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)...
Hmm, good point. Will have to consider this!
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.
...Which just leads me back to why Keller, because she doesn't have a specialty that we've seen. So I don't understand why she came to Atlantis. I just don't get it! Every explanation I can come up with contradicts itself. If she's good and experienced at administration, then maybe she came to be the head of medicine - except she says right in her first scene that she's not the right person for the job.
I think my problem with Keller's backstory is that I simply can't figure out what it is. All the other characters, I can put together a backstory that makes some sense to me, from what we've been given. Thanks to some failure of creativity or other, I can't figure out one for Keller, and that's why I keep asking about it so insistently.
--um, apologies for the brusque answers, I'm not at all annoyed with you, I'm just a little burned out like I said, and riding the squee-high of the recent ep, so not up to meta ^^;;;
Re: Part 2 of 2, re: 1-4 :D
Hmm, good point. Will have to consider this!
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.
...Which just leads me back to why Keller, because she doesn't have a specialty that we've seen. So I don't understand why she came to Atlantis. I just don't get it! Every explanation I can come up with contradicts itself. If she's good and experienced at administration, then maybe she came to be the head of medicine - except she says right in her first scene that she's not the right person for the job.
I think my problem with Keller's backstory is that I simply can't figure out what it is. All the other characters, I can put together a backstory that makes some sense to me, from what we've been given. Thanks to some failure of creativity or other, I can't figure out one for Keller, and that's why I keep asking about it so insistently.
--um, apologies for the brusque answers, I'm not at all annoyed with you, I'm just a little burned out like I said, and riding the squee-high of the recent ep, so not up to meta ^^;;;