[Report This]Date: 11 Feb 2021 14:05 Title: Part III - The Olive Branch: 10
Probably one of the most gripping of all of your chapters that I have read. And very true to human nature - not to mention completely currently relevant.
While Lam may have other motives to be revealed, the fallacy of sunk costs is on strong display in this chapter, as is false justification and authoritarian overreach.
Just all around superb writing here - kudos!
Thanks!! rbs
Author's Response: Wow, high praise, thank you very much. I've re-read this chapter after your review since I didn't remember all the details. Without tooting my own horn too much, I too enjoyed the back and forth between those two men, each one convinced of the rightness of their cause. I don't spend too much time visualizing my work, but that felt like a scene that would work really well on the screen with the right actors and director. Could be a great little tension piece. Thanks for the kind words.
Date: 26 Jan 2015 17:29 Title: Part III - The Olive Branch: 10
Wow, the General is absolutely and incurably nutty. I don’t know whether it is a PTSD acquired during his rough stay on Valeria or he has always been like that but he certainly has lost any sense of proportion. Unfortunately, his Marines support him and believe every word he says.
If a contingent of 50, 000 tired, shell-shocked Cardassian soldiers was enough to take over and control a warp-capable civilization with well-developed interstellar relations, I would carry out an Annexation every year. Cardassia paid a heavy price for the Bajoran “free†resources.
Author's Response: I agree that Lam has lost perspective here. But I wouldn't necessarily disregard what kind of damage 50,000 battle hardened soldiers could do to a planet which doesn't have much of a military to speak of. Regardless, you are right, this is not Bajor and Lam either doesn't realize this or refuses to accept that fact.