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A Kiss Before the War
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | A Kiss Before the War |
| Author(s): | Alara Rogers |
| Date(s): | |
| Length: | ~20,500 words |
| Genre(s): | Picard/Q |
| Fandom(s): | Star Trek: TNG |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | Online here at Ao3 |
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"A Kiss Before the War" is a Star Trek: TNG story by Alara Rogers.
Reactions and Reviews
Humanity has passed all the necessary tests and is now free of the Continuum’s interference. When Q appears to give the good news, Picard confesses he would miss the entity if they never saw each other again and ends up saying more about his feelings than he had ever planned to. A surprised Q has a confession of his own to make, while the Civil War within the Continuum looms in the horizon.A lot of Picard/Q fics tend to descend into mushiness and pages upon pages of declarations of, quite literally, eternal love after the romantic feelings are reciprocated. “A Kiss Before The War” is refreshingly different: there are no declarations of undying love or even too-perfect sex (or even any kind of sex at all). It focuses, instead, on two sentient beings realizing they have feelings for each other (feelings that are stronger than they’ve realized or wanted to admit), but also facing the fact that it’s not yet the right moment to act upon those feelings and that (due to events that they have no control over) that particular moment may never come.
A mixture of funny, poignant and endearing moments, “A Kiss Before The War” is a delightful Picard/Q fic. [1]