Fig Newton's SG-1 Gen Recs

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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Rec Category: Crossover
Categories: Vala, Jack, Sam, SGC and SGA ensembles, original characters, humor, friendship, science shenanigans
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: arwenlune
Link: Saw This and Thought of You

Why This Must Be Read: Jack and Vala go shopping for Atlantis. Things escalate from there.

Yes, there are some serious notes here and there, but this is mostly an unashamed romp of SGA and SGC personnel being delightfully themselves with bonus Sam-in-command. Guaranteed to leave you grinning!


"Colonel, permission to fire that whale through the gate?"

Rec Category: Humor
Categories: general!Jack, Sam, Daniel, OCs
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: lunalatenight
Link: Bureaucracy

Why This Must Be Read: Shiny gleeful fic with general!Jack and deadpan SGC shenanigans for the WIN.

...Are you still here? :)

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Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Original Character
Categories: drama, angst, character study, non-linear storytelling
Warnings: violence, OC character death
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: elivira
Link: Breathlessly to Scream

Why This Must Be Read: I think this is a shiny new author, and definitely one worth encouraging! Here is a superb OC in the immediacy of second-person POV: a civilian going through Stargate, with all the trauma and determination and courage you can imagine.

As I commented, I am now going to mentally insert Callie into every background scene in the SGC, because this short fic brings her vividly to life.



The base psychologist asks if you still want to work on a gate team, to work with Evans and Takeda, or if you’d prefer to stay earthside.

“Yes,” you say, voice hoarse, “I want.” You don’t know why you agree, don't even know if you really do want to, but it's as if you can’t do anything else. You wonder if this is how Sergent Takeda feels when he talks about the gate, about his time in Atlantis, about his ten years at the SGC. As if there’s no way he can leave it behind for good, as much a part of him as his hands or feet.

Rec Category: Five Things
Categories:Teal'c, team, original characters,character study, Jack and Teal'c friendship, Teal'c and Daniel friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: rachel500
Author's Website: Rachel500 at AO3
Link: It's All in a Name

Why This Must Be Read: An exploration of Teal'c. Or Murray. No - of Teal'c.

Team as family, wonderful friendships, stellar characterization.


He is home.

And he is happy to be both Teal'c and Murray.

Rec Category: Episode Related
Categories: Daniel, team (SG-5), original characters
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: marzipan77
Author's Website: marzipan77 at AO3
Link: B is for Blown

Why This Must Be Read: Here's a wonderful exploration of Daniel's mission with SG-5, right before The Light begins. It would be just a fun romp with a slight mystery if we didn't know what was coming for poor SG-5. But at least we get to know them a little, and enjoy their interactions with Daniel, before... well, before.

Marzipan does a great job of bringing SG-5 to vivid life as a good, solid SG team. Daniel's dealings with them are spot-on. Well worth the read!

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Rec Category: Janet Frasier
Categories: Sam, Janet, OCs, episode related, Sam and Janet friendship, women being awesome
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: nothernexposure at AO3
Link: Born Lucky

Why This Must Be Read: Despite being labeled Sam/Jack, this is not only decidedly gen (to my gen girl eyes, at least) but really all about Janet: Janet the fierce little powerhouse, dressing down those that don't realize how good they have it. This is Sam and Janet friendship, and Sam integrity, and a fantastic Janet voice.

But Sam/Jack fans will probably like this too. So it's win-win for everyone! :)

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Rec Category: Pre-series
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Claire Jackson, original character
Categories: drama, kidfic
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: thothmes
Author's Website: fic tag
Link: To Be or Not to Be

Why This Must Be Read: For someone with a genuinely tragic childhood, Daniel is remarkably resilient and has incredible faith in people. That had to come from somewhere...

This is a fabulous perspective on Claire Jackson and her strength of conviction and the values she instilled in her son. With an extra twist of what-could-have-been, this is kidfic at its best.

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Rec Category: Futurefic
Categories: Daniel, OC, character study, Jack and Daniel friendship
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: jdjunkie
Author's Website:JDJunkie at AO3
Link: Deja Vu All Over Again

Why This Must Be Read: There is genuine sweetness in this, as a desk-bound Daniel gets some nostalgic time off-world and reflects a little on how far he - and the SGC - have come.

The ruins on P4Y-771 had been discovered during a routine investigation. “They hoped to find weapons grade naquada,” Weston’s report read. “Instead, they found a temple. I was thrilled. They ... weren’t.”

Rec Category: Samantha Carter
Categories: drama, hurt/comfort, AU, angst, ep related, Sam and Janet friendship, character study, original characters
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: gunhilda
Author's Website: SG-1 Fanfiction by Strix varia
Link: The Knife's Edge of Madness or at FF.net

Why This Must Be Read: In this powerful piece, Sam manages to escape the hospital in Desperate Measures on her own... but she doesn't get away unscathed.

Take Sam Carter and strip away her memories, her physical health, her very sense of self. Plague her with memories that make no sense and give her no resource to discover the truth. Then sit back and watch as she still is strongly, powerfully Sam, and finds her own way back to her old self and her old life.

I love her determination, her courage, and driving need for discovery. No matter what the circumstances, that aspect of Sam never changes.

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Rec Category: Quantum Mirror Universe
Categories: AU, Bill Lee, Ferretti, Kawalsky, original characters, drama, humor, action/adventure
Warnings: language; AU and OC character deaths; violence
Author on LJ: unknown
Author's Website: belford at AO3
Link: Angle of Incidents

Why This Must Be Read: This is a hugely entertaining exploration of a reality where the Langford expedition discovers the quantum mirror rather than the Stargate. Bill Lee, General West, and the team that went through the Stargate in the movie (minus Jack and Daniel) are the only players we can recognize; but you'll fall in love with the original characters pretty quickly - especially Dr. Alicia Tremont, who is fabulous. Enjoy the in-character humor, the camaraderie, the intelligence of the players, and the nods to realities that are more familiar to us. A fantastic, absorbing read!

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Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Categories: angst, OC, team, friendship
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: lokei
Author's Website: lokeis_pen
Link: H is for Hell

Why This Must Be Read: Short but undeniably sweet, Lokei treats us to post-S8 Jack in Washington - all the bleakness of his day-to-day affairs, lightened by the loveliness of TEAM.


Jack decides it’s not the kid’s fault that he has no idea what real hell is. If anything, it’s Jack’s, for saving the world too damn often.