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* Why bother with [[Plausible Deniability]] and [[The World Is Not Ready]] in the first place? Isn't it just easier to set the story either in the near future or an alternative universe? While I love [[Stargate]] just as much as any other sci-fi geek, I feel that sometimes the protagonists come across as jerks when they try to protect their secret from the public as much as possible. While it is true that the revelation that not only aliens exist but also that they have interfered with human civilizations in the past would probably have a major effect on society, but the writers could pretend that most of Earth's people will get easily adjusted within a year or two.

** Many SF writers did use the near future; it's just that their "near future" is our present, or else looks very like ''their'' present. And, until the late 1980s, [[The World Is Not Ready|the greater public was not ready]] for ''real'' [[Alternate Universe|AlternateUniverses]].