James T Kirk: Personnel File

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James Tiberius Kirk lived most of his life in Starfleet. The man became a legend within the organisation, breaking records and establishing ties across the galaxy.
What else is there to say?
Well let's find out.
There have been a few discrepancies here and there, but let's consolidate his Starfleet career and examine his personality.
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  • @darrellbell8913
    @darrellbell89135 жыл бұрын

    My favorite quote of Kirk was of him telling Picard of the advantages of command. He said: “Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you. Don't let them do anything that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there, you can make a difference.”

  • @samdog8087

    @samdog8087

    5 жыл бұрын

    Its in the writing and actors....thats whats missing these days.

  • @karlsmith2570

    @karlsmith2570

    4 жыл бұрын

    Darrell Bell that of, course, being from "Star Trek: Generations"

  • @MusicGunn

    @MusicGunn

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@samdog8087 I find the Orville to be similar in style and is light years better than Discovery.

  • @3Rayfire

    @3Rayfire

    4 жыл бұрын

    And we saw what happened when Picard disregarded that advice.

  • @VaciliNikoMavich

    @VaciliNikoMavich

    4 жыл бұрын

    One of my very favorite quotes from him =)

  • @yemo34
    @yemo344 жыл бұрын

    "So your from outer space?" "I'm from Iowa! I only work in outer space..."

  • @oliverewarthopkins7818
    @oliverewarthopkins78185 жыл бұрын

    "Of all the souls I've met in my travels his was the most.... human." Kirk giving Spocks eulogy always guarantees man tears.

  • @BLO68

    @BLO68

    4 жыл бұрын

    One of my favorite moments in film. Why this movie is not lauded as it should be is criminal.

  • @j_fitz6913

    @j_fitz6913

    4 жыл бұрын

    Brian Lopez it was purely bad luck. It was between the praised wrath of khan and the very fun voyage home. It is a very good movie but between two juggernauts it seems to lack.

  • @DMSProduktions

    @DMSProduktions

    3 жыл бұрын

    Could equally apply to the final 'death' of Data in Ep 10 of ST Picard! He too, was the most human!

  • @philcorrigan5641

    @philcorrigan5641

    Жыл бұрын

    @@j_fitz6913 what do you mean? That line was from Wrath of Khan. Kirk says it at Spock’s space funeral at the end of the movie

  • @kathykline7202

    @kathykline7202

    5 ай бұрын

    How about Middle East, he really did, and that is your clue. All ciphers, you drag and drop with cursor drag and drop in Google trans., Z13 is Hindi, Z32 is Telugu, Z340 is Tamil, Z408 is Afrikaans, Z18 Afrikaans, you have to know his name. Z 32 is a great big clue Name is there. You hear Zodiac here and its not all Z63, if this is not true, why are all these ciphers solved in the same way? No coincidence. Expert cryptos missed the word "abroad" kEVIN & ORCHAK BROKE MY CIPHERS tOM FOUND SOLVED DATE. tHEY SOLVED IT FROM MY fb. not easy. Whyare they claiming they solved it ? money. We dont want no stickin money. I want the two more virims found and Florida looked at again very closely.

  • @meligoth
    @meligoth5 жыл бұрын

    The biggest misconception of Kirk by those outside of his crew was that he was a gloryhound despite the fact that he would never sacrifice those under his command to get ahead.

  • @tylerbushong3452

    @tylerbushong3452

    Жыл бұрын

    He was a swashbuckler, pure and simple.

  • @THE_TonyFielding
    @THE_TonyFielding4 жыл бұрын

    One of the best things about Kirk, and Shatner himself, wasn't just that the guy oozed charisma and commanded respect and authority, but that he could also be a little self deprecating and funny, even at his own expense. Trouble with Tribbles and A peice of the Action come to mind. Even after being stabbed in Journey to Babel, when McCoy tells Spock and Kirk to shut up, he does and puts his head back like a naughty child lol. Kirk is just the goddamn man :)

  • @Jawmax
    @Jawmax5 жыл бұрын

    My favorite Kirk moment? "Someone close that door."- The Trouble with Tribbles.

  • @occultatumquaestio5226

    @occultatumquaestio5226

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes that is indeed one of the funniest moments, makes me laugh every time. Fun fact: Did you know that this joke occurred a 2nd time in Star Trek The Animated Series with pink tribbles.

  • @MrYTGuy1

    @MrYTGuy1

    5 жыл бұрын

    What's even better is that it was later revealed to be sisko and dax throwing them at Kirk

  • @occultatumquaestio5226

    @occultatumquaestio5226

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@MrYTGuy1 ; That scene keeps on getting built upon. If there every is another Kelvin Timeline movie I hope that there is a scene or at the very least a deleted extended edition scene of it happening to Pine Kirk.

  • @craigme2583

    @craigme2583

    5 жыл бұрын

    I recall him sating that life wasnt meant to be easy. 'Man' needs to be challenged, to fight for his achievements, gives them meaning. It was interesting that the time i saw that episode the Australian Prime Minister said the same thing, and he was gated for it. I always wandered if he was quoting Kirk?

