Reviews For ST: HERITAGE - Book One, A Break with Tradition
Reviewer: Miranda Fave Signed [Report This]
Date: 18 Nov 2009 23:47 Title: Chapter Three - Part Six
Author's Response: This will respond to your last 2 reviews (and all of the others for which I am so grateful). Beth literally grew up with Picard and Riker and Troi and Janeway and Worf and others - all of whom had first hand experience with Q. It was important for me to show a character that would have had a completely different type of relationship with him than merely getting angry for being present on their vessels. Beth's much more manipulative and conniving than that and if she felt that Q could give her any advantage? You bet your ass she'd use it! She sees Q as a funnel of information and more of a benefactor - it's just that he prefers to dole it out in puzzles. Something that Picard didn't seem to learn until later in the TNG series and that Janeway had a much better grasp on. Beth would have been guided by advice from those two people and...you'll see...one literally life-changing experience with the entity himself while she's in the Academy.
Date: 18 Nov 2009 23:47 Title: Chapter Three - Part Six
This might indeed be amusing. Not often we see Q wrong-footed. So I look forward to seeing how this plays out. And the mystery of our enemy is ratched up a gear with the possibility Q is mixed up with things. Good ask by Dryden by the way! That would be a faceplam moment if one only thought to ask beforehand.
Author's Response: This will respond to your last 2 reviews (and all of the others for which I am so grateful). Beth literally grew up with Picard and Riker and Troi and Janeway and Worf and others - all of whom had first hand experience with Q. It was important for me to show a character that would have had a completely different type of relationship with him than merely getting angry for being present on their vessels. Beth's much more manipulative and conniving than that and if she felt that Q could give her any advantage? You bet your ass she'd use it! She sees Q as a funnel of information and more of a benefactor - it's just that he prefers to dole it out in puzzles. Something that Picard didn't seem to learn until later in the TNG series and that Janeway had a much better grasp on. Beth would have been guided by advice from those two people and...you'll see...one literally life-changing experience with the entity himself while she's in the Academy.