+1 logical half-human Vulcan Commander

[not_logical]

I find it most illogical that you choose to place me in awkward and somewhat confusing circumstances regarding your leisure time. These games you speak of seem utterly irrelevant to my current status and mission. The Captain will not be pleased to hear that you'd rather use me as a pawn in one of your games, than allow me to complete my duties. Your selfishness alludes me at times.

[He isn't happy about possibly being placed in a game sometime in the future.]

As much as I try to please your curiosity regarding myself and my mission, I have to get back to work. By taking me away from my responsibilities you are disregarding the lives of the ship and it's crew; a highly illogical and dangerous manoeuvre. Please try to think before you act.

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[notinfrontoftheklingons]

A futile request, I'm afraid.

[ LL&P, young Spock. ]

Given the human predilection for favoring emotional responses over rational, even their most fervent attempts at logic tend to fall short.

[ But that's what makes them so fascinating. ]

Still, it has been my experience that they are not entirely without consideration for the needs of others. These 'muns' frequently make use of a temporal phenomena known, somewhat confusingly, as hand waving. I confess that I do not completely understand this particular phenomena, but I have repeatedly observed its usage, whereby one is returned to one's own time and world at the precise moment it had been previously vacated. A truly remarkable system.

[not_logical]

[Interesting. A future version of himself exists within this place also. Fascinating.]

Perhaps. Yet, I will not give up logic over favouring their rash need for emotion concerning myself. I have heard of this "hand waving" and find it most fascinating indeed. Illogical but fascinating all the same.

[He will be looking at you with a slight cocked head now.]

Is it possible that you are an older version of myself?

[notinfrontoftheklingons]

Not only possible, but highly probable. I am Spock, of Vulcan. Formerly Commander Spock of the USS Enterprise, service number S 179-276 SP.

[ Could they be the same person? Brief pause for some mental math. The number of hypothetically existent worlds, divided by the percentage of known worlds that contain a version of both himself and of Starfleet... factor in the fact that he simply doesn't recall this conversation ever happening...

Nah. Probably not. ]

I have arrived here from the year 2292. And yourself?

[not_logical]

That is our number and our name. I cannot go against the logic of the situation. [He nodded to his older self. The whole scenario was rather surreal though.]

I am serving aboard the Enterprise as Commander Spock, chief science officer. The year is 2267.

[notinfrontoftheklingons]

[ 2267. The second year of the Enterprise's five year mission. The slingshot maneuver that permitted them to travel through time. The return to Talos IV. Khan Noonian Singh.

Changing one's past could have irrevocable, potentially disastrous, consequences. But if this Spock was from a different timeline (as indeed quantum theory dictated he must be), then the benefits must be seen to far outweigh the consequences.

There has been enough death already. ]

Tell me. Have you recently had reason to visit the Ceti Alpha system?

[not_logical]

Negative, we have not. Why? Is there something there which will dictate an outcome within our timeline? [He had to know didn't he? His older self seemed worried about the idea.]

[captainpike]

Commander Spock. Good to see you.

[Good to see you got promoted from Lieutenant.]

[not_logical]

[Good to see you out of the box so to speak.]

Captain Pike. I could say the same to you, seeing you at this time. I trust the Talosians are treating you well on Talos IV?

[captainpike]

[Ha. Good one.]

....we left Talos IV some time ago. [He finds himself in a different sort of cage now in this mun's head.] I don't think the Federation would appreciate a second visit.

[not_logical]

Indeed. It seems I do not wish to attract any unwanted attention from the Federation regarding our last escapade on Talos IV. [It had nearly cost them both their commissions and their lives.]

I am assuming the Talosians are still aiding you with your illusion, so that you may exist as a fully functional human being?

[captainpike]

[Pike gives him a look. That looks strangely like suspicion. Was he serious? He had to be, Spock was always serious. Pike was starting to wonder if this was some other illusion.]

Spock, last I knew, I still was a fully functional human being. [But you're starting to make him wonder. If his mun hasn't told him everything yet.]

[not_logical]

[Does he not know about the whole accident?]

May I ask what the last thing is you remember before being brought to this place, Captain?

[captainpike]

[Pike isn't sure what he means but answers anyway.]

We left Talos IV, there were orders to go....somewhere...

[He trails off, a realization growing on his face. Uh oh. He couldn't remember anything past that.] ....Spock, what's going on? I was on the bridge... [Maybe. He's not sure.]

[not_logical]

[Spock frowned, unable to determine whether Pike knew he was in the box or not. Was this before the accident? It seemed to seem so...]

I am unable to give you an answer, as to what is going on, since I do not know myself. What I can conclude is that it may be possible that this place takes us from different times in our timelines. It seems that you are from my past and I from your future. Many things have come to pass between our two worlds since we last met on the bridge when I was your Lieutenant aboard the Enterprise.

[captainpike]

[He can't argue with that kind of logic. Especially since it seemed Spock was a Commander now and it seemed like no time had passed for Captain Pike. Yet, he still can't ignore that gnawing feeling that he might be missing something.]

...where are you working now? Vying for your own command?

[not_logical]

[He won't reveal your future, Chris. It isn't a pleasant one.]

I am still serving aboard the Enterprise under Captain James T Kirk. My duties now are to the ship as chief science officer.

[captainpike]

[That raises a smile and nod.]

Good for you. You're the best science officer I ever had.

[Of course, the glaring question is, why isn't he still Captain? He doesn't ask it. Yet.] Good Captain, this James Kirk? Treats the crew and the ship well?

[not_logical]

[Spock nodded.]

He is one of the bravest and loyal men I have met. You would get on well with him if you two ever meet. [He's got an ego and is human but that's just a weakness Spock deals with everyday. Jim is his best friend.]

[captainpike]

Good....good.

[Okay, maybe he misses being Captain of the Enterprise just a bit. More than a bit. But does he really want to know what happened in between? Talos VI was hard enough to get through. He didn't want to contemplate it getting worse.]

[uhurajustuhura]

[Have a little smile, Spock. She's met the older you, from that other dimension, but it's surreal meeting you like this. Deja vu, indeed.]

I'm afraid we're not given much of a choice here, Commander.

[not_logical]

Lieutenant? [He's not used to seeing you so young.]

It seems not, yet, I will not be swayed into any unwanted situation because of my mundane's emotional weakness.

[uhurajustuhura]

Yes, sir. [It's an adjustment for them both. His alternate universe is just ahead of hers a little. Different, in that way, and others, of course.]

I'm afraid most of them are plagued with... emotional weakness. They're only human, after all. I can relate. [It's true, though she is teasing him some, too.]

[not_logical]

Indeed that is true. I have come to realise that my writer tends to favour emotional writing than writing with a logical meaning. Does yours also favour this style of writing?

[kshatrisu]

[ Spock materializes, and freezes for a moment in shock. This is most decidedly not Deep Space Station K-7, and the individual standing before him is most decidedly not Captain Kirk. ]

I am Spock, First Officer of the USS Enterprise. Identify yourself.

[not_logical]

[Spock raised an eyebrow. It was as if he were staring into a mirror at himself.]

I believe you just have identified us both.