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  1. dkpalaska on Chapter 5 Thu 29 Mar 2018 05:36PM UTC

    Really enjoyed your opening description of the landscape, and rolled my eyes at Spock's questioning the trail's purpose. If it's logical to create beautiful art or music, surely it's logical to create a path to view beautiful nature? Maybe I'm just too human, lol...

    [He had yet to meet any other physician or healer, in any place or of any species, as capable of handling an emergency medical situation as Leonard McCoy—though Spock had no plans to ever admit as much.] Lol. Those two.

    Fortunately, the Appalachian Trail doesn't have too many cliffside paths... Like the addition of the "campsite locations" (re: App Trail!). Great job with McCoy's fear manifesting as yet-more irritable behavior, compounded by his ever-present concern for any unwell crew member in his charge.

    Love how you wove in a solution from a TOS episode. It's one of the things I enjoy most about your writing - it's always so seamless and comprehensive with what "canon" there is.

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    1. PSW on Chapter 5 Thu 29 Mar 2018 08:38PM UTC

      I heart canon. :-D Not that I won’t read an AU, but I love the challenge of trying to submerge my stories (as it were) into the existing framework. Of course, some are more difficult than others. ST has a larg-ish canon, but at least it’s relatively easy to look stuff up. Writing Tolkien, on the other hand ... whew! He wrote so much that no matter how much you look up and how hard you try, there’s always a chance you’ll be stepping on canon’s toes ... :-D

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      1. dkpalaska on Chapter 5 Sat 31 Mar 2018 01:59AM UTC

        Re: Tolkien - then there is the ongoing debate about, "What is canon anyway?" I've read impassioned (really impassioned!) opinions that Silmarillion is not canon (because Christopher Tolkien took liberties with interpretation of his father's fragmented unpublished notes), but that Letters is totally canon because it was written by JRR in reference to his work. Lol. Really, I think it's all good.

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