[Report This]Date: 29 Jul 2020 16:50 Title: 8 - Agamemnon, 2372
Roll opening credits. Nice description of the Omega particle and good dialogue between the captain and admiral. I particularly liked the banter between the bolian and andorian officers and especially the character development of the first officer.
Interesting to have a Lt. Commander as 1st officer on a ship with a crew of 500 - he must have done really well on those exams (and, like most bolians, had some well placed friends pulling for him.)
Thanks!! rbs
Author's Response: I liked to have a younger officer as the XO on this story. We know Starfleet isn't as strict about which ranks can hold which positions as say contemporary militaries. That's why we regularly get to see full-rank captains in command of smaller ships, which I know drives military purists crazy.
Date: 04 Dec 2019 07:39 Title: 8 - Agamemnon, 2372
I really like Texx's background. (And name!) And attitude! It's nice to see an XO who can be laid back and still competent. It can't all be balls-to-the-wall all the time, or you'll probably have a ship-- kinda like McGregor's, actually. LOL! Also, it's interesting to see Sh'Fane trying to figure out a place; their whole interchange about her using the tactical station maybe-without-permission is fun reading. I dunno if Texx is flirting or not, there!
At that she did look up. “Marines do not feud, sir.” Uh huh. Sure. Buyin' that!
Oh God, he IS flirting! Kind of a cad there, too. I don't blame her for locking his heels on the issue, though it does seem like he's relatively benevolent about it. I'd like to think by that century, sexual harassment is something long, long in the past.
Oh crap. Things just went cock-eyed before any more attempts at flirtation could come about. o.O Looks like a computer virus, initially. Which is kinda scary, when you have a whole, expensive, giant ship that's all networked together like that. --Wait, it's a directive?? The plot just thickened quite a bit, didn't it? It's kind of unnerving when a hidden command can take over your ship, though I can see the point of a failsafe like that. Still, poor Donners. That's quite a way to get woken up.
“The end of the universe as we know it?” she said with a smirk. I love her.
And geez, what a cruel trick to pull on her there, Glover. Like, obviously he's empathizing with her about it, but still. How the hell can she be expected to deal with this when she can't even tell the people she's dealing with it with? She's gonna seem like a mad captain, through no fault of her own.
Gripping stuff, CeJay.
Author's Response: Yeah, Texx is definitely skirting the line of appropriate behavior dealing with a subordinate. I like to think that although he is playful and definitely a flirt, he understands where the line is and wouldn't cross it. Even if Sh'fane probably feels like he already did.
You can't really blame Glover for the orders. He's following the Omega Directive which was first introduced in Voyager. It's a bit of questionable directive and we'll see how much it will get tested in the course of this story.
Thanks for the awesome review.
Date: 26 May 2012 20:52 Title: 8 - Agamemnon, 2372
Oh, yes... absolutely nothing could go wrong with this plan! Welcome to your first week in command of a starship. By the way, here's an enormous crisis the likes of which we'd hoped you'd never have to face in your entire career. Try not to screw the pooch on this while you're attempting to save the galaxy from a veritable apocalypse.