Heh, yes. I think that "well, there's a start on the insubordination problem" line was pretty telling! :D Miles will never make a good ensign.
(And will probably never be the best at commanding ordinary men; he does his best work, it seems to me, with the extraordinary ones. Be they extraordinarily bad/troubled -- Baz, Arde, Cavilo -- or extraordinarily good and driven -- Quinn, Tung.)
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Date: 2009-07-05 10:09 pm (UTC)(And will probably never be the best at commanding ordinary men; he does his best work, it seems to me, with the extraordinary ones. Be they extraordinarily bad/troubled -- Baz, Arde, Cavilo -- or extraordinarily good and driven -- Quinn, Tung.)