Fanfic / What You Already Know

What You Already Know by MaureenT is an AU of Stargate SG-1, starting mid-way through the seventh season and progressing from there until the end of the eighth season. As a result of biofeedback therapy sessions being given to the SGC, Doctor Daniel Jackson learns that he has returned from his Ascension with an array of psychic abilities, including telekinesis, pyrokinesis, psychometry, and the ability to see the future, among a few other abilities he develops later. With these powers, Daniel develops a reputation in the wider galaxy as the powerful and mysterious ‘Dan’yar’, and goes on to play a particularly key role in the war against the Goa’uld.

There are seven stories in this series; Evolution, Grace, Chimera, Death Knell, Heroes, Lost City, and Resolutions. These can also be read on the author's own web site here.

The writer has written both a general version and a ‘Ship’ version, with the Ship version adding a relationship between Daniel and Samantha Carter to the storyline (along with the secondary relationship of Jack O’Neill and Janet Frasier. As both storylines are essentially the same in terms of the overall plot apart from the romantic relationships, this page will provide examples of tropes included in the Ship version.

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What You Already Know provides examples of:

• 10-Minute Retirement: In a loose sense; after Daniel’s powers become known, he is taken off SG-1 on the recommendation of the NID, but he and Teal’c instead decide to go offworld and fight the Goa’uld on their own, with a later demonstration of Daniel’s abilities convincing all relevant parties that Daniel can best use his powers in the field
• 90% of Your Brain: It is often stated that Daniel’s powers involve him tapping into the normally-dormant portions of his brain
• Abhorrent Admirer: McKay serves this for Sam, both due to his arrogance about his own abilities and his dismissive attitude towards Daniel (before he learns about Daniel’s abilities)
• Adaptational Villainy: Doctor MacKenzie was just fixated on his own theories and hastily diagnosed Daniel with schizophrenia in canon, making him a bad doctor but not necessarily a bad person. As events unfold MacKenzie is clearly portrayed as an agent of Robert Kinsey, attempting to support Kinsey’s agenda to get Daniel removed from the program by conducting a ‘psychiatric evaluation’ focused entirely on presenting Daniel as psychologically unstable with a god complex. The plan only fails because another psychiatrist attended the same interview and diagnosed Daniel as being perfectly sound mentally
• Afraid of Their Own Strength: After Daniel realises that he can use his powers to enhance his physical strength, he expresses fear that he might lose control and hurt one of his allies in a training session
• All Your Base Are Belong to Us: When Anubis infiltrates the SGC, he takes his efforts a step further by possessing Hammond and issuing an announcement that 'Anubis' has possessed Daniel and taken Jack hostage; the two have to spend a few minutes fleeing their own side until Jack can change radio frequencies and convince Feretti and Carter that Daniel's still himself.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: A non-crime example used for humour; when stressing about his appearance prior to his first date with Sam, Daniel tells himself that she’s going on this date even after seeing him covered in dirt, exhausted, sick, injured, or even dead, and then hopes that he picked out the right tie.
• Artistic License – Biology: Emphasis is placed on the idea that humans only use 10% of their brains, with Daniel’s psychic powers attributed to him having evolved the ability to use the rest of his brain.
• Ascended Extra: In a minor sense; where Jacob basically disappeared from the show between the breakdown of the Tok’ra alliance at the Alpha Site to the final battle with the Replicators, here he visits the SGC on behalf of the Tok’ra on a few other occasions. He returns to Earth after the battle with Anubis following the discovery of the Ancient outpost, and also meets with the team to tell them that Ares is going back to the planet where they left Maybourne.
• Asshole Victim:
  • Vice-President Kinsey is assassinated by his associates in the Trust when he oversteps his boundaries and tries to have Daniel killed, and nobody depicted is in any way sorry to learn of his death.
  • On a lesser note, Rodney McKay is subject to teasing from Daniel with the aid of the archaeologist’s psychic powers for his often-condescending attitude towards Sam, and even his colleagues in Atlantis feel that McKay deserves it.
• Authority in Name Only: In Resolutions, after Sam is promoted to the leader of SG-1, she observes that she arguably isn't the 'leader' of the now three-man team as Daniel and Teal'c are technically civilians who aren't obligated to follow her orders, but feels that the new system will work by allowing her, Daniel and Teal'c to decide who gives the orders in the field depending on whose expertise will be most relevant in the current situation.
• Back from the Dead: It’s a long series that focuses on Doctor Daniel Jackson; it would be unusual if he didn’t ‘pull another Lazarus’ (as quoted in-story) at some point (although, to be strictly accurate, the only time Daniel 'dies' he was actually just in a very extreme self-induced coma, although he later uses his healing ability to literally bring Sam back to life after she is killed by Anubis).
• Badass Boast: Daniel delivers a few of these when he’s trying to create an imposing presence in his new guise as ‘Dan’yar’, although he admits to finding his actions slightly embarrassing in the aftermath.
• Badass Bookworm: Daniel, naturally, although Sam still isn’t a slouch in this department
• Battle Couple: Daniel and Sam have no problem fighting alongside each other as their relationship unfolds, although they have to be granted special dispensation to continue their relationship after Sam is promoted to team leader.
• Be as Unhelpful as Possible: Daniel realises that the SGC should be more friendly to Bergman as his intentions are good even if they don't agree with the idea that the program should go public, but the organisation is still under orders not to tell Bergman anything about Daniel's abilities, to the extent that the last few months of his personnel file have been blacked out and people avoid answering any questions about Daniel's recent activites.
• Berserk Button: As Daniel’s powers develop, threatening the rest of SG-1 is a quick way to get on his bad side, to the point where even Daniel is scared of what he’s capable of when a Kull warrior injured Sam and he retaliates by burning it to death inside its indestructible armour.
• Beware the Nice Ones:
  • Daniel in general; he might not be a trained soldier, but piss him off after he begins exploring his powers and he will do some serious damage.
  • Of all people, Oma Desala demonstrates this; once the re-Ascended Daniel gives her the chance to punish Anubis, she incinerates the Goa'uld's once-again-mortal body completely with a certain satisfaction in her manner.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Essentially the case for the Trust (even if they wouldn’t consider themselves the ‘villain’), as Daniel’s abilities and Kinsey’s vendetta against him lead to the Trust’s leaders being identified and captured before they can actually put any of their plans into action.
• Big Entrance: When dealing with Ba'al and Moloc, Daniel puts aside his usual discomfort about showing off his powers to make as dramatic an entrance as possible, such as tossing away the guards around a door or a Stargate and declaring his status as Dan'yar.
• Blatant Lies: As in canon, RepliCarter claims to Daniel that she'll leave Earth alone even as her forces are attacking the SGC.
• Blessed with Suck: Considering that overuse of Daniel’s powers makes him physically ill and could cause brain damage if he pushes himself too far, it’s easy to see why he considered his abilities as this early on.
