I've been enjoying and commenting on this story and its very high quality writing over on Trek BBS. Glad to see it being archived here as the BBS is a bit of a mill and stories quickly fade back into the Trek BBS Necrosphere.
Looking forward to new posts on this story. CeJay has dubbed it Law & Order Starfleet - or something like that. The sense of verisimilitude is tremendous and the dialogue really stands out as realistic
I did notice that the andorian captain seems very human in her speech and decision making, but that could be the result of a faulty memory on my part. I'll have to filter back through the story to look for cultural/behavior artifacts that mark her as uniquely andorian.
While a lot of writers include crews with as many extraterrestrials as humans, I like the idea that Star Fleet is largely a human institution. In a strictly artistic sense, with fewer extraterrestrial main characters, more focus can be placed on distinguishing each one as culturally non human, which I find interesting.
Janeera's background is that she's actually been working heavily within the military justice system as a civilian, and amazingly (lol), a lot of her clients were human(!). Her patterns of speech are in fact very human for the purposes of communicating in a fashion that lends itself to being understood by her clients (as we're pre-ubiquity with the universal translator). So Janeera speaks Federation Standard, and at her wise age, she's near-natively fluent. From my own personal perspective, I've worked abroad for long periods of time, and I found myself incorporating local colloquialisms as I was working as a corporate trainer and being understood is paramount (no pun intended) in that role. The law is 100% about communication and the full understanding of different versions of the same language and expressing yourself to ensure you're doing your absolute best in representing your clients' interest. If you cannot do that, you're not going to be very successful.
Reter, on the other hand, has some interesting speech patterns. It's a learned stall tactic to give him time to think about what he wants to say next. I once worked with someone who did that in a foreign language and damn if it didn't help expand your vocabulary!
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