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Well that was certainly different...

…and a lot of the comments on that page are about as loudly, hootingly dumb as I’d expect them to be. While it’s not the story I’d have written (and having recreated Kirk, isn’t Jurati essentially his mother?), the moment in question isn’t much different from similar instances in TOS (and I’ll be very surprised if it has much more longevity or consequences than those did). As ever, people are primed to find reasons to shout “Berman Lucas Davies Kurtzman-who-didn’t-even-write-this-thing is Drek!”, so they do.

“When someone seeks,” said Siddhartha, “then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal.”
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…and a lot of the comments on that page are about as loudly, hootingly dumb as I’d expect them to be. While it’s not the story I’d have written (and having recreated Kirk, isn’t Jurati essentially his mother?), the moment in question isn’t much different from similar instances in TOS (and I’ll be very surprised if it has much more longevity or consequences than those did).

Fair point. The whole story is rather silly though and I thought they were bold to go where they went linking Kirk to the Picard era
 
Fair point. The whole story is rather silly though and I thought they were bold to go where they went linking Kirk to the Picard era
The story as a whole certainly takes a different approach than I would have, but that’s their call. The opening of the first issue had Sato essentially telling the Gorn “Everybody else has joined, so you should too… or else,” whether or not he or the writers quite realized that’s what they were doing. I also find it weird that everybody’s so distrustful of the Jurati Borg in the 30th century, when way back in the 25th it sure looked like they were about to become provisional Federation members. But again, I figure judge their story on its own merits, rather than “They didn’t do what I think they should have!”
 
The story as a whole certainly takes a different approach than I would have, but that’s their call. The opening of the first issue had Sato essentially telling the Gorn “Everybody else has joined, so you should too… or else,” whether or not he or the writers quite realized that’s what they were doing. I also find it weird that everybody’s so distrustful of the Jurati Borg in the 30th century, when way back in the 25th it sure looked like they were about to become provisional Federation members. But again, I figure judge their story on its own merits, rather than “They didn’t do what I think they should have!”

That's fair enough.... I thought that bit weird but hey it's their prerogative as the author I guess.
 
Would also be nice if this was in a more appropriate forum. Fan Art seems the right one? "Mixing various Trek periods and characters" doesn't really feel like a TOS topic. And yeah, like Maurice said, I had to go subject myself to random nonsense just to find out. But to be fair, that part's on me; I really need to learn that it's okay to just walk on past ambiguous clickbaity headlines.
 
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