This story starts as a spitefic which has its problems. For example, having the villain rape the characters you spite is gratuitous and hard to get behind. Also, the story has a lot of lemon, so if you are not into ponies doing the nasty, see the cut version in Fanfiction.net.
With that said, from Chapter 8 onwards, the story takes a turn for the much, much better, it fleshes out side characters, which I love, it subverts the spite and gives many Starfleet members a chance to shine, and also deconstructs the gratuitous rape mentioned above by having none of the actually sympathetic bad guys support it, they even turn on the rapist. So, the story dodged a bullet here.
Towards the end, the humor and references are plenty and very entertaining, everyone gets to be badass, the bad guys get actually appropriate karma, the retcons are more entertaining than the original story it spites, and the action scenes are epic.
I have read the later chapters (only from the double digits onward) more than once. It ends up becoming one of the best stories I have ever read, which also inspired me to write my own deconstructions better, just bear the tasteless beginning.
Fanfic Tolerate the beginning, the latter half will reward you
This story starts as a spitefic which has its problems. For example, having the villain rape the characters you spite is gratuitous and hard to get behind. Also, the story has a lot of lemon, so if you are not into ponies doing the nasty, see the cut version in Fanfiction.net.
With that said, from Chapter 8 onwards, the story takes a turn for the much, much better, it fleshes out side characters, which I love, it subverts the spite and gives many Starfleet members a chance to shine, and also deconstructs the gratuitous rape mentioned above by having none of the actually sympathetic bad guys support it, they even turn on the rapist. So, the story dodged a bullet here.
Towards the end, the humor and references are plenty and very entertaining, everyone gets to be badass, the bad guys get actually appropriate karma, the retcons are more entertaining than the original story it spites, and the action scenes are epic.
I have read the later chapters (only from the double digits onward) more than once. It ends up becoming one of the best stories I have ever read, which also inspired me to write my own deconstructions better, just bear the tasteless beginning.