• Blue Is Heroic: Daniel wears his robes from Vis Uban during a couple of appearances as Dan’Yar, as the robes look more dramatic than his Abydonian clothing and they want to distinguish him from his colleagues in the SGC.
• Both Sides Have a Point: When Ishta learns that Daniel is Dan'yar, she is initially angered that Teal'c and Bra'tac didn't tell her that Dan'yar was available to help them against Moloc, but while Daniel concedes that his presence would be helpful, he helps Ishta see that making it public knowledge that Dan'yar is accompanying the Hak'tyl could encourage Moloc to deploy more resources against the Hak'tyl than they can resist.
• Broken Masquerade: As in canon, Alec Colson's efforts to go public with alien knowledge prompt Sam to suggest they tell him the truth anyway, but unlike in canon Colson is convinced to keep quiet on his own after Daniel shows him a vision of what would happen if he told everyone the truth.
• The Bus Came Back: Essentially applies to the Atlantis expedition; thanks to Daniel and Sam using the Ancient knowledge in Daniel’s subconscious, they’re able to develop the Liquid Naquadah Generators, based on the generators Jack created when he had the Ancient knowledge. These generators give Stargates on Earth and Atlantis the necessary boost to dial eight-chevron addresses and keep in more regular contact than was possible in the shows, although they will require regular refuelling and maintenance to stay in working order.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: Daniel, as demonstrated during the New Year’s Eve party in Heroes, made more extreme because Feretti was slipping him vodka as a ‘joke’ (which Jack isn't happy about in hindsight, observing that giving a man who can create fires with his mind that much alcohol could have been very dangerous even without the question of how Daniel's physiology would react to it).
• Cartwright Curse: The main reason that Sam resists the idea that she might have feelings for Daniel; even though she acknowledges that it’s unscientific and stupid, she has trouble getting past the fact that every man she’s ever expressed an explicit interest in has died, to the point where she muses that Jack was ‘safe’ because she never actually told him how she felt. This reasoning comes to a head when she finds herself tearfully telling the seemingly-dead Daniel that she loves him in the Antarctic outpost, privately vowing as she cries in his office after they return to the SGC that Daniel will be the last man she lets herself have feelings for, only to do a complete 180 when Jack reveals that Daniel isn’t dead.
• Cassandra Truth: After the final battle with Anubis on Dakara, the Tok'ra initially disbelieve the reports that Anubis was defeated when Daniel ascended again until Jacob comes to Earth and Jack explains the truth, and the Tok'ra subsequently insist on double-checking Daniel's claim that he destroyed the remaining Goa'uld System Lords while Ascended.
• Chekhov's Skill: While Daniel can’t regularly access the Ancient knowledge in his subconscious, he is able to tap into it if he’s careful, once even recreating the generator Jack built to give the Stargate the boost needed to dial an eight-chevron address, allowing the SGC and Atlantis to create a set of similar devices that they can rebuild as needed to dial back and forth.
• The Chosen One: Teal'c states at one point that while he doesn't believe in fate, he believes that some people are destined to do great things, and after witnessing Daniel's growing powers he has come to believe that Daniel is destined to strike the final blow in the war against the Goa'uld.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Disregarded; Daniel refuses to use his abilities to torture any captured Goa'uld as he recognises that torturing them would be torturing the relatively innocent host. At one point he explicitly requests that the Hak'tyl kill Moloc in a humane manner rather than burn him alive like they were planning.
• Combat Clairvoyance: Daniel learns how to use his ability to see the future to become this, which comes in useful when facing even trained soldiers like Jack or a Jaffa in spite of their superior combat experience.
• The Conscience: Daniel remains this for the SGC even after he gains his powers. Jack and Hammond muse more than once that they’re glad it’s Daniel who developed his abilities rather than someone else who would abuse such power.
• Create Your Own Villain: The returned Fifth, as in canon.
• Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Invoked when a hitman infiltrates Stargate Command and tries to escape in the lift; he instinctively pushes the button for level 28 while trying to escape, as he's naturally used to thinking of the higher buttons as referring to upper levels, with the result that he's taken deeper into the mountain when he doesn't know about the Stargate.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • Instead of surviving the collapse of the Goa’uld Empire after Anubis’s final defeat, Ba’al is captured in a raid on his palace and is killed when he tries to take Daniel as a host a year before the Battle of Dakara.
  • Where Kinsey was last shown in a position that left his fate ambiguous in the TV series, here he is shot while giving a speech and clearly bleeds to death in front of a hundred witnesses.
  • Rather than being trapped in eternal battle with Oma, Anubis is forcibly returned to his original body by Daniel (Daniel explicitly noting that the mind of the host is gone and only the mind of the symbiote is left), Daniel then 'inviting' Oma down so that she can kill Anubis herself.
• Death by Secret Identity: Ba'al discovers that Daniel is Dan'yar during an attack against his base, which ends with Ba'al being captured and the symbiote being killed when he tries to take Daniel as a host.
• Defeat Means Friendship: As Daniel's status as Dan'yar develops among the rebel Jaffa, one Jaffa, Har'tec, begins to spread doubt about Dan'yar among the Jaffa, believing that Dan'yar is basically trying to set himself up as the new god to the Jaffa. When an attempt to talk Har'tec down drives him to challenge Daniel to joma secu (ritual hand-to-hand combat), Bra'tac reminds Daniel that the winner can spare his opponent if he chooses, allowing Daniel to defeat Har'tec (his abilities boosting his strength and allowing him to anticipate some of Har'tec's attacks) and then inspire him to keep fighting for the freedom of all Jaffa, affirming that Dan'yar respects the Jaffa and just wants to help them become free rather than act as their ruler.
• Demoted to Extra:
  • The Wraith are still a threat in the Pegasus Galaxy, but because Daniel was able to pass on a warning to John Sheppard not to kill an alien woman he’d encounter, the Wraith aren’t woken up en masse as they were in the original series, meaning that they pose a far less significant threat to the Atlantis expedition.
  • RepliCarter still takes command of the Replicators, but stays away from Earth as her inherited knowledge of Daniel’s abilities meant that she knew he’d see through any attempt she made to trick the SGC, and thus she only has one confrontation with Daniel before the Replicators are destroyed as in canon, save that Daniel escapes without her killing him.
• Despair Event Horizon: Three-quarters of SG-1 hit this when Daniel apparently dies after defeating Anubis in the Battle of Antarctica; Teal’c returns to his quarters to meditate and mourn, Jack has a brief violent outburst in his office and then just slumps into his chair in despair, and Sam retreats to Daniel’s office and spends the next few hours crying in grief over how she was too late to tell Daniel that she loves him.
• Doctor's Orders: As he begins to acknowledge his deeper feelings for Janet, Jack privately admits to himself that he appreciates her ability to stand up to him even after he becomes her direct superior.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap:
  • Overuse of Daniel’s powers causes him great pain, so he only ever uses his abilities when there is no other clear choice, although with training and experience he learns how to use his powers to achieve his goals without inflicting too much pain on himself.
