Born in the Wrong Century

so the first thing he says is

“james t kirk”

which okay makes sense - spock either recognised him by appearance (unlikely because yeah cpine and shatner look similar but not that similar) or idk the “touch of his mind” or his essentially kirkness or smth

and then he says

“how did you find me?”

okay hold the frick frack up spocko

you’ve just met a man who you know is kirk, but who is…considerably younger than the last time you saw kirk - who you know to be dead, by the way - and also has notable physical differences to kirk, such as the wrong colour eyes

what exactly makes you believe that this guy knew you were missing and followed you through the black hole and came looking for you? there is nothing logical or sensible about that conclusion

so can we take a moment to appreciate how soul destroying this illogic is?

that in the moment of his life where he is hurting the most, the most lost, the most confused, the most guilty, all spock knows is that james t kirk has somehow stumbled into his life again and, completely illogically, but emotionally, sentimentally, for a few seconds spock actually believes that james t kirk is there to do what he always does, what he is best at