Idek. Voice-testing. be gentle! Also, SPOILERS

[cannotforgive]

Remorse? Let the good Captain Kirk show remorse.

I will have my vengeance, for my family.

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[khaned]

Ah yes, tempting isn't it? To make him show remorse, to force him to see his wrongs and let him revel in the humiliation and suffering of those he loves.

The question is: how will you manage to achieve it?

hi sorry I just need to fawn at your feet for a minute.

[straightontilmorning]

[khaned]

You stare as if you've seen me before.

Who are you?

[straightontilmorning]

An old... acquaintance.

[khaned]

I never forget a face.

[straightontilmorning]

An admirable quality.

[Sticking to short sentences for now, thank you.]

[khaned]

I have many. Am I to assume your name, or will you let me hear it from your own lips?

[straightontilmorning]

You'd know it already if you needed to.

[i.e., she's not adding another Khan to her list. The younger one she can handle - he hasn't had the time to develop his hatred so richly. But not one that's had that time to cherish it.]

[khaned]

[Ah, yes, his hatred has been ruminating for years as he's sat, abandoned on the planet so graciously given to him and his crew. His family.]

I believe I do.

[straightontilmorning]

[It's not her fault everyone died okay.]

And?

[khaned]

[straightontilmorning]

I have never seen one of you in the wild

[original_fine]

Looking for advice doesn't seem like your style.

[cannotforgive]

It will be simple enough to appeal to his humanity, to make him realize he cannot save his own family. The time for Kirk's brave heroics is over, and I will be there to watch his fall.

[straightontilmorning]

Your family needs no vengeance.

[cannotforgive]

Then you do not understand the value of one's crew, one's family. My family has been wronged, I have been betrayed, and I will stop at nothing until every single one of your 'innocent' people have been made to suffer.

[emboldened]

You've had your vengeance.

There's no need to get innocent people involved in this.

[cannotforgive]

Innocent? No, none of your people are innocent, Kirk.

[emboldened]

None of my people are guilty of hurting you, either.

[cannotforgive]

Are they not? Your people have done nothing but manipulate me since I was first awoken from my sleep, forcing me to carry out their grand schemes, and see to the destruction of everything I hold dear.

[emboldened]

There's a man you should be angry at. Not a group. What Admiral Marcus did to you goes against everything Starfleet stands for. You don't enlist in order to enslave someone else.

[cannotforgive]

You used me to get to Admiral Marcus, to subdue him so I could not have my revenge. I do not fault you for wanting to try and save your family, but you stood in my way, took the side of my enemies.

Starfleet cannot be trusted to never make these mistakes again, to create a people meant for peace through destruction, only to change their minds and take them out.

[original_fine]

I'm afraid I don't follow.

threadjack

[kirk]

He's just a bit upset he didn't get to wipe out the human race.

[cannotforgive]

I do not care for the human race as a whole. I am better than the human race. I care about making all those involved in betraying me suffer, and pay for their sins.

[original_fine]

I'm getting pretty tired of so-called "superior" beings doing worse at treating their fellow beings with compassion. It took us thousands of years to get this right. And you gods among men want to wipe away all that progress out of, what? Spite? Insecurity?

[cannotforgive]

I am better. It is a simple fact. Men created my superior beings to be used as weapons, calling upon our savagery rather than intellect. We were warriors, meant to serve one purpose and one purpose alone - peace through destruction. Those very men then sought to destroy us, when the realized their mistakes, but we would not just lay down and die.

So do not blame me when it is your own kind who brought this upon themselves, Captain.

[original_fine]

I don't have to blame you to question your motives or your actions, do I? What would you gain, by wiping out the human race? You're an ideal. Or you were meant to be. Meant to lead us to a better world, a better time. And yes, that was our mistake. But you seem to be under the impression we shouldn't seek to correct it.

[cannotforgive]

[He sneers quietly.] Don't be a fool. I do not care to wipe out the human race, only those who stand in my way, those who have committed unforgivable crimes against my family. I cannot trust humanity, and they do not trust me. We are war criminals, my family and I, and there is no place for us among mankind. Your way of correcting your mistake is by wiping my race out of existence. I am of a dying species, and I would do anything to protect them.

[original_fine]

I get that. I'm just not sure what the "human race" did to his family.

[numberofthebeast]

And in that way you remain their puppet. Barbaric.

omg. You're playing the anti-Christ. I read most of those books and saw the movies.

[cannotforgive]

They have committed a crime I cannot forgive. They are the puppets now, to be manipulated to play their fleeting part in my game that will only bring about their destruction.

they are amazing, y?

[numberofthebeast]

Yes? Is that what you believe? Where are you, where are they? Who holds the most power?