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The Captain.James Tiberius Kirk leads his ship, the Enterprise, through the adventure of the week — hostile cultures, supercomputers, places which look suspiciously like Earth, time-travel …
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After promising Leighton's distraught wife Martha that he will find out why her husband was killed, Kirk calls in a favor: he asks Jon Daily, commanding officer of the Astral Queen, to leave Planet Q orbit ahead of schedule and without notice. This strands the Karidian Players, who now have no choice but to ask for passage aboard the Enterprise .
After promising Leighton's distraught wife Martha that he will find out why her husband was killed, Kirk calls in a favor: he asks Jon Daily , commanding officer of the Astral Queen, to leave Planet Q orbit ahead of schedule and without notice.
He returns to the planet in hopes of meeting Karidian in person. At a cocktail party held at the Leightons' home, Kirk meets Karidian's attractive daughter Lenore, and the two hit it off. They leave the party to stroll in Planet Q's desert, and come upon the body of their host Thomas Leighton.
The title is a reference to the line from Hamlet: " The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. " (Act 2; Scene 2) This episode shares many plot elements with the play: A leader's troubled conscience, his crimes being exposed during a play, and a daughter going insane (or more so, in Lenore's case) after the accidental killing of her father. Lenore recites the lines leading up to and including these over her father's body.
The face covering Tom Leighton wore to hide his injuries is almost identical to one worn by a character in "The Duplicate Man", a 1964 episode of The Outer Limits which was also directed by Gerd Oswald. (citation needed • edit) The ship's theater is a redress of the engineering set.
The Star Trek theme song is performed by the lounge band at Tom Leighton's party. This is the first time the Star Trek theme has been played as "source music". The other times this occurs in the original series is later in the episode when Kirk is speaking to Lenore in Karidian's cabin, when Areel Shaw enters the bar in " Court Martial ", and when Kirk, McCoy, and Tonia Barrows run to Sulu's position in " Shore Leave ".
Twenty years after earning the name, Kodos the Executioner is dead. The death of her beloved father at her own hands sends Lenore over the edge.
Captain Kirk is informed by his old friend, Dr. Thomas Leighton, that the head of a Shakespearean acting troupe (known as Anton Karidian) was once known as "Kodos the Executioner".
Barbara Anderson developed a fever blister/cold sore on her lip during filming. Besides using makeup to partially disguise it, she was often filmed with part of her lower face in shadow.
Veridian III. James Tiberius Kirk is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise. Originally played by actor William Shatner, Kirk first appeared in Star Trek: The Original Series serving aboard the starship USS Enterprise as captain. Kirk leads his crew as they explore new worlds, new civilizations, ...
Often, the characters of Spock and Leonard McCoy act as his logical and emotional sounding boards, respectively. Captain Kirk has been portrayed in numerous films, books, comics, webisodes, and video games. Kirk first appears in Star Trek' s first episode, " The Man Trap ", broadcast on September 8, 1966.
Roddenberry wrote in a production memo that Kirk is not afraid of being fallible, but rather is afraid of the consequences to his ship and crew should he make an error in judgment. Roddenberry wrote:
This Star Trek film series takes place in an alternate universe known as the "Kelvin Timeline". In this series, Chris Pine plays Kirk, Zachary Quinto plays Spock, Karl Urban plays Bones McCoy, Simon Pegg plays Montgomery "Scotty" Scot t, Zoë Saldana plays Nyota Uhura, John Cho plays Hikaru Sulu, and Anton Yelchin plays Pavel Chekov. The 2009 film Star Trek introduces an alternative timeline that reveals different origins for Kirk, the formation of his association with Spock, and how they came to serve together on the Enterprise. The point of divergence between The Original Series and the film occurs on January 4, 2233, which becomes the day of Kirk's birth. Although the film treats specific details from Star Trek as mutable, characterizations are meant to "remain the same". In the film, George and Winona Kirk name their son James Tiberius after his maternal and paternal grandfathers, respectively. He is born on a shuttle escaping the starship USS Kelvin, on which his father is killed when the Kelvin is attacked by a Romulan ship from the future. The character begins as "a reckless, bar-fighting rebel" who eventually matures. According to Pine, the character is "a 25-year-old [who acts like a] 15-year-old" and who is "angry at the world", until he enrolls in Starfleet Academy basically after being 'dared' by Captain Christopher Pike. Kirk and Spock clash at Starfleet Academy, but, over the course of the film, Kirk focuses his "passion and obstinance and the spectrum of emotions" and becomes captain of the Enterprise, aided by a meeting with the time-displaced Spock of the original timeline, who inspires Kirk to live up to his full potential. The alternate timeline continues in the 2013 sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, and the 2016 sequel Star Trek Beyond, in which Pine reprises his role.
Kirk became the first and only student at Starfleet Academy to defeat the Kobayashi Maru test, garnering a commendation for original thinking after he reprogrammed the computer to make the "no-win scenario" winnable. Kirk was granted a field commission as an ensign and posted to advanced training aboard the USS Republic. He was then promoted to lieutenant junior grade and returned to Starfleet Academy as a student instructor. According to a friend, students could either "think or sink" in his class, and Kirk himself was "a stack of books with legs". Upon graduating in the top five percent, Kirk was promoted to lieutenant and served aboard the USS Farragut. While assigned to the Farragut, Kirk commanded his first planetary survey and survived a deadly attack that killed a large portion of the Farragut ' s crew, including his commanding officer, Captain Garrovick.
