When the other Spock who had come from the future had met the crew of the Enterprise, Pavel found himself feeling somewhat uncomfortable. Rather than comparing him to his counterpart who had served aboard the other Enterprise and noting the similarities and differences - finding more similarities than differences - Spock had stood there studying him as if he were a puzzle that he was having a hard time solving.
Deciding to ease the tension somewhat, he had decided to join in on the little game that some of the crew had been playing and grabbed the photograph of his family that he often kept at his work-station in order to see how many of his relatives this Spock could identify. There had been some laughter over the fact that Wilson's parents had stopped at seven instead of three in the other universe, due to the fact that his family had actually moved to the colony that they had been considering moving to, and had much more room. He himself wouldn't mind hearing some funny stories about a younger sibling he never knew. Little Piotr had been a handful and a half, back before he'd left for the Academy. Piotr was his younger half-brother who had been born to his father and then girlfriend a couple years after his parents had divorced.
"I've got one for you." he said as he joined the small group that surrounded the old Spock as he listed off Montgomery Scott's myriad cousins. The old Spock's eyebrows raised sharply when he handed him the photograph.
"Vat is it?" he asked.
"That." Spock said as he pointed to young Piotr "Is the Pavel Checkov I served alongside. Pavel Andreievich Chekov, born in 2245, the only child of Andrei and Alexandra Chekov, joined the crew of the USS Enterprise in 2267 as a Navigator and Science officer."
Pavel then fully understood the meaning of the saying "Someone just walked over my grave". He remembered the story his parents had told him when he was a child. A story about how his pregnant mother had decided to give his father a second chance and had turned around shortly before boarding a doomed ship that was destroyed by a group of pirates who had tried to make it look like a Klingon attack before it reached its destination, which had been a relatively isolated colony world near the Neutral Zone. His father had liked the names Piotr and Pavel, and it had been a coin flip that had decided his name, a coin flip that could have just as easily gone the other way, a coin flip that could have been made while his father was trying to decide what to put on his grave marker. He could have just as easily been Piotr Andreievich Chekov not born in 2241 as he was Pavel Andreievich Chekov, born in 2241, son of Andrei and Irena Chekov, older brother to Piotr Andreievich Chekov, born 2245, son of Andrei and Alexandra Chekov.
