I almost did a CoE story featuring Tev in love, but the series was cancelled just before I got a contract.
Valentines Day: Favorite Trek Lit couples
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I almost did a CoE story featuring Tev in love, but the series was cancelled just before I got a contract.
That's a bummer. I always felt that Tev was in the mold of Charles Emerson Winchester the third, who was one of my favorite MASH characters, but based on my sporadic readings (I picked up Oaths but if there was a collection prior to that one I have not read it) it kind of seemed like people didn't quite know what to do with him, so he seemed to get quickly relegated to the back burner.
I almost did a CoE story featuring Tev in love, but the series was cancelled just before I got a contract.
I can't believe nobody's mentioned Diego Reyes/Rana Desai and T'Prynn/Anna "Lurqual" Sandejo. I love Vanguard as a whole, but some of my favorite 'sub-plots' from the series involve both these two couples.
i suggest you go back and re-read the thread properly, both have been mentioned.
^ You're right; I should've read the thread more carefully. I didn't see them because of the shorthand way in which they were both mentioned.
Nobody's mentioned the short-lived pairing of Harry Kim and Libby Webber yet, so I will; the exploration of their relationship is, for me, one of the sub-plot highlights of Homecoming and The Farther Shore, even though it ultimately doesn't work out long-term.
Nobody's mentioned the short-lived pairing of Harry Kim and Libby Webber yet, so I will; the exploration of their relationship is, for me, one of the sub-plot highlights of Homecoming and The Farther Shore, even though it ultimately doesn't work out long-term.
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I will go with Prynn/Shar 
I'm actually saying the opposite here...
while i liked Julian and Ezri together, it actually made sense to me the way they ended everything and moved on... it gave Ezri a nice push for character development rather than just being Julian's Jadzia replacement...
M
who's Jasinder?
I believe Reanok is referring to Jasminder Choudhury: http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Jasminder_Choudhury
She is the Enterprise-E's Security Chief in the latest TNG novels.
(possible spoilers at link, be forewarned)
Hoo! Talk about a thread ressurection--I barely remember this one!
Let me repeat what I often say: Ezri Dax was not--and, with the possible exception of a few minutes in "Afterimage", had never been--Julian's Jadzia replacement. The interaction between the two was far different from Julian and Ezri.
As for character developement...Ezri had already been given a great opportunity for character developement by the show as the host who wishes to set herself apart from her previous hosts. Of course, for some strange reason, the relaunch writers had gotten it into their heads that the way to go was for her to "integrate", a la Jadzia.
And of course...instead of her mastering her memories, we see examples of them mastering her.
And...as for splitting up with Julian helping her developement...ah, aside from her being captain, what little we have of her post-Unjoined shows little to no developement whatsoever--and frankly, I hardly think the growth we see in her was being hampered by her relationship with Bashir.
Let me repeat what I often say: Ezri Dax was not--and, with the possible exception of a few minutes in "Afterimage", had never been--Julian's Jadzia replacement. The interaction between the two was far different from Julian and Ezri.
As for character developement...Ezri had already been given a great opportunity for character developement by the show as the host who wishes to set herself apart from her previous hosts. Of course, for some strange reason, the relaunch writers had gotten it into their heads that the way to go was for her to "integrate", a la Jadzia.
And of course...instead of her mastering her memories, we see examples of them mastering her.
And...as for splitting up with Julian helping her developement...ah, aside from her being captain, what little we have of her post-Unjoined shows little to no developement whatsoever--and frankly, I hardly think the growth we see in her was being hampered by her relationship with Bashir.
Warning: Spoilers ahead, albeit for a pretty old book, Time's Enemy.
It doesn't really qualify as a "couple", at least not at that stage, but a recent thread reminded me of L.A. Graf's Time's Enemy, which contains a powerful subplot about Bashir's struggle to keep alive a 5000 year old Dax symbiont in the wrecked sickbay of a frozen Defiant, enclosed in an icy asteroid by a dying crew to warn the future.
In 1998 or 99 when I was reading this Bashir's on-screen romantic obsession with Jadzia was at its peak in the German TV broadcast, and his youthful naiveté was about to be shaken by the lessons of The Quickening (would have been similar for US audiences as the book came out in 1996). Time's Enemy played expertly right into both themes, with heartwrenching moments of inner turmoil and growth for Bashir and very sweet moments between him and the still-alive present-day Jadzia.
I didn't really enjoy the Invasion mini-series overall, and the parts of the book dealing directly with its over-arching plot were fairly meh IIRC, but this Bashir/Dax subplot remains probably my favorite novel treatment of DS9 characters, and that includes the relaunch books. I was enormously touched by it.
(Edit: Fixed up the dates in there; I realized I couldn't have read it as early as I thought I did given the time lag of the German dubbing.)
It doesn't really qualify as a "couple", at least not at that stage, but a recent thread reminded me of L.A. Graf's Time's Enemy, which contains a powerful subplot about Bashir's struggle to keep alive a 5000 year old Dax symbiont in the wrecked sickbay of a frozen Defiant, enclosed in an icy asteroid by a dying crew to warn the future.
In 1998 or 99 when I was reading this Bashir's on-screen romantic obsession with Jadzia was at its peak in the German TV broadcast, and his youthful naiveté was about to be shaken by the lessons of The Quickening (would have been similar for US audiences as the book came out in 1996). Time's Enemy played expertly right into both themes, with heartwrenching moments of inner turmoil and growth for Bashir and very sweet moments between him and the still-alive present-day Jadzia.
I didn't really enjoy the Invasion mini-series overall, and the parts of the book dealing directly with its over-arching plot were fairly meh IIRC, but this Bashir/Dax subplot remains probably my favorite novel treatment of DS9 characters, and that includes the relaunch books. I was enormously touched by it.
(Edit: Fixed up the dates in there; I realized I couldn't have read it as early as I thought I did given the time lag of the German dubbing.)
^ Agreed. I adored Time's Enemy in general, and what it did with Dax was fantastic IMO.
Uh oh, just wait until... oh wait, too late.
Uh oh, just wait until... oh wait, too late.
I basically agree. 
^And naturally, I disagree--for reasons that I stated above.
Absolutely.
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