  • @PieFights

    @PieFights

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@occultatumquaestio5226 and also was used in a Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode More Trouble with Tribbles one of my favourite Deep Space nine episodes

  • @JAGtheTrekkieGEMINI1701
    @JAGtheTrekkieGEMINI17015 жыл бұрын

    *"I do not want my pain taken away, I need my pain!"* Yes, even Star Trek 5 has moments that will STAY IN YOUR MIND forever. Oh kirk, my old friend....

  • @maureentuohy8672

    @maureentuohy8672

    5 жыл бұрын

    The Stage of JAG THE GEMINI There is actually a lot I like about ST V.

  • @scottmantooth8785

    @scottmantooth8785

    5 жыл бұрын

    pain reminds you that you are very much alive and intended for greater things other than a mediocre existence of falling asleep in a recliner watching game show reruns

  • @Decipher13

    @Decipher13

    4 жыл бұрын

    I don't want my paint aken away either.

  • @3Rayfire

    @3Rayfire

    4 жыл бұрын

    Agreed.

  • @DMSProduktions

    @DMSProduktions

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Decipher13 Of course, you couldn't redecorate your house without it!

  • @amandaspargur4232
    @amandaspargur42325 жыл бұрын

    "What does God need with a starship? " excellent moment to show Kirk's ever questioning and sometimes challenging attitude.

  • @craigme2583

    @craigme2583

    5 жыл бұрын

    It was a time when the power of the church was rarely questioned. The show must have been so much more hard hitting when it was released than we can imagine now. May why it was not continued.

  • @DurandCompton

    @DurandCompton

    4 жыл бұрын

    That is so wrong, it's hilarious. What twaddle, what a jape, what piffle and poppycock.

  • @funkymonk255

    @funkymonk255

    4 жыл бұрын

    craig me that quote was from Star Trek V

  • @theknightsofawesomeness2701

    @theknightsofawesomeness2701

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@funkymonk255 one of the worst trek movies I've ever seen.

  • @DMSProduktions

    @DMSProduktions

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@craigme2583 It was the late 80s dude! The church had little sway by then!

  • @StaticSkyTV
    @StaticSkyTV5 жыл бұрын

    My favorite Kirk moment is when he tells his commanding officer, Commodore Matt Decker, “Not with MY ship you don’t!” and has Spock Go Full Gangster on his crazy ass.

  • @tasatort9778
    @tasatort97785 жыл бұрын

    Favorite Kirk moment was in "The Cloud Minders" : "I've never met a Vulcan before." "Nor I a work of art." Kirk looks on with an expression of "Woah! Spock got game!"

  • @robertalexander5892

    @robertalexander5892

    4 жыл бұрын

    Indeed.

  • @malcolml309

    @malcolml309

    2 жыл бұрын

    To be fair, Spock, is half-human.

  • @thatrealba
    @thatrealba4 жыл бұрын

    Captain Kirk was one of my four father figures growing up.There was nobody else, so TV provided those role models to me. It's easy for me to look back and see how he influenced my life.

  • @ThommyofThenn

    @ThommyofThenn

    Жыл бұрын

    I have a dad but he never taught me as much about life as Kirk did.

  • @joehanna3623
    @joehanna36235 жыл бұрын

    One of my favorite Kirk moments, and quotes: "YOU... VOUCHED....for ME???" - Capt. Kirk to Capt. Spock after Starfleet Command mission conference in, "The Undiscovered Country".

  • @alexb6234
    @alexb62345 жыл бұрын

    Steal the USS Enterprise...demoted to Captain...given command of the USS Enterprise. Words fail me.

  • @assassingamer1318

    @assassingamer1318

    5 жыл бұрын

    Alex B yes it is definitely a punishment not like he was to be in command of the Enterprise or anything I say in a sarcastic voice

  • @cawfeedawg

    @cawfeedawg

    5 жыл бұрын

    Karma baby :D

  • @tassadro

    @tassadro

    5 жыл бұрын

    demoted yes but saved the planet earth upon returning to take blame for his actions.

  • @kensmith2285

    @kensmith2285

    5 жыл бұрын

    He had the ultimate plot armor

  • @davfree9732

    @davfree9732

    5 жыл бұрын

    The Enterprise A was a disaster. And while he wanted to hop star systems, he was relegated to Earth while the new refit was finalised. He may have gotten a new ship, but at that time, it wasn’t a ship he could use. In a sense, he was put in the cooler and prevented from having free reign in the galaxy. Star Fleet didn’t really punish him, but they also didn’t reward him as in my view, based on events, Star Fleet put a hero of the Federation on a leash to prevent outcry and so they wouldn’t be seen as the bad guys.

  • @redshirt0479
    @redshirt04795 жыл бұрын

    One of the finest Captains in Starfleet. So hard to pick the best moments for him. Also I love that you mentioned the book _Dreadnought!_ since that's basically Into Darkness except done far better.

  • @Kreachie
    @Kreachie5 жыл бұрын

    1:07 Actually George Samuel Kirk is the Older Brother, by 3 years, just thought i’d point that out!

