From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: gossg@gossg.org
Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?

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.
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Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27 
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