"That's a dangerous thought," he says. "There's a difference between force used to protect and forced used for dominion and subjugation. Starfleet's, the Federation's, goals are diametrically opposed to those of the Terran Empire. No matter what superficial similarities you see. I should be proof enough of that."
He wonders, again, what she'd seen in the other Jim Kirk. What he'd been to her. If she could have been anything but a tool to him. Spock had described him in terms that seemed bestial, primal. That is not how he saw Marlena.
He wonders what it means, that he can imagine Marlena here, and not his mirror self.
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"That's a dangerous thought," he says. "There's a difference between force used to protect and forced used for dominion and subjugation. Starfleet's, the Federation's, goals are diametrically opposed to those of the Terran Empire. No matter what superficial similarities you see. I should be proof enough of that."
He wonders, again, what she'd seen in the other Jim Kirk. What he'd been to her. If she could have been anything but a tool to him. Spock had described him in terms that seemed bestial, primal. That is not how he saw Marlena.
He wonders what it means, that he can imagine Marlena here, and not his mirror self.