Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!friedman From: friedman@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Spock's age Message-ID: <24900067@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 10:36:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.24900067 Posted: Tue Dec 11 10:36:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 00:48:54 EST References: <592@rayssd.UUCP> Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:rayssd:-59200:uiucdcs:24900067:000:625 Nf-From: uiucdcs!friedman Dec 11 09:36:00 1984 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.