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From: dtuttle@uw-june (David C. Tuttle)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Kirk's tombstone in "where no man has gone before"
Message-ID: <389@uw-june>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 19:27:29 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 16 19:27:29 1985
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>> Oh come on.... You can't explain everything away. 'Where No Man Has Gone
>> Before' was the first televised episode, before there was any mention of
>> 'James T. Kirk'. It's obvious that they forgot about the middle initial
>> and gave him a new one later.

> *** From: steph@graffiti.UUCP (stephanie da silva) ***
> I distinctly remember watching the first Star Trek episode 
> and the one I recall to be the first was "The Man Trap". (But this was in
> Canada). I thought that "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was the third
> regularly televised episode.

"Where No Man Has Gone Before" was the first *produced* episode.
"The Man Trap" was the first *aired* episode.
  (NBC network officials switched the order because they wanted a more )
  (typical monster-attcks-humans sci-fi episode to launch the series.  )
  (Sorry to reiterate what a lot of Trekkies know already...         :-)
Anyway, I think the order of production is what's pertinent here, not
necessarily the order of broadcast...  If it says "JAMES R. KIRK" on the
tombstone, then it probably was before they decided that T. was better...
Frankly, it don't matter to me none...  I'll still enjoy watching it.
But I do wonder... did they decide on the middle name "Tiberius" in the
60's, during the original run, or in the 70's, for the cartoon series?
"James Tiberius Kirk" was used only in the cartoons...
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