Star Trek: No Subtitle

[Wowbagger]

I am not at all looking for an apology from you. Putting on sackcloth and ashes about a canon error would actually be a little weird, even in Lent. I simply want to know whether you apply the same extremely high critical standards to TWOK and old Trek as you do to the new movie.

So I'll ask you again: in your judgment, does TOS-Kirk's taking the test three times make him into a petty, stubborn idiot as you suggested? Or do you hold TOS and the TOS movie canon to a lower standard?

Interesting but irrelevant tidbit: in the original draft of the new movie, Kirk did win his commendation for original thinking in the KM scenario. This was scripted to take place during the final promotion ceremony at the end of the movie, simultaneous with the lifting of Kirk's academic probation. The sequence was cut for pacing reasons, and (as I understand it) because it was seen as overly fanboyish.