Radek ficathon, Take 2
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wiseheartSo, Lisa from the Memory Alpha group, where I cross-posted this distress call to, suggested the following:
Why not have Sheppard step into a culture that is basically gay. Have him be unable to deal with them and have them lock him up as a seditious force. The society mates for children but it is not a tradtional june cleaver thing. Have Sheppard insult the leaders by hitting on the women. F/F and have her brothers and his M/M want to shoot him or something. Then one of the pair your choice can come save the day by proving that the society Sheppard is from is not so unenlightened. Have that society threaten to destroy Atlantis.
It sounds fun, but my problem with it is that I've already established that sort of society for Kelowna (the place Jonas Quinn - the guy who replaced Dr. Daniel Jackson in Season 6 - comes from). But since this story is different from all my AU-settings, both the "Moments of Joy" and the "Darkroom" universes, perhaps I could try to do it with some twist.
Actually, I already have this mental image of some mediator coming to Atlantis in order to negotiate the release of the team in the name of the folks Lisa suggested. The Atlantis people ask him what Sheppard might have done wrong and whether he'd seduced the high priestess or something. At which the mediator would answer gravely:
"Worse. He's rejected the high priest (or the high councillor, or the prime minister, or the king, or whatever the chief honcho of that planet is called)."
I also imagine this society to be very high-tech, and to live subterranean, in areas shielded from Wraith sensors or whatnot, so they've managed to avoid the cullings for quite some time. It's a bit boring that every planet has this agrarian, Amish-like people on the show. I know it's so for a reason, but if the Genii could fool everyone, perhaps other cultures could, too.
In Stargate SG-1 (in the episode "The Torment, of Tantalus") it's established in canon that there were four highly advanced races that got together and formed an alliance: the Ancients, the Tollans, the Nox and the Furlings. Now, of all these, the Furlings are the only ones we've never seen on either show. There are educated guesses who they could have been (the strange giants from "The Crystal Skull" are only one of the candidates), but basically, they've never been mentioned again. So, why couldn't this particular society be the descendants of the Furlings? Long fallen from their previous glory, but still a lot better off than mere humans? In which case the impregnation machine could be brought in, because we all know that wacky alien tech is a lot more sophisticated than ours - and can cause great trouble.
The debate is open until the very day I have to post the actual story. You guys have almost two months - bring in the most harebrained ideas, and I'll try to work them in. Or keep them for further use. I promise proper credit to everyone. *g*
Why not have Sheppard step into a culture that is basically gay. Have him be unable to deal with them and have them lock him up as a seditious force. The society mates for children but it is not a tradtional june cleaver thing. Have Sheppard insult the leaders by hitting on the women. F/F and have her brothers and his M/M want to shoot him or something. Then one of the pair your choice can come save the day by proving that the society Sheppard is from is not so unenlightened. Have that society threaten to destroy Atlantis.
It sounds fun, but my problem with it is that I've already established that sort of society for Kelowna (the place Jonas Quinn - the guy who replaced Dr. Daniel Jackson in Season 6 - comes from). But since this story is different from all my AU-settings, both the "Moments of Joy" and the "Darkroom" universes, perhaps I could try to do it with some twist.
Actually, I already have this mental image of some mediator coming to Atlantis in order to negotiate the release of the team in the name of the folks Lisa suggested. The Atlantis people ask him what Sheppard might have done wrong and whether he'd seduced the high priestess or something. At which the mediator would answer gravely:
"Worse. He's rejected the high priest (or the high councillor, or the prime minister, or the king, or whatever the chief honcho of that planet is called)."
I also imagine this society to be very high-tech, and to live subterranean, in areas shielded from Wraith sensors or whatnot, so they've managed to avoid the cullings for quite some time. It's a bit boring that every planet has this agrarian, Amish-like people on the show. I know it's so for a reason, but if the Genii could fool everyone, perhaps other cultures could, too.
In Stargate SG-1 (in the episode "The Torment, of Tantalus") it's established in canon that there were four highly advanced races that got together and formed an alliance: the Ancients, the Tollans, the Nox and the Furlings. Now, of all these, the Furlings are the only ones we've never seen on either show. There are educated guesses who they could have been (the strange giants from "The Crystal Skull" are only one of the candidates), but basically, they've never been mentioned again. So, why couldn't this particular society be the descendants of the Furlings? Long fallen from their previous glory, but still a lot better off than mere humans? In which case the impregnation machine could be brought in, because we all know that wacky alien tech is a lot more sophisticated than ours - and can cause great trouble.
The debate is open until the very day I have to post the actual story. You guys have almost two months - bring in the most harebrained ideas, and I'll try to work them in. Or keep them for further use. I promise proper credit to everyone. *g*
