In What Are little Girls Made Of?, the android Kirk states George Samual Kirk, wanted to be relocated with his wife and 3 sons. Operation Annhilate shows what ultimately happens, but only 1 nephew. Any ideas where the other 2 are? Could it be that Kirk's "short-circuiting" of the android made it believe there were 2 other nephews. Was this, then an indication the android wans't a perfect copy? Any other theories out there...
What happened to Kirk's other 2 nephews?
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Maybe the other two nephews, probably older than Peter, stayed back in Iowa to help out their grandparents on the family farm.
I like that theory.
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Peter_Kirk
He had two brothers, Alexander and Julius Kirk..., who were on Rigel IV when the neural parasites struck... (TOS novel: The Last Roundup).
IIRC, there was also comic that postulated that the nephews were younger than Peter.
But in TOS, McCoy refers to Peter as "the last" of the Kirk family.
Yeah, the McCoy quote is what always got me thinking.
Or were sterile. (Sowed all their wild oats too early?)
Kirk's other nephews fell prey to a mysterious spacetime anomaly that erases family members from the face of the universe, making it as if they never existed. One of the first documented victims of this phenomenon was Chuck Cunningham.
Best theory yet. Chuck ascended the stairs never to be seen again...
But when he returns, peace shall reign and we shall have everlasting life.
Eugene Barkley precedes him.
To clarify: what he says is that Peter was the last of George Samuel Kirk Jr's family. Jim could have had further siblings besides Sam, say, a sister who'd get about as much mention as Sam ever did, but who still bore sons... This sister need not be alive any more at the time of TOS, of course.
So two mysterious disappearances is the minimum we're dealing with here. There could be more...
Timo Saloniemi
It could be that McCoy was unaware of Sam's other sons when he made that remark and Kirk wasn't exactly in the mood to correct him.
Or was it Spock who made the remark? It's been a whlie....
Or was it Spock who made the remark? It's been a whlie....
It's McCoy in "Operation: Annihilate!" all right:
It's Kirk speaking with "himself" in "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", though:
Apparently, Kirk accepts as truth that Sam had a wife and three sons. We could always say that he's not sticking to minor detail here, though, as he wants to entrap the android with a clearly incorrect statement. Perhaps only one of the sons was Sam's, while the two were from Aurelan's previous marriage or liaison and didn't count as Sam's family in "Operation: Annihilate!" any more, perhaps due to a reshuffling of the families.
Or we could go another route: McCoy could count Peter Kirk as a survivor, but the other two boys wouldn't have "survived" anything as they had faced no threat to begin with, so their continuing existence somewhere off Deneva would not contradict McCoy's statement.
It's a minor continuity hiccup that doesn't yet create an inconsistency, but does require some sort of speculation on what happened to the missing two boys. Semantic games are probably our best bet here.
Timo Saloniemi
It's Kirk speaking with "himself" in "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", though:
Apparently, Kirk accepts as truth that Sam had a wife and three sons. We could always say that he's not sticking to minor detail here, though, as he wants to entrap the android with a clearly incorrect statement. Perhaps only one of the sons was Sam's, while the two were from Aurelan's previous marriage or liaison and didn't count as Sam's family in "Operation: Annihilate!" any more, perhaps due to a reshuffling of the families.
Or we could go another route: McCoy could count Peter Kirk as a survivor, but the other two boys wouldn't have "survived" anything as they had faced no threat to begin with, so their continuing existence somewhere off Deneva would not contradict McCoy's statement.
It's a minor continuity hiccup that doesn't yet create an inconsistency, but does require some sort of speculation on what happened to the missing two boys. Semantic games are probably our best bet here.
Timo Saloniemi
I heard they went out for Chinese food and never came back.
True story.
True story.
Goddamn moogoo gai-pan....
Ew.
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