Ok, this is my first fic for Stargate SG1. I got the idea from a suggestion of Maz Kazama, so thanks Maz! If you're a fan of Jonas angst, I'd recommend her fics!

This is an AU of Season 7 and both Jonas and Daniel are on SG1. I just couldn't choose between them, ;) A mild crossover with Star Trek Enterprise, although not too much of one. Because of this Star Trek does not exist as a TV show in the SG1 universe. Ok, I think that's everything! On with the story!

Disclaimer: I don't own Star Trek or Stargate, or the characters, much to my misery:(

Chapter 1

"Why is it always trees?" Colonel Jack O'Neill asked as he stepped through the Stargate and looked around the area. "Why, whenever we go through this thing are trees usually on the other side?"

"I'm not sure sir." Jonas Quinn answered with his usual bright smile, "Although I like it. It's nice to go straight into the open air." Jack looked at the alien and fought a desire to make a snide comment, he was trying to be nice to Jonas, especially since they had Daniel back and on the team too. Besides, he reminded himself, Jonas didn't get to leave the base as often as he and the others did.

"Ok campers, let's take a look around, Daniel stay close to Teal'c, Jonas don't go out of Carter's line of sight."

"Jack!"

"Yes sir." were the responses to his statement. They fanned out and surveyed the immediate area. Jack kept his P-90 ready, praying he wouldn't have to use it. Finally he was satisfied.

"All clear?"

"I am not detecting anything." Teal'c said as he walked over. Jonas nodded his agreement.

"Ok then. Lets move on, see what there is to see, besides trees." The five man team walked through the small groupings of trees, the smell of pine tickling their noses, although these trees were the size of redwoods. They walked for several hours before coming across… something.

"Wow!" Jonas grinned picking up his pace to get over there quicker, as if he was afraid that the thing would disappear. Daniel was hot on his heels. The thing that had them so fascinated was a building, made of white marble, with elaborate engravings that had, at one time, been painted with black paint. It wasn't overly large compared to what they'd seen before, in fact, as far as O'Neill was concerned, it was about averaged size. However, that was the only average thing about it. Beyond the colour, and engravings, it was an architectural dream. Jonas pushed the door open before O'Neill could say a thing and Daniel ran in ahead of Jonas. Uttering choice words about geeks, O'Neill followed them, with Carter and Teal'c behind him.

"Whoa." he whispered as he stepped inside. The place was even more amazing inside. The marble was pure white, like snow, rather than the cream one would expect. The pillars that stretched up to the ceiling were plaited, as if someone or something had taken three lengths of the rock, somehow softened it and then plaited it together. Then when it was solid it was placed in its assigned position. The hall was circular, and there was a balcony, with steps that led up to this. The banister, made of marble as well, only black, was also plaited. Steps led from the door, down into a pit, kind of like a small Coliseum, so this place could have been a meeting hall or a place for performances. The steps went all the way around, and the pit had exits that seemed to go underground. There was more plaited designs on the railing that went around the bottom level of the seats, with occasional breaks to allow people to jump into the pit. Opposite the entrance was another door, shut tight at the moment. "T? You ever seen anything like this?"

"I have never seen such a place." Teal'c said, the slightest hint of impressed in his voice. The big guy was gobsmacked. Not an everyday occurrence. But this place deserved it. It was amazing. Even more so once Jack craned his neck upwards. The ceiling was incredible. A painting worthy of Michelangelo or Da Vinci in beauty. It depicted a gas giant, aquamarine in colour, with countless rings of ice floating around it. In the far distance was a large star, the sun of the system. Hovering above the gas giant, between it and the sun was a large moon, and there was a few more in the far background were a few more. In the foreground of the picture was another moon, and although it was smaller than the one just behind it, it was clearly more important due to the almost loving detail used to depict it.

"Daniel? Jonas?"

"Colonel I have no idea what civilisation this could be from." Jonas told him, his head leaning all the way back as he stared at the ceiling. Daniel meanwhile had jumped down into the pit and was running his fingertips over the wall around it.

"There's more symbols all over these walls." he called, "But I've never seen them before, I've no idea what this could all be." Daniel had that familiar glint his eye and that familiar fidgety movements, where he looked like he had ants in his pants and couldn't sit still. Jonas, having joined him in the pit had the same glint and that wide smile he always had, although Jonas was considerably more still than Daniel. They worked well together, they were able to speak geek to each other, something Jack had long ago given up trying to understand.

"Could this place have been built by aliens, rather than humans?" Carter asked,

"Well, if that moon up there was their home planet, then there's a good chance that it was."

