From: D.G.Legros@bradford.ac.uk (DG LEGROS)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Kirk's Middle Name -- now it CAN be told!
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:07:11 GMT
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Jeffrey Verhagen (jv@irus.rri.uwo.ca) wrote:
: In article <8083@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes:
: >In article <1992Oct21.170648.15984@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>, wc9583@writer.yorku.ca (J.Marc Chabot) writes:
: >
: >>>|> > What do Klingons know?  James "T" Kirk always lied to them every change
: >>>|> > he got.  I'm sure his middle name is actually "Terry".
: >>>|> > Terry "J" Wood
: >>>|> 	GET A LIFE TERRY!
: >> 
: >> 	Kirk's middle name is TIBERIUS!!!!  Not TERRY, not THOMAS, not
: >> THEODORE, or TED or TOM or anything else!!!! It is TIBERIUS.
: ...
: >No, all of those sources are wrong.  Kirk's middle name is TERRY.
: >
: >Terry "The Source" Wood
: 
: Sorry, Terry; I just watched an episode of "A Current Affair" last night
: entitled "Kirk's Middle Name - The Shocking Truth Exposed" in which they
: asked (hounded would be more appropriate) Shatner about the REAL meaning
: behind the T. which is supposed to be an initial of the Star Trek character
: Kirk's middle name.
: 
: "Gee, it's just a kid's show", Shatner mumbles when asked about the T - 
: turning away from the camera so we can no longer see his funky perm and 
: sideburns; "I took the part on a dare - I needed the money! - Will this 
: controversy NEVER END???!?!??" Shatner's crying now, wishing to high 
: heaven that the new Star Trek will take hold and that these people will 
: - for once - leave him alone. Apparently, the continual questions about
: his middle name have driven to him to distraction.
: 
: When further asked about the T. he submitted that it stood for "Terry",
: although it was obvious that he was lying - just from his expression and
: from the fact that it conflicted with earlier testimony. Later, he 
: suggested "Teddy", but "A Current Affair" (and the average viewer) could
: tell that he was lying again...
: 
: Later, they showed an interview with a homosexual (Theodore) who claimed 
: to be a former lover of Shatner's; who was into Tittilation, and who had 
: a fondness for chipmunks. He claimed that the T stood for his name 
: (Theodore) although this had to be dismissed, seeing as how Shatner was
: happily married (to a woman) and had 15 kids.
: 
: They interviewed others as well:
: - A clothes fetishist who said the T stood for TAFFETA
: - A mathematician who said the T stood for TAUTOLOGY, or TANGENT
: - A priest who said it stood for TABERNACLE
: - A clown who said it stood for TAFFY
: - A midget-biker who said it stood for TATTOO
: - A dentist who said it stood for TEETH
: - A ridiculous person who said it stood for TIDDLYWINK
: - Pee-wee herman, who said it stood for TALLYWACKER, TESTES, or TESTICLE
: 
: The summary of the program was as follows:
: 
: "The middle T. of Kirk's name is an example of the ingenuity of 
:  its creator Gene Roddenberry; for it is an ink-blot test of the 
:  imagination,  revealing our highest aspirations and true nature;
:  For it was truly Gene Roddenberry's idea to leave the T forever 
:  undefined, to provide us with a key to unlock the door to higher
:  dimensions, that we might better see ourselves reflected in 
:  his creations..."
: 
: END OF DEBATE (snicker)
: 
:       Jeff...
: Misinformation Central
:     in Canada

It is official, I can't remember where I heard it, but James T. Kirk's
middle name is TIBERIUS


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