Fig Newton's SG-1 Gen Recs

Rec Category: Daniel Jackson

Categories: team, orginal character, episode related, team, angst, Jack and Daniel friendship, friendship, character study
Warnings: Jack warning for some profanity
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: moonlitesonata
Link: a fish called Mac

Why This Must Be Read: I almost tagged this as "original character" just because of the fish. :) (There are original characters here, too.)

This delightful, insightful story takes a few seconds from Fire and Water and uses that brief snapshot of Daniel's aquarium to create an entire series arc that begins with the acquisition of a fish called Mac at the beginning of S1 and ends after Ark of Truth with, well...

There's friendship and wry humor and thoughtful observation and heart-wrenching grief, and it's both outsider POV and Daniel POV all in one. A very satisfying and intriguing read!

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Rec Category: Episode Related

Categories: robot!team, Jackl, Sam, Daniel, Teal'c,angst, character study, friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: troyswann
Author's Website: mssalieri
Link: Tin Men

Why This Must Be Read: This is oldskool fic in aching, stellar Jack POV, showing us Robot!SG-1 in their first weeks with Harlan and the gradual decision to try and go through the Stargate.


Jack wonders how long it will take them to know each other’s stories by heart.

His new brain corrects another stumble. He hasn’t got a heart.

Rec Category: Sam and Daniel Friendship

Categories: team, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: moonlitesonata
Link: Sugar Fix

Why This Must Be Read: Lovely Sam POV that is quite literally the sweetness of team bonding via baked goods, with Daniel playing host. You've heard of the language of flowers? Daniel speaks cookies, cake, and pie, too!

Teamy goodness, a light dose of angst, and a slight warning for probable cravings by the time you reach the satisfactory ending. :)


Jack liked cake, so after each time he and Daniel went at it, after whatever tiff they had ran its course, Daniel would show up with four slices of red velvet or tres leches or plain old chocolate cake, and Jack would give him a twitchy smile, and Daniel would reciprocate with a twitchy smile of his own, and Sam would relax for the first time that week, catching Teal’c’s eye. They ended up eating a lot of cake..

Rec Category: Cassandra Frasier

Categories: episode related, angst, character study, team
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: cirque
Link: Here at the quiet limit of the world

Why This Must Be Read: Post-Heroes, so you all know what that means...

A bittersweet, aching return to Hanka, as Cassie seeks closure in the wake of other momentous changes in her life. Teamy support, excellent introspection, and a hopeful ending.

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Rec Category: Teal'c

Categories: character study, Jack and Teal'c friendship, angst
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: princessofgeeks
Author's Website: POG at AO3
Link: R is for Ry'ac

Why This Must Be Read: In honor of Father's Day and Teal'c, who was always amazingly gentle with children and gave up the chance to mentor his own for the sake of his son's future...

It's early S1, before the team knows that Ry'ac even exists, and Jack takes Teal'c to the local mall where a glimpse of a karate class brings up painfully wistful memories. Brief, poignant, and stoic - in short, perfectly Teal'c.

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Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Janet Frasier
Characters: Janet, Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Teal'c
Categories: gen, humor
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: pepper
Author's Website: PepperF
Link: Y is for Y Chromosome

Why This Must Be Read: This ficlet features the Little Doc at her competent, snarky best, dealing with the babies men under her care. Some people make good patients. Others... not so much.


"Bed, Doctor Jackson. It's the soft, squashy thing with the faint smell of disinfectant, just behind you."

Rec Category: Team

Categories: humor, crossover
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: tallulah_rasa
Author's Website: Tallulah_Rasa
Link: Odds Are

Why This Must Be Read: This delicious litle ficlet includes Teal'c pwnage, team snark, and bonus House cameo!

...Why are you still here? :)


“Damn it, man, I’m a doctor, not a miracle-worker!” House spit out, leaning over his desk with an air of furious intent.

Teal’c, on the other side of the desk, raised one eyebrow. “I have merely asked you," he said calmly, "for Daniel Jackson’s antihistamines.”

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: Teal'c

Categories: team, friendship, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: lokei
Author's Website: lokei
Link: L is for...(Teal'c drabbles)

Why This Must Be Read: This is a lovely triptych of Teal'c musings, offering a peek into the thought processes of our favorite inscrutable Jaffa. From loyalty to Lya to Luke Skywalker, this is perfectly, thoughtfully Teal'c.


On SG-1, Teal’c realizes, loyalty works remarkably like love.

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: Crossover

Categories: gen, humor, crack, team
Warnings: crossover with AOS Trek
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: sourassin
Link: Fascinating/Indeed

Why This Must Be Read: This is a shameless excuse to have Teal'c and Spock raise eyebrows at one another and have multiple exchanges of Fascinating and Indeed, but it is also a delightfully in-character crackfic told from AOS Jim Kirk's POV of the entire classic team interacting with the newer version of Star Trek's Enterprise crew. Guaranteed to leave you grinning!

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Rec Category: Teal'c
Categories: five things, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: rachel500
Author's Website: rachel500
Link: Cultural Gaps

Why This Must Be Read: Being alien doesn't just mean a lack of knowledge of Tau'ri culture; it means a Jaffa culture, too. And this thoughtful, beautifully Teal'cish five things does a superb job of highlighting different aspects of Jaffa culture that SG-1 never fully comprehend.

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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. :)