Classic Alternate Timeline story where Kirk is killed by a future version of a mad professor – who was also Spock’s mentor (ofc) – and Spock trying to rectify it for the good of the universe (no seriously if he doesn’t the universe collapses in a hundred years.
It’s tried and true trek storytelling done to death since death. I liked it, although the two main antagonists - the Mad Scientist and the Overzealous attorney are very cartoonish.
Some notes I had:
- Georges Mordeaux is such a late 70s early 80s name for a villain either in trek or DC comics.
- Captain Kirk turned down an extended polyamorous relationship *three times* and of course it was true love.
- Sulu’s hair and mustache are long on a dare.
- Spock once got drunk, though doesn’t admit it
- There are Beard repressors
- “Hypermorphic Botulism”
- This is not an Uhura or Chekov book.
- Hikaru has a crisis of where he should be and if he should start a relationship with the Security Chief.
- All the redshirts are interesting here and not a variation of “1960s-I-have-cop-show-background”
- It’s partly played off as a bad dream, sort of a la Donnie Darko, and Spock is the only one with the whole story.
- “He’s worked himself right into a fit of the vapors.”
-Kirk sitting by Spock’s bedside when he’s recovering
- Jim once grew a moustache but it was brick red.


