Brain-clearing

[dira]

I need to purge an idea from my brain, because I am really, honestly in no way equipped to actually write it, but I am totally enchanted with it and want to find someone who might possibly agree with me so:

Yesterday I kinda sorta maybe a little pimped myself into I Spy (I read all of Dorinda's fic and then watched the first 2.5 episodes on Hulu) and I noticed Scotty appears to speak any language the plot requires (granted I think in the episodes I've seen it's only been Chinese and Swahili and arguably Sanskrit) and I made some sort of Daniel Jackson joke and then I started plotting I Spy/Stargate-SG1 fusion fic.

I just--if the Stargate had been activated in the Sixties, with the US already sliding down into Vietnam, and trying for the moon shot, and barely twenty years past the bomb--looking at the Stargate as the ultimate bomb shelter--and they send out spies, disposable spies who have to keep their heads down and not make waves because nobody's coming to bail them out--maybe for a long time they're just throwing them through and demanding radio reports back, with no knowledge of how to dial home--and maybe some of those agents, for the sake of their own beliefs, preach a little sedition against the Goa'uld, maybe try to hook up with the Tok'ra or any other discontents they find--but mostly they're just spies, looking for intel and getting along and knowing they have no one to depend on but themselves...

And then it all spirals off into "So if they came after Ernest a mere twenty years later, how would that have turned out differently?" and turns into a research project and Srs Bsns Characterization Decisions and Was Scotty Actually Daniel Jackson in the Figuring Out the Gate Way? and it's even worse than Sports Night on Mars, it's not just a science fiction novel o' fanfic, it's like ten SF novels.

But there, that is my idea. Is it not shiny? Wouldn't Kelly and Scotty make awesome semi-peaceful explorers? :D

Comments

[giglet]

I say: file off the serial numbers (and okay, you'd have to file a *lot* to get the stargate out of it, but seriously: wormhole, magic mirror, down a rabbit hole, it could be finessed) and start writing origfic, lady!

[dira]

Yeah, when I said "in no way equipped to write this" I was including that way. :)

[thelostglove]

I have an apparently bottomless desire to read Cold War-era SG-1 AUs. I actually started one a few years ago where SG-1 are NID agents and the Soviets had the only working gate, and Daniel defects and joins a Soviet gate team because, patriotism is patriotism, but come on. I pretty much realized I was biting off way more than I could chew and gave it up, but there are so many interesting things you could do with it.

[dira]

Are there any that you've seen? It had never occurred to me before yesterday and now I am all THIS IS THE GREATEST IDEA EVER I WANT A MILLION OF IT. Including yours, which sounds fabulous, but oh do I ever understand the realization that a story is just Too Much. :)

[thelostglove]

http://tripoli.dreamwidth.org/333656.html

Oh, man...I feel like I have, but I can't think of any right now. I'll look around my bookmarks. This was by no means my big historical insight at work, I just really liked this one Decemberists song about a government worker who gets strung along by his love for a spy for years, and I was writing a lot of Jack/Daniel at the time, and I was trying to make it a S6 AU on top of everything, and, yknow...Mistakes Were Made. Plus I ended up leaving out all the cool parts.

I could never decide what country Teal'c could least problematically be a defector from, or whether he could really get sent on dangerous missions to Laos when he gets caught writing anonymous editorials for the SCLC., so that part got left out entirely of the posted version, which is still a bummer. Why on earth I didn't just have Daniel meet him on Chulak, and have him be on a Soviet team, I can't imagine. (Well, because in my head SG-1 had already been together for years, but that was probably never going to work.)

[dira]

Oh, The Bagman's Gambit? I love that song. Mmmm, The Decemberists.

And, yay! Thanks for the link! Teal'c does tend to be the tricky part of any AU. (He and Bra'tac and maybe Lt. Hammond would be the only recognizable SG-1 characters in the I Spy fusion, if I were to write such a thing. Which I am not. Thank God.)

[thelostglove]

Yes! And then I tried a SPN AU based on On The Bus Mall which wound up being too depressing even for me. That was a solid album.

[dira]

*winces*

Oh, yeah, On The Bus Mall goes nowhere good. I do love it as a song, but it is a pretty sad story.

[lamardeuse]

I LOVE YOUR BRAIN.

[dira]

*beams*

JUST THINK OF THE RIDICULOUS THINGS THEY WOULD WIND UP WEARING.

[blueswan]

I'm midway through season two of I Spy and I need to read this fic. Genius idea!

[dira]

I am kind of ridiculously in love with it, too! If only someone else would write it for me to read. :)

[(Anonymous)]

What is it about Stargate that inspires such ridiculously epic AUs? I have one of my own right now and it's just "I can't write this, why won't you get out of my brain?"

[ladysorka]

Sorry, that was me.

[dira]

No problem! :)

And, well, I personally seem to spawn epic AUs in more or less any fandom I stuff into my brain. But for Stargate--I guess there is just such a lot of universe out there to explore...

[springwoof]

you seriously have the coolest ideas!
::worships ur brainz::

[dira]

*beams and curtseys*