The Fantastic Journey Double Drabble: A Man Of Science

[badly_knitted]

 


Title: A Man Of Science
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Jonathan Willaway.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the series.
Summary: Jonathan isn’t sure whether he wants to return to the nineteen sixties.
Written For: Challenge 489: Amnesty 81 at fan_flashworks, using Challenge 484: Science.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Double drabble.
 
 

For a scientist of Jonathan Willaway’s calibre, the island was a fascinating place. So much advanced technology to explore and play around with, most of it so far in advance of anything he’d worked on in his own time… It made the science of the nineteen sixties, which had been cutting edge back when he worked for NASA, and JPL, and Caltech, seem hopelessly backward.
 

So why, exactly, was he travelling across the island with a group of people, trying to locate the portal that would, so it was said, return them all to their own times? Did he even WANT to go back when there were so many opportunities right here?

 
Of course, if he did return to nineteen sixty-three, perhaps he could somehow steer the scientific world in a more beneficial direction, away from weapons development and towards more humanitarian research. Varian had told him he’d been credited with creating a scientific ethic that eventually became universal… Perhaps there was work for him to do back in his own time, even if it wouldn’t be as exciting and innovative as the things he was seeing here.
 

Still, his main reason for travelling with them was simply for companionship.
 

 
The End
 


 
 

Comments

[mrs_sweetpeach]

I'd be so nice if the world was steered to a more beneficial direction. And the super-rich prevented from allowing greed to ruin everything for everyone else.

[badly_knitted]

It would be, but I guess we'll have to wait for the perfect world of Varian's time, where there's no war, no countries, and humans and non-aggressive, nurturing wildlife... According to Varian, Jonathan helped create that world.

Thank you!