What really happened on Garon II?
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It has - in a TNG comic book from somewhere around the early 90s. Of course, that's not considered canon, and from long before the current novel continuity got underway, so you may or may not choose to accept it.
What happened was:
In a fan-fiction of mine, I took it a step further.
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What happened was:
Ro was on the Wellington as part of an away team looking after some colonists. The away team was attacked by some local aliens called the Seraphami, who are kinda-sorta freedom fighters but mostly just thugs. The team managed to take cover. Ro's superior, Cmdr Wade, took some of the team to circle around and flank the aliens while Ro provided cover fire. But then the Seraphami fell into some kind of healing trance, during which they were much more susceptible to injury. Ro knew this and Wade didn't, and since Ro sympathised with the Seraphami as fellow "freedom fighters," she decided she couldn't allow Wade to potentially kill them instead of just stun them. So she fired on Wade instead, hoping to just stun him and get him to not fire. Unfortunately the Seraphami were just faking their trance, so the moment Ro fired on Wade, she revealed his position and allowed them to attack and kill all of Wade's team. She completely blamed herself and didn't protest when she was court martialed and imprisoned for it.
In a fan-fiction of mine, I took it a step further.
Vaughn revealed to Ro that it was actually all a Section 31 operation, who used Ro's known sympathies as a Bajoran to manipulate her into doing what she did on Garon II, using her to get Wade killed since he was a member of Vaughn's anti-S31 team. Since she didn't know they were behind the plan, she took full blame herself. And Akaar blamed her too, hence the schism between them.
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Garon II is also touched on in E. Catherine Tobler's short-short story "Flash Point" in Strange New Worlds IV, interspersed with flashbacks to Ro watching her father die. It doesn't give much detail, though.
I used to love those old marvel comics... must have missed that one. as far as the fanfic
I'd have a hard time believing that Akaar isn't part of the anti-31 underground.
Thanks I'll have to dust off my copy an re-read it... I still wouldn't mind hearing about it from the characters POV... It's well overdue for another captains table anthology...
Not an annual -- it was one of the three stories in TNG Special #2. The special also contained a TNG-era sequel to Chris Claremont's Debt of Honor and a brief story about Morgan Bateson adjusting to the 24th century.
Well, it's an easy mistake to make. Annuals are more common than "specials," after all. And the specials did come out once a year. The only real difference is that the annuals were one story each and the specials were 2-3 stories each.
what is the file format for the dvd? I like the cbr/cbz format and would like to see it adopted but I'm not going to hold my breath since it has no built in drm.
preorder links for Only Superhuman still available... looks good from what I saw on amazon.com I'm torn as to format though, they want too much for the ebook but my eyes don't do dead tree as well as they used to. it would also be kind of hard to get an ebook signed... that and last paper book i bought i shelved 3 pages in and downloaded because I couldn't read the font without a hand lense. 6pt font really?
preorder links for Only Superhuman still available... looks good from what I saw on amazon.com I'm torn as to format though, they want too much for the ebook but my eyes don't do dead tree as well as they used to. it would also be kind of hard to get an ebook signed... that and last paper book i bought i shelved 3 pages in and downloaded because I couldn't read the font without a hand lense. 6pt font really?
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I've spent the past decade waiting for a telling of "what really happened at Garon II" worked into the modern continuity heavy series of novels, because I felt that's what was being hinted at in one of the early DS9 "relaunch" novels. I think it was one of the Mission Gamma novels where Vaughn and Ro were having a conversation and he told her he new the truth about what really happened. I always thought it was hinting at a story that was being planned somewhere down the road.
That was in Fragments and Omens, the Bajor entry of WoDS9. And it was one of the hints that led to my theory above - that Vaughn knew more about than he let on.
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I believe they are actually photographs taken of the pages and then scanned into a computer.
Well, Vaughn and Ro weren't even together during Mission Gamma - he was on the Defiant in the GQ and she was on the station in the AQ. Except for that scene near the beginning of Twilight, where Vaughn comes to Quark to pick up his bottle of grosz for Akaar, and Ro happens to be there, and the scene specifically points out that Ro barely says a word to him because she's doing that thing where she assumes everybody hates her so she separates herself off in advance.
No, I'm afraid that scene you describe is definitely in Fragments. It comes when Vaughn and Ro are down on Bajor in the park, discussing the problems about Bajoran Militia officers transferring over to Starfleet or not, and Ro suggests reinstating the Liaison Officer position, and then he says he's glad she's back in Starfleet because he knows what really happened on Garon II. Of course, he doesn't take it any further than that.
There is also another scene in Avatar, at the getting-to-know-you cocktail party, where Vaughn asks Ro what she thought of the Advanced Starfleet Tactical class, because he helped design the curriculum. Again, that suggests to me that Vaughn has been keeping an eye on Ro from the background for quite some time, and helping to push her career in certain directions.
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No, I'm afraid that scene you describe is definitely in Fragments. It comes when Vaughn and Ro are down on Bajor in the park, discussing the problems about Bajoran Militia officers transferring over to Starfleet or not, and Ro suggests reinstating the Liaison Officer position, and then he says he's glad she's back in Starfleet because he knows what really happened on Garon II. Of course, he doesn't take it any further than that.
There is also another scene in Avatar, at the getting-to-know-you cocktail party, where Vaughn asks Ro what she thought of the Advanced Starfleet Tactical class, because he helped design the curriculum. Again, that suggests to me that Vaughn has been keeping an eye on Ro from the background for quite some time, and helping to push her career in certain directions.
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