hi vicki. thanks for posting!
i'm glad you enjoyed the title. you're the first to comment on it. getting a triple pun (my first, i think) was a happy accident, but i'm rather proud of it, none the less.
i'm not sure where it came from. it just kinda popped to mind and seemed perfect.
(for those of you wondering, the title can be read either as an introduction of the character "beta" to the episode "chi of steel" or as a notation that this is the "beta" version of that episode. also, by serendipitous happenstance, "chi" and "beta" are both greek letters, although "chi" is pronounced differently.)
thanks also for your comments on the story in general.
the reactions to this story have been so much better than i expected, and it's so great to still be getting comments on it.
oh, btw, the story is currently being GEd, so look for it soon at an archive near you.
Paul