  • @dragdragon23
    @dragdragon235 жыл бұрын

    Every time I see Kirk pained or enraged at the lose of one of his crew, Taking it personally and I never really seen that strong of a reaction from other star ship Captains, EVER!

  • @subraxas

    @subraxas

    5 жыл бұрын

    Archer was more than comparable in this.

  • @Timberwolf69

    @Timberwolf69

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@subraxas Yeah, though given that Archer lead a ship with about an eighth of Kirk's crew...

  • @subraxas

    @subraxas

    4 жыл бұрын

    There were usually 80 to 83 crew members aboard NX-01. Kirk's ENT carried 430.

  • @Timberwolf69

    @Timberwolf69

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@subraxas 80? Wow. Where did they hide them in there? I always thought 50 would be quite a lot for that frame... But my point was that the smaller the crew is, the more likely it is you know quite a few of them on a personal basis. Besides the fact that out in space, far away from the next space station, every soul is important to the survival of the ship.

  • @edwardburdett8586
    @edwardburdett85865 жыл бұрын

    Best Kirk moment: The Deadly Years, After rapid ageing on Gamma Hydra 4 . He is relieved of command by an inexperanced Commadore who takes the Enterprise into the Neutral Zone. When surrounded, Kirk, who has been given an experimental drug. Comes onto the bridge, cured, implements “ The Corbomite Maneuver” and saves the ship.

  • @Timberwolf69

    @Timberwolf69

    4 жыл бұрын

    The experimental drug actually was a high dose of adrenaline.

  • @johnbockelie3899

    @johnbockelie3899

    4 жыл бұрын

    Both Scotty and Kirk, stuck with their uniform as their only clothes on their backs.

  • @goodknight5783
    @goodknight57834 жыл бұрын

    Going to have to point out the battle with the Gorn. His recordings give a good look into the man. From his tactical observation of terrain as well as foe, to his consideration that the situation may have 2 sides, thru to his refusal to kill for someone else's amusements. His standing up to the being that had both starships held, insuring that the other crew would be spared as well. Shows a good deal of the kind of man Kirk was.

  • @TONYGILLEY
    @TONYGILLEY5 жыл бұрын

    My favorite Kirk Moment......more like Shatner Moment: "I ORDER YOUUUU........LET ME GOOOO" -Mirror Captain Kirk But seriously 1. "Where No Man has Gone Before" The second pilot episode establishes Kirk right away. His characterization is consistent from the beginning of the series to the end of it. 2. Wrath of Khan to The Undiscovered Country: I want to say it's a subtle deconstruction of his character. A deconstruction done right (NOT the Rian Johnson Idiot way) that elevates Kirk from a good character to a Great One. (Something that JJ Abrams and his Mystery Box Dolt buddy writers are too dumb understand) Honorable Mentions: Vic Mignogna and his Star Trek Continues series. Especially the two-part finale "To Boldly Go....." In my own head cannon the official ending of Kirk's Five Year Mission.

  • @degrelleholt6314
    @degrelleholt63144 жыл бұрын

    The greatest Starfleet captain. None of the others come close.

  • @myriaddsystems
    @myriaddsystems5 жыл бұрын

    We love old Bill Shatner/Jim Kirk. He may have been accused of being over dramatic- but he has been a very decent Shakespearean actor - like all the best Star Trek actors. I also sorely miss Leonard Nimoy, absolutely irreplaceable....

  • @marysheeran519

    @marysheeran519

    8 ай бұрын

    He was directed to act a certain way with a particular energy. Roddenberry was delighted. So was Nimoy who felt that the difference between them gave their scenes additional power, whereas Hunter had been quiet and less animated, which made it difficult to draw a defining line around the characters. If you look at Shatner's body of work, you can find that he wasn't always that demonstrative but could deliver quiet performances (see "The Tenth Level," for instance or any of the 50s/60s dramas he appeared in). People keep pulling up his Twilight Zone episodes, which hardly defines the extent of his talent. And he was Christopher Plummer's understudy at Stratford.

  • @Eduardude

    @Eduardude

    2 ай бұрын

    Shatner did a truly ingenious portrayal of command authority. Very few people are capable of portraying command authority so convincingly, so intelligently. Shatner was truly brilliant at it. He is underrated, in part because the character he portrayed was so male and portrayed a very masculine ideal, and our culture often hates men for being men, and prefers to ridicule them, out of envy, jealousy, resentment, and similar dumb emotions.

  • @ericbrett3095
    @ericbrett30955 жыл бұрын

    For a fictional character he was the best at what he did. I don't think anyone but William Shatner could have pulled it off.

  • @maureentuohy8672

    @maureentuohy8672

    5 жыл бұрын

    Eric brett absolutely! Every second Mr. Shatner is on camera as Kirk he radiates electricity. Even when he is just sitting in the Captain’s chair you get the sense there is something going on behind those wonderful hazel eyes. He’s a bundle of wound up energy just waiting to burst into action. Shatner’s Kirk is smart, intuitive, and heroic. No one but Shatner could have played him.

  • @scottyb68

    @scottyb68

    4 жыл бұрын

    The Chris Pine Kirk is a punk snotty kid. Shatner was a young confidant man with swagger not bravado. Shatner is the only Kirk IMO.

