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STARFLEET DATABASE FILE: Kirk, James T.
Mid-level Biography Brief Mode 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,
relieving Will 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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