If they switched that up for a timid young farm boy and a lady minotaur with huge . . . tracts of land that need caring for, I'd read it. Wouldn't even need to change the title.
SaltSong
This man is a danger to all civilization. Money in this quantity is a weapon of mass destruction.
I'm sure it's perfectly safe, and we know the starships are held together as much by structural integrity fields as by metal, but I will be damned before I am chief engineer on a starship with the engines not bolted to the ship.
I would have liked Braca to have one or two more episodes as a scoundrel before becoming a villain. Dukat, with a bird of prey, as it were.
But yes, it was gloriously done.
I'm only bribing guys because the other bastard is bribing guys. I can't let the bribery gap get too large, or they will be coming for my vital fluids next!
I think Microsoft may be overdrawn on that particular credit line.
I had assumed this was the case from minute one.
It would be nice if this served as a pointed lesson to stop putting useless, unwanted, invasive features and AI into things. Or at least to make them work.
Bread and circuses. It's not complicated.
This is consistent with his statements about most of his campaign positions.
You're assuming that they know the first damn thing about their strongly held lifelong beliefs about the nature of reality.
If my credit card debt vanished, it would measurably improve the quality of the rest of my life. I'm not gonna just pile the debt back up, and not having to make the payments would free up money I could save for retirement or emergency.
That's why I specified lady minotaur. I know what I'm about.
Male minotaur need not apply.