Date: 20 Apr 2010 20:37 Title: Chapter 46
Beckley, you sly SOB. Still ever present. And Icheb seems to have struck up a deal with the good borg resistance, but what is really going on? Very cool stuff.
Date: 21 Feb 2010 22:55 Title: Chapter 46
Oh and one other detail that strikes me and should have been mentioned. What's with the child's drawing? Who drew that? And why does Adele have it in her ready room?
Author's Response:
Lucy Keller drew it in chapter 32. Adele promised to hang it up in the ready room, and she did. Continuity. :-)
Date: 21 Feb 2010 22:25 Title: Chapter 46
'Tomorrow IS going to be an interesting day!' Or I could say, 'TOMORROW is going to be an interesting day?!' Basically, today has been and so have the recent few days days been very interesting. I suppose they just have forewarning that tomorrow will be an interesting day.
Terrific stuff. Admiral Beckley continues to send shivers up the spine and still remain a rather uncertain character. What are his motivations and what is his end game?
Adele almost had cause to slap Gentry with her testy attitude. But a succient briefing that helps to put some of the cards about the situation out on the table. Now it remains to be seen what Adele opts to do in regards to the Borg drones. It also remains to be seen what she will make of this 'civil war' within the Collective. Curious and curiousier. Whether Adele believes them is another matter as she has raised the spectre on whether Icheb has been compromised. When you consider his predicament and his captors who is to say if he has or hasn't. What is the story going to be?
Fabulous. Just fab. Lots of questions and heaps of desire to get our next fix.
Author's Response:
Hehe -- yes, they have advance warning this time that Stuff Will Be Happening tomorrow: Either they'll all be blown up by Malik's super anti-Borg weapon, or they'll find out what the heck is going on. And maybe get their XO back. Or not. We'll see!
Glad Beckley still delivers the shivers ... though he, of course, he has no idea why you feel that way.
Adele is in an interesting place right now. She doesn't know who to trust. Beckley freaks her out, her ex-Borg XO has been kidnapped by Borg more lethal than the original Borg, but he and the super Borg want to talk and say they need her ... and she's got three live drones on her ship who probably contain a ton of information, but she needs to decide what to do about them and the best person she's got left for dealing with Borg is in sickbay, injured and on the edge of losing it. It sucks to be Adele.
Glad you're still with it and still reviewing, MF! Thanks so much!
Date: 21 Feb 2010 11:02 Title: Chapter 46
The Borg resistance leader is as charming as ever. I wonder how effective an ally Malik might be should he ever be in danger of losing the strategic advantage in any cooperative relationship with the Tesseract crew. That’s presuming, of course, that he’d have any interest in such an arrangement.
Though Gentry’s presence in this case is advantageous to Adele, I can foresee occasions when having the time-delay of significant distance from Starfleet Command and their army of JAG attorneys might be a godsend for a captain contemplating various forms of action. Sometimes it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
And once again we see Beckley as the proverbial fly on the wall in Adele’s ready room. I’m still not sure as to what his ultimate agenda might be, or on behalf of whom (or what), but I’m enjoying the slow reveal of his character regardless.
Author's Response:
Malik, charming? Ha! ;-) We'll see what he's interested in ...
It's absolutely easier to ask forgiveness than permission, and though Adele is playing by the rules (more or less) now, that's no guarantee she'll continue to do so.
Glad you're still enjoying Beckley. Thanks for reading, and the review!