Move over, jack_built, there's a new AU eating my brain. Stargate: 1960.

Or more precisely, Stargate: sometime in the 1960s. Because going by the actor's ages –

- Don S. Davis (George) b. 1942 (age 18 in 1960)
- Carmen Argenziano (Jacob) b. 1943 (age 17 in 1960)
- Elizabeth Hoffman (Catherine) b. 1927 (age 33 in 1960)
- Tony Amendola (Bra'tac)'s age is mysteriously missing on the intranet, but Jaffa age slower anyhow. He'd be, what, 90-odd in 1960?

To be on SG-1, George and Jacob are going to have to be a little older. So maybe it should be Stargate: 1967 (i.e. the Summer of Love), and we can futz with the ages slightly. I like the idea of George being just over 30, and Jacob being late 20s. Catherine is an elegant, never-married lady just approaching her 40s. Bra'tac is a mysterious, handsome, and charismatic alien. When Ernest is rescued, there can be a Catherine-Bra'tac-Ernest love triangle. (And Ernest, as peri81 has pointed out, has a habit of losing his trousers... much like another SG-1 member we know.) 

In the 1960s, interest in the mysterious technology has been re-awoken, what with the Cold War paranoia, the push to reach the moon first, and the ongoing problems of the Vietnam War. So the Stargate was unearthed, and by 1967 they have worked out a way to dial it. It's a difficult process, and it shakes the foundations every time, but they are finally in a position to send people through. An exploratory team is put together. Two daring young officers, one (unfortunately female) cultural expert, and one alien whose loyalty they are trusting - for now.



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The only trouble is, I don't have time to write it at the moment. :)