Date: 04 Jun 2013 21:53 Title: Chapter 8
Oh, wow. That ending line? Wow. So awesome. Awesome and opens up SO MUCH POTENTIAL. OMG. I love it.
Author's Response:
John Connor, Trek style.
Date: 02 Jun 2013 06:21 Title: Chapter 8
Oh, time travel missions and now the real fun starts. I’m instantly intrigued by the mirror universe one. I know that’s it old hat, but I loved that episode to pieces and the way the women in the ship are all like “need to workout more” is hilarious to me. I have that feeling a lot though won’t see me baring my midriff … ever. Just no. Levi is completely oblivious to chicks in showy outfits however, absorbed into his PADD and the data there. I wonder what the rest of that message is and it it’ll be worth the time Levi’s putting into it?
Then we join up with Kevin and Tom, who are enjoying a nice cruise to the beginning of WWIII. Colonel Green is an SOB, in both his appearances in Trek, he’s not a nice man and the uniforms are pretty gosh darn ugly. Kevin makes a valid point here about the ethics of time travel, and how they can stop all those innocents from dying with just one action. But I don’t see that happening here and I certainly don’t see anyone of the new recruits trying it, but it’s nice to see Kevin voicing that thought.
And then we have Rick, who copes with getting lonely and having to watch those people die many times, by nailing some pretty ladies in his holodeck bachelor pad (COOL). I like how Bernstein just doesn’t let him go on the matter and how he tells her, without revealing he’s the reason why, a birth control shot is absolutely needed before any mission. Can’t be polluting the timeline with kids, can we Rick?
Author's Response:
Nope! A temporally paradoxical child, a la John Connor from the Terminator films - that's Jun Sato. And, of course, that's why they all have to take the shot.
But yeah, the holographic bachelor pad; I HAD to go there!
Date: 30 May 2013 12:38 Title: Chapter 8
Doesn't that defeat the purpose of having temporal agents if they need a birth control drug? It sort of implies they're going to make out with someone in the past and thus contaminate the timeline ever so slightly. In fact, giving how delicate timelines are, would it not make more sense to have robots do all the arduous work of maintaining the timeline? I mean what is more reliable here? Robots or humanoids?
Author's Response:
I write this era as almost a transitional period, where humans and humanoids are still doing the temporal cleaning. Eventually, likely, this will just be done with androids and the like, which will be more responsible, but will also suck all the fun right out of it.