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respoftwI’ve been toying with an idea for SGA fic for a while but I’m trying to get it straight in my heads as to what the SGCs policy on sending people with a need for long-term medication would be.
We know that the first Atlantis expedition was expected to be a one-way mission. (Let’s ignore the fact that they were woefully under resourced for that for now)
How would that affect the approval of expedition members with medication needs?
Diabetics and insulin? HIV positive people with their meds? Trans people and their HRT? Someone who’d had a transplant and needed anti-rejection meds?
Would they be refused or would the SGC just give them a years supply and wish them well? (I mean, it’s the SGC so it would probably be like a month supply lbr. Where was their stores of food? Or stuff to trade? Ugh! But I digress.)
Anyway, I’d be really interested to hear other people’s opinion
We know that the first Atlantis expedition was expected to be a one-way mission. (Let’s ignore the fact that they were woefully under resourced for that for now)
How would that affect the approval of expedition members with medication needs?
Diabetics and insulin? HIV positive people with their meds? Trans people and their HRT? Someone who’d had a transplant and needed anti-rejection meds?
Would they be refused or would the SGC just give them a years supply and wish them well? (I mean, it’s the SGC so it would probably be like a month supply lbr. Where was their stores of food? Or stuff to trade? Ugh! But I digress.)
Anyway, I’d be really interested to hear other people’s opinion
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Date: 2018-03-22 02:32 pm (UTC)We don’t really know how bad Rodney’s citrus allergy is and there’s never been any reference to epi pens, so maybe that wouldn’t be a problem for him?
Could be they sent the women along with menstrual cups, or maybe they outfitted them all with some kind of birth control that stops periods altogether. Might have been the easier option.
I remember hearing one time that my husband’s grandpa was the barber for his unit on account of his growing up on a farm and shearing sheep, so maybe someone just got drafted into that kind of duty, but given that haircuts are kind of a regulation thing, you’d think they’d have sent someone appropriately skilled along.
Could be the SGC sent a lot of solar chargers for devices along? Wander the balconies of Atlantis, see a veritable Best Buy of personal devices out charging.
Given the huge risk that the first year could have been a one-way trip, they probably would have tried to structure personnel like a new colony or something. People with multiple skill sets. Send along Marines to be boots on the ground who are also small engine mechanics, that kind of thing.
The point about the glasses is well-made. Zelenka, Kusanagi, and Grodin all needed glasses, right? Could be their brilliance - and the hope that they’d be kept far from combat - made them worth that risk. Granted, they sent Daniel through the gate on a potential one-way trip with glasses, so. Could also be that maybe they could survive kind of okay without their glasses for a while.
Did people on alien planets have glasses? Could be someone had the skill to maybe make new ones. Perhaps another MD doubled as an ophthalmologist.