  • @Timberwolf69

    @Timberwolf69

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@scottyb68 Well that Kirk had a completely different life than the one of the prime timeline.

  • @DMSProduktions

    @DMSProduktions

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@scottyb68 He had a vastly DIFFERENT upbringing too, to is prime counterpart! A snotty punk, is not surprising!

  • @Eduardude

    @Eduardude

    2 ай бұрын

    @@scottyb68 Chris Pine's Kirk is to Shatner's Kirk as the Monkees are to the Beatles. Pine's Kirk is a joke compared to Shatner's.

  • @occultatumquaestio5226
    @occultatumquaestio52265 жыл бұрын

    Well I have yet to see anyone else type it so I will do it. "KKHHHHAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!"

  • @kerryevans7283

    @kerryevans7283

    4 жыл бұрын

    I agree

  • @jonathangoode546
    @jonathangoode5465 жыл бұрын

    Captain Kirk always brought out the courage in his crew when in jeopardy.

  • @BrotherDerrick3X
    @BrotherDerrick3X4 жыл бұрын

    Kirk's middle name (Tiberius) is after the second Roman Emperor, who succeeded Caesar Augustus.

  • @KeldorDAntrell
    @KeldorDAntrell4 жыл бұрын

    Of those I can remember, in The Doomsday Machine, with time running out and facing imminent death Scotty says (from the Enterprise over the comlink) something to the effect of, "You're never gonna make it, Captain!" and Kirk calmly replies, "You work your miracles, Mr. Scott, and leave me to work mine."

  • @KingoftheJuice18
    @KingoftheJuice184 жыл бұрын

    Great video....I love the Court Martial episode and the scene where the computer is listing off Kirk's commendations. The prosecuting attorney "concedes" his record to the court. Kirk's lawyer almost agrees to move things along, but wants the extent of his heroism to be made perfectly clear. The list just goes on and on....

  • @mikhailiagacesa3406
    @mikhailiagacesa34065 жыл бұрын

    "RISK is our business. That's why we built this ship....That's why we're ABOARD HER!" Bad episode, but good quote.

  • @excelents

    @excelents

    5 жыл бұрын

    Risk is part of the game, if you want to sit in that chair.

  • @kant12

    @kant12

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's also a bad quote.

  • @TowGunner

    @TowGunner

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@excelents The only good scene in that dreck of a movie

  • @AlexMartinez-me2yc
    @AlexMartinez-me2yc5 жыл бұрын

    There should be personnel files for Captains Jonathan Archer & Spock. It would be interesting to see Subcommander T'pol's & Commander Worf's personnel files as they were the first of their worlds people to serve on Starfleet vessels. Data was a unique entity that also deserves a personnel file.

  • @STNuevo
    @STNuevo5 жыл бұрын

    Maltz: Wait! You said you would kill me. Kirk: I lied. from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

  • @jameskennedy8030
    @jameskennedy80305 жыл бұрын

    Where he tells Anan 7 that yes we're killers, but we're not going to kill today

  • @bootlegpbj3767
    @bootlegpbj3767 Жыл бұрын

    The Corbomite Maneuver and The Immunity Syndrome are perfect examples of why Kirk is such an amazing leader

  • @supermanprime6758
    @supermanprime67585 жыл бұрын

    Kirk was a Lieutenant when he taught at the Academy. It probably would have been some kind early compulsory duty, or perhaps he was injured in the Farragut Incident and he taught while he recovered.

  • @moneyspider1
    @moneyspider15 жыл бұрын

    Personally, I would have included that Kirk was resurrected, since other novels are being included as part of his personnel file in this video.

  • @anndownsouth5070
    @anndownsouth50703 жыл бұрын

    Wow. Somebody took the time to work out a whole back history for a fictional person. There is a lot more to this series than meets the eye.

  • @marysheeran519

    @marysheeran519

    8 ай бұрын

    Some books go even more into his background - like where he was born - and apparently his father had been with Starfleet, although no one ever mentions it.

  • @anarchyantz1564
    @anarchyantz15644 жыл бұрын

    It was a pity he wasnt allowed to use the line he wanted to as he was dying under the collapsed bridge which apparently was "Captain under the bridge".

  • @JGM154
    @JGM1545 жыл бұрын

    Dude, I'm pretty sure that Jim Kirk was is the younger brother of Sam Kirk, not the older one.

  • @adrianhead6272

    @adrianhead6272

    5 жыл бұрын

    Correct

  • @karlsmith2570

    @karlsmith2570

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jeremy McLaughlin you're quite correct on that Sam Kirk was eldest between Sam and Jim

  • @unclebob201
    @unclebob2015 жыл бұрын

    “Oh Khan? ...I’m LAUGHING at the superior intellect..”

  • @thomasmccullough7233
    @thomasmccullough72335 жыл бұрын

    Great video. This was really done well . Thank you so much! My favorite Kirk moment was City on the Edge of Forever!

  • @hx823

    @hx823

    5 жыл бұрын

    "Let's get the hell out of here."

