@fasciinating said: “ i still wonder who i would have been. ”
What she had learned here, in this alternative timeline where everything had gone to hell — multiple times — had shaken much of her understanding of reality in a way that not even the Klingon War back home had. Then again, she had missed the Klingon War in its entirety, and reports could not come close to the actual experience of the losses they’d sustained. Still, Starfleet and the Federation had begun to put itself back together, find its way back to the entity it had been, to its mission statement.
This here, she thought, was the Starfleet that theirs might have become if it had failed to reset after the war.
Though he was not her Spock, still she could see the similarities, the way he strove for an identity that he questioned at every turn. ❛ Does it matter, who you would have been? ❜ She did not intend it as a callous question, and offered a small smile to soften it. ❛ Isn’t it more important who you are, and who you will be, and who you want to be? ❜ The latter especially, she thought to herself. In the latter lay the power of their lives.
