From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: not@chance.dude
Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?

Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> 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.
> 

What?  When did he do that?  Pike put Spock in command.  But even if he 
did, you put the best people in charge, even if they've recently effed 
up, in an emergency.

Natalie
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