Hammond ficlet
Title: U is for Uniform
Author: kalquessa
Fandom: Stargate: SG-1
Genre: Gen
Word Count: 176
Characters: Daniel, General Hammond
Season/Spoilers: Season 1, no spoilers to speak of.
Rating: G
Warnings: My muse didn't cooperate on this one. At all.
This is my contribution to Fig's Hammond Alphabet Soup. This...didn't come out nearly as nicely as I would have liked. *throws up hands* I don't know, I tried, and I knew what I wanted to write, but I was completely incapable of writing it, for some reason. Thankfully, lots of other soup writers contributed lovely, well-written pieces, so the fact that mine is sort of a summary of what I wanted to write isn't too egregious a crime against Hammond Day.
Daniel’s never cared much for the American military’s precept of "salute the uniform, not the man." The theory, as far as Daniel can discover, is that if someone achieves a certain rank, they must have done something to earn it, and should therefor be accorded respect, even if they happen to be a reprehensible human being. Which would carry more weight with Daniel if he weren't so dubious about the process by which one earned the approbation of the American military. Sam and Jack may have spent years having an iron-clad belief in the chain of command drilled into them, but it takes more to earn Daniel's respect than pinning a few stars to a jacket.
So it's a relief to find, in the first year of the Stargate program, that the man he most needs to be able to respect has more to recommend him than his rank: George Hammond is a genuinely good man. It's not his stars that make him worthy of respect. Rather, it's the man that makes the uniform worth saluting.
Author: kalquessa
Fandom: Stargate: SG-1
Genre: Gen
Word Count: 176
Characters: Daniel, General Hammond
Season/Spoilers: Season 1, no spoilers to speak of.
Rating: G
Warnings: My muse didn't cooperate on this one. At all.
This is my contribution to Fig's Hammond Alphabet Soup. This...didn't come out nearly as nicely as I would have liked. *throws up hands* I don't know, I tried, and I knew what I wanted to write, but I was completely incapable of writing it, for some reason. Thankfully, lots of other soup writers contributed lovely, well-written pieces, so the fact that mine is sort of a summary of what I wanted to write isn't too egregious a crime against Hammond Day.
Daniel’s never cared much for the American military’s precept of "salute the uniform, not the man." The theory, as far as Daniel can discover, is that if someone achieves a certain rank, they must have done something to earn it, and should therefor be accorded respect, even if they happen to be a reprehensible human being. Which would carry more weight with Daniel if he weren't so dubious about the process by which one earned the approbation of the American military. Sam and Jack may have spent years having an iron-clad belief in the chain of command drilled into them, but it takes more to earn Daniel's respect than pinning a few stars to a jacket.
So it's a relief to find, in the first year of the Stargate program, that the man he most needs to be able to respect has more to recommend him than his rank: George Hammond is a genuinely good man. It's not his stars that make him worthy of respect. Rather, it's the man that makes the uniform worth saluting.