Well, here's my pop-culture one-shot.
OTL after the failure of Stargate Universe, the media company owning the franchise decides to go back to their roots. The trouble is, that Stargate has painted itself into a corner. After several years, the show has evolved into a proto-Starfleet. The next step? Well, Star Trek did Enterprise already. So how to reinvent the show?
Steampunk. But then that rewrites Earth's 19th century. There's no room for a Steampunk era in Earth's Stargate timeline. Hell, even setting up a Stargate adventure in the 1930's/40's is tough.
But what about Steampunk on another planet. After all, the ancients seeded humanity on all sorts of planets, some of which have remained primitive, others of which have become super-technological. So its not out of the question that you could have a Steampunk tech planet with loose analogues for 19th century England, America, France, China etc. Change a few names, tweak a few styles (and 'real' steampunk has diverged quite a bit from the 19th century anyway), and presto. Imagine that there are substantial deposits of Naquada, to power a steampunk tech, and throw in lots of zeppelins and airships.
So here's the premise: Some 19th Century steampunk era types, a private group of scientists and gentlemen adventurers, figure out how to get a Stargate working. They bop over to Earth, have wacky adventures until SG1 tracks them down and sends them home. But then SG1 figures they're too advanced to ignore, not advanced enough to be useful, so they send an emissary/representative from Earth to help them out (keep an eye on them). This character becomes the fish out of water/audience identification character.... just in case. We can also write a convenient alien in - going with the Steampunk tradition, some Neandertal type ape-man. To make things interesting, this particular Stargate has some fresh symbols and lower power, so it has trouble accessing the regular network, but can access a whole bunch of small gates that no one else ever sees ... so you can have variant Goald, or some cool pulp style aliens.
OTL after the failure of Stargate Universe, the media company owning the franchise decides to go back to their roots. The trouble is, that Stargate has painted itself into a corner. After several years, the show has evolved into a proto-Starfleet. The next step? Well, Star Trek did Enterprise already. So how to reinvent the show?
Steampunk. But then that rewrites Earth's 19th century. There's no room for a Steampunk era in Earth's Stargate timeline. Hell, even setting up a Stargate adventure in the 1930's/40's is tough.
But what about Steampunk on another planet. After all, the ancients seeded humanity on all sorts of planets, some of which have remained primitive, others of which have become super-technological. So its not out of the question that you could have a Steampunk tech planet with loose analogues for 19th century England, America, France, China etc. Change a few names, tweak a few styles (and 'real' steampunk has diverged quite a bit from the 19th century anyway), and presto. Imagine that there are substantial deposits of Naquada, to power a steampunk tech, and throw in lots of zeppelins and airships.
So here's the premise: Some 19th Century steampunk era types, a private group of scientists and gentlemen adventurers, figure out how to get a Stargate working. They bop over to Earth, have wacky adventures until SG1 tracks them down and sends them home. But then SG1 figures they're too advanced to ignore, not advanced enough to be useful, so they send an emissary/representative from Earth to help them out (keep an eye on them). This character becomes the fish out of water/audience identification character.... just in case. We can also write a convenient alien in - going with the Steampunk tradition, some Neandertal type ape-man. To make things interesting, this particular Stargate has some fresh symbols and lower power, so it has trouble accessing the regular network, but can access a whole bunch of small gates that no one else ever sees ... so you can have variant Goald, or some cool pulp style aliens.
