Is the Wounds trade being delayed?

[DS9Continuing]

I've read the first story so far, Malefictorum, and it was a great story, quite exciting, good stuff for Corsi, and Hawkins amused me with his "yes boss" refrain. But I did think it was a little anticlimactic - after all the buildup, they just shot the mad Vorta and that was it. Still, I enjoyed it.

 

[Marie1]

I've read the first story so far, Malefictorum, and it was a great story, quite exciting, good stuff for Corsi, and Hawkins amused me with his "yes boss" refrain. But I did think it was a little anticlimactic - after all the buildup, they just shot the mad Vorta and that was it. Still, I enjoyed it.

^ That was one of my favourites. But I'm not sure she's dead... but if she's not, I guess SF came up with a way to prevent Vorta from triggering their implants? Probably not too hard- it'd be funny to see a Vorta with one of those cone collars... May unnamed lonely Jem'Hadar RIP. Was he special, or what was going on in that corridor? I know weapons set on stun don't work... maybe heavy stun...? And I just had to say something!! I think the mystery book I read in high school I've been trying to remember is The Battle of Betazed!!! I wonder where on earth it is...

 

[TerriO]

Thanks, guys. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

 

[DS9Continuing]

Okay, I've just finished "Lost Time" aswell. And I have to say it was completely not the story I was expecting it to be. From all previous descriptions, and from Ilsa Bick's reputation on these boards (never read anything of hers before), I was expecting a tough and penetrating character story, all about screwed up personalities trying desperately to get over the loss of loved ones in the face of alternate-reality doppelgangers. There was a small aspect of that to it, but it was buried under mountains of impenetrable technobabble and a story which was not only not DS9 (which I freely admit I was hoping for) but not even SCE. It was an alternate SCE, and as such it struck me as one of those "this doesn't count" stories.

So I have to say I didn't enjoy it. Mostly because of my own expectations being wildly out of line with what was actually on the page, which is all my own fault I'm fully aware, but still, the end result is there. Sorry.

 

[Rowan Sjet]

Just finished the book this afternoon. The quality seemed to fluctuate between stories, but I found Identity Crisis and Security to be particularly good entries. As for the Wounds two-parter itself, I think I may have enjoyed it more if we hadn't just been given David Mack's (IMO, superior) Borg origin story in the Destiny trilogy.

 

[KRAD]

Wounds wasn't meant to be a Borg origin. Bashir and Lense were merely speculating that the Borg might have come about that way.

 

[DS9Continuing]

I'm halfway through Wounds 1 right now.

This collection as a whole really feels like one big book, because of the many threads tying everything together. The DS9 crossovers, the missing Lense and Bashir, the cleaning up the messes of the Dominion War, Corsi's various issues, the alternate universe stuff. I'm liking that aspect of things, definitely.

Identity Crisis was a good laugh - a simple, straightforward, mostly standalone story that was a nice respite from the intensity. Fables of the Prime Directive was an excellent story for Abramowitz and a great examination of PD issues in a way the TV show never actually manahed, but still managed to get in some snarks at Corsi too, in a way that reminded me of the DS9 staff all laughing at Kira's pregnancy sneezes. I kind of already knew the flashback story of Security, so that part was no surprise. But there was a ton of b-stories surrounding it which were a pleasant surprise. Great character work with Corsi throughout this whole collection so far.

 

[DS9Continuing]

Finished the whole collection now. Wounds was certainly a brutal story - medical ethics in the face of horrible odds and heartless government. But I was a touch confused by one point.

Kahayn's plan (at one point) is to tie Bashir up to the "collective" she'd accidentally discovered, as some kind of central node that could control others. But my question is - why did the military want this? What was their motive for doing it? What did they get out of this? It's explained clearly how the discovery came about, but I'm not clear on why they pursued it after that. What good did it do them? Was it just an experiment for the sake of experiment, or was there a practical application in mind, and if so, what?

Also, just so that I'm getting it clear in my head, Kahayn in the end was actually trying to save Bashir, yes? She deliberately poisoned him so that he would appear to be dead to Blate, so he would drop the project, but in such a way that Bashir was revivable later, once the heat was off, and then he could escape. Have I got that right?

 

[KRAD]

^ Yes.

 

[DS9Continuing]

Thanks. Any answer to my first question? It wasn't a complaint, just a request for clarification.