random babbling is exactly what Lizzie hears when McKay normally technobabbles at her.

Mmm... mebbe tomorrow with the writing... am kinda sicky so not really able to sleep byt it's getting difficult to find the right keys to type.

[daygloparker.livejournal.com]

I KNOW!! One of my favorite Weir bits is from "Hide & Seek," when Carson asks about how things travel through the Stargate, she manages to sum up all the technobable into: "The gate only sends things in one piece." It's not even parituclarly funny, just in her delivery, but seriously? kills me every time.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess she does understand them, then... but has the ability to see things at their simplest ;)

*loves Lizzie lots*