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STARFLEET HISTORICAL FILE: Kirk, James T.
Biography:
Played By: William Shatner
Final Rank: Captain
Full Name: James Tiberius Kirk
Date of birth: March 22, 2233
Place of birth: Riverside, Iowa,
Earth
Education: Starfleet Academy, 2250-2254
Marital status: Single
Children: One son, David Marcus
(2261-2286)
Date of death: 2293/2371*
Place of death: Enterprise-B in
Nexus/Veridian III*
Serial number: SC937-0176 CEC
Quarters: On original Enterprise,
Deck 5; on refit/1701-A, Deck
5/Room 0195
Starfleet Career Summary
2250 -- As a first-year Academy
student with ensign rank, assigned
to NCC-1371 U.S.S. Republic
2254 -- Upon graduation, promoted
to lieutenant and posted to
U.S.S. Farragut under Capt. Garrovick
2264 -- Promoted to captain, in
command of U.S.S. Enterprise for
five-year mission
2266 -- Exonerated in wrongful death
charge of Ben Finney, first
captain ever to stand trial
2269 -- Returned from five-year
mission; promoted to admiral in
charge of fleet operations at Earth
2271 -- Demanded to relieve Capt.
Will Decker, his choice as
successor for the refit Enterprise,
and dealt with V'Ger crisis before
beginning second five-year mission
2277 -- Accepts appointment to Academy
faculty, moves into San
Francisco apartment
2286 -- Charged, convicted and reduced
permanently to captain's
rank by the Federation Council
for theft of Enterprise a year earlier,
after saving Earth from alien onslaught
by securing two extinct
whales via time-traveling; given
command of NCC-1701-A Enterprise
2287 -- Explores center of the galaxy
with refit Enterprise hijacked by
Sybok
2293* -- Spearheads initiatives
leading to Khitomer Accords and
exposes anti-peace conspiracy in
Starfleet and Klingon Empire; dies
while saving the Enterprise 1701-B
from an energy anomaly just
minutes after its commissioning
ceremony
2371 -- Reappears in Nexus Ribbon
long enough to help Captain
Jean-Luc Picard save planet Veridian
III from destruction in the
Nexus
As much as any other figure in Starfleet
history, the tall tales about
James T. Kirk's exploits over a
40-year career are as numerous as
the official record - and probably
closer to the truth in some
instances. Kirk's renown began
by becoming the youngest captain in
Starfleet to date at 34 and the
first captain to bring his starship back
relatively intact after a five-year
mission, having also gained a
reputation as an independent whose
success couldn't be argued
even though he often bucked the
system. He also has the distinction
of being involved in 17 different
temporal violations, a career record
which still stands.
Kirk's ancestors pioneered the American
frontier, and his Midwest
roots tied him closely to American
history, a lifelong interest. He had
an older brother, George Samuel
Kirk, although "Sam" and his wife
Aurelan died at Deneva in 2267;
their one son and Kirk's nephew
Peter survived them. As a child
of 13, Kirk witnessed the massacre
of 4,000 people during a famine
by the governor of Tarsus IV,
nicknamed Kodos the Executioner.
A romantic at heart, Kirk never
formed a lasting, romantic
relationship due to his devotion
to career - especially during his
captaincy of the U.S.S. Enterprise.
He did father a son with Dr. Carol
Marcus, David, but was asked to
avoid his upbringing and did not
know he had matured into a scientific
genius until 2285-86, when the
young man was killed by Klingons
on the Genesis planet he'd help to
create. Kirk long grieved for the
boy's death, and that he had only a
few months to know his progeny.
He also regretted not having
married a woman named Antonia whom
he dated for about two
years, from 2282 to 2284.
A family friend named Mallory helped
gain Kirk entry to Starfleet
Academy, and he soon had the rare
treat of earning starship duty as
a first-year cadet with the brevet
rank of ensign while aboard the
U.S.S. Republic. There Kirk was
close friends with Benjamin Finney,
for whose murder Kirk was later
tried, but was tormented by an
upperclassman, Finnegan. As an
older cadet he served as an
instructor, where Gary Mitchell
was one of his students and later his
best friend, saving his life on
Dimorus. His heroes included Abraham
Lincoln and Captain Garth, whose
missions were required reading in
class, as were the works of Dr.