  • @rickledford2953
    @rickledford29534 жыл бұрын

    Captain Kirk is Not Dead when he entered the Nexus according to guinan part of you will always exist in the Nexus

  • @richardbidinger2577
    @richardbidinger25774 жыл бұрын

    He might have been a cowboy, but he was a damned effective one.

  • @tassadro
    @tassadro5 жыл бұрын

    I am curious about worf and or data's profiles maybe even riker from the next generation crew. this video shows how through you've done kirks so I'd love to watch the rest of the star treks characters in this same way.

  • @Iliketoeatallday
    @Iliketoeatallday4 жыл бұрын

    "I won't kill him, you hear me? You'll have to find your entertainment elsewhere"

  • @crivket1233
    @crivket12332 жыл бұрын

    I can only hope , that you would write a book. Your collective histories , would be amazing! Starting with our beloved ships 🥰

  • @wishbone346
    @wishbone3463 жыл бұрын

    I'm pretty new to Trek having only started TNG at the start of quarantine and now preparing to start the original series. Based on this video it almost sounds like Riker is just Kirk light and if that's the case I can bet money he'll be my favorite captain by the time I finish the entire franchise.

  • @Eduardude

    @Eduardude

    2 ай бұрын

    Riker sucks compared to Shatner's Kirk as portrayed in the original tv series (Shatner's Kirk in the movies is not all that great though). No one comes within a million miles of Shatner's Kirk in the original tv series.

  • @redwa11er
    @redwa11er5 жыл бұрын

    Great video! Glad you didn't wait until Tuesday to release it. ;)

  • @ericmadsen9655
    @ericmadsen96554 жыл бұрын

    But Kirk would return in the novel "The Return" after being revived by the Borg. After that, Kirk would star in several novels such as "The Preserver" among other novels.

  • @drmachinewerke1
    @drmachinewerke14 жыл бұрын

    Kirk was the best. Because he surrounded himself with the best. There will never be a cast that worked as well as the original series.

  • @Eduardude

    @Eduardude

    2 ай бұрын

    No cast has come within a million miles of the original cast. Shatner and Nimoy were geniuses in the tv series, and the polarity of McCoy and Spock, with Kirk in the center, was inspired.

  • @brotherchrisrco1125
    @brotherchrisrco11253 жыл бұрын

    Great Job Rick... Thanks for your Time and Research...

  • @frankiethewizard7993
    @frankiethewizard79934 жыл бұрын

    That was an amazing video. I give you my thanks for the time & effort it took to make this. Well done.🖖

  • @cmack2769
    @cmack27695 жыл бұрын

    Another excellent video full of wonderful information about my my favorite Star Trek Captain. Love all of you videos and I thank you for sharing. A big thumbs up from me.

  • @PeteSimpson
    @PeteSimpson4 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting information. Hey, Hollywood should make a movie called 'James T Kirk'. It should be about JTK life and his achievements starting from when he was a young man and finishing off with him sitting for the first time in the captains chair on the bridge of the Enterprise.

  • @johnconnorstopskynet
    @johnconnorstopskynet4 жыл бұрын

    Another great one

  • @copperhamster
    @copperhamster4 жыл бұрын

    The book where they explain what he did in the Kobiyashi Maru test (at least that version). He made the ComputerKlingons recognize him as the famous Captain Kirk, and they accepted his word he was on a rescue mission and even assisted.

  • @gallendugall8913
    @gallendugall89135 жыл бұрын

    Ah, you've made the classic mistake. Captain is a rank but it is also a title affording broad legal powers. A person of the rank of Commander can be a Captain and will be addressed as Captain while aboard ship. If anyone else of the rank of captain boards a ship they will be referred to as the next higher rank as a courtesy - ships have only one captain. Any rank can be a Captain although some services will change the designation for enlisted. The title Captain is the master of the boat and a law unto themselves legally entitled to hand down sentences of death and marriage. It has been said that there is "nothing quite so much like God on Earth as a general on a battlefield" but for a ship's captain that's business as usual.

  • @richardvernon317

    @richardvernon317

    4 жыл бұрын

    @CipiRipi00 Lutjens was on board Bismark to be in charge of a task group made up of Bismark and Prinz Eugen. The captain of Bismark was Lindemann.

  • @j_fitz6913

    @j_fitz6913

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wait... so if a commander is captain of a ship, and a person with the actual rank of captain were to come aboard said ship they’d refer to the officer with the rank captain as rear admiral? As it’s the next highest rank from captain. What if a captain comes aboard a ship with an equal rank CO? (They are both captains in that situation) does the visiting captain get called commander, or is the visiting captain given this kinda ‘ceremonial promotion’ to being called rear admiral as well even though he is the same rank as the CO of the ship, so there is still only one captain on the ship?

  • @meganholley9352
    @meganholley93523 жыл бұрын

    I think my favorite Kirk episode was City on the Edge of Forever. I absolutely love that episode.

  • @davidcraft4462
    @davidcraft44622 жыл бұрын

    Out of all the videos about Star Trek, in games are the best! If I see an in game production, I immediately click on it! You all have never failed to make a video enjoyable! I would also like to add that Rick’s narratives are great! Keep it up!

