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Stargate advice needed
Today I'm trying to tear my mind away from Ron and Draco long enough to start some Stargate fic. But I could use some info/advice.
What do people usually do about the whole miliatry-fraternization thing? I don't really know what the regs would be or how it would be different for different couples. Like Jack/Daniel, Sam/Janet, Jack/Teal'c. Etc. I haven't found any info so far and so I wondered if there's fanon or something that most people adhere to.
ETA: I just realised that all my examples were slash, but I'd like to know in re m/f pairings too, since I'm into that kinky het shit.
(See, it's so much easier when you're just dealing with kids snogging in the corridors at school.)
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1. Fraternization (aka don't date anyone in your chain of command and Jack's in all of SG-1's coc.)
2. Don't ask don't tell (aka be gay if you want to, just don't let anyone official find out about it.)
There's bad fanon in that General Hammond looks benevolently upon the whole thing and requests a special dispensation for the couple du'jour.
Most decent fanfic will acknowledge the problems facing the relationship in terms of legal threats to careers and the need to keep it a relatively secret one.
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With the possible exception of Teal'c - and his status is anybody's guess. Hell, I don't even know if the Air Force pays him. Though he does seemlingly have money to spend on tacky cowboy clothes, copies of the National Enquirer, and Jerry Springer videos. (Actually, the Springer vids might be fanon, but he definitely owns a VHS copy of Star Wars.)
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Sad to say...
S--
Re: Sad to say...
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Realistically, *none* of these pairings are viable. OC, as we all know, the human heart is a willful and contrary thing and does what it damned well pleases, regardless of rules and regulations.
Lamentably, as barkley pointed out, there's a lot of fanfic that just poo-poos the very real issues, having their characters behave in a manner that is both unprofessional and often indiscreet in the extreme. Some authors simply declare that "Don't ask, don't tell" doesn't exist in their fantasy universe because they don't want to deal with that rather pesky problem.
And don't even get me started on those stories where the president just hands downa special decree so that Jack & Sam, or more rarely Jack & Daniel can get married/be together openly like it's a Papal dispensation and they're consanguinous by marriage and just need a piece of paper to make everything better.
Basically, both DADT and COC are serious issues in this particular fanfic universe. It's not insurmountable, but it is something that will have an impact of the characters and their behavior. It is also something that can contribute powerfully to the dynamic of the characters and the story being told if the author is willing to address it in a meaningful way.
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And yikes! This is going to be difficult. But that might make it more fun.
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And no, this isn't easy, not if you really accept the restrictions under which these characters would surely be living and the regulations that rile their lives.
Personally, I think that those restrictions are one of the things that make such a liaison so compelling and emotionally rich. It isn't easy for them to be together. There is so much at risk and if they get caught and he consequences are pretty unnerving. There are real penalties that could be imposed--loss of rank and respect, expulsion from the service, even imprisonment--but let's face it, that's great fodder for angst. I much prefer seeing the characters I love faced with adversity, watching them overcome difficult obstacles, especially in order to be together with the one s/he loves, than to read stories in which the author just sweeps them all away in some casual and unsatisfying form of deus ex machina.
Much more fun and far more satisfying too. ;-)
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1. Regulations prohibit a superior officer from fraternizing with a junior officer or enlisted personnel, or personnel under his/her chain of command. Technically speaking, that means Jack's whole team is off limits to him.
2. Daniel, however, can get around this by simply transferring off Jack's team, since he's a civilian. If he wasn't under Jack's command, he wouldn't be subject to those regs. However, there's a tricky problem, in that Jack is technically the 2IC of the entire SGC, and so anyone working there is still under his command. Tricky, tricky.
3. Even if they could get around fraternization, there'd still be that pesky regulation against homosexual conduct.
4. Sam will always be a junior officer to Jack until one of them leaves the military or until she achieves the same rank *and grade* as Jack. Thus, according to regs, they can never pursue a relationship until those parameters are met.
5. If any of the military folk were busted in pursuit of same-sex or fraternization relationships, they'd be court-martialed and their careers would be over. Hammond would not turn a blind eye. His integrity as an officer and a leader wouldn't permit it.
6. Sneaking around in the military is tough; they will sometimes have you surveiled if they suspect you're breaking regs in a big way, and on a top-secret project like the SGC, that takes on a whole new depth of meaning, with parabolic mics and such.
Take that for what it's worth...generally, I can't buy Jack and Sam together because they are committed, career military people, very caught up in the regs. Jack and Daniel is a little different, and requires some maneuvering. *g*
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I will begin my maneuvering thoughts at once.
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Two real-life examples:
* One ex of mine (a captain in the Air Force) left me for her (married) commanding officer; I haven't heard from her in a while, but last I heard she was going to leave the service and he was going to get a divorce so that they could get married. AFAIK no one ever caught them. (This was early 1990s.)
* Another ex of mine (Army, enlisted) was (rather blatantly) in several homosexual relationships and was never caught. This was in the late 1980s, before "don't ask, don't tell," so I'm assuming it was even harder for him to get away with it than it would be now. He was involved with both civilian men and other enlisted men assigned to the same base. Two points that may or may not make any difference in the situation: he was stationed in Germany and he wasn't in any kind of high-security situation.
Hope the info is of some use!
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If it's in the chain of command - it's illegal. Also - it happens very frequently. So much so that "the female NCO and the Lieutenant getting it on" is a cliche.
The policy in the IDF is pretty much to turn a blind eye, with the understanding that there's a difference between a 20 year-old 2nd Lieutenant going out with her 21 year-old Sergeant, and a 40 year-old married General having an affair with his 19 year-old Aide. Officer training covers the problems that may arise from chain-of-command relationships, and emphasizes a careful, case-by-case analysis and reaction.
It happens, it happens a lot, and problems usually arise only when the balance of power is wildly....unbalanced (as in the abovementioned case of the General and his Aide, where the difference in age and experience is as much a contributing factor as rank). I don't thing such an imbalance would be a problem in any of the SG-1 relationships you've mentioned.
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