From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: frostywinnipeg@mymts.net
Subject: Re: Star Trek (2009) Someone explain this to me?

> Kirk is also the only one who has any idea of what has happened having
> put two and two together when he remembered the story of his father's
> sacrifice on the Kelvin and about the Romulan transmission that Uhura
> intercepted. (Which itself is also a plot hole since I believe Pike
> was also on the Kelvin when it was destroyed and should be more likely
> to remember that incident than Kirk who was busy being born at the
> time.)

There is no mention of this. Source?

> Did Pike have to promote Kirk to first officer to do this? Probably
> not but keep in mind that Enterprise's entire crew at the time
> consisted of graduating Starfleet cadets on a training mission. Spock
> who is a an Academy instructor only a few years older than the
> graduating cadets is the closest thing to senior officer Pike has and
> he makes Spock Captain. So given this perspective, Kirk's promotion
> isn't all that extraordinary.

In TOS was not Spock much much older? 


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