Wasn't that, more or less, what Jim had been thinking? Or was that Kirk? He had enough of his mind left to wonder if this would hurt anything, and he decided not. This wasn't like that mental space of Spock's, where bonds could be manipulated, that link with Kirk formed. No, this was still a dream.

They'd be their own men, still. On the other side.

Closer, Jim's mind whispered, and because he thought it, it happened. They began to merge, and it was much less disturbing than perhaps it ought to have been, fitting together like that.