Fig Newton's SG-1 Gen Recs

Rec Category: Jack and Daniel friendship

Categories: Jack, Daniel, angst, episode related
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: princessofgeeks
Author's Website: princess
Link: A Toast

Why This Must Be Read: A short coda to Menace, so the angst is an automatic conclusion...

Jack and Daniel with sharp, fierce, honest edges. Just the way I like them.


"To agreeing to disagree," he said, and tilted his glass toward Daniel.

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Daniel and Janet friendship
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Janet Frasier
Categories: gen, angst, hurt/comfort
Warnings: references to Daniel's many canonical deaths
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: mylittleredgirl
Link: Vital Statistics

Why This Must Be Read: Here is oldskool!Little Doc at her finest, offering comfort when Daniel needs it most. Very short (like Janet herself, heh), but also very poignant and very right.


It's normal to forget some things -- how many times you've been on an airplane, how many fish you're supposed to have in the fishtank, how old General Hammond's granddaughter will turn next weekend.

But Daniel's lying in the infirmary, heart monitor beeping reassuringly, feet still tingling from the long minutes of stalled blood flow earlier that day, and he can't remember how many times he has died.

Rec Category: Sam and Daniel friendship

Categories: humor, five things
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: deltatime
Link: With Difference and Some Brilliance

Why This Must Be Read: One of my favorite aspects of Sam and Daniel's friendship is how well they click with one another. And as this lovely five things shows, what looks like romance to outsiders can be something much deeper and closer and still be wonderfully gen - even when they try the ship thing instead. :)



"Tell you what, I'll go to the wedding as your arm candy if you go to the Museum of Natural History with me and count the things in the Egyptian Mummies exhibit that actually belong here."

Rec Category: Cameron Mitchell
Categories: Cam and team, Tokra ensemble, Sam, Martouf, Teal'c, Daniel, Elizabeth Weir, AU, episode related, canon rewrite, Sam and Cam friendship, Cam and Teal'c friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: slybrarian
Author's Website: Slybrarian
Link: Ophiucus Rising

Why This Must Be Read: This is what the SGC/Tok'ra relationship should have been, and a very plausible way to bring Cam into the SGC program a full season earlier: instead of putting him through a year of agonizing therapy that might not be successful, Sam - still host to Jolinar - offers Cam the opportunity to be a Tok'ra host.

This leads to a very different S8, with Cam and his fellow Tok'ra-Tau'ri blends working at the SGC.

You'll enjoy the different twists on various episodes, the hilarious inner dialogue, and the warm friendship between Cam and Sam. A very satisfying story!


As everyone began settling down, Cam took a look around at them all. They were, to a man, woman, and snake, a bunch of neurotic, insane, and sneaky basket cases, but they were also brilliant, brave, and loyal. Part of Cam still ached for the squadron he had been forced to leave behind, but if he had to replace them he couldn't have asked for a better group. He didn't think he would mind calling them family for the next three or four hundred years.

Rec Category: Five Things
Categories: Daniel, character study, multiple eras
Warnings: reference to canonical minor character death
Author's Journal: jedibuttercup
Author's Website: jedibuttercup
Link: Five Times Death Failed to Stop for Daniel Jackson

Why This Must Be Read: Five times Daniel thinks death would be kinder...

Short but not sweet, fully canonical, and very Daniel indeed.


Every time he gets close to another human being, he can't help but feel the echoes of an eight year old's pain and denial, listening in incomprehension as some stranger or other tried to tell him that his parents had "gone away" without him.

They were only the first in a long line of people to leave him, but he's never quite managed to forgive them for it.

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: Team
Categories:Jack, Sam, Teal'c, Daniel, Janet, General Hammond, drama, hurt/comfort, friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: calantha2001
Author's Website: calantha2001
Link: Worth It

Why This Must Be Read: Competent, resourceful teamy goodness during an off-world crisis, complete with courage and out-of-the-box thinking and hurt/comfort! Read all about it!

...No, really. Go read. :)

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Rec Category: Pre-series
Categories: Jack, Catherine Langford. Daniel, ep related
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: SLM76
Link: Telling Catherine

Why This Must Be Read: This is a lovely coda to the movie, as Jack breaks all security regs to tell Catherine what happened on the mission to Abydos and return her necklace as per Daniel's canon request: "Tell Catherine it brought me luck." It's easy to see this leading directly into Catherine and Jack's interactions in Torment of Tantalus, too.

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Rec Category: Team
Categories: Jack, Sam, Daniel, Teal'c, fluffy teaminess
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: ami_ven
Author's Website: ami_ven
Link: Shatter'd Visage

Why This Must Be Read: New and shiny ficlet! As I wrote when I commented: SG-1 in all its teamy glory, neatly wrapped up in a drabble package!

Too short to excerpt, but a perfect encapsulation of TEAM, so go read. :)

Rec Category: Five Things
Categories: Daniel, pre-series, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: paian
Author's Website: paian
Link: Daniel's First Six Languages

Why This Must Be Read: This is a lovely exploration of pre-series Daniel, developing his affinity for languages. Short and sweet!


He works in a crazy business these days, and you never know when you're going to need to know how to write with your off hand, or dial a phone with your toe, or read with your tongue.

Rec Category: General Hammond
Categories: Goerge Hammond, Jack O'Neill, Teal'c, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, episode related, character study, friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: randomfreshink
Author's Website: unknown
Link: G is for General

Why This Must Be Read: This is George in delicous General Hammond rocks! mode, dealing with each original member of SG-1 in turn - with grace, with wry humor, with just enough selective blindness, and with every ounce of class that makes him the best general the SGC ever had.


Dr. Jackson fell into step, and George started spinning the tale. The least he could do was look after his people--and sometimes that meant nothing more than this.

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: Daniel Jackson
Categories: Jonas,episode related, character study, Jack and Daniel friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: paian
Author's Website: Paian at AO3
Link: A Foot in the Door

Why This Must Be Read: Jonas said, "The truth is, I don't think that Colonel O'Neill was very comfortable having me around."

Daniel said, "That's not what he told me. ..."

Take that quote from Homecoming and give it the classic Paian treatment for sharp and shrewd amnesiac!Daniel, using all his skills as an archaeologist to explore the mystery that is Dr. Daniel Jackson... and his friendship with Jack O'Neill.

Lovely stuff!


So he studied Daniel Jackson's professional history the way his curriculum vitae informed him he had studied the history and languages of this planet. He made private, independent assessments of the people around him, uncontaminated by what others might have told him about them or about his past interactions with them. He learned what he could learn by reading. What the four members of SG-1 didn't seem to realize, despite knowing full well that one of Doctor Jackson's specialties was anthropology, was that he was nearly as good at reading people as he was at reading text.