"Be kinda cool to have that giant planet in your sky." Jack commented as he sat down, preparing himself for a long stay.

"Indeed O'Neill." Teal'c said as he stood beside him. "I myself would find much enjoyment from it. It is very beautiful."

"That it is T, that it is."

"Jonas, have you ever even seen symbols like these?"

"No, have you?"

"Nope." Daniel ran his fingers over thecut outsymbols. Each was about half the size of a finger-length, and they covered the wall, which was about three metres high, from the top to the bottom. Given that the circle was about ten metres across, that was more then enough for the archaeologist and Jonas, who had no official job, to feed on. Daniel pulled out his camera, intending to take pictures to bring back, but he realised that the camera would have a difficult time picking them up because they were white.

"We could paint over them or use some kind of dust to make them visible." Jonas offered. "We could also take some rubbings."

"Good idea, remind me to bring the things when we come back."

"This whole room gives me a feeling, like it reminds me when it snowed back home."

"Yeah, it's almost like we're in an igloo this stone is so white."

"And it's kinda cool here too, probably because it's been angled away from the sun."

"That could have a special meaning, I mean maybe this is like the way the Ancient Egyptians would always set it up so that when the sun shone into the temples, Osiris was always in the shadows even though he sat beside the other primary gods."

"This could be a funeral home, where the final rituals were performed."

"And the symbols could be a story of death."

"Or the names of the deceased." Daniel pulled out his notebook and noted down these theorys and then took a quick rubbing of a few symbols, "Well in any case this is an indication of maybe an old society, in the development period of… Ancient Greece, or Rome."

"Advanced for what it was, but technologically unadvanced." Jonas summarised.

"Exactly, I mean the obvious skill needed to build this is incredible. The plaited stone is so beautiful, and I've never seen it before."

"Maybe it also has a meaning. Like the holy trinity."

"Possibly. I mean we don't have any cultural comparisons so we don't know where to start to figure out all of this."

"Well, I'm sure we've got plenty of time." Jonas assured him, "Do you want to check out that door, see where it leads?"

"Yeah, lets take a look." Daniel turned and got Jack's attention, informing him of their plan.

"Teal'c go with them will ya?" Jack said, gesturing at the two of them. Teal'c inclined his head to him and then walked around the hall to arrive at the opposite side. Daniel looked up at the Jaffa and now realised something a tad embarrassing. There was no way to get up out of the pit.

"Uh, Teal'c? Would you mind…?" Daniel gestured embarrassedly and Teal'c knelt down and held his hand out, gripping Daniel's while Jonas offered his laced hands to aid him. Daniel planted his foot in them and then on a silent count of three he was hauled up and over onto the upper level. Jack chuckled slightly at the comical sight. Once he got his bearings, he and Teal'c pulled Jonas up and once he was settled, they headed for the unopened door. They disappeared through it and Jack sighed, leaning back and just admiring the painting above him.

"Major?" he called lightly.

"Yes sir?" She looked up from her scanner that was keeping an eye out for any energy readings.

"Do you reckon that's a fresco?"

"Sir?"

"The painting up there, do ya reckon that's a fresco, like Da Vinci used to do?"

"I wouldn't really know sir, I was never much for art, except appreciating it, and the occasional finger painting when I was a kid." Jack looked at her and chuckled lightly as she smiled at him, flashing her pearl white teeth. Suddenly the machine in her hands beeped warningly. She looked down and frowned worriedly. "Sir, there's a significant energy spike coming from somewhere outside the hall."

"Oy! They waste no time." Jack grumbled, standing up and grabbing his P-90 he ran through the other door, and into an abandoned garden. Through this he ran and around a turn to see Jonas, Teal'c and Daniel all staring at some sort of machine, that was whirring loudly, as if in warning. "Hey! What the hell did you do?"

"We didn't do anything!" Daniel insisted as they backed up to join Jack. "It started up and that's what got our attention."

