goldenteadust:

In case you forgot - the most memorable line in all of Star Trek 2009:

Spock is abandoned, dropped onto a freezing planet alone by Nero who wanted Spock to have a front row seat to watch his home planet destroyed by Nero.

Left alone to die. Ashamed. Heartbroken. Remorseful, eaten with guilt. He tried to save Romulus and was too late. And now Nero made Spock pay the ultimate price. His planet and its billions of Vulcan (and others) inhabitants destroyed, dead. All those katras. All that knowledge and research and history, Flora and Fauna, dead - imploded and gone forever.

And then out of nowhere, Spock sees a young Jim in this alternative universe. (Which had a million details not come to pass already, would never have happened.)

And Spock’s very first thought? That Jim Kirk would of course search for and find him. Like Spock believed that Jim would know through their bond that Spock was in danger and needed finding.

That means Spock thought his bond with Jim would be real even in this universe, with this Jim.

That is knowing someone else from the inside out. T'hy'la? Friend, brother. Whether lovers or not. This kind of faith in another person goes beyond anything else and defies labeling and logic.

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