View source for Benjamin Finney

=== Starfleet Academy ===
As a young officer, Finney spent an unusually long period as an [[instructor]] at [[Starfleet Academy]], a circumstance that frustrated his ambitions. Finney [[love]]d the service, and hoped to command his own starship in the future. In [[2252]], he met and befriended a young [[midshipman]], James Kirk. The two became such close friends that Finney [[name]]d his [[daughter]] [[Jame Finney]] after Kirk. Letters sent home to [[Finney's mother 001|his wife]] and [[child]] described their friendship and his esteem for the junior officer.