I hope I'm not butting in! I thought I didn't have anymore to say... but now that I'm meta-ing, I can't stop. :O
Which is where my own personal fanon starts contradicting with canon - having some experience with academic environments, I always had the impression such bickering and jostling does take place, we just don't see it because we almost never see the underlings saying anything. We've never seen it (save Rodney hoping to get Elizabeth's job at the beginning of "Reunion"),
Wouldn't competition be detrimental to the purpose of Atlantis? Especially since they're pretty much in a war right now? I've heard about some of the competitive nature of academic environments (my friend has told me horror stories about the "feud" between her lab and the medical lab even though the medical lab had more funding and more prestige), but I think Atlantis is a special case. For one thing, a seniority position would mean greater responsibility and probably less time with their own individual research and possibly more time off-world in danger.
Also, considering that most of the scientists can't reveal the content of their research or their discoveries (or publish any papers and hold any conferences) then... I can't really see the normal type of academic competition on Atlantis? Usually, it's always competing for publications (being the first to publish in a new area of research/discovery/technique) and funding, which can be linked to publishing papers on that new area of research/discovery/technique)...
Far from being a competitive environment, Atlantis is like Alaska, where you get banished if you screw up...except that Dr. Porter wanted to come...ah, I don't know! Except I know it frustrates me! XP
I think in my head, the ones who come to Atlantis are the specialists in their field, but not only that, they're kind of misfits, the ones who don't fit in. They're passionate about their field to forgo the prestige and accreditation that is usually so important in the academic environments they would have been working on and they love researching on Atlantis enough to take the risk in the unknown.
They didn't give Keller a counter, and it bugs me.
Ah, this explains why I only was neutral-okay with Keller in the beginning! I didn't dislike her, but she seemed too bland for me to really like her. So she hovered somewhere in the background while most of my focus was on Rodney. ;)
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Re: Part 2 of 2, re: 1-4 :D
Date: 2008-09-27 03:51 pm (UTC)Which is where my own personal fanon starts contradicting with canon - having some experience with academic environments, I always had the impression such bickering and jostling does take place, we just don't see it because we almost never see the underlings saying anything. We've never seen it (save Rodney hoping to get Elizabeth's job at the beginning of "Reunion"),
Wouldn't competition be detrimental to the purpose of Atlantis? Especially since they're pretty much in a war right now? I've heard about some of the competitive nature of academic environments (my friend has told me horror stories about the "feud" between her lab and the medical lab even though the medical lab had more funding and more prestige), but I think Atlantis is a special case. For one thing, a seniority position would mean greater responsibility and probably less time with their own individual research and possibly more time off-world in danger.
Also, considering that most of the scientists can't reveal the content of their research or their discoveries (or publish any papers and hold any conferences) then... I can't really see the normal type of academic competition on Atlantis? Usually, it's always competing for publications (being the first to publish in a new area of research/discovery/technique) and funding, which can be linked to publishing papers on that new area of research/discovery/technique)...
Far from being a competitive environment, Atlantis is like Alaska, where you get banished if you screw up...except that Dr. Porter wanted to come...ah, I don't know! Except I know it frustrates me! XP
I think in my head, the ones who come to Atlantis are the specialists in their field, but not only that, they're kind of misfits, the ones who don't fit in. They're passionate about their field to forgo the prestige and accreditation that is usually so important in the academic environments they would have been working on and they love researching on Atlantis enough to take the risk in the unknown.
They didn't give Keller a counter, and it bugs me.
Ah, this explains why I only was neutral-okay with Keller in the beginning! I didn't dislike her, but she seemed too bland for me to really like her. So she hovered somewhere in the background while most of my focus was on Rodney. ;)