The other difference was that this Kirk wore his command much as Pike did, though it was bound up in an entirely different set of values. Jim commanded for the good of all, to the best of his ability, but he was no less formidable in his own way for that. Moreover there was a confidence to him, an edge even to his stillness that was as likely to erupt in action as in affection.
Not, perhaps, under these circumstances.
"I know of you," he clarified. "Mr. Spock, the one who saw you yesterday, is my First Officer."
He knew everything Spock knew, now, only his mind had not processed it fully. Perhaps could not, under the circumstances. What he hoped to gain by this meeting he was not certain, except that he needed to see for himself. Needed to gauge Pike's reactions, to take his measure with his own eyes, his own instincts. What he saw was a man very like the Pike he knew (mostly from the Talosian "broadcast") in bearing, but unscrupulous where his Spock's Pike was utterly correct. There was a coldness to his command bearing that was not the reserve of the other Pike, or what little he knew of this universe's admiral.
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Date: 2009-09-02 06:05 pm (UTC)Not, perhaps, under these circumstances.
"I know of you," he clarified. "Mr. Spock, the one who saw you yesterday, is my First Officer."
He knew everything Spock knew, now, only his mind had not processed it fully. Perhaps could not, under the circumstances. What he hoped to gain by this meeting he was not certain, except that he needed to see for himself. Needed to gauge Pike's reactions, to take his measure with his own eyes, his own instincts. What he saw was a man very like the Pike he knew (mostly from the Talosian "broadcast") in bearing, but unscrupulous where his Spock's Pike was utterly correct. There was a coldness to his command bearing that was not the reserve of the other Pike, or what little he knew of this universe's admiral.