  • A variation of this occurs while Teal'c is in the training simulation; as it would be too easy for the SGC to defeat the Kull warriors if Daniel was present, Lee was instructed to include a plot detail that Daniel wasn't on the base when the invasion occurred to make it a more legitimate challenge.
  • Daniel initially suggests the use of the Dakara superweapon to stop Anubis’s supersoldiers, but despite using it against the Replicators as in canon, Sam determines that they can’t use the weapon against the Kull Warriors as it would have to be programmed to exactly match the frequency of the anti-Kull disruptor, and they don’t have the means to control it that specifically.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Lord Yu is killed offscreen by Anubis's forces before the final battle, although Oshu (his First Prime) escapes to share this information.
• Dying as Yourself: In Heroes, Ba'al's host gets this after the symbiote tries to take control of Daniel; Daniel is able to incinerate the Goa'uld as it jumps out of the host, and then Jack and Daniel return to the host's cell in time for Daniel to hear the man whisper "I'm free" before he dies.
• Enemy Mine: Daniel uses this to convince Lord Yu to save him, Sam and Teal’c and take them to a suitable Stargate when they’re about to captured by Anubis, Yu and Oshu agreeing that, while SG-1 are enemies of the Goa’uld, they have never been directly at war with Yu.
• Energy Being: As well as the other Ascended and Anubis, Daniel Ascends again to stop Anubis and the Goa'uld in the final battle, with his transformed state being described as far more colourful than the usual white light of the traditional Ascended.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Demonstrated most particularly when Daniel confronts Senator Kinsey; Kinsey may have blown up Daniel’s house and sent an assassin to try and kill him, but Daniel isn’t the kind of person who would respond in kind, even if he does blow up most of Kinsey’s vintage cars to make a point.
  • On a more minor note, when Fifth claims that he knows Sam better than anyone else could after he linked to her mind, Sam muses that she already shared far more with Daniel than Fifth could ever understand.
• Evil Versus Evil: Briefly discussed as a concept when Teyla asks Daniel why he wouldn't move to Pegasus to help with Wraith, as he explains about the nature of the Goa'uld and Teyla acknowledges that the Goa'uld are a greater evil and more insidious threat than the Wraith, as the Wraith just kill their victims where the victims of the Goa'uld could suffer for centuries while acting as a host
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Actually provides a reason for Teal’c growing hair in the eighth season; while the rest of SG-1 are at the Ancient outpost in Antarctica, Teal’c leaves to attend the Ra'kon Akel, traditionally a rite where a Jaffa pledges his loyalty to the Goa’uld he serves but used on this occasion to reflect Teal’c’s vow to destroy them. At his last Ra'kon Akel (which only takes place every twenty years), Teal’c vowed to shave his head for the rest of his life as a symbol of his service, but chose to reverse it at this pledge to reflect his opposition to the Goa’uld (which he couldn’t do earlier as he swore to keep the pledge upon his honour and the lives of his family, and so breaking the pledge would have been the equivalent of dishonouring all Jaffa).
• Famed In-Story: SG-1 were already famous on their own, but Daniel’s reputation as Dan’yar develops so quickly that Thor is asking if SG-1 know of ‘Dan’yar’ just a couple of months after Daniel developed his powers without talking to the Tau'ri in the intervening time.
• Fanboy: Thor is particularly interested in Daniel’s abilities, as Daniel’s evolved DNA proves to be the cure to the Asgard’s genetic degradation problem. When Jack learns that Thor has named his new ship the Daniel Jackson even before he learned about Daniel's abilities, Jack is initially put out that he's not the only one who gets a ship named after him, but later concedes that Daniel has earned that honor.
• A Father to His Men: Hammond is this as always; when he finally decides to move on to command of Homeworld Security, he reflects that it's ironic that he came to the SGC thinking that it would only be a temporary command before his retirement and he leaves having formed attachments so great that he considers many of the men and women in the base part of his family.
• Fate Worse than Death:
  • Sam is deeply affected when it seems as though Daniel is going to subject himself to this for her sake, when they’re under attack by a Kull warrior and Daniel’s used his powers so much recently that the effort required to stop the supersoldier could leave him with brain damage.
  • Daniel speculates that his evaluation by MacKenzie was part of Kinsey’s attempt to get him out of the picture by arranging for Daniel to be declared unstable so that he could be dragged off to a psychiatric hospital and left drugged into a near-comatose state, thus ensuring that Daniel can’t do anything about Kinsey’s plans
  • After Anubis is defeated, Daniel travels around and extracts every remaining Goa’uld from its host and takes them to a lake in an island on their original homeworld which he instructs the Unas to declare taboo so nobody will go to that island and risk unleashing another Goa’uld. With his task completed, the active Goa'uld will live out the remainder of their lives trapped upon that world, knowing that they will never again taste freedom or power, while those currently in the Jaffa will be killed once the time comes to remove them as the entire race goes on tretonin.
• Frontline General: Jack goes through the Stargate more often than he did in canon after his promotion, visiting Tegelus, Atlantis, Maybourne's planet, and Dakara.
• Godzilla Threshold: In Resolutions, the threat of Anubis launching a mass assault on Dakara to take possession of the superweapon forces Daniel to a point where he has to Ascend again to stop Anubis's army, actually managing to Ascend to a level above the other Ascended.
• Good Counterpart: Daniel essentially becomes this for Anubis to a greater extent than in canon, as they both gained great power through their efforts to ascend but each chose to return to the lower planes with greater power over gaining even greater power and knowledge as one of the true Ascended, although Daniel has only ever used his powers to help others in contrast to Anubis’s desire to conquer.
• Green-Eyed Epiphany: Despite having shared a kiss over a month ago, as well as a few intense emotional moments since then, Daniel only realises that he’s in love with Sam about a minute after he learns she’s dating someone else (although Jack had guessed this a couple of weeks ago).
• He Who Fights Monsters: Jack worries Daniel’s going to cross this line when he suddenly goes after Ba’al after remembering how the System Lord tortured Jack while Daniel was Ascended, but Daniel avoids actually hurting Ba’al and just completely humiliates him, even if MacKenzie tries to use the fact that Daniel took pleasure in that action as ‘proof’ he’s unstable.
• Healing Hands: Mid-way through Lost City, Daniel develops the power to heal himself and others after being exposed to the Ancient repository
• Heel Realization: A slight but significant example occurs in Resolutions when Ishta, who has spent years hating Moloc for killing the female Jaffa infants in his territories, witnesses Daniel temporarily allow Moloc's host to speak on his own before his execution. Ishta later talks to Daniel about her guilt that she spent years hating Moloc's face but only now acknowledges that the man she hated was as much a victim as any of the children Moloc killed, promising Daniel that she will try and kill any other Goa'uld she might face in the future in a more humane manner.
