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Five Times Daniel Lied about a Translation (Gen, PG-13):
This was posted last week at Five Things. I wanted to wait a week before I posted it on my LJ, so here it is now...
1. While going through the scrolls left by an obscure cult on P3X-728—mathematics and history, art and literature, ethics and social beliefs, Daniel found the following passage ‘Conflict holds no place in our hearts, or in our memories. We seek not to immortalize battle, nor the works it has produced. Rather, we immortalize knowledge, for it is our greatest weapon.’
When Jack asked what it said, Daniel told him the library contained the cult's greatest weapon—at least they’d though so... He didn’t tell him that there would be no information about actually building a weapon. So that was sort of a lie—a lie of omission. He knew he was giving the wrong impression, but the writer of the passage wasn’t wrong. Knowledge was as likely to defeat the Goa’uld as guns. Well, knowledge and guns… He did tell Jack that if there was anything of value in the library, it would take a long time to find—that it should be another team who did the work, not SG-1. That felt like a lie, too. He really thought it should be him.
2. The planet had no name. It was ancient, it’s sun almost extinguished, bitterly cold and inhospitable. Daniel was the last person who would see these ruins, who would translate them and remember these people.
He read the words aloud. The words weren’t the lie. The lie was that anyone would hear them, because Daniel was alone. Alone on a planet that would never support human life again.
That wasn’t a problem—Daniel wasn’t human, but he wished someone could hear the words.
3. On P3C-491, they were met at the gate. The people who approached congratulated Daniel on the capture of an ‘unclean’ Jaffa. Before he could tell them Teal’c was a friend, a man volunteered—proudly—that they had used the stargate to slaughter a village of Jaffa women and children just the day before. Daniel asked for the address, implying that he wanted to witness their triumph. That was hard—so hard, but he really wanted to find the victims. Some might still be alive.
He didn’t translate anything. He just said an atrocity had been committed against a Jaffa village, that there might be survivors. Daniel planned on telling the rest of the team the truth so they could figure out what to do. He just didn’t think they should still be on P3C-491 when he did it.
Maybe they could come back and disable the stargate… That would be a much better choice than what Teal’c would want to do. Even if Daniel felt like doing the same thing.
4. When Daniel went from world to world as a Prior, trying to attract the attention of the SGC, he was very careful. He was careful to twist the message just a little bit so it wouldn’t deliver listeners to the Ori, to plant ideas that would make them doubt the wisdom of unquestioning worship and obedience—giving a message that sounded like Origin, but at its heart was resistance.
When another Prior, a real Prior, arrived on a world that Daniel had supposedly converted, Daniel was asked about freshly painted writing on a wall. He told the Prior it said ‘hallowed are the Ori.’ It didn’t, not even close, but the Prior believed him and went on to another world.
Daniel was under no illusions. The Ori would find out about his deception quickly. He hoped it was just before they died.
5. When the ark was turned over to Area 51, Daniel was asked if he knew what the other symbols meant, the ones that hadn’t been used to free the minds of the Priors and take away Adria’s stolen power. He said no. That was a lie. Well, a partial lie...
He knew what some of them meant, but not enough—not enough to disable or destroy the ark. When he did, he didn't think he'd tell anyone. No translations. Or another lie.
Asking hadn’t worked before, and it still wouldn’t work. Telling SG-1 would just cause them... trouble. He wouldn’t tell anyone, but he thought he knew what he’d do. And it was something he had to do by himself.
1. While going through the scrolls left by an obscure cult on P3X-728—mathematics and history, art and literature, ethics and social beliefs, Daniel found the following passage ‘Conflict holds no place in our hearts, or in our memories. We seek not to immortalize battle, nor the works it has produced. Rather, we immortalize knowledge, for it is our greatest weapon.’
When Jack asked what it said, Daniel told him the library contained the cult's greatest weapon—at least they’d though so... He didn’t tell him that there would be no information about actually building a weapon. So that was sort of a lie—a lie of omission. He knew he was giving the wrong impression, but the writer of the passage wasn’t wrong. Knowledge was as likely to defeat the Goa’uld as guns. Well, knowledge and guns… He did tell Jack that if there was anything of value in the library, it would take a long time to find—that it should be another team who did the work, not SG-1. That felt like a lie, too. He really thought it should be him.
2. The planet had no name. It was ancient, it’s sun almost extinguished, bitterly cold and inhospitable. Daniel was the last person who would see these ruins, who would translate them and remember these people.
He read the words aloud. The words weren’t the lie. The lie was that anyone would hear them, because Daniel was alone. Alone on a planet that would never support human life again.
That wasn’t a problem—Daniel wasn’t human, but he wished someone could hear the words.
3. On P3C-491, they were met at the gate. The people who approached congratulated Daniel on the capture of an ‘unclean’ Jaffa. Before he could tell them Teal’c was a friend, a man volunteered—proudly—that they had used the stargate to slaughter a village of Jaffa women and children just the day before. Daniel asked for the address, implying that he wanted to witness their triumph. That was hard—so hard, but he really wanted to find the victims. Some might still be alive.
He didn’t translate anything. He just said an atrocity had been committed against a Jaffa village, that there might be survivors. Daniel planned on telling the rest of the team the truth so they could figure out what to do. He just didn’t think they should still be on P3C-491 when he did it.
Maybe they could come back and disable the stargate… That would be a much better choice than what Teal’c would want to do. Even if Daniel felt like doing the same thing.
4. When Daniel went from world to world as a Prior, trying to attract the attention of the SGC, he was very careful. He was careful to twist the message just a little bit so it wouldn’t deliver listeners to the Ori, to plant ideas that would make them doubt the wisdom of unquestioning worship and obedience—giving a message that sounded like Origin, but at its heart was resistance.
When another Prior, a real Prior, arrived on a world that Daniel had supposedly converted, Daniel was asked about freshly painted writing on a wall. He told the Prior it said ‘hallowed are the Ori.’ It didn’t, not even close, but the Prior believed him and went on to another world.
Daniel was under no illusions. The Ori would find out about his deception quickly. He hoped it was just before they died.
5. When the ark was turned over to Area 51, Daniel was asked if he knew what the other symbols meant, the ones that hadn’t been used to free the minds of the Priors and take away Adria’s stolen power. He said no. That was a lie. Well, a partial lie...
He knew what some of them meant, but not enough—not enough to disable or destroy the ark. When he did, he didn't think he'd tell anyone. No translations. Or another lie.
Asking hadn’t worked before, and it still wouldn’t work. Telling SG-1 would just cause them... trouble. He wouldn’t tell anyone, but he thought he knew what he’d do. And it was something he had to do by himself.