  • @adamofgrayskull7735
    @adamofgrayskull77355 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful stuff man ,now I know and knowing is half the battle

  • @raphaelrae8186
    @raphaelrae81864 жыл бұрын

    I saw that movie where he dies. His last words were: "Did we make a difference?"!

  • @jenssteiniger6383
    @jenssteiniger63838 ай бұрын

    A true role model one of a kind captain. Power, charisma, attraction, integrity, honor and friendship

  • @Eduardude

    @Eduardude

    2 ай бұрын

    Shatner gave a truly brilliant portrayal of decisiveness and command authority -- in the original tv series, less so in the movie versions.

  • @muttproductions2536
    @muttproductions25364 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps one of the more interesting parts of Kirk's life actually happen after his actual death. When Picard informed Ambassador Spock about what really happened to Kirk, Spock went to retrieve Kirk's body and gave it a right and proper burial on the ancient Kirk family farm in Iowa, stating that "he did the same for me once." At some unknown point, the Romulans teamed up with the Borg to attempt yet another takeover of the Federation, and because the Borg had the capability to resurrect the dead (as the Nomad space probe did to Scotty during the historic Five-Year Mission), they decided to use the most famous face in all of Starfleet and the Federation to do so: the deceased Captain James Tiberius Kirk. They succeeded in resurrecting Kirk and keeping him under their control, but their plans were eventually thwarted by Dr. Julian Bashir of Deep Space 9 and Admiral Leonard McCoy, who apparently was alive and well at this point thanks to cloned organs; he was on his third heart, had lungs grown every month and had about ten yards of cloned small intestine running through his system. Sure it might be non-canon, but I'd like to think it is something that could have happened at some point. Hell, maybe it would even be picked up for the second season of Picard, albeit they'd probably have to replace McCoy with Picard and Dr. Soong for obvious reasons (RIP DeForest Kelly)

  • @pepe6666
    @pepe66664 жыл бұрын

    It's so interesting seeing how episodes fit into the big picture. Also I didn't realize just how far ahead into the future star trek 2 was

  • @danielseelye6005
    @danielseelye60055 жыл бұрын

    I'm a little surprised you didn't bring up the "Shatnerverse" book series he co-wrote with Kirk and his life with Teilani. I didn't think it contradicted Alpha canon. Is there a reason why you didn't?

  • @subraxas

    @subraxas

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's an alternate reality, plus it's not even Beta Canon proper.

  • @tomf3150

    @tomf3150

    4 жыл бұрын

    The shatnerverse was pleasant to read though and imho it's more canon than Starwars 7&8 will ever be :D

  • @RX552VBK
    @RX552VBK3 жыл бұрын

    This was one of the best Star Trek Personnel video ever. Great job! By the way, Rick, you forgot one amazing aspect of JT Kirk...he was an exceptional hand to hand combatant and Martial Artist.

  • @trekaddict
    @trekaddict4 жыл бұрын

    Kirk was a skirtchaser, yes. But in the end he always drew the line at his own crew; that one incident with that doctor on the penal colony not withstanding. Dialogue in the episode implies, to me at least, that she was not yet under his command when they first met. His one true love was, and always would be, the Enterprise. And I would have played the demoted in airquotes. Really, he was promoted back to Captain. Spock puts it best in Wrath of Khan. "It was a mistake to accept promotion. Command of a Starship is your first, best destiny. Anything else is a waste of material." As for my favourite moment? Even draw between Spock's death in Wrath of Khan, his re-emergence and "putting up a fight" in Enterprise Incident, and once again from Wrath of Khan, the entirety of the battle on the Mutara Nebula. If I had to pick one, it would be that. Because in there, you see Kirk at his finest in terms of Starfleet Command, his approach to problemsolving and generally much of what you talked about in terms of bluffing.

  • @ThommyofThenn
    @ThommyofThenn Жыл бұрын

    Watching this video.. It was fun. Oh my...

  • @BryanBeyond202
    @BryanBeyond2025 жыл бұрын

    I can only assume that it was Khan, Chang and that undercover Klingon from the trouble with Tribbles episode disliked this video.

  • @andregordon2599
    @andregordon25994 жыл бұрын

    I love every captain for very different reasons. I love Kirk cause he is unabashedly a mix of cowboy/philosopher in space

  • @riakm921
    @riakm9215 жыл бұрын

    So I may have interpreted things wrong, but I got the impression that though Kirk died on Veridian III, he still "lived on" by virtue of having merged with the Nexus Energy Ribbon?

  • @CertifiablyIngame

    @CertifiablyIngame

    5 жыл бұрын

    I like to think so too. Besides, "I think the universe owes (him) one."

  • @TheCryptoKeeper

    @TheCryptoKeeper

    9 ай бұрын

    I really like that idea but now I have to go with the the version where Borg resurrected him because I like those Shatnerverse books too much.

  • @mr51406
    @mr514063 жыл бұрын

    As a fellow Montrealer, I’m obliged to say that Kirk may have been born in Iowa but he was conceived in Montreal! It’s my head canon! 🇨🇦 Excellent file! 🌟 My Dad lived 3 blocks away from the Shatners.

