Sunday, 16 November 2025

A Dialogue with Fate





Lt. Saavik :
What Happens if Reliant fails 
to follow us into The Nebula?


Capt. Spock :
I Think We can guarantee 
She'll follow us, Lieutenant :
Remind Me to discuss with You 
The Concept of The Human Ego.





The original Doctor Fate was Kent Nelson who discovered the tomb of the wizard Nabu and was trained by him in the ways of sorcery in order to fight crime and the forces of evil. He was a founding member of the Justice Society of America.




Capt. Spock
You proceed from a False Assumption : 
I am A Vulcan  -- 
I Have No Ego to Bruise.




OKAY, so, hold on.... Your Son, under Your Father's watch, gets stuck in Time and even though a few weeks passed for you....

He comes back to you years older..... 

A Teen having been forced to Grow Up The Hard Way....

And now JON IS -- us ge okay?"


Oh, yeah.
He's in, well, he's sort of in, uh, College.


Oh! What School?

Well, you've never heard of it.


Really? Because I --



It's a thousand years from now.


Your Son is living 
A THOUSAND YEARS FROM NOW?

He's with The Legion of Superheroes. 
GREAT Kids.

He lives a thousand years from NOW, now?


He visits.


"He Left! You let him leave?"


"HE's Old enough to make choices 
for HIMSELF...
He needs His Own Path."



"You LET him go, but you hate it."

'I don't hate it.

"You want Your Little Boy back.
It's okay, Superman....
You're allowed to be frustrated with things....

And that as taken from you...


"It was."


By Your Father.


"I don't blame Jor-El."

You don't need to BLAME, 
you can just be Mad 
[at Him/The Situation/for What He Did/Allowed to Happen]

“No. I CAN'T.


What does Your Wife Say?


Oh, Lois' Father passed away 
VERY recently, in her ARMS.
It was SO Messy.
And they, the two of them, 
had unresolved issues.
DEEP Issues.


Wait, Her Father JUST Died?
AND Your Father is Alive?

Well, no.

No?


There's a new Galactic Organisation called The United Planets that works, well, like The United Nations.

Really?

And it seems they were very much in Their Right as a Peacekeeping Gathering to --


United Planets?


My Son's idea.

No Kidding.
GREAT Idea.




But -- But Krypton exploded YEARS ago! 
How did they send Him back --?


Oh.

Your Father was punished by The United Planets for...?

For His Crimes against The Galaxy.
To which, it seems, there were many.



How Do You Feel About That?


It -- It doesn't matter.



Why doesn't it matter?

There was nothing I COULD Do About it.
It was out of my hands.


So...
BOTH You and Your Wife 
LOST Your Fathers.
AND missed Your Son's 
incredible journey.....
Plus, just your EVERY 
Day as Superman.
All that your Super-Senses take in. 
All that Pain and Drama you hear.

Plus, do you still work 
at The DAILY PLANET?
Isn't it under Federal 
Investigation for --


Yes.
I can move The Moon.
But I seem to have somehow lost 
complete Control of MY LIFE.


Now we're getting somewhere --

OKAY.
But The Question is, Doctor, why was my response to all of this to YELL OUT to The World, 
"Hi, I'm Clark Kent."?




You -- You took some Control BACK.

No one ELSE seems to think so.

Hence, this conversation.

People reacted poorly to Change? Shocking!
Have you had THIS Conversation with anyone?

A little with Adam Strange.

Oh, I met him once. I like Adam!

I really do too.
He's one of a handful of people, that IF My Life was less complicated, I jibe we would be dear, dear friends.
You can just look at some people and know that about them.
One time, Adam and I were trapped --

Clark? You live in a perspective SO different from EVERYONE Else.


ANYONE Else.

I'm kinda in the same situation... 
I'm still getting used to it and I have to remind myself of it EVERY DAY....


But IF you haven't had THIS conversation with anyone....
Then NO ONE has seen this from Your Perspective.

NOBODY understands what you've ben through, but you. 

And even YOU are still unpacking it.

Maybe NO one gets to Judge you on this.

Not even you.



[ speaking to Spock in Vulcan, about Kirk ]

Lt. Saavik : 
He's never what I expect, sir.

Capt. Spock : 
What surprises you, Lieutenant?

Lt. Saavik : 
He's so - HUMAN.

Capt. Spock : 
Nobody's Perfect, Saavik.

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