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From: adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: STIV
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Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 12:32:26 EST
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*** 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".
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