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| Star Traks: Boldly Gone | |
| Episode name | |
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| Season | 10 |
| Episode number | 3 |
| Writer(s) | Alan Decker, Anthony Butler |
| Year | 2503 |
| Stardate | 178802 |
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| Previous in series | Primary Sources [BG] |
| Next in series | Consequences You Otherwise Avoid [BG] |
| Previous in timeline | Primary Sources [BG] |
| Next in timeline | Consequences You Otherwise Avoid [BG] |
Answering a never-ending barrage of questions about everything that happened in the last story is not Captain Reginald Bain’s idea of a party, but when the Dillion Consortium crashes the festivities, things quickly go from deadly-dull to just plain deadly.
Summary
Featuring
- Captain Reginald Bain
- Commander Prosak
- Commander Vioxx
- Lieutenant Commander Tovar
- Lieutenant Shelly Marsden
- Sub-Commander Remax
- Dr. Natalia Kasyov
- Centurion Nortal
- Sub-Lieutenant Zantak
- Cabral
- Tori Burke
Author's Comments
Back in the comments for the first story of the run, I mentioned that Anthony and I had most of the stories finished before we decided that we weren't happy with the direction and decided to rework things. The issue was that the Dillion Consortium plot took up the entire run, and we didn't want to have our final six stories all be focused on a single storyline. There were still standalone stories to tell, and really the Consortium were never the big antagonist of the series anyway. Having them take over the entire last run felt unnecessary. And we'd already done big, run-consuming arcs with the Vulcans. I really didn't feel that we lost that much by compressing the Consortium plot into 3 stories instead (Or more if you include the last couple stories of Series Nine). We hit the points we wanted to hit without dragging things out.
Really I don't have a whole lot to say about the story itself. The A and B plots both involve falling into a Consortium trap and then finding a way out of it. On the Anomaly side, I enjoy getting to use the ship's support craft in creative ways. They're one of those things I think about in Star Trek episodes on a regular basis. The ship will be in some dire situation, and I'll come up with some way to help using a shuttle. Using the Anomaly's support ships to deal with the asteroid trap was fun to write and worked well to get them out of that scenario. Our assumption has always been that the Consortium captains are not Starfleet caliber but also overconfident to an unwarranted degree.
Tori Burke, or at least the suit controlling her, shares that overconfidence, which is how Bain is able to flip the trap she set for him into a trap for her and the Consortium. As for the location, there wasn't any real reason for it to be a restaurant centered on fried foods. It just made me chuckle and allowed me to make a really terrible X-Men reference. We really loved the empty suit gag. It's incredibly silly, but it's the kind of silly I love. And I think it wouldn't have had much room to breathe if it had happened in the original version of events. I didn't want Burke to be a victim in all of this. Yes the suit had control, but, as she says, she generally agreed with it. She's ambitious, a loyal Consortium employee, and struggling to make up for 20 years lost to being in stasis. She just isn't quite ready to kill Vioxx, since he's the one person who has tried to get close to her. I don't see a romance blooming there, but I do think he will follow through on visiting her at her rehabilitation colony.
As for Prosak, this run is pretty rough on her. We already had her RommaVulc beliefs challenged during the Vulcan war, but in the end, the architect of it all wasn't an actual Vulcan. Now she's having to face that she may never measure up to the expectations of these people she's emulated for years. So far, she's not handling it well, but after rock bottom (and a bit of holographic slaughter), there's nowhere to go but up, right?
While Prosak may be struggling to find a way forward, Dr. Nooney gained some clarity about his own future. Nooney has never been a main character in Boldly Gone and mainly has existed to provide to silly exuberance or overly-thorough exams. Having him decide that he'd rather be on a cruise ship just felt right. We're sure that he's going to be very happy there.