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

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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