fucking love Tarsus IV as any next person, it fits so good in Pine's version of Jim, I devastated that they cut it out. So in my personal Kirk lore, Winona didn't fully retire. She did remarry and settle on Earth for some time and Jim spend a big chunk of his childhood in Iowa,
Kelvin Kirk having a little bit of a crush on Bones in the beginning of their friendship hits harder if you imagine Jim having a very shitty life before that. I like Winona being an overall okay mom and Jim being just a reckless kid on default but its kinda idk bland to me. I-
My favourite thing about this is that this is like a second before the mind meld and Jim doesn't need to touch Spock at all but he will still hold his face
In my head John does have a face, in a wayI usually draw him with this very specific greek-sculpturesque look but is you were to look at him, like for a longer time, his face would be a constantly morphing something that on closer examination has no true shape at all
