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Date: 2018-01-01 11:17 pm (UTC)Re: nonstandard souls and command: You're not that far off, I don't think. Sisko was a warrior musician engineer right from the start, even before the emissary situation. How much of that was genetics and how much was the Prophets spilling over... I'm inclined to say it was nearly all him, honestly, with a little definite extra depth added by wormhole circumstances. Sulu? You nailed it. The spirit of a samurai (and a little bit of a musketeer, ahem), the command (and the humor) of someone who came up as an Enterprise officer, and the ship-linked awareness of a pilot born and raised. :) I still imagine that the response "Fly her apart, then!" must have been a wrench, for him, even if he couldn't let himself feel it at the time. Thankfully for everyone, including Excelsior, she did not fly apart. But... I can imagine him feeling remorse for that one, for his ship, just the same. What helmsman wouldn't?
And Sinclair... You know how much I adore that man. He's himself, authentically, wherever his soul draws part of its influence from. That's all him.
Oh my shards, that one-liner is flipping hilarious! I didn't quite catch it for the zinger it was at twelve or thirteen, but now? I giggle like a fool. Ditto Chekov's "But I do not know your name!" Aww, sweetheart. <3