The Hand Once Bitten Now Fed
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| Star Trek DS9 Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Hand Once Bitten Now Fed |
| Author(s): | Melissa |
| Date(s): | 2002 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine |
| External Links: | Read at alt.startrek.creative |
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The Hand Once Bitten Now Fed is a Star Trek: DS9 Garak/Bashir story by Melissa.
It was nominated for a 2002 ASC Award.
Reactions and Reviews
I thought Melissa's "The Hand, Once Bitten, Now Fed" was an effective post-Dominion war Cardassia story. I liked how she wrote Garak's point of view as he wanders among the destruction of his planet. I like the line about how the blankness on the faces of the Starfleet officers around him wasn't stoicism, "but a sense of being overwhelmed" as they faced the destruction around them. I very much liked how she described the state of Julian's letter, worn to feeling like suede, and how she described how Garak sees Julian and their relationship and especially about different kinds of innocence. A very enjoyable, well-written Garak/Bashir story. [1]
This story is based on Andy Robinson's novel, A Stitch In Time, and deftly matches that book's tone and style, so much so that I didn't notice at first that it was in third person while the novel was in first person. The image of the excavation of the nursery stayed with me, as did the description of the letter worn to softness through handling.[2]