While intrepidly exploring the bowels of USENET on Saturday, August
16, 2008, Anim8rFSK rolled initiative and posted the following:
> In article , Derek wrote:
>
>> While intrepidly exploring the bowels of USENET on Saturday, August
>> 16, 2008, Wouter Valentijn rolled initiative and posted the following:
>>
>>> 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®"
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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.
>>
>> He was a upperclassman. We don't know his age, do we?
>
> Sure we do:
>
> "You officer and gentleman, you.
> You're a stupid under classman.
> I've got the edge. I'm still 20 years old."
Forgot about that. My ability to recite verbatim from multiple
viewings has faded in my older age.
>> I guess the argument could be made that he went to the academy late.
Ok, so apparently that argument can't be made.
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Derek
He walks as if balancing the family tree on his nose.
