Thank you! Yes, this was very much inspired by all of us liking both a LOT (though with widely differing levels of familiarity with them). Finding one better than the other is a rather alien idea to me at least, because they are so, so different--Star Trek is a utopia, Star Wars a dystopia, among other things--and the narrative expectations and mechanics are so completely different, as are the problem-solving approaches of the characters. These wild differences = loads of conflict, writer's catnip! I think we've written more arguments in this where both sides are more or less right than in any other fic we've worked on!
Chester is a lot of fun because of that mental fortitude! It's also going to make her absolutely exhausting to a lot of people. In *both* galaxies. (and even with the excuse of the war, there's a reason she makes captain relatively young!)
And yes! We are now in the flashback story, and we decided to use both past tense and 'Chester' rather than 'Diane' to convey both the time period and the distance between the characters at this point. It also was for simplicity's sake; with three writers and two time periods, differentiating them was vital.
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SevereAnnoyance on Chapter 3 Wed 20 Sep 2023 11:53PM UTC
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