Old habits are hard to break. So the newly emancipated Maquis are already plotting to return to their old ways and lose their hard won independence. The Romulan and Klingon empires are plotting to destabilize the power standing between them and reconquest by the Dominion.. At least Lar'ragos appears to be making a good choice - to get out of the game for awhile. 

A rather depressing but reasonably accurate reflection on human (klingon, romulan) nature. People keep treading down the same old paths headed toward the same depressing destinies...

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Far better than killing him - Galmesh has to live with the dishonor of being captured alive.  And we get a duel...

I suspect Lar'ragos will manage to get his pound of flesh somehow. Quite an interesting confrontation between Lar'ragos and Sandhurst - shows how much of a rift has developed. 

I was expecting Galmesh to meet a sticky fate - but a fate worse than death is even better as a story device...

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Nice gritty battle sequence. A good hard dirty fight with some fancy flying from the Star Fleet pilots. Lar'ragos and his team cavorting on the K'Vort is particularly entertaining. 

But easily the most entertaining is Sandhurst calmly conducting negotiations in the midst of it - with some cardassians hidden in the next room. 

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Looks like Star Fleet seriously has the upper hand here - rolling up the Maquis colonies, rolling up the stragglers, bringing the head honcho to the negotiating table.

Working like an inexorable, well oiled machine.

Isn't that usually where it all starts to go wrong?

Liking the actual relationship between Lar'ragos and Ariel. Also enjoying T'Ser's current perception of Sandhurst. Although for some reason he seems to me to be a little on the brittle side at the moment.

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Definitely looking forward to the demise of Galmesh - I can only hope a fitting end is in store for him. Quite enjoyed the last valiant moments of the doomed crew of the Amberjack. 

So Lar'ragos accepted a promotion? And now he's on the hunt. This is going to be fun... Looks like it's going to be a rocky reconciliation between him and Sandhurst.

Also liking the politics of the situation as expressed in the final segment.

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Okay - this is going to be barrels of fun! An orion hybrid - perfect SFI operative.

Quite enjoyed Sandhurst's clever use of the holodeck to test her - and even with all of those layers of protection still coming away disturbed. 

You know she's some kind of a Medusa - because you're already turning to stone...

Great zinger line at the end.

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Astounding work, I honestly wish I could put together a tome like this. Very nice work to both of you.

Oh man, that was kinda harsh. For a moment there Selik thought that he wasn't alone in his cruel fate only to learn that no, actually, Kircheis was doing fine, was being wined and dined in fact while he was being brutally assaulted.

I'm curious about CJ's future. Looks like that promotion and new assignment lasted a lot shorter than anyone expected. I'm still convinced she'd love another chance of sitting in a captain's chair. After all she's done a pretty decent job in the brief time she was Adelphi's acting captain.

Intense stuff!

Saw this coming but probably not when we first started out.

It's very interesting that the sexual assault here is reversed from what you would normally expect. That's cleverly done.

The reasoning behind Evaste's actions, and the importance Vulcans seem to have in Romulan society, seems a bit odd to me. I suppose different cultures have different ways of thinking, I can respect that.

There must be other ways for Evaste to impregnate herself, especially in the 24th century, which means that she thoroughly enjoys violating and humiliating pure Selik in this manner. This, is one sick lady.

Things are becoming a lot clearer now. At least as far as the connection between Kircheis and Taibek is concerned. Romulans seem to take their family extremely seriously, maybe even more so then the Cardassians do, for Taibek to risk turning against his own people and side with a human instead. Not to mention the commander of the starship which killed his own captain and most of his flotilla.

Kircheis' reaction is priceless though. Believing herself in mortal danger of torture and worse one moment to instead find herself in the care of an unexpected, and charming, ally instead.

Oh, and it appears to be a bad day to be a Vulcan.

Oh wow, Adelphi's a tough little ship. The Ambassador class is an old design, I would have thought she'd be minced meat against 3 warbirds for sure. Well, she still ends up that way in the end, but not before taking a few Romulans with her. Not the direction I was expecting things to go, with Toomey finding a quick death and Adelphi's story seemingly coming to an end.

Okay this crew is giving me all kinds of warning signs. Toomey seemed like a needlessly strict disciplinarian but perhaps a decent captain at first. Now I'm not so sure, not with an apparently racist crew, and officers like Carneiro who don't seem fit to wear the uniform. Not to mention her odd two-faced persona.

And now the Romulans? Bad tidings, I fear.