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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