On reviewing her TOS counterpart

[drcmarcus]

I'm sorry, I need a moment to process this.

A child? I find that incredibly hard to believe. I know myself. I wouldn't be so foolish as to allow for a mistake like that and Starfleet contraceptive implants are incredibly effective. Not to mention that Jim... I can't see Jim... it's just too much to wrap my mind around. Which is exactly why I presume it was a mistake and certainly not something that was planned by any means. Never mind the total lack of a sexual relationship.

Not that Jim isn't a wonderful man. I just can't picture him as someone interested in the idea of children. Or settling down with one woman long enough for that to even be a topic of conversation. It couldn't end any way but badly. In fact it did end badly. One could argue that it started badly seeing as that other version of... of me didn't even tell the boy who his father was. I find that incredibly cruel and don't like in the least what it says about me or my character.

Horrible life choices aside, none of that really matters. The circumstances there were completely different so I don't see why you felt the need to share that bit of information. I was perfectly fine not knowing. Ignorance is bliss. As it is I don't think I'll be able to look the Captain in the eye for quite some time without feeling the need to apologize for something that hasn't even happened.

You are a cruel mun and I am appalled by your lack of decency in this matter. I believe a stiff drink is in order.

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[warriorsmind]

What about on the bridge of Vengeance? I hadn't planned on attacking him, or breaking your leg or crushing your father's skull, I was standing there. Following Kirk's lead and he had Scotty stun me unprovoked. So knowing I was betrayed I attacked.

[Much like a threatened animal. Another flaw in his creation, quick enraging, though you know that don't you, Carol?]

Betrayal after I helped him, I saved his life again in space, floating blind...

[He lets go of her shoulder, shoving her slightly away out of his personal space. She infuriates him so much, and not even because her last name is Marcus.]

I didn't ask him to spare me, though I am grateful because, my crew was spared.

[drcmarcus]

How was he to know that? How was he to know what you would or would not have done? That phaser was set to stun, not kill. Letting you go, leaving you free was not the right thing. Killing you after what you did to Pike was an option he could have chosen but that was not the right thing either. You would have faced justice in a court of law.

*Carol scoffs at that.*

You helped him because you needed him. There was nothing philanthropic in your actions. You were using him. You said it yourself.

*The shove sends her stumbling and she keeps up her glaring.*

And what will you do with them now? What are your plans? Are you going to better the galaxy?

[warriorsmind]

Court of law...what would they done with me Carol? It takes a lot to kill me, for my crimes I would have been put to death... Kirk claims he would have looked out for my crew... .

But wake them up and tell them their leader is dead, they wouldn't be happy, let them sleep forever I suppose...seems a fate worse than death, sleeping for so long, it is terrible. You don't dream, it is nothing, I dreamed of nothing for three-hundred years.

Now...? We want to find our place in the galaxy.... I want a place to call home and to rule. Make a society, some of my people had expressed wanting children before.

Maybe just a planet....not the one alternate Kirk gave alternate me. Ruling the galaxy is a hopeless endeavor. Even I see and understand that. I would die of old age before I could completely take the galaxy...

As for my work before, once again there are so many lower species it would take too much time, and too much toll on my people to eliminate them.