  • @robertswift6101
    @robertswift61014 жыл бұрын

    best Starfleet captain ever

  • @stevenewman1393
    @stevenewman13936 ай бұрын

    🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely well done and executed in every way possible and very informatively explained in every detail way shape and form provided on this format and subject matter on the life and various commands of Captain James T. Kirk, A job very fabulously well done indeed Sir!,👌.

  • @ericvulgate
    @ericvulgate5 жыл бұрын

    see this video should be what a new show is about. the adventures of kirk would be a great story.

  • @TheSorrel
    @TheSorrel4 жыл бұрын

    My favorite Kirk moment is each time he yells "Commander Decker!" in TMP. Its like: "Everything done? Great! Time to yell at the new guy for being younger and better looking than me!"

  • @phillytvdirector
    @phillytvdirector5 жыл бұрын

    "Not with MY ship ya don't!"

  • @mariolis
    @mariolis Жыл бұрын

    I would also add "Star Trek: Generations" as it highlights that Kirk died the same way he lived , saving worlds And Star Trek: VI The undiscovered country , which shows an older Kirk stuck in the past who refuses to accept that times are changing and that peace is possible between the Federation and his old Enemy, the Klingons I would also add that in my very subjective opinion , the funniest line that Kirk ever said was to Sulu (in a TOS episode but i dont remember which) "If I wanted a Russian history lesson, I would have brought Checkov" , when Sulu said something about Siberia ... it has been a long time since I last watched TOS so I dont remember the scene very well , but I do remember myself almost falling from my chair laughing...

  • @muggy2128
    @muggy21282 жыл бұрын

    My favorite Captain

  • @Malik186M
    @Malik186M4 жыл бұрын

    Great video, thanks to people like you, I've been getting more and more into Star Trek as a whole and it has been amazing. Also, does anyone know what music that is starting at 8:57?

  • @sergioaccioly5219
    @sergioaccioly52194 жыл бұрын

    One aspect of Kirk's command style was that, despite his reputation, obeyed orders. As I recall, he disobeyed them 3 times. Once by removing Decker (who, being dead, didn't press cherges), again by rerouting the enterprise to Vulcan (career saved by T'Pau) and agains when hestole the Enterprise (demoted after saving Earth). 70 years later, captains would disobey ordes on a whim, with no blowback for their actions. Progress indeed... Also, it's worth mentioning that I remember at least five times that he willingly sacrificed Spock in the name of duty (Galileo 7, the Menagerie, Immunity syndrome, Return to Tomorrow, operation: annihilate). Plus Gary Mitchell, Edith Keller etc. I always disliked the idea that ST: THoK was the first time he was confronted with real loss.

  • @maureentuohy8672
    @maureentuohy86725 жыл бұрын

    Great Job. But I still say the death he suffered was just not worthy of one such as Kirk. True, he never chased Glory. But Glory chased him. PS For me the best Display Of JTK is seen in “The Corbomit Maneuver.” Also if you just can’t get enough TOS. Check out “Star Trek Continues “ a Web series. It is phenomenal.

  • @trekaddict
    @trekaddict4 жыл бұрын

    According to the file displayed in the ENT Season 4 mirror episode, Hoshi Sato died on Tarsus IV. So she almost had to have run into a young Jim Kirk.

  • @Balon-Breakspear
    @Balon-Breakspear Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Lucille Ball for believing in Star Trek. Without her we might never have had this show along with all its lore and canon. I love Lucy

  • @davedumas0
    @davedumas05 жыл бұрын

    i love the lcars graphics :) hell it looks like it could be something that would be on a lcars terminal in kirks time

  • @julius-stark
    @julius-stark5 жыл бұрын

    Discovery will find some way to screw all this up and make Michael Burnham the reason why Kirk becomes a great captain.

  • @maureentuohy8672

    @maureentuohy8672

    5 жыл бұрын

    Senior Woodz That thing is an abomination

  • @drmayeda1930

    @drmayeda1930

    5 жыл бұрын

    Kirk is his own person. Anything saying otherwise is a full travesty. The only thing Burnham could teach Kirk is how to code. Helping a white male might go against the SJW code though. It would have been interesting to see Kirk matching wits with burnham.

  • @gabrielabate6020
    @gabrielabate60204 жыл бұрын

    My favorite Kirk moment is "Gentlemen, I suggest you beam aboard!" The Doomsday Machine has great moments for Kirk, Spock and Decker.

  • @Sly88Frye
    @Sly88Frye5 жыл бұрын

    Captain Picard will always be my favorite, but Captain Kirk is definitely a close second and is awesome in his own way!

  • @JohnnyT.1959.
    @JohnnyT.1959.2 жыл бұрын

    My favorite Kirk moment at the end of the omega glory when he tells cloud william that their "Holy words" (the constitution) are meant for all of them everyone. It applies to everyone do you understand.

  • @leondillon8723
    @leondillon87234 жыл бұрын

    Kirk was a Midshipman on the USS Farragut(NCC 1702).He reported the Officer of the Watch, which kept the man from being promoted("Court Martial").By 2nd Officer, is the poster suggesting that he was the senior officer after the ship's 1st Lieu Tenant, who is 3rd in command of a ship? An XO is second in command. XOs usually go on to a command of their own instead of getting a lower duty position.

