"How many did you start with?" The tone of his voice was one that said he knew what losing crew members was like. Twenty plus years in the captain's chair would do that.

Pike thought back to who would be in a meeting that would take place if something like the Kelvin Archive was destroyed. None of those people, regardless of whether or not Marcus was their superior officer would let that fly and even if the rest of them did, he wouldn't and most likely Jim Kirk wouldn't either.

"So, Marcus lied to us. Or will lie to us," he hated time travel. "And we all believed the lie."