Daniel Jackson's Record

[aurora_novarum]

Okay, I actually did this a while ago, but sg_fignewton's recent canon/fanon discussion made me decide to note it here.

I think I know Daniel's birth place.

I know fanon has two big camps of Daniel Jackson's birthplace. Either New York (where the parents died) or Egypt...because I guess he's an Egyptologist and/or his parents were putting up an Egyptian exhibit?

Anyway, I proffer that Daniel Jackson was born in Olympia. Either in Greece or in Oregon. I wanted it to be Oregon, since that's where Grandpa Nick was committed. But, there's no such place as Olympia, Oregon, but there is Olympia, Greece. After staring at the following picture, or its equivalent from my dvd pause and zoom, I'm positive it's some round letter O/G/C/Q and R as the state (or country) of birth.



I know pictures are questionable canon. Carter's birth month shown on a screen in "Entity" is different than the May month Orlin mentions in "Ascension", and O'Neill's age differs from "Brief Candle" to the id card shown in "Fragile Balance". But Daniel's birth information is open to question (I still want to know when July is in Stargate land if Daniel is 4 "and a half" in August of 1969).

This is how I've translated the above picture:
ENLISTMENT RECORD NO: 00-404-226
ENLISTMENT RECORD: ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE


NAME: JACKSON, DANIEL DATE OF BIRTH: [ILLEGIBLE]
PLACE OF BIRTH: OLYMPIA, OR/GR (?)
SEX: MALE RACE: CAU
COLOR OF EYES: BLUE COLOR OF HAIR: BROWN
HEIGHT: 6'00"
WEIGHT: 175 LBS.

HOME ADDRESS: 4?00 [ILLEGIBLE STREET]
MARITAL STATUS: SINGLE

EDUCATION
HIGH SCHOOL: GRADUATED
FIRST SECONDARY: GRADUATED
FINAL DEGREE: PHD
DEGREE OF STUDY: ARCH ANTH

MAIN CIVILIAN OCCUPATION:
ACADEMIC - ARCHEOLOGICAL TRANSLATOR
DATE [ILLEGIBLE]: 11901-E

SERVICE NO: N/A : CIVILIAN
PHYSICAL CATEGORY: A-2
ENLISTMENT LOC: COLORADO

Comments

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

I know a few people, and probably you were one of them, took that line.

I agree CN/Jonas certainly played the situation differently than Daniel, but I couldn't wrap my head around Jonas being the one to connect to Ayiana by being the "expert" on this new world, when he was just as alien to it as she was in many respects.

As for Prophecy, I agree. This would've been something to help give Jonas a unique identity, but there was no time to develop it (not that I'm not happy Daniel came back *bg*).

You've got no Stargate icons left at all, do you? ;-)

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Hehe No, I don't. *g* I thought about keeping one that was a picture of the stargate, but I don't currently have one uploaded. 99.99% of the time, I'm too lazy to choose an icon anyway, so whatever icon is my default is the one that shows up. *g* Yet, I'd pay for more icon space if it was offered. *g*

I'm also glad that Daniel came back on the show. :-) Still, they had an opportunity to do some interesting things with Jonas, and I don't think they really did.