"O'Neill, something is happening!" Teal'c warned, his staff weapon charged and ready. He was right. Jack got in a defensive position and he heard the others do the same. Blue sparks of electricity were flowing over the outer appendages of the machine and they were sparking across, from the right side to the left. These appendages were almost like arms reaching out and around, and the sparks connected them. The whirring got louder and louder and Jack wondered if the thing was about to explode. Then there was a loud crack and a flash of blue light and someone appeared in the arms embrace. The person had their back to SG1 and they stumbled forward and landed against the machine, which went quiet. The person shifted, then straightened up and spun around. Jack's eyes widened in utter shock, while he heard Jonas inhale sharply beside him. The man before them had to be the oddest thing he'd ever seen. His skin was a vivid blue, and he had a shock of white blond hair, and as if that wasn't odd enough, he had a pair of antennas on the top of his head and forehead ridges, faint, hard creases, flowing down to the bridge of his nose. His eyes flew over the team and he raised his own weapon, a very impressive looking gun, that looked, in Jack's opinion, like it belonged in a sci-fi show. The man himself would have been right at home in such a place. The alien met Jack's eyes and they stared at each other carefully, as if trying to figure each other out. Neither seemed to want to speak first. Finally Jack, not being a man of enormous patience, decided to break the silence,

"Who're you?"

"I'd ask you the same thing pink-skin!" the man snapped.

"Yeah, I suppose you would, but seeing as you're out numbered five to one, why don't you go first?"

"I don't make conversations with people who're aiming weapons at me."

"Ok then. Why don't we all just lower the weapons then, and introduce ourselves properly."

"Why should I trust you? So far there's only one pink-skin I trust, and that's Archer." he snarled,

"Well I don't know who that is-" that seemed to startle the blue man, "-but how about, on the count of three we all lower our weapons?" Jack knew that the alien would be the last to lower his weapon, but he also knew that this was a man who was smart enough to know better then fire when he was out numbered. He wasn't sure how he knew this, but he did. "One. Two. Three." Jack lowered his P-90 slowly, and watched as the alien, still trying to stare him down, followed. The alien's gun hung from his side and Jack took in another smaller weapon in a sheath strapped to his thigh and a dagger attached to the other calf. The man was dressed in an all black, leather uniform that hugged his skin and he did not look like someone who would tolerate being toyed with. "Ok, now we're getting somewhere." he said softly. The alien's eyes narrowed dangerously and much to Jack's shock, his antennas moved. They reached forward in a suspicious movement, as if he was searching for a deception.

"Where did you come from?" he asked suddenly. "I was alone a moment ago, and I can assure you that you couldn't have snuck up behind me."

"Oh really?" Jack raised his eyebrows,

"I'd have sensed the vibrations of your footsteps while they were far away, to say nothing of your heartbeats." the alien smirked, "Pink-skins are so noisy."

"By pink-skin's I assume you mean us." Jack said obviously, "But in case you're colour-blind," he pointed at Teal'c, "He's not pink." Teal'c arched an eyebrow at him as if he wasn't sure to be insulted or not at the implication that he was.

"I can see that well enough!" snapped the blue-skin, "Now answer my question!"

"We just walked over here from the building back there when this machine turned itself on." Daniel said, trying to calm the agitated man, "You appeared out of nowhere." The man looked at him sharply, "Um, I'm Dr. Daniel Jackson, this is Jonas Quinn, Major Carter, Colonel O'Neill and Teal'c."

"Commander Shran of the warship Kumari, of the Andorian Imperial Guard." The alien said. "What did you mean I appeared out of nowhere?"

"Well that's what it seemed like, although there's probably a more exact explanation…" Daniel trailed off in thought. Jonas stepped forward,

"Um, where were you before you came here?"

"I was on a planet in the Yelanite system, my ship was assigned the planet as an ecology study as part of our break from usual duties as the planet had been previously unstudied."

"You were given an assignment as a break?" Jack repeated in shock, "If I were you I'd have a word with my superiors about what counts as a break." Commander Shran narrowed his eyes at him, and then rolled them.

"Pink-skin humour." he muttered to himself. "I was taking a walk, decided I'd see what kind of wildlife this eco-system supported, when I spotted this thing." He jerked his thumb at the machine lying deceptively quiet behind him, "I touched it, the next thing I know you're behind me." He looked around, and he frowned in confusion when he looked behind him. "That wasn't there before." he stated, pointing at the garden.

"It wasn't?"

"No…" Shran shook his head slowly, "But those trees were. They were definitely there."

"Trees can look the same when you've seen too many." Jack said lightly.

"Maybe, but that one there has a distinctive shape, it was the exact same a moment ago." Shran pointed at it. "I noted it before I touched this thing."

"Alternate reality." muttered Carter. Jack groaned.

"What's that?" Shran asked, before frowning and holding up his hand, "Nevermind, I think I know what it is, and I have a feeling you'll bore me to death with the details if I let you tell me." Jack fought a snicker, the man was quick. "Well what the hell am I supposed to do?"

