All he can do is repeat Spock's name against the glass, his hands shaking and clawing at it. What do you think of my solution?”Īnd Jim finally wholly breaks. “I never took the Kobayashi Maru test… Until now. I beat the unbeatable test I can beat this too.Īs though Spock knows what he is thinking, he rasps out. No-win scenarios aren’t real, he tells himself. “Or the one.” Spock swallows, and Jim is trying so hard not to notice how his skin has become pale and blotchy and how his words are soft but rough, as though they are taking great effort to be said.ĭespite himself, he is still thinking through possibilities. “Outweigh the needs of the few, right?” he says. If this is the last time, he wants to make it worthwhile. Jim wants to silence him but is also hanging on to every word. “Please do not grieve… It is logical… The needs of the many….” “Jim,” Spock is saying, and Jim wants so badly to do something, anything. Jim’s hands are there as if to catch and hold, but there is a pane of glass in the way, and instead of meeting the warmth of Spock's body, he meets the cold of plexiglass, and his heart breaks all over again. Spock’s entire body seems to relax at that, and he slumps against the wall of glass between them in relief. His own voice seems to be emanating from lightyears away. "Yes.” He hears himself say, from very far away somehow. “Our ship? Out of danger?” Spock asks, and Jim wants to scream at him for worrying about the ship in a time like this. His eyes are trained on Spock like he is the most fascinating thing in the universe, but the tears streaming down his face betray the agony in his worship. He was doomed when he stepped into the chamber, they say. Jim knows that he is gone.Īfter mumbled words from Bones and Scotty, they release him. His eyes are glassy and empty, and Jim knows. To get to Spock, who is currently stumbling against the glass as though he didn’t even register it there. They know that he would do anything, open the doors and flood them all with radiation, to get to him. Hands are holding him back, and he knows that they know. In actuality, years of hardship (Tarsus, mostly) had left him a shell of a man, had left him with years of unhealthy coping skills, and without the ability to cry without sobbing. He’d spent years cultivating an image, an image that labeled him as a bad boy, a menace to the admiralty. He was Captain James Tiberius Kirk nothing got under his skin. Logic dictates that to race a prized stallion one must first break it.Nothing made him cry anymore.From the novel Dwellers in the Crucible by Margaret Wander Bonanno.T'Pol, Star Trek: Enterprise, " United".Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series, " The Doomsday Machine".Perhaps influenced by George Illes (1852 - 1942): "Doubt is the beginning, not the end of Wisdom.".An echo of Proverbs 9.10: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.".Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end.The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series, " Amok Time".After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting.T'Plana-Hath, Matron of Vulcan Philosophy, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.Logic is the cement of our civilization, with which we ascend from chaos, using reason as our guide.Tuvok, Star Trek Voyager: "Once Upon a Time".In accepting the inevitable, one finds peace.Spock, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.Xavier said, "My thoughts are YOUR thoughts, Blob! My will is YOUR will." (pg. Chant used during Vulcan mind melds a similar expression was used in The X-Men # 3 (January 1964) by Professor Charles Francis Xavier.Concept introduced in Star Trek: The Original Series, " Is There in Truth No Beauty?".Infinite diversity in infinite combination.Star Trek: Enterprise, Season 1 Episode 4, "Strange New World".Challenge your preconceptions, or they will challenge you.From the novel Strangers From The Sky by Margaret Wander Bonanno.
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