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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Kirk's tombstone in "where no man has gone before"
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Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 10:52:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 14 10:52:07 1985
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>From: pmm1920@ritcv.UUCP
>Message-ID: <8942@ritcv.UUCP>
>Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
>
>> 	I just got the video tape of "where no man has gone before"
>> and the tombstone that Gary Mitchell sets up for kirk has his name
>> as "James R. Kirk" not "James T. Kirk".  The quality of the recording
>> is very good and you can see it clearly when Gray (Gray Lockwood)
>> tries to get out of the grave.
>
>   For those of you who own the photo novel for "Where No Man Has Gone
>Before", you would easily be able to tell that it read "R."  (Sometimes
>people do everything the hard way.)
>My personal feelings on it is that it was done on purpose to show that
>it truly wasn't Kirk's grave.  Also, it showed the limits on Gary's powers
>at the time.

Also, having "R" as a middle initial would have made it even harder to
convince Nomad of its error.

	Jackson Roykirk - James R. Kirk (?)

:-)


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