just caught up with your most recent post. I myself think the second plot sounds the most appealing. It's the one where our boys are stuck in the 20th century and then must decide what kind of relationship they will have when they are rescued. Funny but the first one where kirk wants to adopt his cousin after surviving Tarsus, for me personally doesn't work. I feel that the whole Kirk package as a person was formed by his past and to change that would change him in someway. I guess I have a very defined way of thinking of things and feel that his interactions with Uhura would be different if he were showing a child how to act. I think what's going through my mind is the essential Kirk was all about getting people to under estimate him. The conclusions that he wanted others to draw about him wouldn't be possible because his behavior would be so altered with him having custody of a child.....yeah that's the whole point of such a story but I guess I'm much to inflexible when it comes to Jim that I can't accept this premise. THE PROBLEM IS MINE. YOU WRITE WHAT YOU WANT AND I KNOW IT WILL BE GOOD. IT'S YOUR IMAGINATION AND NO ONE SHOULD TELL YOU HOW TO USE IT.