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  1. Gibraltar on Chapter 10 Fri 18 Aug 2023 10:07PM UTC

    You're establishing some excellent backstory here, filling in the gaps to inform the reader that before encountering Kirk and Enterprise and before losing his entire crew to the Doomsday Machine, Matt Decker had already suffered significant losses and had been under considerable stress for a long time. It certainly goes a long way to explaining Decker's actions after being 'rescued' by Enterprise.

    Also a fascinating look at Section 31 agents digging in to Decker's psyche while trying to calculate the danger to the Federation that these destroyed star-systems might pose. Plots within plots happening here, making an already tense story even more so.

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    1. ChrisQ on Chapter 10 Sat 19 Aug 2023 09:37PM UTC

      Chris with noise-cancelling headphones and a pen in his hand, sitting behind a laptop with a bunch of Star Trek and NaNoWriMo stickers on its lid

      I've been a Trekkie pretty much my entire life, and TDM has always been my favorite episode of the entire franchise. Yet it only recently occurred to me that Decker's background was worth exploring because, as often as people write him off as an arrogant ass with an obsession and a screw loose....he's one of those many TOS characters who represent the mental health challenges so many of us are coping with. Mental illness still gets a bad rap today, but it subtly came up over and over again in TOS like a lot of social issues we've only just begun to acknowledge.

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