PA> RM> long-established ideas, and *every* time some aspect of that is
PA> RM> addressed in canon Trek, to go entirely contrary to that
PA> MM> Like Kirk's middle name?
PA> MM> The "Slap in the face of fandom" crowd conveniently forgets the times
PA> MM> Paramount went along with the flow.  :-)
PA>If you mean that fans considered "Tiberius" to be Kirk's middle name long
PA>before it was said to be in ST6:TUC...
PA>AFAIK, the origin of this belief was ... [drum roll] ... the novelisation
PA>of ST:TMP - by Gene Roddenberry - in *1988*.
PA>So much for that, therefore.
I admit I may  be recalling wrong, but *I*IRC it was fandom
before that, & the Bird adopted it at that point.  QED. :)
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