> 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�"
>>>>>>> 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.

>>>
>>> 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.
> --
> Derek
>
> He walks as if balancing the family tree on his nose.