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"Anim8rFSK" <ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net> wrote in message
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> In article <lElQo.1037$jj5.801@newsfe03.iad>,
>  "Daniel47@teranews.com" <dxmm@albury.nospam.net.au> wrote:
>
> > Visiting Sister for the holiday season. Happened to be watching T.V. and
> > they were showing "Where no man has gone before".
> >
> > One of the Crew, Lt Gary Mitchell, gains super (God-like) powers, as
> > does Dr Elizabeth Dehner (eventually). In the near-final scene,
> > Elizabeth semi-disables Gary, so Kirk can have some chance in the fight,
> > but Gary regains his super-powers and creates a "grave" for Kirk,
> > complete with headstone that reads "James R Kirk"
> >
> > Given this was an early episode (or second Pilot), was this prior to a
> > decision being made to go with "James T Kirk" or was it a simple typing
> > error (the "R" is next to the "T" on a keyboard) and money was so tight
> > that nobody bothered fixing the typo??
> >
> > Follow-Up set to aus.sf
> >
> > Daniel
>
> Short answer: Nobody knows for sure.
>
> There really isn't any doubt that Kirk's name was always James Tiberius
> Kirk, since the early show bibles mention it, and, IIRC, "Tiberius" was
> the middle name in place while "James" and "Kirk" were still in flux.
>
> So I'd go with 'mistake'

Nope.The Kirk parents called their twin sons "James T Kirk" and "James R
Kirk", so that really the grave of Enterprise Kirk's twin brother
(unfortunately he was the one who could act and sing).  ;-)