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   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   Greg Goss wrote:   
   > Dimensional Traveler  wrote:   
   >   
   >> The original Kirk may have been the youngest in Starfleet to ever get   
   >> command of a Starship, but he did it by graduating from the academy and   
   >> working his way up the ranks.  He _didn't_ go directly from "suspended   
   >> for cheating" to Captain, jumping half-a-dozen ranks and thousands of   
   >> superiors, because some now dead ex-captain happened to know his father   
   >> and had "a good feeling" about him.   
   >   
   > Pike isn't dead.   
      
   Sorry, wishful thinking on my part there.  He should be for putting   
   suspended cadet Kirk in command even temporarily.   
      
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