"Perhaps if you touched the device again, you would be returned to your own reality." Teal'c offered. Shran looked him up and down carefully, and then glanced at the machine. He sighed and shrugged, before putting a hand on the machine abruptly. Nothing happened.

'Of course it wouldn't. Why would things ever be that simple?' Jack thought sarcastically. Shran apparently had similar thoughts as he kicked the machine irritably, although lightly. Jack finally noticed that he had a bag on his back.

"Well, is this Earth?" he asked suddenly turning around.

"Um, no, we call this planet P3X-7693, we were exploring it."

"What kind of a name is that?" Shran asked with a roll of his eyes,

"It's a code name, we don't know what the indigenous life forms called this planet." Jonas told him.

"This planet isn't inhabited, at least in my reality it wasn't, we scanned the surface for life signs and there was nothing that suggested civilisation, at least not the kind that would be capable of building something like this."

"And there do not appear to be any people in the vicinity." Teal'c agreed, "Perhaps the people of this world died out." Shran shrugged.

"Spirits know what's different here to mine, from the looks on your faces I bet you haven't seen an Andorian before."

"Were we that obvious?" Jack asked, smiling slightly,

"Extremely." Shran smirked.

"Sir, perhaps we should head back to the SGC, get a team here and see if we can figure out how to work this thing." Carter suggested,

"And what am I supposed to do? Climb a tree and sit there until you figure out a way to send me home?"

"You can come with us. Back to the SGC."

"Is that connected with Starfleet?"

"What's Starfleet?"

"That's the association in charge of your space exploration and interplanetary negotiations."

"Um, no… it's not, that would be the SGC." Shran raised his hand again, folding the other arm over his stomach, and his antennas drooped slightly. He looked them over carefully, staring hard at the device in Carter's hand. Then he backed away and walked over to the trees. He walked around the one he'd singled out earlier and then pressed a hand to it. Then he groaned and pressed his forehead to the bark, shaking his head, rolling his brow against the tree.

"Just brilliant!" he muttered

"What's wrong?" Shran pushed away from the tree and then looked at them squarely.

"This isn't just an alternate reality. It's also a different time! By my guess, at least a hundred years."

"What makes you say that?"

"Well that device she's got in her hand is far more primitive then the pink-skin technology I've seen Archer and his people carry, and even that's fairly primitive, plus this tree may be the same shape, but its way thinner."

"And you'd guess a hundred years difference?"

"Around that I'd say, at least that, probably more."

"Ok, well our association is called the SGC and that's where we'll take you until we can figure out how to send you back."

"Can I assume this is a military facility."

"It is. That a problem?"

"Simply that I know you'll take my weapons off me and my people have rules about primitive species handling advanced technology. As in it's against the rules."

"Well we'll have to take them yes, but we've already been exposed to advanced weaponry." Carter held up a Zat'nikatel. "This is a fairly advanced piece of technology. One shot stuns, two kills and a third vaporises." Shran looked intrigued, "Your bag will also have to be examined."

"What? Oh for the love of the spirits!" Shran grumbled, "There's nothing in my bag that's a threat."

"Nevertheless we'll need to check it out and anything that's deemed safe will be returned to you." Daniel promised. Shran scowled deeply, clearly very unhappy.

"This stupid-" he kicked the machine again angrily and then sighed heavily. "Fine!" he said sharply, "Let's go!"

They took him around the hall rather than through it, heading straight into the forest and made their way back to the Stargate. Shran said nothing to them, and Jack had a feeling he was fuming over his misfortune. His antennas were reaching back, staying down, but back. He looked dejected. Jack had decided to let him hold onto his weapon in case they ran into trouble, but had signalled to Teal'c to watch him very closely. After a few hours of walking Shran stopped,

"Alright, I'm sorry, but-" he whirled around to face Teal'c, "-Could you stop breathing down my neck! I get it, you don't trust me and rest assured that the feeling is mutual, but if you don't back off I may just be forced to give a demonstration of what a phaser can do!" Jack looked between the two men and was very much aware of the height difference. Shran was shorter than all five of them, the antennas gave him a little extra height, but he was still being towered over by Teal'c. Yet the guy wasn't the least bit scared from what Jack could see. He glared at Teal'c steadily, actually pushing his body forward, daring the Jaffa to try something.

"Uh, Teal'c, maybe you can just back up a little, just so we don't have any broken bones." Jack said finally. He was confident enough that Shran wouldn't try anything, although that didn't mean he trusted him for a second. Teal'c stared at Shran steadily for a few moments and then stepped back a few paces, although he didn't take his eyes off of Shran's.

'Yep, this is gonna be a loooong trip home.'

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