They meet Jim in phases, and through him find each other. But as the layers peal back, the future Enterprise bridge crew finds more than they can handle. Because long before he had friends, Jim had Family, and the Scaretta crime syndicate didn't survive to the 23rd century by letting go of its own. Jim Kirk will always be a frustration to Spock-even when that's not his name.

Murder, Romulan spies, pon farr! Six months after Nero, life on New Vulcan takes an unexpected turn that threatens to destroy the colony and forces Spock and Uhura to question their newly-formalized bond.

Cloud holds on to his SOLDIER-identity.

Cloud has an accident with a Time materia. There are people to save, and for that, some people need to die.