Date: 07/08/2009 01:01 pm Title: Part One: My Ship was Destroyed at Wolf 359 and All I Got Was This T-Shirt
Depressing but exciting opening, if that makes any sense. Looking forward to more.
Date: 07/06/2009 07:00 pm Title: Part Ten: not with a bang...
A wonderful coda to this story, though it does conclude things rather abruptly. It's good to see most of the crew lived and loved far into the future after the Borg Wars, and that McKenna went out fighting, as was her nature. Great work on this.
Date: 07/06/2009 01:39 pm Title: Part Nine: The Cirrius Prime Symphony (in D minor)
An intense and nail-biting chapter as the Galaxy Alliance finally gets the opportunity to kick the Borg squarely in the jumblies. Excellent detail on the strategy and tactics of this operation without bogging down the narrative, which remained fast paced and especially accessible.
Date: 07/05/2009 05:48 pm Title: Part Eight: The Pride of Qo'noS
Holy crap! Talk about a cliffhanger! This new Galaxy Alliance is shaping up to have some teeth, though it's yet to be proven if those teeth are sharp enough to injure the Collective.
Date: 07/05/2009 06:04 am Title: Part Seven: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
This was a nice, well-paced break from the action. Our heroes get a chance to catch their collective breath, and McKenna gets to ponder the how's and wherefore's of being a celebrated hero, despite her reservations.
Yamaguchi's growing on me, and it appears there's a real beating heart under the spit and polish Marine exterior. Kudos to him for sucking it up and accepting that the person he loves is marrying another. A lesser man might have tried to put his happiness ahead of hers and upset her special day with making his true feelings known.
Well, here's hoping January gets a choice command.
Date: 07/05/2009 03:08 am Title: Part Six: Tango with the Collective
An exciting and fast paced chapter. McKenna performed especially well in an engagement that looked more and more like a no-win scenario. I like how you've established a Borg 'time-out' in order for the Collective to assimilate the people and raw materials of the planet's they've conquered. It makes sense, seeing as only a single cube was responsible for the seizure of three of the most heavily populated star systems in the Federation.
Continued excellence!
Date: 07/05/2009 02:26 am Title: Part Five: The Qo'noS Two-Step
A great chapter showing us how adaptable people can be, even in the face of the most severe circumstances. McKenna's finally settling down somewhat, and Sten has made a decision about the course her life will take that will doubtless have great repercussions in the years ahead... provided that she and the others have years ahead.
This chapter answered my questions regarding the 'Alliance' references in your Venture story set post-war.
Here's hoping the addition of the Klingon Empire entering fully into the fight will make the difference.
Date: 07/03/2009 11:16 pm Title: Part Four: Vulcan's Cacophony
Somehow this destruction of Vulcan is even more ghastly than the fate the befell the planet in the new Star Trek movie. The irony of McKenna's situation comes full circle as she discovers who was to have been the Malinche's new commanding officer, and then being thrust into nearly identical circumstances with the attack on Vulcan.
Great stuff, I'm glad you're posting this story.
Date: 07/03/2009 05:21 am Title: Part Three: The Antares Boogie
Oh hell. From bad to much, much worse. This is a hell of a lot of responsibility to be thrust upon someone who was a junior lieutenant just a few weeks prior. More than a little ironic that McKenna now finds herself in nearly the same place as the captain she castigated in front of his bridge crew aboard the Akagi.
All I can say for the time being is, 'Run little ship, run.'
Date: 07/03/2009 03:22 am Title: Part Two: Life's a Bitch, and then there's the Borg
She's a hard-charger, I'll give her that. Starfleet's already on the defensive and falling back in the face of an implacable Borg advance. One wonders what kind of tactics and missions they will brainstorm in the coming struggle to safeguard the rest of the Federation from the Collective.
Date: 07/03/2009 03:11 am Title: Part One: My Ship was Destroyed at Wolf 359 and All I Got Was This T-Shirt
Well, McKenna's certainly made herself welcome aboard the Akagi! The combat sequence at Wolf 359 was visceral and riveting, and I found the aftermath of the battle just as engrossing. Reading this on the tails of trekfan's future-based Borg Apocalypse story brings me back to the heady days of 1990 when I eagerly awaited the conclusion to The Best of Both Worlds.
Author's Response:
I like the word 'visceral.' :) And riveting works, too. Thanks :) Do you know how many times I watched DS9's pilot to get in the mood to write that first scene? Quite a bit.
Thanks for reading!
-- MDg
Date: 07/02/2009 09:34 pm Title: Part Two: Life's a Bitch, and then there's the Borg
Yes, that's more like it. Put January where she can do some good.
The counselor bit was good too, loved that. Great convo between them and a hell of a hard point made.
Author's Response:
Jan's pretty pissed off at this point. She literally had her entire life shot out from under her and now all she wants is revenge and she wants it pretty badly. Running away from the fight went against her instinct to take the fight to the Borg, and in spite of orders, I think had she held command of the Akagi, then it would have been 41 ships lost that day, rather than 40 (39 at Wolf 359 plus the Enterprise).
Thanks for reading!
-- MDg
Date: 07/02/2009 09:11 pm Title: Part One: My Ship was Destroyed at Wolf 359 and All I Got Was This T-Shirt
Damn man, The Riker Manuever=FAIL, of epic proportions here. I love the look at this character and the tension around the whole situation. Your Borg AU is far quicker in development then mine, something I like alot.
I want to see just as far she's willing to go.
Author's Response:
Things move fast, and as it turns out later on in the story, as the Borg try to expand they eventually reach a point where they're expanding faster than they've been able to make efficient use of their co-opted resources. You'll get to that eventually.
Thanks for reading!
-- MDg