Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph From: adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: STIV Message-ID: <329@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 12:32:26 EST Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.329 Posted: Thu Oct 31 12:32:26 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 03:35:54 EST References: <315@ssc-vax.UUCP> <570@riccb.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 22 *** YOUR MESSAGE *** > > SULU: Starship command, of a heavy cruiser. The last "Constitution" Class > > ship is due to be launched and Sulu gets it. To capitalize on the public > > acclaim for Kirk, the ship is renamed "ENTERPRISE." (This is to avoid > > having to show any more of those "Excelcior" abominations :-) ) > > Nope, nope. A Starship as a first command? More like a scout or destroyer > class vessel. But maybe he'll be punished for his participation in ST3 by > yanking his promotion back and he won't have a command at all. What a minute. Wasn't the Enterprise Kirk's first command? I don't remember specifics, but I recall reading somewhere that Kirk was the youngest person to ever be awarded command of a starship. I also recall that in "Court Martial", he mentions that he asked for Finney aboard his "first command". -- -- Mark A. ...{uw-beaver|fluke}!ssc-vax!adolph "1 + 1 = 1, for sufficiently small values of 1..."