  • @richardvernon317

    @richardvernon317

    4 жыл бұрын

    Just actual watched Court Martial. Kirk and Finney were on the USS Republic. Kirk was a Lt on the Farragut. The First Lieutenant is the British term for the USN XO on a warship. It is an appointment and not a rank.

  • @scottyb68
    @scottyb684 жыл бұрын

    I always thought that Kirk saving the Enterprise B would have been the best way for him to go. It was a perfect tie in to the Next Generation but to find him and bring him back with Picard was stupid. Kirk saving the ship is his best destiny.

  • @thomashill6347
    @thomashill63475 жыл бұрын

    VERY WELL DONE, a up dated one, I would like one On Commander Spock or Captain Christopher Pike

  • @_Muzolf
    @_Muzolf5 жыл бұрын

    Changs opinion as he started was not something he actually believed in. He needed to deal with Kirk in a courtroom, but in actuality had some respect, mayhaps even some admiration for him, and was actually more then happy to rather face him in battle in the end. If anything, Chang had more respect for Kirk then for the entire rest of the Federation whos ideals he despised.

  • @CertifiablyIngame

    @CertifiablyIngame

    5 жыл бұрын

    Agreed, but the point stands; that viewing his record with no context could easily validate Chang's claim. Hence the reason he brought it up. I liked Chang as a villain, he was a good foil.

  • @_Muzolf

    @_Muzolf

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@CertifiablyIngame - Good point. Seems i misunderstood. Hey, since i got your attention, can i ask you if you are aware of the continuity of the game Klingon Academy? I realize games are not considered canon, but its worth just to see the animations as it expands on Chang and on the Klingons (And really, just watch it for the superb acting of Christopher Plummer), and what lead up to what happened in Undiscovered County.

  • @CertifiablyIngame

    @CertifiablyIngame

    5 жыл бұрын

    I know of it, but I haven't seen it. Worth a watch I take it then?

  • @_Muzolf

    @_Muzolf

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@CertifiablyIngame - Definitely. The whole thing (- gameplay) is up on youtube: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iqWKzrWHgJTQdaw.html

  • @Eduardude

    @Eduardude

    2 ай бұрын

    Chang in Undiscovered Country was brilliantly written and brilliantly portrayed. The character as written captured perfectly a kind of love-hate relationship that some enemies of the West have with the West. On the one hand, they pretend to be above the West and superior to it, and yet at the same time, they have an inferiority complex toward the West. The kind of character I mean can't help, despite himself, betraying involuntarily that he worships the West, and hates the West for that very reason, due to envy. The Chang character in Undiscovered Country thus constantly quotes Western literature and Shakespeare. Chang thinks he taunts Kirk's culture by quoting it, yet his continual quoting betrays an envy of that culture and a fascination with it, and the envy drives his hatred toward that culture. The writer of the script had brilliant insight into how a psychological inferiority complex toward Western culture can be masked by hatred and a pretense of superiority toward Western culture.

  • @super_ficial
    @super_ficial4 ай бұрын

    "There are a million things in this life that you can have and there are a million things that you can't have." Captain James T. Kirk - Star date unknown.

  • @bullworth3040
    @bullworth30404 жыл бұрын

    WOW!

  • @Da40kOrks
    @Da40kOrks5 жыл бұрын

    Even though it was more of a Spock episode, acting insane in The Enterprise Incident.

  • @karlsmith2570
    @karlsmith25704 жыл бұрын

    Great analysis of Captain Kirk's career Can you please do one on Spock and other TOS characters??

  • @vanessak1682
    @vanessak1682 Жыл бұрын

    Kirk surrounded himself with very compedent companions and crew

  • @bigguy7353
    @bigguy73534 жыл бұрын

    I love Star Trek, but I am nowhere near the tome of knowledge you are, sir. Just a suggestion.....when you reference years in the 23rd, 24th, 25th century, et cetera, and the events occured during a major motion picture or during a series, just quickly reference what that was for the casual fan. For example : .....they encountered Kahn Noonien Singh DURING THE EVENTS OF "STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KAHN"- et cetera.... or, "STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE S3 EP15" (or whatever). Doing that makes it more accessible to the beginning fan, and more thorough on your part. Love the channel! Cheers!

  • @geraldthompson4633
    @geraldthompson46334 жыл бұрын

    Had to be the emotional distress he contended with in city on the edge of forever

  • @donovanporter4545
    @donovanporter45455 жыл бұрын

    The date of kahn is wrong first encounter happened in 2267 and the kahn incident happened in 2282 remember he said a man he hasn't seen in 15 years

  • @gallendugall8913
    @gallendugall89135 жыл бұрын

    And if you want to know why Kirk doesn't believe in the no win scenario watch "The Conscience of the King"

  • @maureentuohy8672

    @maureentuohy8672

    4 жыл бұрын

    Gallen Dugall Absolutely!! That episode is one of my top three. I wish they would do a mini series on it. It has such a deep impact on his character.

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