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Spock still frightens me. I like Valeris. Not like *that*... platonically. One of my first, if not the first, glimpse I ever got of Spock was a certain scene between he and Valeris, after she did not... remember certain information. Very traumatic to watch, and very formative, when you're twelve. Spock's given me the low-level uneasy iffiness ever since, excellent character though he is, because all through watching prior canon, I've known just what he and Kirk are capable of. That's getting well and soundly addressed in a fic I'm working on, oh yes it is.

Fair enough to Picard unbending a little at the end of the series, though I'm guessing there are about a dozen visual cues (not Qs, ahem) I missed in that last scene. :)

Sisko, though... Every inch the military officer, that man, but with none of the chilly formality of a Picard, even if *some* of Picard's chill was a cultivated thing. Sisko's command was an honesty, Sulu the same, and that's a deliberate word choice on my part. Both of them had claws and no mistake, because you're absolutely right about the sort of warriors they both are - my tenses are flopping all over the place here, and I'd much rather say *are*, if given a choice - but... they're warriors with undeniably warm hearts, those two. And the occasional sly wisecrack that springs out of nowhere...! Yes, I'm mostly looking at you there, Sulu. Rand, too. Ahem. Speaking of Rand again, I was *delighted* when she started climbing the ranks, yeoman to transporter chief to first officer. She deserved it. I have one gigantic bias toward heroes of other stories, yes I do.

There are audio dramas of a number of Excelsior adventures out there. They are *treasures*. I really do need to find them again.