For most of his life he had fled the stifling constrictions of Vulcan. But this was not the Vulcan of his birth and childhood and life. This Vulcan had suffered the backlash of the Kelvin’s destruction and the resultant isolation. Many of the people he knew were different, and in the most positive of ways. T’Pau, Sarek, the VSA, the High Council... they had accepted the words and advice of a young human, a witch. Magic and science had worked hand-in-hand to create the miracle that had saved Vulcan from the Narada.