[Report This]Date: 08 Jul 2020 18:35 Title: Part 2
Nice creepy klingon ghost/zombie story, complete with flickering lights, mysterious banging noises and klingons doing weird things. And no doubt things are about to go from bad to worse...
Spooky, frightened, incoherent, dying klingons - what's not to love? Great visuals!
Thanks!! rbs
Author's Response: Heavily influence by the horror/zombie genre of course. I always thought Trek lends itself well to that genre and there have been some episodes who've gone done that road. Although, I don't think there's ever been a proper zombie Trek story. This is my attempt at correct that oversight.
Date: 03 Aug 2013 17:02 Title: Part 2
Chayton is already immensely creepy, and I would be kind of annoyed with him, too, if I were Yifey. But the truth is, she should not be trying to get encouragement out of him or anyone else. It's a weird kind of confirmatory behavior and approval that she seems to be seeking. And that tells me that that just might be the first symptom of whatever disease they're dealing with. Maybe it's anxiety or even immature behaviors coming to the fore.
Telvin, egad, don't these people watch horror movies?! Being attacked and bitten, man oh man, it's got to be that he's now a carrier.
I love soldier characters and so I adore Gradkowski. He and Aliris are, I think, closer to figuring things out than anyone else is, at least for right now.
Author's Response: If only people in horror movies watched horror movies. Their chances of survival would just be so much higher. I suppose there is a perverse pleasure we take from knowing what is going to happen to these characters before they know it themselves. Add to this that all these guys a young and inexperienced. Their intentions are good but that just might not be enough this time around.
Date: 03 Aug 2013 04:32 Title: Part 2
OMFG. Okay, you sure know how to bring the creepy. Brilliant atmospheric work here, CeJay. You totally manage to keep it Trek, but also drive home the zombie apocalypse feeling. These poor kids are so damn screwed. I kept wanting to shout at them to run, and yet, I doubt a one of them would get it. Great work on ratcheting up the suspense and tension, too.
Author's Response: Thank you very much. Tension and atmosphere were on the top of my list of things to deliver in his story. Hard to do a zombie tale justice without it. Glad it comes across is a sufficiently creepy manner.
Date: 02 Dec 2011 02:10 Title: Part 2
When a Klingon medic is the best one at doing triage, that's really saying something about the Starfleet crew here, given that I'm not sure the Klingons really give doctors or nurses very much standing in their culture or the kind of intense education a Federation doctor would get, given that the priority does not seem to be on lifesaving or saving limbs and such.
All the roars and the "dishonored dead" stuff...I get a distinct feeling we're about to get a zombie story here. This definitely is beginning to have the feel of I Am Legend.
And the Starfleet crew is still bickering and acting immature. If this really is World War Z Klingon style, they're screwed.
Author's Response: Yeah, I think you are getting the right feel. I unabashedly borrowed from genre conventions here. If you are familiar with George A Romero's work, you more or less now what's happening here. The twist of course, is that this is set in space and with Klingons no less. And you thought human zombies were bad.