Captain Kirk Double Drabble / Haiku Combo

 —and so in summary, despite my success in imitating Madame Serrasalmid’s handmaiden, I will (probably) never wear a corset again, even in the line of duty. At least NOCTURNE can rest easy knowing that “Dr. Reaper” has been neutralized, in the usual pacifistic fashion. I can confirm with absolute certainty that the Japanese mechanoid that attacked the North Pole was, as our research team suspected, an imitation of the Pharamündeaux Hominid, who turned out to indeed be a specimen of the long-believed-extinct Hyumongonaut species that ruled ancient Earth (“Hyum”). That some Hyumongonauts still survive marks a truly intriguing research opportunity.

I advise that we attempt to protect the B███ family’s privacy by making sure they are only referred to publicly under the “███son” alias. I have already attempted to interrogate “Dr. Reaper” on the topics of his seeming change of appearance(if he is actually the same as “the Bald Man”) and his possible connection to the mysterious “Dr. Omega” who our special forces unit encountered shortly after the Second World War, but I don’t know if I’ll get anywhere. He’s a typical mad scientist—he talks like he’s from fucking Cloudcuckooland.

Yours dutifully,

Lt. Yog Kirk

Jul. 22, 1967

Twenty years later

the Captain looks back in time

and laments what changed.

Old friends, dear colleagues,

they have lost their old humor.

Dark secrets guide them.

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Two drabbles, two haiku; the drabbles are split by the first paragraph break. Iago "Yog" Kirk is based on Captain Kirk from the 1982 public domain Italian horror movie Panic. NOCTURNE will appear in my upcoming story “Thrills, Chills, and Spills: The Excitement Land Portfolio,” and Captain Kirk’s service under them (and the reason for his lamentation) will be fleshed out in my novel Project: Pleroma. (Consider this a promo for that book.) The Hyumongonauts of Hyum are from Night of the Living Dead: Beast Wars. Dr. Omega is from the public domain comic Blackhawk #19 (Jun. 1948). I leave the rest of the references to the audience’s deductions.