Archive post: Season 1 Stories Recs List

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For astrogirl2, who was new to SG-1 fandom in 2007, and posting about every new ep as she saw them. She'd just finished season 1, with it's highlights and it's lowlights, and had been informed that it's not just the (sometimes underwhelming) canon in this 'verse, it's the (sometimes overwhelming amounts of quality) fanfiction. Yes.

So here it is, all specifically season 1:

Gen:

ballroomblitz wrote Season 1 Jack, with Sam and Daniel and Kowalski, with all those early relationships just spot on. Gen. Dreaming and the Geneva Convention.

This is hysterical. It's amazing what one canon sentence can do: betacandy's Acid Worms which is Teal'c's take on the circumstances surrounding the drink that made Carter take off her... on P3X-595 (a quote from Broca Divide).

Sam and Teal'c from psychofilly: How Teal'c Discovered Make-up, or as I named it, Sam and Teal'c have a bonding moment and Hammond has to poke Jack in the ribs to make him behave.

This is bound to be one of my favorite Jack character studies ever, and it's Jack and Daniel friendship oriented, so that's a plus, and Jack's protectiveness arc is so nicely drawn and I just hadn't thought of it that way, it's really nice. Elementariness. It's kellifer_fic's work.

Betacandy, at betacandy_sgfic has posted a brilliant Janet's introduction to the team fic, S1, just post Emancipation. Assess This, PG, gen. Fabulous voice, amazing instant relationships as well as those that take a little longer to settle in, really good observation skills from Janet and I love the sense that this is not the only thing she's done today, not the wierdest, and possibly not the most important, but goodness, it left an impression.

Also cofax7 wrote a brilliant team first impressions fic. The women (plural) are there even when they aren't, and that's a pretty strong team right there. Turnover, early season 1, gen/teen.

ldyanne's Scaling the Wall, which works up to Teal'c's betrayal in Children of the Gods with impressive momentum.

A Circle of One's Own by Jonah in the Whale, all about Colonel O'Neill's insecurity about standardized testing, but it's really worth it for Teal'c's perplexity and Daniel's objections to them at all. Plus it's just witty and in character. Team, earlier season, gen, but Jack and Daniel's friendship is prominent.

surrealphantast wrote a great team-night poker game in which Sam is spectacularly bad at bluffing titled Jello Shots (gen, team, G, very witty) that katiedammit has prequeled with a Sam and Janet UST-ish (it's almost gen. Very nearly. Still G rated, work safe! Fun for the whole family!) ficlet about what had happened to the rest of the Jello Shots: Never Bluff a Sucker. Which features Sam still being unable to lie, which is so entertaining, and Janet labeling herself 'jailbait', which, frankly, sounds a lot like something I would say. Early seasons, team, gen.

Sid (sidlj) brings da surreal with early season Daniel's dreamscape. I'd call this gen or canon relationship het, but seriously surreal dreams from a guy in serious internal conflict cross lots of boundaries. Jack is a fantastic reassuring presence. Nightscape, rated R.

jennghis kahn's (surrealphantast's) Ghost in the Machine. One helluva ride through a mission gone wrong in which they are all skilled, unique, respecting each other and working together so seamlessly that it is hard to imagine how they could have done it if all four hadn't been there. Really good yarn. Gen, long.

I wrote Janet dealing with SG-1 during Season 1 for the remix/redux ficathon: Bedside Manners, S1, gen.

nandamai = Nanda wrote for cofax7 in the sg1teamficathon a wonderful team piece with really nice Teal'c presence and dialog. Early season 1 SG-1 team, gen. Wavelength or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love My Job.

A nice little set of insights on Teal'c's early few months in the Stargate Program; perspective and well-balanced understanding of consequences. annienau08's Teal'c Ficlet, early season 1, through bloodlines, gen, worksafe.

