Fig Newton's SG-1 Gen Recs

Rec Category: Jack and Sam Friendship

Categories: humor, team, off-world shenanigans
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: stringertheory
Author's Website: stringertheory
Link: Something Borrowed

Why This Must Be Read: Classic team for the win as Sam takes over when Jack disappears off-world. Inverted marriage tropes and betting pools may be a factor...

Competent team, humor, snark, friendship... what more do you need?


Sam closed her eyes on a sigh. Having to pretend to be married to her CO to keep him from being forced into matrimony with a benevolent dictator was a new one. She was pretty sure there wouldn’t even be a base betting pool about it yet.

Rec Category: Crossover

Categories: team, humor, outside POV
Warnings: crossover with Howl's Moving Castle
Author's Journal: pepper_field
Author's Website: pepperf
Link: Unexpected Visitors

Why This Must Be Read: I am very fond of this little ficlet, because the intriguing outside perspective of our beloved team made me curious enough to read Howl's Moving Castle, which led me to the Chrestomanci novels and the other Diana Wynne Jones novels and...

Ahem.

Very short, very sweet, and entirely worth it just for Sophie's automatic assumption regarding Teal'c and his staff weapon!

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Rec Category: Teal'c and Vala friendship

Categories: humor, Teal'c, Vala, team, original characters
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: holdouttrout
Author's Website: holdouttrout
Link: Ten Easy Steps Toward Piracy

Why This Must Be Read: It's a technical alien conspiracy!

Okay, it's really Teal'c and Vala vs. the Ori and the Orici, with Vala doing everything short of donning an eyepatch in her quest to be a really good pirate...

Great Teal'c POV, Vala at her shameless best, and a great romp - bother figuratively and literally.


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Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Team
Characters: Cameron Mitchell, Samantha Carter, Vala Mal Doran, Daniel Jackson, Teal'c, Jack O'Neill
Categories: gen, humor, prison breaks
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: iwillalwaysknowyou
Link: The Sun Started It (Again)

Why This Must Be Read: I always love a good prison break fic. And this one, which is post S10 but includes Jack, is a delightful addition to the genre that proves that SG-1 glee never, ever gets old!

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Rec Category: Five Things
Categories: Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter, Teal'c, humor, team, offworld
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: sef1029
Author's Website: SEF
Link: Five times SG-1 set foot on a planet, only to immediately turn around and go home

Why This Must Be Read: Exactly what it says on the tin! Super short and super fun. :)


SG-1 stepped out of the wormhole. Daniel sneezed eight times in the first minute. “Bless,” Jack said. “Carter, dial us out.”

Rec Category: Team
Categories: Cameron Mitchell, Samantha Carter, Teal'c, Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, Jack and Teal'c friendship, humor
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: moonshayde
Author's Website: Moonshayde at AO3 (members-only reading) or scroll down to see LJ links on her profile
Link: Panic at the Disco

Why This Must Be Read: S9 team off-world shenanigans, complete with punking the New Guy, Teal'c pwnage, and bonus Jack cameo.

...Did I mention the off-world karaoke?


"Whoa," Cameron said, his eyes lighting up. "Is that alien karaoke?"

Rec Category: Team
Categories: friendship, humor
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: AuroraNova at AO3
Link: Another Day, Another Planet

Why This Must Be Read: Teeeeeeeaaaaaaammmmmm. :D

Delicious, bantery, early season teamy goodness with lots of snappy dialogue to the background of an off-world mission. Cinderella gets analyzed, Daniel isn't mostly dead, Teal'c gets educated, and it's a happy-ever-after for SG-1 as they come home safely.

I love how easily their friendship shows through all this. Guaranteed to make you smile!


Jaffa legend. Giant rats. An alien moon. Just another day in Jack’s crazy life, and he wouldn’t have it any other way.

Rec Category: Humor
Categories: Teal'c, Sam, Jack, Daniel, stealth crossover, humor, team
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: mific
Author's Website: Mific at AO3
Link: G is for Gribbles

Why This Must Be Read: This was just posted, and after laughing out loud twice while reading it, I just had to rec it immediately.

It's an alien incursion through the Quantum Mirror! Just... not precisely what you might be expecting.

Teamy, bantery, and gleefully in character. Go forth and read!


"It is already a foothold situation," Teal'c added gravely. He thought for a moment. "Or possibly a furhold situation."

Rec Category: Team
Categories: humor, friendship, off-world
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: thothmes
Author's Website: fic tag
Link: H is for Helping Hands

Why This Must Be Read: Glorious off-world shenanigans when the team is stranded on a planet by a very malfunctioning Stargate. You'll love how each member finds his or her place in the village and the very in-character humor sprinkled throughout.

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Rec Category: Humor
Categories: team, Teal'c, Jacob Carter, episode related
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: pepper_field
Author's Website: PepperF at AO3
Link: N is for Nishta

Why This Must Be Read: When the purely human members of SG-1 have a delayed reaction to nishta, Teal'c and Jacob decide to seize the opportunity...

Teal'c pwnage and Jacob pwnage are apparently exponential. :)

This ficlet was originally my birthday present, and I have no idea why it took me so long to rec. Go read it now!


"They are usually most argumentative," agreed Teal'c, blandly.

"Yeah," said Jacob, thoughtfully. "Usually."

Jacob... said Selmak, warningly – but she said it with such amusement that he wasn't fooled for a moment.

Rec Category: Teal'c and Vala friendship
Categories: humor, five things, team, Cam, Sam, Daniel
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: amathela
Author's Website: Amathela at AO3
Link: The Case Of The Missing Jello (Among Others)

Why This Must Be Read: It's an alien conspiracy!

Okay, it's just five times Vala and Teal'c totally pwned their teammates. With and without jello. :)

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Rec Category: Team
Categories: humor, awesomeness, SGA crossover
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: havocthecat
Author's Website: havocthecat at AO3
Link: Hive Virus

Why This Must Be Read: Classic SG-1 team being awesome in Atlantis!

...What, you need more?

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Rec Category: Cam and Sam friendship
Categories: humor, team
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: ctorres / ct
Author's Website: Fic Index
Link: Loose Leaf Gridiron

Why This Must Be Read: Happy, teamy S9 fic with Sam and Cam front and center, both with their natural competitiveness coming to the fore in an impromptu game of paper football. I love the characterization quirks and the appreciative audience, and even General Landry makes a surprisingly congenial appearance. Guaranteed to make you smile and leave you with happy feelings!


Teal'c interrupted. "I am unfamiliar with the game of paper football."

All heads swiveled towards Teal'c. Finally, Daniel said what Sam herself had been thinking. "I can't believe Jack had eight years and never taught you."