Comments | lindmere: A Tide Taken at the Flood (Pike, PG-13) 2/3

lindmere

A Tide Taken at the Flood (Pike, PG-13) 2/3

Oct 08, 2009 19:59

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“What the hell’s wrong with me?”

It’s a simple enough question, but it’s been oddly difficult to get anyone here to answer it. Pike can guess the reason: they are professionally reticent to say what they don’t know, conscious of patient morale, maybe even under orders not to divulge anything until Pike has received his overdue debriefing ( Read more... )

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garryowen October 10 2009, 21:55:14 UTC

lindmere October 11 2009, 00:45:55 UTC

Thanks so much! I find Spock terribly hard to write, but I figured, as in TOS, there's a special connection between Pike and Spock that may have something to do with the fact that he's the first really approving authority figure he's ever met.

garryowen October 11 2009, 20:30:41 UTC

philomytha October 13 2009, 15:50:39 UTC

You've actually made me believe that Kirk should be commanding the Enterprise with Spock's appraisal of him here. That's pretty impressive, since I was never hugely fond of Kirk. Also, I love all the stuff you show going on in Pike's head. Excellent.

lindmere October 13 2009, 17:20:51 UTC

Yes, I think it's necessarily a bit of a retcon since he really isn't qualified--even if he's a quick learner, there's tons of procedural and bureacratic stuff he wouldn't know how to do. He's going to have to be the "lead by example" type and delegate a lot, I think. However, if you're bacon's about to get scorched, he's probably the guy you want around.

Thanks so much for your great comments!