You mean if he had been first officer? Or are you talking about when Pike promoted him in the movie?
You don't normally go from cadet to high command (first officer or captain). After graduating the academy, Kirk would have been a lieutenant. I don't think he would have been a science officer either though - it just doesn't suit him. I mean, Picard? Science officer material. Jim was brilliant, but he strikes me as someone who would have felt that analysis is boring. :-P
George could have also been a navigator or weapons officer, but he could also have been a science officer. I don't think there's any canon about that - at least at the time of Jim's birth. Hell, according to Trek doctrine, married couples (and I think siblings as well) never served on the same ships at that time, so George and Winona being on the same ship in the movie total went against Trek canon.
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Date: 2009-07-08 12:11 am (UTC)You don't normally go from cadet to high command (first officer or captain). After graduating the academy, Kirk would have been a lieutenant. I don't think he would have been a science officer either though - it just doesn't suit him. I mean, Picard? Science officer material. Jim was brilliant, but he strikes me as someone who would have felt that analysis is boring. :-P
George could have also been a navigator or weapons officer, but he could also have been a science officer. I don't think there's any canon about that - at least at the time of Jim's birth. Hell, according to Trek doctrine, married couples (and I think siblings as well) never served on the same ships at that time, so George and Winona being on the same ship in the movie total went against Trek canon.