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From: friedman@uiucdcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Spock's age
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Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 10:36:00 EST
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More on Kirk's age:  In "Obsession", it is mentioned that his first encounter
with the cloud vampire was 11 years previous, when he was a Lt. on his first
space assignment.  Assuming that he joined that ship as an ensign, and was
promoted without being reassigned; and assuming that he spent perhaps two years
as an ensign; and assuming that they ran across the cloud vampire shortly after
his promotion (the weakest of these assumptions); and assuming that he was 34
in "Obsession", as in "The Deadly Years"; then you calculate that he was
commissioned as an ensign when he was about 21 years old, which seems about
right.