• Helpful Hallucination: When Sam is trapped in the nebula, her hallucination of Daniel strikes her as being particularly annoying in a manner unlike Daniel's usual attitude, hinting at her growing feelings for Daniel even as she isn't ready to acknowledge them yet.
• Heroic RRoD: Daniel hits this on a few occasions as he explores his new abilities, ranging from falling into a short coma the first time he blows up an Al'Kesh to nearly passing out after he has to hold up a Stargate, also falling into a coma for a few hours when he tries to hold Anubis back from taking him as a host.
• Heroic Suicide: Death Knell begins with Anubis mind-probing a member of the Jaffa rebellion in his palace; while the Jaffa cannot stop Anubis learning the location of the Alpha Site, when faced with the possibility that Anubis could learn more about Dan’yar, the Jaffa breaks free and jumps off a balcony, ensuring that he can’t be interrogated any further as there would be no way for the sarcophagus to repair the damage he suffered even if his body could be found
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Jack and Daniel for the guys, and Sam and Janet for the girls; Jack and Janet end up being the one that Daniel and Sam talk to the most about their respective feelings for the other
• Hoist By Their Own Petard:
  • As in canon, RepliCarter falls victim to her own arrogance, despite having enough sense to stay away from Earth because she knew Daniel’s powers would help him realise her true agenda.
  • While Daniel has Ascended again, he learns that the Aschen were given the address for the Reetou homeworld, which resulted in the Reetou attacking the Aschen and exposing the truth about the Confederacy's actions to the general populace, inspiring a mass revolt against their government's actions and ending the possibility of a future threat to Earth.
• Hostage Situation: In Resolutions, Anubis attempts this by using Sam as his host when forcing the rest of the SGC to let him leave, recognising from the knowledge he has already gained that Sam's relationship with Daniel makes her the perfect hostage.
• Humanity Is Infectious: At one point, Jacob explicitly asks Selmak if he’s been influencing the symbiote to favour Earth; Selmak clarifies that he has, but only in the sense that bonding with Jacob has given him an insight into the Tau’ri that the Tok’ra as a whole lack.
• The Idealist: Alec Colson argues that humanity may come together with knowledge of aliens, but Daniel is able to use the events on Tegalus and his own vision of the future to convince Colson that Earth isn't ready yet.
• Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: At one point, Kinsey hires an assassin to enter the SGC and kill Daniel, but doesn’t tell the assassin about Daniel’s abilities or the Stargate, which leads to the assassin being disintegrated by an incoming wormhole.
• In Spite of a Nail: While other details are changed by Daniel’s abilities, the alliance with the Tok’ra still breaks down, and Jack and Hammond are still promoted to head of the SGC and head of Homeworld Security respective, albeit a couple of months later than in canon and without Elizabeth Weir taking Hammond’s place for a few months.
• Intrepid Reporter: Emmett Bergman's approach nearly works against him when he tries to find out about the blanked-out sections of Daniel's record (everything concerning his new abilities) even after everyone he tries to ask makes it clear that Daniel's file has been classified for personal reasons that don't relate to Bergman's documentary.
• Internal Reveal:
  • The SGC, the Tok'ra, and a few key Jaffa all learn about Daniel's abilities very early on, but after that, the majority of their offworld allies and enemies are only aware of Daniel's 'alias' of Dan'yar without knowing that Dan'yar is one of the Tau'ri.
  • Osiris learns about Daniel's powers before he has developed a more 'public' reputation as Dan'yar.
  • When Thor inquires about the stories he has heard regarding the Jaffa Rebellion's new ally of 'Dan'yar', and Jack takes the opportunity to introduce Daniel to Thor as Dan'yar in an overly dramatic fashion.
  • Anubis learns the truth when he is trapped on Earth, but never uses that information directly.
  • Rya'c is informed of Dan'yar's true identity off-screen at some point before his wedding, and shares this knowledge with his betrothed, Kar'yn.
  • Harold Maybourne learns about Daniel's ability to see the future, his other psychic powers, and his identity as Dan'yar during the battle against Ares.
  • Ishta learns that Daniel is Dan'yar prior to the final campaign against Moloc.
  • Dan'yar's true identity goes public after the final battle against Anubis, when Jack refers to Dan'yar as Daniel close to a group of Jaffa and Bra'tac decides that now is the time to tell all of his people the truth about Dan'yar.
• Interspecies Friendship: Thor and SG-1, as always, although Daniel ends up becoming closer friends with a few key Jaffa who he trusts with the secret of his dual identity as Dan’yar.
• It's All About Me: Kinsey is increasingly determined to kill Daniel even when his associates at the Trust reason that it's better to keep Daniel in play as a weapon against the Goa'uld, his thoughts making it clear that Kinsey considers himself more important than Daniel even though he's just one of various political allies the Trust could rely on where Daniel's abilities are unique.
• It's All My Fault: Daniel has a few of these, ranging from canon moments such as the escalating war on Tegalus to the battle with Ares on Maybourne’s new planet, which escalates to a more significant degree than the battle in canon, as Ares’ Jaffa realise that Dan’yar is on the planet and deploy more resources to try and kill him.
• Killed Offscreen: After Daniel Ascends, he returns to BP 6-3QI to destroy the mutating bugs on that planet ("Bane"), Daniel reasoning that the creatures were either the result of a science experiment that went wrong or came from another planet through the Stargate and therefore either way he hasn't committed genocide.
• Like My Own Child:
  • Bra'tac explicitly states "a man can owe no greater debt than to the one who saves his son's life" when thanking Daniel for saving Teal'c from an almost-certainly fatal head wound using his new healing abilities.
  • In her capacity as the closest thing Daniel has to a living parental figure on Earth, Catherine Langford expresses mock anger that Daniel didn’t tell her about his new relationship with Sam when she’s invited to the ceremony for him to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
  • Selmak admits as he’s dying that he has come to consider Sam to be like a daughter to him as well as her being the daughter of his host; Selmak explicitly tells Sam that, if he had been human and had children, he can’t think of anyone he’d rather have had as a daughter than her, and notes to Daniel that one of the regrets he has about dying now is that he won’t have the chance to see the grandchildren he and Sam will give Jacob.
• Lotus-Eater Machine: In Resolutions, Carter falls victim to the same attack from Fifth as she did in canon, although this illusion sees her living in Egypt with Daniel rather than on a farm with Shanahan.
• Love Revelation Epiphany:
  • Daniel experiences moments of attraction to Sam for the first two fics, such as the two exchanging a kiss during an emotional moment or dancing at a party, but Daniel only realises that he’s in love with her when she tells him that she’s dating Pete Shanahan and Daniel finds himself feeling as though someone’s cut out his heart and dunked acid in his chest.
  • While Sam begins to acknowledge that she has feelings for Daniel after he admits his own feelings for her, her own self-denial due to her ‘black widow’ status when it comes to relationships means that she only consciously realises that she’s in love with him in turn after he’s downloaded the contents of the Ancient repository into his brain and may die in the next few days.
