![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
Catherine has known about the Stargate since her father worked on it, twenty years ago. She lost her fiancé to it, and believed him dead. But now she knows that he's out there, somewhere. She has spent many years fighting chauvinistic attitudes, and isn't going to let them stop her now. Still, at first, she's only through the Gate under exceptional circumstances - but they soon find they need her ability to read Ancient Egyptian, and her vast knowledge of history and mythology, and they accept her on the team.
Jacob is a hotheaded flyboy, borderline test-pilot, inclined to piss off the enemy rather than talk. He's the junior officer, but has great ambitions – if only he can conquer the habit of disobeying his superiors. In contrast, he's newly a father, with one young son and another baby on the way. Towards his wife, he's as soft as butter.
George is a serious young man, a by-the-book officer, beloved by his superiors. But when push comes to shove, his loyalty is fixed, and he never gives up. He speaks his mind, and is highly aware of his responsibilities towards his planet. He has spent some time in Vietnam, and isn't keen to talk about it.
Bra'tac has long known that his so-called gods aren't what they claim to be. He has spent many years in their service, ameliorating the worst atrocities, and sowing dissent amongst those Jaffa he believes he can trust. But when he meets the mythical Tauri, for the first time he allows himself to dream of a different way to overthrow the Goa'uld.
Jacob is a hotheaded flyboy, borderline test-pilot, inclined to piss off the enemy rather than talk. He's the junior officer, but has great ambitions – if only he can conquer the habit of disobeying his superiors. In contrast, he's newly a father, with one young son and another baby on the way. Towards his wife, he's as soft as butter.
George is a serious young man, a by-the-book officer, beloved by his superiors. But when push comes to shove, his loyalty is fixed, and he never gives up. He speaks his mind, and is highly aware of his responsibilities towards his planet. He has spent some time in Vietnam, and isn't keen to talk about it.
Bra'tac has long known that his so-called gods aren't what they claim to be. He has spent many years in their service, ameliorating the worst atrocities, and sowing dissent amongst those Jaffa he believes he can trust. But when he meets the mythical Tauri, for the first time he allows himself to dream of a different way to overthrow the Goa'uld.
---
The only trouble is, I don't have time to write it at the moment. :)
Page Summary
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
Designed by chasethestars
chasethestars
Comments
Ah, I thought it was something like that. Cool. Teal'c is *checks* 101 in 'The Light', so I guess Bra'tac will look about that age.
And, darn, I would like it to fit with canon as much as possible - hm. Mid-twenties? If he's a lieutenant in 1969, maybe in '67 he's also a lieut., only just out of college... Well, anyhow, I'm not tied to any of it, seeing as I've not written anything. :)