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From: brown@utflis.UUCP (Susan Brown)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: James Tiberius Kirk
Message-ID: <272@utflis.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 13:39:38 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 12 13:39:38 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Sep-85 10:27:11 EDT
References: <3501@dartvax.UUCP> <1456@uwmacc.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@utflis.UUCP (Susan Brown)
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Summary: 

In article <1456@uwmacc.UUCP> demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo) writes:
>> 
>> I know this sounds crazy, but I watched "Where No Man Has Gone Before" a
>> couple of days ago and I could have sworn that the headstone to Kirk's
>> "grave" did not read James T. Kirk; I thought it had another middle initial
>> Any comments or verification?
>
>Glad you brought it up. I tried recording it, and stopping the
>action at that spot. I STILL coulnd't read it. It did say
>James Kirk, and it DID give a date (other than a stardate), but
>that's as far as I ever got...

Yeah, it's tough to see, but check every possible time the stone is on
the screen.  In one or two of them you can see that the initial is "R".
(At least on Beta - let's not start an argument about B vs. VHS.)
Apparently they decided on Tiberius later, "Where No Man..." being a pilot.
sb