• Love Triangle: There are a few moments which have the potential to set up such a dynamic, but they're always quickly resolved; Sam dumps Pete after just a few weeks, Jack assures Daniel he's over his old feelings for Sam, McKay is dismissed as an ass with a crush, Daniel is too loyal to Sam to really notice Leda, Janet never really feels the 'spark' with Carson Beckett even if they get along, and Kerry Johnson's interest just inspires Jack and Janet to acknowledge their own feelings.
• Loved I Not Honor More: Discussed after Daniel Ascends to a level above the other Ancients, giving him the power and freedom to do basically anything. Although afraid of losing him, Sam was willing to accept him remaining Ascended because she recognised the good that he could do now that he wasn't bound by the old rules of non-interference, but Daniel still chose to return to his human state, feeling that he wasn't ready for permanent Ascension yet.
• Loving a Shadow: As in canon, Sam's hallucinations while in the nebula help her realise that she needs to let go of her old feelings for Jack.
• Made of Iron: Daniel demonstrates this on various occasions when he keeps on using his abilities despite them giving him potentially serious headaches, but the best demonstration is in Grace, when he uses his abilities to not only catch a falling Stargate (which weighs around thirty-two tons), but then move it onto its back and dial it manually, staying on his feet despite the pain until the wormhole closes
• The Medic: Janet is the doctor most primarily responsible for examining Daniel as he learns more about his abilities, to the point where she travelled all the way to Atlantis to examine him directly even when Doctor Beckett had complete access to her notes on Daniel and had done his own research into the archaeologist’s unique physiology.
• Mindlink Mates: Daniel never develops a full telepathic bond with anyone, but he soon realises that he has a strong sense of the rest of SG-1 in particular, with his awareness of Sam growing more intense after they start dating, even if it still requires a conscious effort for him to make telepathic contact with them.
• Moment Killer: In contrast to the original Lost City, when Daniel and Teal’c unintentionally interrupted a brief moment between Sam and Jack after he experiences the Ancient download, in this version of events Jack and Teal’c interrupt a rather intense make-out session between Sam and Daniel and Jack all-but-explicitly-states that he knows what was going on.
• Monument of Humiliation and Defeat: Metaphorically, anyway; after Ba’al is defeated and captured by a Jaffa army led by ‘Dan’yar’, Daniel not only takes Ba’al prisoner, but forces him to walk out in front of his enemies and Jaffa soldiers completely naked barring a red bow tied around his waist. The story of this defeat inspires further doubt among the Jaffa who hear it that the Goa’uld are gods; Bra'tac observes that every Jaffa he has spoken to who was present at the battle laughed at the memory, and his only regret is that he wasn't there to see it himself.
• Mr. Fanservice: On one of their early dates, Sam is surprised that Daniel genuinely doesn’t realise how attractive he’s become to the opposite sex over the years, noting that she’s personally turned off by excess muscles and prefers Daniel’s more natural look where he doesn’t seem to have fixated on making himself look good. Sam also cites Teal’c as an exception to her ideas about excess muscles being unattractive as Teal’c makes the look work and never gives the impression that he’s thought about how he’d appeal to the opposite sex.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • Sam basically has one of these in Lost City when she finally accepts that she's been in love with Daniel on some level for years after he's downloaded the Ancient knowledge and will likely be dead in the next few weeks, unsure how she can tell him the truth about her feelings under these circumstances (even if part of that is her own fear about her apparent Cartwright Curse).
  • In Resolutions, Daniel allows Moloc's host an opportunity to communicate before Moloc's execution, with the host explicitly asking to be killed as he cannot live with the memories of what Moloc has done in his body.
• My Skull Runneth Over: Daniel takes the Ancient Repository download rather than Jack, but despite his own evolved state, he still can’t consciously retain it all, forcing him to somehow store the knowledge in his subconscious mind.
• Neuro-Vault: After Daniel downloads the Ancient knowledge into his subconscious, he is able to occasionally tap into it if given the right prompt, although he can’t access the entirety of it on purpose and his control of that access is limited. For example, when Jack and Sam discuss the power generators Jack used to initially dial an eight-chevron address during his own experience with the repository, Daniel is inspired to create his own version so that they can use the devices to make contact with Atlantis, but Jack cannot inspire Daniel to present them with plans for a "honking big Ancient space gun" simply by saying that phrase.
• Neutral No Longer: The final chapter suggests that Oma and her followers, motivated by Daniel’s example, are going to encourage the Ascended to take a more active role in the affairs of the lower planes.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: To a degree; there is always a reason for Daniel demonstrating new powers, but he always seems to develop them when they will be useful, such as discovering the power to heal just after Teal’c has suffered a serious skull fracture.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: As in canon, the SGC making contact with Tegalus triggers an uprising in Caledonia, although Daniel is able to bring everything to a more peaceful resolution with his abilities.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Essentially applies for Kinsey, as his own efforts to kill Daniel not only lead to Kinsey being assassinated by his erstwhile allies, but also exposes the existence of the Trust to the SGC so that the organisation can be shut down before they get the chance to become a more genuine threat.
• No One Gets Left Behind: Even after Daniel becomes a powerhouse, the team still refuse to leave him behind to fend for himself, and Daniel in turn rejects the idea that he should be relocated somewhere else to keep him 'safe'.
• No-Sell: In Resolutions, when Anubis tries to attack the Ascended Daniel, it is explicitly noted that Anubis attacking Daniel's current state with all of his own power is "like the bite of a mosquito to an elephant".
• Noble Demon: Teal’c explicitly muses that Lord Yu can be considered the closest thing to an honourable Goa’uld to exist.
• Noodle Incident: Personal business for Jack and Daniel results in them missing Sam yelling angrily when a couple of Tok’ra trying to arrange for Jacob to come and live as ‘an honoured guest of the Tok’ra’ after Selmak’s death.
• Not So Invincible After All: While even Daniel's abilities can't damage the Kull warriors' armor, he is able to burn the creature inside the armor, but the effort required to do that (coupled with him preferring not to be that brutal) means that the anti-Kull disruptor is still the preferred way to deal with them.
• Not So Stoic:
  • Thor demonstrates actual excitement when he first analyses Daniel's new advanced DNA and realises that Daniel's changed DNA could help his people deal with their genetic degradation.
  • When Teal'c suffers a potentially serious head wound, Bra'tac nearly breaks down in tears at the knowledge that Teal'c is certain to die before Daniel is able to heal him.
  • When Daniel appears to be dead after the Battle of Antarctica, Jack muses that he’s only seen Teal’c displaying that much grief when the Jaffa thought his family were dead and when he learned of the death of Shan'auc.
  • When President Hayes visits the SGC to award Daniel the Medal of Freedom, Daniel offers him a brief trip through the Stargate to a random isolated alien world and then to the Alpha Site, reasoning that it's only fair Hayes gets at least one trip through the 'gate and he's confident in his ability to protect the President if something unexpected happens.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat:: Woolsey is soon established as this as in canon, but Daniel soon makes him realise that he's being manipulated by Kinsey.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: After Daniel defeats Anubis, he uses his new Ascended state to deal with a few loose ends around the galaxy from the show, such as exterminating the bugs that nearly mutated Teal'c and checking up on what happened to the Aschen.
