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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MarianLH: [QB] Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [QUOTE][i]It seems that they drew some major faulty conclusions based on incomplete examination of the evidence. [/i][/QUOTE]This, IMHO, aptly describes a great deal of their work. Although my personal pet peeve is all the unnecessary pre-1700 [i]Constitution[/i] registries. I'm sticking with my slighty-tweaked FJ-based list, thank you. Ahem, [/soapbox]. Sorry. [QUOTE][i]Basic assumptions, with which some might argue:[/i](*rest snipped for brevity*)[/QUOTE]Good, solid speculation, which I will swipe for my one chronological purposes. I especially like the idea that Kirk did something spectacular related to Axenar while still a cadet. It unravels more than one tangle. There are two issues I would take with it, one minor and one major. The minor one is that I prefer a 2264-69 dating for the five-year mission. ("Voyager" is guilty of so many consistancy errors that I have no problem ignoring "evidence" from it.) This is, however, my own interpretation; use or ignore as you like. The major one is that, whatever a prop might have said, the actual protrayal of Gary Mitchell is not of someone just a couple years out of the academy, or someone who had a subordinate, mentor/student relationship with Kirk. Rather, they were of an age, and close friends. In the novel [i]Strangers From The Sky[/i] (IMHO, the best Star Trek novel ever written), Mitchel is a year or two [i]older[/i] than Kirk, who had only recently surpassed him in rank in his meteoric rise to captain. I love this book, precisely [i]because[/i] Bonnano's characters and their relationships ring so true, and could never accept something so incompatible with her portrayal. In short, while I think you have an excellent speculation about Kirk's career, I must respectfully disagree with respect to Gary Mitchell. Oh, and: [QUOTE][i]According to the TOS writer's guide, he was the youngest Captain in Starfleet at the time, and his first command (during which he asks for Mitchell to serve under him, and we may presume the incident on Dimorus described in WNMHGB occurred) was a destroyer-type vessel.[/i][/QUOTE]Vonda McIntyre's novel [i]Enterprise[/i] gives this ship a name, the USS [i]Lydia Sutherland[/i]. Mitchel was Commander Kirk's XO. The ship is also mentioned briefly in McIntyre's novelization of [i]Star Trek IV[/i]. I had no idea, before reading your post, that McIntyre's speculation had any basis in fact. Marian [/QB][/QUOTE]
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