cedar_grove | The 'Bad' - 'Good' and Downright Ugly Choices For the Future.

"For a long time, they held each other and cried, for all the losses of their past, their present, and perhaps, of their future." The Good That Men Do by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin

We finished reading this a few weeks ago... beginning of April as a matter of fact, but haven't gotten around to this before now. You might wanna put your fingers in your ears or somethin'...

Am I the /only/ one that has a problem with a man who wears his heart on his sleeve suddenly becomin' some kinda undercover agent? How does that work again? Am I the only one that doesn't understand how a man for whom family is paramount (no pun intended) can suddenly desert them all - knowing he was breaking every one of their hearts? And I won't even speak of the other things... all right yes, they were addressed, but why wait until at least two thirds into the book to 'explain' the whole 'bond' issues between Trip and T'Pol?

If it were not for /who/ were the main characters in this, the story premise was a reasonable one... I'll not deny that. Sending an agent undercover to halt the Romulan threat was proming, and had possibilities of giving some exciting reading, but using the characters they did made a mockery of too many things that had already been all but decimated by the treatment they had in These Are the Voyages.

I just wish I could think of another way... less painful for everyone. One that wasn't a choice between death and deserting those people who are loved more than I can say.