• One-Man Army: Daniel comes to be regarded as this by various people, even earning the nickname ‘Rambo Jackson’ after he single-handedly captures Osiris and the Al’kesh she was using, although he never actually challenges an entire army single-handed until his second ascension towards the end of the series.
• Playing with Fire: Daniel’s pyrokinetic abilities, allowing him to either generate a ball of fire over his hands or completely incinerate an enemy, even destroying a Kull warrior from inside its armour.
• Point of Divergence: Everything changes for the SGC after Daniel Jackson unlocks his psychic potential, with changes including Janet Frasier and Jacob Carter living to see the end of the war with the Goa’uld, Earth making plans to establish an official offworld colony in the Milky Way galaxy, and the threat of the Replicators, the Goa'uld and the Wraith being ended for good.
• Power Incontinence: Daniel never loses control of his powers to the point of, for example, lighting things on fire by accident, but he is often frustrated by his prophetic abilities, which regularly give him just a sense of future danger rather than him a clear warning unless he actively tries to determine the reason for it.
• Pragmatic Villain: The Trust are willing to leave Daniel alone considering the damage he’s doing to the Goa’uld despite him being employed by the SGC, but Kinsey’s actions lead to SG-1 learning about the existence of the Trust and dismantling it before it can actually accomplish anything significant.
• Preemptive Apology: When Teal'c and Daniel decide to leave Earth rather than accept the new orders for Daniel to be confined to Earth for study by the NID, Teal'c and Daniel each ask for forgiveness before knocking out some of the SGC night staff as they go to the gate.
• Professional Killer: 'Kinsey attempts to send hitmen after key targets on two separate occasions. Heroes sees Kinsey hire hitman Winston Price to assassinate Daniel, initially in a manner that will look like an accident, such as a gas explosion or a car crash, but ultimately Kinsey is forced to help Price go after Daniel by infiltrating Stargate Command itself, which results in the killer being disintegrated by the kawoosh of an incoming wormhole. In Lost City, Kinsey advises the Trust to send assassin John Benedict after President Hayes, but when Kinsey tries to have Daniel killed as well, the Trust send Benedict to kill Kinsey as he’s proven to be unreliable, and Benedict subsequently dies in a car accident.
• Proud Warrior Race: As the Jaffa retain this tradition, Daniel actually encounters a problem when he reveals his powers to them, as his abilities make him such a powerful warrior that many express a willingness to 'defect' from the Goa'uld so that they could serve him instead, as he possesses genuine power as opposed to the Goa'uld's reliance on technology but is willing to stand alongside them rather than command them from a distance.
• Psychic Powers: In the course of the series, Daniel demonstrates telekinesis, pyrokinesis, precognition, psychometry, a degree of telepathic awareness with those he is close to, and the ability to heal himself and others.
• Put on the Bus: Sam’s relationship with Pete Shanahan doesn’t last beyond the first month after he runs a background check on her.
• "Rashomon"-Style: In a sense; Doctor MacKenzie conducts a psychiatric evaluation of Daniel Jackson and concludes that he is developing megalomania and frequently derives pleasure from using his powers against others, where Doctor Eliza White attended the same meeting and concluded that Daniel was a mentally stable man who only used what force was necessary to achieve his goal, proved his stability by choosing to publically humiliate Ba’al rather than torture him, and was relatively controlled considering his history with MacKenzie, with Doctor White sending her report on to another psychiatrist who agreed with her assessment. Granted, MacKenzie was all-but-explicitly identified as being a pawn of Senator Kinsey in his plan to get Daniel out of the picture, but the author has established MacKenzie as an incompetent psychiatrist in other stories where he would have had no reason to be Kinsey’s agent.
• Real After All: Where the show relied on Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane to keep the viewer guessing about whether Sam's hallucinations in the nebula were the result of her concussion or something was communicating with her, Daniel's abilities allow him to confirm that there was an alien intelligence in the nebula that operated as a collective consciousness.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: In Resolutions, Daniel delivers one to an assembly of the Ascended after he ascends to a level above them, informing them that their rules against interference might have been created with good intentions, but the rules as they exist are wrong as the Ascended basically allow anyone who isn't one of them to get away with any horrific act they might wish unless all of the Ascended decide that action needs to be taken, announcing that the Ascended don't have the right to decide whose lives are more valuable on the lower planes.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite having received a dose of ‘propaganda’ from Kinsey, President Hayes patiently listens to all of Daniel’s counter-arguments to Kinsey’s attempts to portray the SGC in general and SG-1 in particular as incompetent idiots. While Kinsey continues to try and press his anti-SG-1 agenda after the meeting, Hayes ends up forming such a high opinion of Daniel that he arranges for the archaeologist to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and even muses that Daniel would receive the Congressional Gold Medal if it wasn’t for the inconvenience that the entire Senate would need to be told about the Stargate program for that to be permitted. As the series concludes, Hayes also agrees to Daniel and Sam’s request that, as a reward for the SGC’s victory over the Goa’uld, he grant Jack and Janet special dispensation to pursue a relationship despite Jack now being Janet’s commanding officer.
• Refuge in Audacity: Basically the strategy the SGC use to 'save' Colson's reputation after Daniel convinces him not to go public with his knowledge of aliens; inspired by Mission: Impossible, they claim that the Colson who made the announcement about the Asgard was actually an impostor, imitating Colson's appearance with plastic surgery (really Daniel using an imaging device), acting as part of a conspiracy that intended to ruin Colson's company by destroying his reputation.
• Rules Lawyer: Invoked when SG-1 are assisting the President in investigating Kinsey's assassination; when they have to break into a drawer in Kinsey's office, Hayes checks with some of the other investigators about whether doing this would compromise any acquired evidence without a search warrant, but is assured that it won't be a concern as the White House is officially Hayes' residence.
• Screw Destiny: While a few of Daniel’s early visions are examples of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (see below), it’s soon established that what Daniel sees with his powers will only happen that way if nobody acts to change what he saw in those visions. Most notably, Daniel is able to prevent the Wraith waking up on a large scale by warning Major Sheppard not to kill an alien woman he’ll meet once he goes to Atlantis (too many people had gone through the gate already for Daniel to just stop the expedition altogether). Later on, when SG-1 visit Atlantis and Jack asks to be allowed to take out one of the puddle jumpers, Daniel has a vision of seeing Jack, Sam and Teal’c being killed by Ra in the past. Daniel immediately declares that whatever reason they were going to go back in time, they’re not going to do it, even after they discover the Time Jumper on Maybourne’s planet.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Daniel always tended to do this in canon, but after gaining his abilities, Sam notes that she's had to shift her calculations regarding the Daniel Jackson Stubbornness Scale. In the past he would ultimately accept the orders of the likes of General Hammond, but would constantly argue with Jack and would obviously never listen to their enemies, but since gaining his abilities Daniel will basically always do what he thinks is right regardless of who's giving said orders. Sam does note that the context of the orders can still affect Daniel's actions; it's simply that "Who" isn't a major factor in his final decision any more if he genuinely thinks he's making the right call.
