Date: 17 Mar 2013 06:16 Title: Epilogue
You should keep this going - forget Baywatch, we now have Mitchell instead of Hasselhoff.
But seriously, this could be a good AU fit for Mitchell. In TOS he was killed off before we had a chance to know him. This could be his chance to shine...
This was a good fit for the challenge, and completely different from the approach the rest of us took. While we showed 'what might have been' within the context of the 'real' universe, you were the only one who took the bold step to place a character firmly in an alternate universe and leave him there. Bravo, sir. :D
Author's Response: Thank you most kindly as always LBD. Mitchell needed exposing and well...he got it here. :)
Date: 04 Mar 2013 20:44 Title: Epilogue
Beautifully done.
I've always liked Gary Mitchell, and the viewer should wonder - how/why are he and Jim friends? There must be a history there. And lo, you have supplied it, along with what is naturally a great deal of trauma.
And of course there's Carol's own history as well.
Great shout-outs to The Voyage Home and also a smidge of ENT.
Author's Response: thank you Jesph. I too have always liked Mitch and watching the second pilot makes me wish we saw more of him before he met his end. The theory is that he was a ladies man and though the story didn't do that much of it, it did its best. TVH and ENT tended to draw themselves in without realising. Carol seemed a natural fit for the biologist...Gillian would've taken too much explaining :)