Not just early seasons gun-training and loggerheads with Daniel, but Jack commanding in the first part of season 1: still sorting out personalities and navigating a new team. Extraordinary moment that would have turned out so differently at any other time in the series. Live Fire, gen, Jack and Daniel. From synecdochic

A brilliant project from Dira Sudis: to write missing scenes from Stargate early seasons (she's rewatching) that pass the Bechdel Test. This is a fantastic idea, and her first moment is between Sam and Sha're during Children of the Gods. Sisters in Arms, worksafe, from dsudis.

Timeless:

The best Teal'c fic ever: Brilliantly unusual perspectives, great voices and kick-ASS insights from katie_m: Almost A Statesman Teal'c, gen, a CLASSIC. All Teal'c fans must read, and I think, regardless of how much you've seen of the series. This is just the first Teal'c fic you should read.

poohmusings wrote an absolutely hysterical piece titled WWZD? for splash_the_cat. It's just, I mean, *collapses into giggles at the mere THOUGHT of that fic*. Though I do have a sort of whacked sense of humor... but hey, clearly I'm not the only one.

katie_m wrote an extraordinary Sam POV piece for nandamai called A Heavenward Striving. I don't want to say too much about it except that I really wish there had been an episode like this, and really, I thought Sam's voice, and all the character's choices were fantastic.

Veil by eve11 in the sg1teamficathon. Has a magnificent alien culture, rich and deep and affecting. Watch Teal'c interact with Sam and help her, only to be unable to help himself. Jack feel helpless in the inability to yell or talk or touch and yet be the one who instinctively understands... then there is eve's extremely competant use of mathmatics as a centering chant for Sam, and Daniel's completely in character reactions to everyone.

Somnambulist by C. L. Kamnikar is a fantastic gen (author claims a leaning towards Sam/Daniel) piece about Daniel searching for coffee in the wee hours of the morning. Oh, the insanity.

eve11 wrote one of my very favorite fics in the sg1teamficathon, and THEN went all noble and stuff and stepped up to pinch-hit when another author didn't come through. Even though this is past deadline, it's marvelous teamy goodness featuring our heroes in prison and doing their respective things, and it shines the brighter for being posted on it's own. Folsom Prison Blues. SG-1 gen.

Surface Tension by troyswann. It's an amazing Sam centered fic, with a nice thread of her friendship with Daniel running through it. One of my favorite Sam fics.

Pairings:

I will find you some Sam/Jack in later seasons, promise.

Jack/Daniel:

Jack/Daniel with a gun kink. First time, season 1 by padawan_ally: Defense Training. NC-17.

janedavitt's Crash Course Part 1! with links to the rest. YAAAAAY! Early Jack/Daniel. When they were still figuring out how to work together, but already had that chemistry. And the hair, natch. Read for great frustration with each other, marvelous early characterization and amazing dialog.

Because I think everyone should know Salieri: troyswann's Willing. Creepy, S1. Lyrical and one of the first among this fandom's writers. PG-13.

Recover and be impressed with her ability to be silly with Elvis Has Left the Building, which I shall cache as timeless. Or something.

Between the Shadow and the Soul by The Grrrl, ah those local rituals.

From destina: a Torment of Tantalus AU, in which they don't make it back. A Heart for Every Fate, which is a classic, wonderful, marvelous, heartbreaking...all that stuff.

Bright Chains, also from Destina, is AMTDI.

Sam/Daniel:

HA. I win. agentotter wrote a snippet for cofax7 that is amazing early Sam and Daniel friendship, when Sam was wrapping her brain around going to other planets and Daniel was adjusting to so much loss, and all about a frog. Protective Resemblence, PG, gen.

I think this is fine for S1: A nice friendship to lean on if you need more, plus there's a crinkly Daniel-frown: Unreasonable by Dith (=raqs).

From keiko kirin: A gen story that has an early season feel to it Deja Vu, and Hunger

Mental note to readership: Greensilver = Trelkez; Surrealphantast = Surrealis;

Comments

[stultiloquentia]

I am so excited to dive into these. Thanks.

[minxy]

You're so welcome!