Dr. David Marcus

Sharing my life with Saavik would be mine.

*David found it difficult to accept his mother's relationship with @marcelladifalco1.bsky.social. She was a good person, and he did like her, but he felt like his mother didn't care about his father's memory...*

Yeah...

I worry about her too.

Thanks, Sybok...I hope someday I can call you my brother-in-law as well as my friend. That's up to Saavik, though...

Maybe. We'll see, I guess...Saavik is more important to me, though.

Yeah...I don't know if I can be a good father with everything I've been through over the past eight years.

If I had been in Starfleet, I would've done the same thing you did...

It's not your fault...I thought I heard that you left Starfleet because of it.

Yep. They're the ones who took my work and used it to attack Praxis, just like I told Mom would happen. She wouldn't listen to me though...

I can understand why you don't have anything to do with him. I've never been fond of Starfleet even though my dad was James T. Kirk.

The Admiral...I hate him. He's the one who ordered Genesis used on Praxis.

I wouldn't stand in the way of her having other relationships, and to be honest, Sybok, I don't know if I want children either.

Good. Your name's Isaac West, right?

I see Doctor McCoy invited you to join us on Praxis. Welcome aboard. We need all the help we can get.

I hope this is the only time Genesis is ever used as a weapon...

True...Then the Japanese after the Nazis surrendered.

Yeah...I guess I have that consolation. Oppenheimer didn't.

But if I hadn't invented it, it wouldn't have been used...I feel like J. Robert Oppenheimer. "I have become death, destroyer of worlds."

I just don't want an even more guilty conscience than I have already...

I guess...

Yeah, but the threat of world-ending nuclear war was always there. Every crisis, every conflict just made the threat more real...I'm afraid of that happening again.

I've studied my Earth history...MAD only results in arms races and paranoia.

Exactly. I have enough blood on my hands...Klingon blood. I know they killed my father...but that doesn't justify a war crime against them.

*He smiled a little.*

That's true. That's one of the things I love about her. She's...different compared to other Vulcan women, but that might be because of her Romulan heritage. I'd do my best to be a good husband to her if we were to get married.

I hope it wasn't...but I have my doubts. I was going to visit my girlfriend on Romulus, but she told me that the Star Empire is working on its own Genesis Device and implied they'd draft me to help them...

I see the destruction on Praxis...Dear God, what have I done?

I understand...My own creation, which my mother and I intended to be used for good, was used as a weapon of mass destruction...

I hope so, too.

Oh, I know, but it's a start to something better for me.