Meyer's The Wrath of Khan script focuses on Kirk's age, with McCoy giving him a pair of glasses as a birthday present. The script states that Kirk is 49 , but Shatner was unsure about being specific about Kirk's age because he was hesitant to portray a middle-aged version of himself. Shatner changed his mind when producer Harve Bennett convinced Shatner that he could age gracefully like Spencer Tracy. Spock's sacrifice at the end of the film allows for Kirk's spiritual rebirth; after commenting earlier that he feels old and worn out, Kirk states in the final scene that he feels "young." Additionally, Spock's self-sacrificing solution to the no-win Kobayashi Maru scenario, which Kirk had cheated his way through, forces Kirk to confront death and to grow as a character.
First produced in 2013, the 11 episode series Star Trek Continues also looked to chronicle the "lost seasons" of Star Trek: The Original Series. The series developer and producer is popular anime voice actor Vic Mignogna, who also plays the role of Kirk.
After encountering a severe ion storm, the Enterprise visits Star Base 11 for repairs. While there, Kirk files a report about the death of crewman and former friend LCDR Finney, who was taking scientific readings in an externally mounted instrument pod before Kirk needed to jettison it for the safety of the ship.
This marks the only appearance of the female Starfleet dress uniform during The Original Series, worn by Lt. Areel Shaw ( Joan Marshall ). Key differences between this uniform and the standard female uniform are a satin-like sheen, a gold braid on the edge of the collar, and a longer skirt length.
when asked to share his pain with Sybok, Kirk becomes the Kirk of old yelling, “I don’t want my pain taken away, I need my pain!” [...] Kirk has always been a champion of being screwed up.
At the beginning of Into Darkness, he bragged how no one in his crew was killed in the past six months of his command, then his mission to Kronos cost the lives of his escorts, many of the crewmen sucked into space at warp speed and fell into their deaths when the ship was crashing. Kirk was unable to do anything but watch. He tried to save one woman, but she slipped from his fingers.
Adaptational Dye-Job: A minor example; the original Kirk had hazel eyes, while this one's eyes are blue.
Broken Ace: While Kirk Prime had shades of this, the premature loss of his father in this reality definitely has caused this Kirk to grow up a lot more rough around the edges. Many of his behaviors, such as excessive flirting and posturing, could be construed as coping mechanisms for his Dark and Troubled Past.
Kirk is confident about himself, fearless, and absolutely believes there's no such thing as a no-win scenario, prompting him to cheat at the Kobayashi Maru test to prove his point. But then comes Star Trek Into Darkness where he gets demoted and lost the command of the Enterprise, lost his father figure Pike, and almost led his entire ship to its demise because of his impulsiveness (good thing Scotty saved them).
Ambiguously Bi: It's been discussed how Shatner imbued Kirk with a sense of flamboyance that he probably wasn't created with, Spock is described as the person who knows Kirk better than anyone (and the movies ran with it, "the noblest part of myself"), the doublespeaky footnote has him say he finds "best gratification" in women which is definitely not ruling men out, and both Mudd and Uhura look at him weirdly when he asks about male androids in "I Mudd".
The Captain. James Tiberius Kirk leads his ship, the Enterprise, through the adventure of the week—hostile cultures, supercomputers, places which look suspiciously like Earth, time-travel shenanigans. A very talented and level-headed officer, Kirk always took his duty to Starfleet deeply seriously and his main concern in any crisis was always the safety of his ship and crew. He was notorious for his hollow seductions, and a few romances which ended tragically, but mostly those failed because he named the Enterprise herself as the woman in his life. Although he took the dangers to his crew very seriously, he also maintained a light-hearted attitude and bantered with the other two members of his Power Trio frequently.
As officers were arresting the man for disorderly conduct, they asked for his name. The arrest report stated the man told him his name was “James Tiberius Kirk,” the same name as the “Star Trek” protagonist Captain Kirk, famously portrayed by actors William Shatner and Chris Pine.
James Bundrick, 56, who claimed his name was Captain Kirk, was arrested on Monday. (Pinellas County Jail) A man who was captured masturbating in public on Monday told Florida police officers he was Captain Kirk from “Star Trek.”. Officers from the Clearwater Police Department were called to a bus stop on Monday morning following a report ...
The Conscience of the King. For the historical novel by English author Alfred Duggan, see Conscience of the King. " The Conscience of the King " is the 13th episode of the first season of the American science-fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Barry Trivers and directed by Gerd Oswald, it was first aired on December 8, 1966.
These actions arouse the curiosity of First Officer Spock, who after an investigation of his own, learns the history of the massacre, Kirk and Riley's connection to it, and that seven of the nine witnesses to the massacre have died, in each case when Karidian's troupe was somewhere nearby.
Karidian, overhearing, is disturbed, and Lenore tries to reassure him by revealing that she has been killing the witnesses to his crimes. Kirk, overhearing this conversation, moves to arrest them both. Lenore snatches a phaser from a security guard and aims at Kirk. Karidian jumps into the line of fire, is hit, and dies.
Michelle Erica Green of Trek Today also praised Moss and Anderson's performances, but criticized the episode's script. Later Star Trek writer Ronald D. Moore considers the episode to be "deeply underrated" and one of the series' best.
The USS Enterprise is called to Planet Q by Dr. Thomas Leighton, a friend of Captain Kirk 's, ostensibly to investigate a possible new synthetic food source . Leighton's true motivation, however, is his suspicion that Anton Karidian, the leader of a Shakespearean acting troupe currently on the planet, is in fact Kodos the Executioner, former governor of the Earth colony of Tarsus IV. Kodos had seized power during a food crisis, and had ordered that half the population be put to death; both Leighton and Kirk were eyewitnesses. Kirk insists Kodos cannot still be alive, but reconsiders after researching Karidian's background. Hoping to meet Karidian at a party at Leighton's home, Kirk meets his daughter Lenore. During a walk outside the two discover Leighton dead.