[Report This]Date: 04 Aug 2020 20:26 Title: Episode 9.1 - The Scumuk Virus
I agree. The outrage over that name is justified. Not at all professional. If our contemporary medical community can come up with SARS and COVID, Starfleet should be able to do better than the Scumuk Virus.
And Pepper left an impression? Yeah, I bet he did.
Author's Response:
Not an easy guy to foget..
I have adjusted various character descriptions at the recommendation of an Asian American writer who was concerned about a number of cliches - while at the same time happy that my lead character is Chinese. I also changed the spelling of Investigator Buttons to Buttans - I was fielding a few questions about having a black character named Buttons (it's a bajoran family name that has nothing to do with clothing.)
I will also soon be inserting a new 2.1 to give the story a better start - which means renumbering all the subsequent scenes in Ep 2. At the recommendation of a few other writers, I also plan to add a few scenes to Episodes 27 and 28. I have corrected the spellings of Risa and Khitomer (I still need to standardize Qo'noS.)
Thanks again for the reviews - they are greatly appreciated! rbs