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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 4785755" data-attributes="member: 14159">Actually, that is a huge continuity nod showing they have really done their research.  The idea that McCoy joined Starfleet after a bad divorce was originally though up during the original production run in the '60's.  The episode was going to be about McCoy meeting his estranged daughter who had fallen in with a disreputable crowd.  The episode was rewritten, losing this subplot and eventually became "The Way to Eden".  They had never had the opportunity to mention it, but that was the actual original idea for his backstory.I think "Enlistment" means joining Starfleet in any capacity, and Kirk was immediately put in for Officer training because of Capt. Pike.  We have already seen enlisted crewmembers in Enterprise (which since it took place before this, are not affected at all by the timeline shift), and there were some explicit mentions of A Starfleet Academy Enlisted Training program in the TNG episode "The Drumhead" when a guest star held the rank of Crewman 1st Class.Not unprecedented in Trek canon.  Saavik held the rank of Lieutenant while in her Senior year at the Academy.  The TOS Episode "Obsession" also mentions that in the original timeline, Kirk was a Lieutenant before his graduation.  Apparently at Starfleet Academy in the 23rd century it is possible for outstanding cadets to earn a commission before graduation, and for graduates to be commissioned at higher ranks of Lieutenant J.G. and Lieutenant with some regularity (at least in the TOS era, we didn't see any examples in the TNG era of this practice, when it was much more like a modern-day Service Academy with commissioning upon graduation to Ensign). Well, they were the adversary in the Kobayashi Maru test, just like they were in Kahn.  Because of how they finally explained the difference in Klingon appearances back in Enterprise, they can use either "old" or "new" Klingons without trashing continuity, because Enterprise left in a backdoor that said that the "New" Klingons were there back in that era, just much less common.</blockquote>

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