There’s a scene in Stargate Atlantis tonight, where there’s a busboy clearing a table in the canteen. What’s it got to be like to be a busboy in another galaxy? Like, not a soldier or a researcher – just a busboy.
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I noticed that, too.
I watched a show on discovery or the history channel where they showed life on an aircraft carrier. They interviewed the guy cleaning the head and he said something like, “Join the navy, see the world, they said. All I ever see is the inside of this head.” He did not re-enlist.
The galactic busboy reminded me of that.
Man, I like that Battlestar Galactica show.
I had images of Philip J. Fry when reading about the galactic busboy…