Roger Korby. Kirk had the distinction
of being the only cadet ever to
beat the "no-win" Kobayashi Maru
scenario; he had secretly reprogrammed
the simulation computer,
making it possible to win and earning
himself a commendation for
original thinking.
After graduation, Kirk's first assignment
was the U.S.S. Farragut as
anewly-promoted lieutenant, a tour
distinguished by his command of
a survey mission to Tyree's planet
Neural in 2254 and his
guilt-plagued discovery of the
creature dubbed a "cloud vampire"
which led to the deaths of his
captain and 200 shipmates - although
he realized that there was nothing
he could have done to save them.
Kirk once contracted and recovered
from Vegan chloriomeningitis,
but still carries microorganisms
of it in his blood.
Kirk's historically rapid rise to
a captaincy and command of a loyal
and respectful 430-member crew
are reflected in the awards and
commendations he had garnered by
2267, including the Palm Leaf of
the Axanar Peace Mission, the Grankite
Order of Tactics, a Class of
Excellence award, the Prantares
Ribbon of Commendation, First and
Second Class, the Medal of Honor,
a Silver Palm with Cluster, the
Starfleet Citation forConspicuous
Gallantry, the Karagite Order of
Heroism and several Awards of Valor.
It was on this Enterprise that he
assembled a crew and forged
friendships with fellow officers
who would themselves become
Starfleet legends: First Officer
and Science Officer Spock, Dr.
Leonard McCoy, engineer Montgomery
Scott, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel
Chekov, Uhura. Even after the end
of their five-year mission, it almost
became a cliche that only Kirk
and his crew could save the
Federation from a new crisis -
or at least Earth. That is exactly what
happened in the case of V'Ger in
2271 and the whale-calling aliens in
2286.
Kirk had accepted a promotion to
admiral in charge of fleet
operations upon his initial return,
but accepted a reduction to captain
when he regained command of the
Enterprise in 2271 to thwart
V'Ger, relievingWill Decker after
recommending him for the "center
seat." Some 14 years later after
another five-year command mission
and a return to Academy teaching,
he used Spock's cadet ship to
thwart a grab by his onetime nemesis
Khan Noonian Singh for the
experimental Genesis device. That
mission in turn set off a chain of
events that led to Kirk's reunion
with Carol Marcus and his son David,
David's death, Spock's sacrifice
to save the ship and his storage of
his katra in McCoy's mind, and
the discovery that Spock's body had
regenerated on the Genesis Planet.
Bucking the odds once again, Kirk's
loyal officers all risked their
careers and lives to steal the
Enterprise, retrieve Spock's body for
refusion with his katra, and face
down a Klingon crew in their way
bent on taking Genesis - which
included the destruction of Kirk's
beloved starship. With the stolen
Klingon Bird of Prey and Spock on
the road to recovery, the officers
opted to return to face punishment -
but notbefore time-traveling to
retrieve extinct whales to space Earth
from an alien probe's onslaught
while searching for them. Once
again, Kirk was rewarded rather
than punished, and given command
of the all-new 1701-A Enterprise
that year.
Heavily involved with the beginning
peace negotiations with the
Klingons after spoiling an attempt
by terrorists to destroy the
proceedings, Kirk's actions helped
bring about peace in the galaxy
just prior to his retirement in
2293. While on the ceremonial
christening of the U.S.S. Enterprise-B,
Kirk disappeared into the
Nexus, a temporal ribbon in which
he has a timeless, perfect life, and
pronounced dead. However, in 2371,
Captain Jean-Luc Picard
persuaded him, amid endless Nexus
fantasies, to help him to save
Veridian III from the possessed
El-Aurian, Dr. Tolian Soran. They
stopped the madman's plot, but
Kirk was killed in the fight and buried
in a plain grave on the rocky planet.
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