"Derek" wrote in message news:htfum4n16vbx$.dlg@gwinn.us...
> While intrepidly exploring the bowels of USENET on Friday, April 11,
> 2008, ToolPackinMama rolled initiative and posted the following:
>
>> ToolPackinMama wrote:
>>> ToolPackinMama wrote:
>>>> ToolPackinMama wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Kirk has been presented as a lover of SAILING SHIPS, not a lover of
>>>>> automobiles.
>>>
>>> I have gazed and gazed, but can detect not even one car model in that
>>> image.
>>
>> Note also the firearms mounted on the wall. They do not look like 20th
>> century armaments, do they?
>>
>> It sure looks as if Jim Kirk likes artifacts that are CLEARLY
>> PRE-TWENTIETH CENTURY. Any of you darling people see something I don't?
>>
>> If you do, take your medication and look again.
>
> No, it looks like Jim Kirk (or his interior decorator) stuck with a
> single theme for one area of his apartment.
>
> Are you really going to suggest that the sum total of Jim Kirk's
> "extracurricular activities" is limited to what we saw in one area of
> his apartment in STIII?
>
> People's interests do change, you know. At one time in my life, I had
> Star Trek and Star Wars posters on my bedroom walls. Now I have nicely
> painted water colors. That doesn't mean that I don't like Star Trek
> anymore.
>
> After all, we've never seen his bedroom back at his parents' place in
> Iowa. Do you assume that it could only have been decorated with 18th
> century sailing ships?
>
> We know far less about the lives and interests of the characters of
> Star Trek than we see in "canon."
My point exactly. When people start whining, "Kirk didn't drive a car till
"A Piece of the Action" They are not quoting anything canon. The canon is
Kik drove a ('31 V-12 Cadillac) automobile very badly, but still knew enough
to make sure the key was in then look for a starter.
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