AFT SG-1: General O'Neill briefs the new president about the Stargate programme

[dieastra]

Today was a very special day for my homecity Dresden: US president Barack Obama came for a quick visit. It was a great honor for all of us.


I want to show you some action figure theater: General Jack O'Neill is briefing the new president about the Stargate programme. Because of the lenght of the story I put most of it behind an LJ cut. Enjoy!

A huge Thank you goes to lolmac for the beta of the English dialogue!

Aus diesem Anlass möchte ich Euch eine weitere Actionfigurentheater-Geschichte präsentieren: General O'Neill weiht den neuen Präsidenten in das Stargate-Programm ein. Weil die Story so lang ist, habe ich einen Teil hinter einem Link versteckt. Viel Spaß damit!

Jack: [knocking] Knock, knock. Do you have a minute, Mister President?



Obama: [inviting] General O’Neill! Sure, come on in. How’s the fishing?



Jack: [jovial] I’m just on my way. But there are important matters I have to discuss with you first, Sir. I’m here to officially brief you on the Stargate programme.



Obama: Star- what?





English conclusion:

Jack: The Stargate, sir. It’s an alien doohickey, a kind of round spinny thing, which…

Obama: Round spinny thing? Is that a technical term?

Jack: [shrugging] Not exactly. Carter could explain it so much better than I.

Obama: [wondering] Well, then why didn’t you bring her with you?

Jack: [wincing] Actually, I did, sir. If you please could help me with the backpack?



Sam: Colonel Samantha Carter reporting, sir!



Obama: [gaping]



Sam: [apologizing] Sorry, Mister President. There was an accident in Dr. Lee’s laboratory, which resulted in a massive case of…

Jack: [interrupting] He shrunk Carter.

Sam: [annoyed] I’m sure we’ll soon be able to reverse it. Anyway, this is a model of the Stargate. It’s made of naquadah, measuring roughly 22 feet in diameter and weighing about 64,000 pounds. It breaks down matter into patterns of energy and then…



Jack: [zoning out and only hearing technobabble naquadah technobabble subspace technobabble vortex technobabble Event Horizon technobabble wormhole]

Obama: [wondering] What is a wormhole?

Sam: It’s called a wormhole because…



Jack: [piping up] Oh please, not the analogy with the apple again!

Sam: [glaring] … it goes through space like a worm through an apple. It’s controlled with a DHD – that’s short for a Dial Home Device



Jack: By the way, Mister President, I have a present for you. It’s called a GDO. If you ever happen to be on the wrong side of the Stargate, just punch those numbers, and we’ll open the door for you.

Obama: Thank you, Jack, but I don’t think that will be necessary. How could I end up on the wrong side of the Stargate anyway?



Jack: [mumbling] Thor, old buddy, this is your signal. Take him for a ride!

Obama: [vanishing]



Jack: [suspicious] Just what else do you have in that bag of yours, Carter?



Sam: [blushing] Um, nothing, sir.

Jack: [insisting] Lemme see!



Jack: You have a doll? Of ME?!?



Sam: [trying to find a rabbit hole]

Jack: [bemused] I wonder if her getting smaller has been an accident after all.

End of story

Related links:

I'm famous *thud*

Pictures of Obama in Dresden part 1

Pictures of Obama in Dresden part 2




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Comments

[tina-fandom.livejournal.com]

As always, adorable, it made me smile and laugh! I was especially impressed by the creative use of a shoebox as door and corridor. I would never have thought of such a simple solution, but the angle the picture is taken from makes it work. The first picture of mini-Sam was actually positioned and angled so that it almost looked like they were the same size, but still the further posts and the explanation were great! Also, the creative use of a spot of light was good! ( I accidentally created a "sun" with a flashlight when I took those crappy laptop pics, and I'm going to keep it in the final product because I liked it. ) Mini-Sam having a mini-Jack is adorable! ( I actually have Sean Bean in four sizes, mostly Boromir but also a 12-inch Alec Trevelyan. )

As for how my project is going... I had a lot of fun for hours and pretty much photographed and planned out the whole story... but then when I transferred the photos to my computer, it turned out that they were all blurry. Seems I can't hold the camera steady and have to find something to place it on, at just the right height for every scene. I kind of lost my inspiration after that setback... and then my parents needed their camera. I have all of Sheppard's team now anyway, including a headswapped Field Ops Rodney ( sadly the shaving messed up his face a bit ) and the Pegasus gate ( a kind forum member sent me Weir's piece ) and making a stand for it shouldn't be too hard I hope!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Thanks for commenting on the shoebox! So it was recognizable as one, yes? Tried to photograph it without any writings to be shown.
I like that kind of simple solutions. Just buying stuff is easy, but I like to be creative. I always look around like MacGyver and find different usage for things. I recently saw somebody using a brown beautycase as a desk for her Elizabet Weir. Love such things!

I think you need somebody to hold the light for you. Just tell me when I shall come over ;)

Sorry to hear about the set back with your project. I understand you don't want to post blurry pictures, but I would be interested in seeing them anyway, just to get an idea what you had planned. If you like to send them by e-mail to me.
As for the blurry - it also could be you forgot to set the button for close-ups? When photographing that near to an object it must be set, otherwise the picture gets blurry. Just an idea? My button shows some flower pictogramme.

Also sorry to hear that Rodney's face suffered because of the shaving. Did you put a band aid on him? LOL

Thanks for the comment! Did you see the other post I made regarding the Obama figure, the "I'm famous" one?

http://dieastra.livejournal.com/4234.html

[tina-fandom.livejournal.com]

Yes, I tried with the closeup button thingie too, but it says in the manual that it's only for when the distance to the object is like 10 centimetres, and that's too little. I tried placing the camera on another bookshelf and took a picture, and that turned out ok, so now I have to set up something to place the camera on, at the exact height and angle, for every picture. And I take them all over my apartment. I've also realized that I need to rewrite the "plot" so the pictures I took aren't the right scenes anymore. But I'll send them over to you anyway, I had far too much fun with them. I've borrowed my parents' camera again this weekend, but I have a couple of other projects I need to catch up with first.