>As an aside, Chief of Staff Krattak sort of stole the scene he's in
>for me, because he's sort of the Klingon converse to Maximilian Chin
>XVII - the master bureaucrat and logistician, indispensable to those
>he ostensibly serves, calm, unflappable, always polite... and
>incredibly dangerous within his own native context. (Which
>Chin totally is too, it's just... less obvious.)
>

OK, sorry to bring this up after so long, but I just noticed it: Who is Maximilian Chin XVII? Google has been very unhelpful, and Wikipedia, likewise.

"They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on."
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington