> Derek wrote:

>> While intrepidly exploring the bowels of USENET on Saturday, August
>> 16, 2008, Wouter Valentijn rolled initiative and posted the following:
>>

>>> Quadibloc wrote:

>>>> On Aug 15, 7:49 pm, "Wickeddoll®"
>>>> yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>>> gmail.com> ...
>>>>>

>>>>>> After seeing the great Shore Leave episode again, I wonder what
>>>>>> sort of character Finnegan would make in the new Abrams version
>>>>>> of Star Trek.

>>>>>

>>>>>> Or, are we now supposed to believe that Finnegan never existed at
>>>>>> all?

>>>>>
>>>>> Let's pray he never did. Gawd, that guy was annoying.

>>>>
>>>> We could believe that he existed, but that he wasn't around during
>>>> the events of the movie.

>>>
>>> Okay, that's the ticket!
>>> Maybe Kirk could complain a bit about the guy without ever meeting
>>> him on screen.
>>> We know he got to vent his frustration on 'Shoreleave', so, case
>>> closed I would say.
>>>

>>>>
>>>> I expect that if he *were* to be in a movie made today, they would
>>>> get someone like Jim Carrey to play him. Thus, I hope your prayers
>>>> will be heeded.

>>>
>>> O, yeah. Now I'm getting visions of Carrey on XI playing Finnegan as
>>> if he was on 'The Mask'.
>>> Finnegan is not /that/ important.
>>> I would want to see Ruth. :-)

>>
>> Finnegan was also an academy cadet. He'd be around the same age as
>> Kirk. The age difference between Pine and Carrey is too great. So,
>> fortunately, we won't have to worry about Jim Carrey entering Trek
>> lore.

>
> Yeah...
> But he was a /bit/ older than Kirk I thought.