Y'know, in the course of remastering Manhunt, I got to thinking and it occurred to me that, apart from the flashbacks therein and a couple of Minis, we've never really seen G just... being in Starfleet. There's this whole stretch of his life that's accounted for but never really depicted.I don't really count Split Infinitive because, with the best will in the world, most of it is pretty bad. (And I contradicted big parts of it in later pieces because I, uh... sort of forgot how a bunch of it even went. Whoopsie-doodle.) It rather cries out for replacement, much like Manhunt replaced Secrets, but at the moment I don't really have any idea how I would go about that. It's just a vague thought that it might be a thing that should be done sometime.
(Before anyone else brings it up, I should acknowledge that it's not the biggest stretch of his career that's underserved, by far. The Golden Age is extremely barren compared to the rest of the Exile and virtually all Future Imperfect. We know more about what he's been up to since 2388 than we've ever seen about what he, or indeed anyone, did between 1992 and 2288. But anyway.)
This thought isn't really going anywhere right now, but between reskimming Manhunt while remastering it, and picking up on Strange New Worlds, it's got me thinking about that gap.
--G.
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