• Secret Identity: Daniel ends up getting one of these; the Jaffa as a whole take to referring to him as ‘Dan’yar’ after learning about his powers. Only some of the SGC’s closest alien allies, such as Bra’tac, the Tok’ra, Thor, and Rya’c are aware that Daniel Jackson and Dan’yar are one and the same until the final defeat of Anubis.
• Secret Test of Character: While negotiating to set up a colony on another planet, Daniel is subjected to one of these when he’s called to a private meeting with Laleetha, a woman who’s one of the world’s leaders; when he rejects Laleetha’s offer of sex despite her implying that she’ll convince her fellows to reject the request for a colony (his answer being the same in the Gen version of the story where he’s not in a relationship with Sam), she later confirms that it was just a test to confirm that they were negotiating with an honourable man.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Played with; a few of Daniel's earlier premonitions are of things that mostly end up happening because of his actions (such as Sam almost getting killed in a Goa'uld attack that only posed a threat to her because Daniel and Teal'c left the SGC and ended up on that planet to rendezvous with Jack and Sam).
• Sensor Character: Daniel’s psychic powers allow him to be aware of any potential threat to him or his friends, ranging from immediately identifying an assassin sent by Kinsey to ‘recognising’ Anubis in a new body; RepliCarter even avoids making contact with Earth as she did in canon because she anticipates that Daniel will sense her true agenda no matter what lies she tries to tell the SGC.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Daniel is rendered speechless when he sees Sam in a dress for their first date.
• Ship Tease: While it doesn’t come to anything, Janet Frasier ends up hitting it off with Carson Beckett when she travels to Atlantis to examine Daniel after he goes into a kind of coma.
• Ship Sinking: After Daniel captures Osiris and the Tok'ra extract the symbiote from Sarah, Sarah explicitly asks for Daniel to stay away from her as she feels that seeing him would just make her remember everything Osiris did to him using her body.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • While Sam lies to herself about her feelings, and Daniel accepts her rejection, Jack, Janet and Jacob each express approval at the idea of the two of them forming a relationship, and Teal'c also approves of the idea.
  • As Sam and Daniel’s relationship progresses, the two start to discreetly support the idea of Jack and Janet getting together.
  • At the story’s conclusion, Daniel is visited by the now-Ascended Kasuf and Skaara, who each assure him that they are happy at his new relationship with Sam and believe that Sha’re would be happy for him as well.
• Shipping Torpedo:
  • After realising that Daniel has feelings for Sam, Jack assures the archaeologist that he has no further romantic interest in her.
  • Although Sam briefly considers the possibility that Daniel may resume his old relationship with Sarah after she's freed from Anubis, Sarah makes it clear that she needs to recover away from Daniel as otherwise she would constantly remember what Osiris did to him.
  • Sam essentially does this the first time Daniel admits that he has feelings for her, but soon admits to her father and Janet that it’s more that she doesn’t want to be in love with Daniel rather than that she has no romantic feelings for him at all, and eventually realises she was lying to herself and she’s been in love with him on some level for years.
• Shout-Out:
  • When Daniel finds Sam in the nebula ("Grace"), he confirms that there is a race with a collective consciousness inside that nebula, explicitly comparing them to a benevolent version of the Borg (Star Trek).
  • Jack in particular makes various joking comparisons between Daniel and Superman as he develops his abilities, particularly in regard to Daniel's Secret Identity. Daniel at least once points out that the X-Men might be a better analogy, since they're the heroes with psychic powers.
  • When Daniel talks about how Replicator Carter turned her arm into a sword, Jack asks Sam if she's seen Terminator 2, but concedes that it's his "fault" when Sam points out he showed that on one of the team's film nights.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Daniel all but explicitly tells Kinsey to shut up when he interrupts Kinsey's briefing Hayes on the Stargate Program. After Daniel has pointed out the flaws in the idea of running the SGC as a purely military or purely scientific operation to justify keeping General Hammond in charge, Woolsey (currently still basically Kinsey's man) asks Daniel if he's going to justify SG-1's "intermittent successes" amid what Kinsey and Woolsey perceive as the program's failures, to which Daniel counters;
  I don't think it's necessary, not if you've read the mission reports with an unbiased eye and really seen the picture they've painted of SG-1. Our record speaks for itself. Our so-called 'intermittent successes' have saved Earth from destruction repeatedly, have gained us powerful allies, have resulted in the deaths or defeat of several Goa'uld, have saved too many human civilizations in the galaxy to name, and have given Earth powerful weapons capable of defending us from attack. To say that a handful of mistakes and errors in judgment is enough to overwhelm all that is ludicrous and insulting. As to the issue of disregarding military authority, if you had to choose between following orders or saving the entire planet, what do you think would be the best choice to make? And as for some of your other arguments against SG-1, they're too short-sighted, illogical and unreasonable for me to even bother with.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Soren of Tegalus is more clearly presented as such; he's still The Fundamentalist, but with Daniel's powers to turn the tables against him, Soren has less chance to show off his own tactical abilities. When Jack visits the planet, he dismisses the other man as an idiot, given Soren's fanatical devotion to 'gods' who don't even know he exists and wouldn't care about him even if they did.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Janet Frasier’s life is saved by Daniel’s prophetic abilities.
  • Colonel Alexi Vaselov survives his time as Anubis’s host, although he chooses to return to Russia as the decision to join the SGC was made by Anubis rather than himself.
  • Lord Yu is killed by Anubis's forces rather than the Replicators, but his First Prime, Oshu, manages to survive the attack.
  • Although Selmak still dies, because Anubis was defeated a few weeks earlier than in canon, he is safely removed from Jacob, allowing his host to survive.
• Stalker with a Crush: Fifth demonstrates this as in canon towards Sam, taken a step further when he demonstrates jealousy towards Sam's relationship with Daniel.
• Stalking is Love: Explicitly rejected; when Sam learns that Pete Shanahan was trying to dig into her real background even after she told him her job was classified, she calls the relationship off, stating that his actions demonstrate a lack of trust that she can’t accept.
• Story-Breaker Power: Discussed but defied; while Daniel’s abilities make things easier for the SGC on several crucial occasions, the headaches and other affiliated side-effects stop those powers making things so easy that Earth can basically send Daniel out as a one-man army every time things are going really wrong. On at least one occasion, the Goa'uld learning about the presence of "Dan'yar" makes a mission harder than it would have been in canon.
• Straw Civilian: Hayes’ canon reasons for putting Elizabeth Weir in charge of the SGC are mentioned, but she is never given the position thanks to Daniel pointing out to Hayes that diplomacy isn’t what’s needed most as the leader of the SGC as the Goa’uld don’t typically negotiate.
• Superpowerful Genetics: It is established that Daniel's enhanced DNA is different from the Ancient gene that Jack and John Sheppard possess, although they are all capable of operating Ancient technology.
• Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: Woolsey; as in canon, he is critical of the team's actions, particularly when he asks whether the team have started just allowing Daniel to take the heat and deal with the threat with his abilities. However, he still accepts Daniel's counter-arguments regarding Kinsey's true agenda and the particular circumstances motivating Daniel's actions.
• Take a Third Option: When Sam, Daniel and Teal’c are in a position where their options appear limited to either being captured by Anubis (who will almost certainly do everything in his power to take Daniel as a host) or blow themselves up, Daniel is able to find a third option at the last minute by calling Lord Yu to rescue them.
• Team Dad:
  • Jacob keeps this unofficial role in his interaction with SG-1, but it becomes a bit more explicit with Daniel after he learns about the archaeologist’s feelings for Sam
    • There is also a semi-weird moment where Jack acts more ‘Team Dad’ than he ever did in canon by observing that Daniel is the only one of Sam’s potential partners who would have passed Jack’s ‘boyfriend test’ if Sam had been his daughter, which neither Sam or Daniel are sure how to react to considering Jack and Sam’s former feelings for each other.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After discreetly tormenting Bergman with his abilities for trying to question him about his recent activities, Bergman's speech about how he genuinely admires the people of the SGC prompts Daniel to not only ask his teammates to give Bergman another chance, but he also shares a video he made of Abydos so that Bergman can put a human face to the crimes of the Goa'uld for anyone who sees the documentary.
• Took a Level in Badass: The whole series is basically Daniel doing this, but he takes it a step further during the final confrontation on Dakara, when he ascends to a level of existence above even the other Ascended. This grants Daniel the power to destroy Anubis and deal with all other still-active Goa’uld single-handedly in a matter of days, while the other Ascended can’t stop him from interfering because Daniel is operating on a level where he has more power than them and some of them (such as the people of Abydos) recognise that they don’t have the right to stop him since he got there on his own.
• True Companions: Taken to a new level when Daniel muses that his psychic ability to sense others is particularly attuned to Jack, Sam and Teal’c (and he is even more aware of Sam after they start dating).
• Ultimate Job Security: Kinsey and the NID’s best efforts to get Daniel under their thumb fail due to his existing reputation, and it becomes even more pointless to try and force him out of the SGC when the archaeologist earns the respect and friendship of President Henry Hayes.
• Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: When Jack learns that Sam is dating someone else, he feels this way considering his knowledge of Daniel's feelings for her even if he's over his own attraction to Sam.
• Underestimating Badassery: While several people obviously underestimate what Daniel can do before they learn about his new psychic abilities, various characters make it clear that they admire Daniel's natural intelligence, compassion and courage, as well as his ability to make leaps of logic even when dealing with unfamiliar concepts; Sam at one point informs McKay that Daniel would make the other man look like an idiot if he had pursued a career in any of the sciences that McKay specialises in.
• Unexplained Recovery: Subverted in the case of Anubis; his escape from the ice planet is explained as a smuggler used the planet as a stop-off point, and was taken as Anubis's new host before he realised what was happening.
• Unseen Character: With Ba’al dead, it is never explicitly revealed what Goa’uld took over Anubis’s forces after his apparent ‘death’ in the Battle of Antarctica, although it is probably safe to assume that the usurper was killed once Anubis returned.
• Unwanted False Faith: Once he reveals his powers to some of the Jaffa, Daniel has to go to great lengths to avoid allowing the Jaffa as a whole to set him up as a new god. He's eventually able to convince most of those he meets personally that he's content if they just believe in his words and accept his advice to think for themselves while defying the Goa'uld, but he still has to deal with such moments as Rya'c initially greeting him as Dan'yar. Daniel assures Rya'c that he has no interest in Rya'c treating him as anything other than a friend of Rya'c's father and an ally against the Goa'uld, the same as he was before he gained his abilities.
• Unwitting Test Subject: Basically applies to the Wraith prisoner that was given the name 'Steve' in Stargate Atlantis, as Daniel uses his abilities to scan Wraith history using the would-have-been Steve as a focus for his analysis of the Wraith.
• Wartime Wedding: After the final defeat of Anubis and the Goa'uld, once Daniel and Sam have a moment alone at their house, Daniel swiftly proposes to Sam, which she joyfully accepts. The two share this detail with their colleagues at the final party to celebrate the end of the war with the Goa'uld, and the final chapter sees them making plans regarding when the ceremony will take place, deciding on January 1st as it allows them time to contact the offworld guests and ensure that their Earth-based friends are available.
• We Can Rule Together: Osiris attempts to make this offer to Daniel once she witnesses his powers, but Daniel counters that he's happy being "insignificant little Daniel Jackson", mocking how she starts talking about his "puny life" after calling him a god a moment ago.
• What's He Got That I Ain't Got?!: McKay basically does this; while he doesn't explicitly ask why Sam chose Daniel over him, once he sees that they're sharing a room at the Antarctic base McKay asks why Sam's dating an archaeologist who can't be anywhere near as brilliant as she is, only to receive the following speech from her;
  Daniel is one of the most brilliant people I have ever met. He can speak over thirty languages and can read and write dozens of dead ones. Don't you have any idea of the significance of that? And then there's the staggering amount of knowledge he has of archaeology, anthropology and the history of languages. He has three Ph.D's, all of which he earned by the time he reached his mid-twenties. But that's not even half of it. Daniel is capable of these... these enormous leaps of logic that, many times, have left me in the dust. He doesn't think linearly. When everyone else is still on A and B, he's jumped completely over the rest of the alphabet and reached Z. He's the kind of person who can think outside the box with ease, and, quite often, he's out there all by himself. If he'd gone into our fields of science, if that's where his talents lie, he'd make you look like an idiot.
• With Due Respect: Hammond gets to deliver one of these to Kinsey in Lost City; the Vice-President shows up to try and order SG-1 to stay on Earth because he's convinced their current claims to a clue to the Lost City are just them trying to hide their mistakes, but Hammond bluntly informs Kinsey that President Hayes has already authorised SG-1 to follow up their latest clue, delivering the statement in a manner that makes it clear he considers Kinsey worthy of no respect whatsoever.
• The World Is Not Ready: Daniel is able to confirm that this is the case when he has a vision of what would happen if Colson exposed the existence of the SGC; riots erupted as people blamed the government for bringing alien threats to Earth, resulting in martial law being declared, the SGC itself being destroyed, and the Replicators overrunning the entire galaxy.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Kinsey is shot just after reading a note telling him 'You Were Warned', a Trust operative later reflecting that Kinsey's attempt to have Daniel killed in defiance of their orders proved to their organisation that he couldn't be trusted.