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