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Deep Space Nine: The Never Ending Sacrifice

By Una McCormack

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A boy looks up. He sees a Cardassian's hand on his shoulder and knows that this is usually a prelude to a beating or, if he is fortunate enough, arrest. The boy knows how many disappeared during the Occupation of Bajor. So he does the one thing he can think of: he bites the Cardassian. Then the nighContinue

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A Beautiful, Tragic Epic of a Young Man

Author Una McCormick takes us back to the day Rugal, the adopted Cardassian son of a Bajoran couple, was sent back to Cardassia to be with his biological father. That come from a fairly early episode of DS9. We never saw Rugal again on the show. Una picks up his story and shows us his life on Card ... (continue)

Author Una McCormick takes us back to the day Rugal, the adopted Cardassian son of a Bajoran couple, was sent back to Cardassia to be with his biological father. That come from a fairly early episode of DS9. We never saw Rugal again on the show. Una picks up his story and shows us his life on Cardassia through the tumultuous years that followed (we know of the fall of the Obsidian Order, the rise of the Detapa Council, the coup by Dukat that brought the Dominion to Cardassia, the war and the eventual defeat and slaughter by the Jem Hadar, from the series). Una shows us with depth of emotion what the boy feels as he grows up on this planet that he's never known and a society he doesn't understand. She shows us his loss, his love, his peace and happiness that come at cost to finally a lovely ending. I was in awe of the magnitude of this story, 8 years worth of Rugal's life.

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Like DeCandido is the best author for Klingons in ST, McCormack is in my opinion becoming the top writer for Cardassians: she's been able to build a viable society where Cardies (ooopss.. politically incorrect ?) are no more mindless militaristic drones but people who love, live, dream and try to go ... (continue)

Like DeCandido is the best author for Klingons in ST, McCormack is in my opinion becoming the top writer for Cardassians: she's been able to build a viable society where Cardies (ooopss.. politically incorrect ?) are no more mindless militaristic drones but people who love, live, dream and try to go on with their lives.
In the end, even in Nazi Germany people went on falling in love, marring, having children and trying to pass through the long night, between endless, apparently never-ending, sacrifices.
Enjoyable, very much

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Salkhar said on Oct 30, 2009 | Add your feedback