KIRK RESERVE
James Tiberius "Jim" Kirk was a male Human Starfleet officer who lived during the 23rd century. Kirk was arguably one of the most famous and highly decorated starship captains in the history of Starfleet. As the commanding officer of the Constitution class starships USS Enterprise and USS Enterprise-A, Kirk served United Federation of Planets interests as an explorer, soldier, diplomat, and time traveller.
He was born on Earth in Iowa on March 22nd, 2233 as a citizen of the Federation.
He was the son of George and Winona Kirk. His parents named him after his maternal grandfather, James, and his paternal grandfather, Tiberius. Kirk also had one older brother, George Samuel. Kirk's father, Lieutenant George Kirk was serving as first officer of the USS Kelvin during the time of Kirk's birth. In 2252, Kirk entered Starfleet Academy. Kirk often spoke of his father as being his inspiration for joining Starfleet. When he was a midshipman, Kirk began a friendship with his instructor, Lieutenant Benjamin Finney. Their relationship was so important to the two men that Finney named his daughter, Jame, after Kirk. During his time in the Command Training Program, Kirk confronted the Kobayashi Maru scenario, a simulation used to evaluate a student's reactions to a "no-win" battle and rescue situation. Kirk refused to accept his first two defeats. Before making a third attempt, he secretly reprogrammed the simulation computer, consequently becoming the only cadet in Academy history to beat the "no-win" scenario, and earning a commendation for original thinking. In 2255, upon graduating from Starfleet Academy, Lieutenant Kirk began his service under Captain Garrovick. Kirk's first deep space assignment was as a lieutenant aboard Garrovick's USS Farragut. Kirk's Starfleet service through the late 2250s and early 2260s was rewarded with a rapid rise through the ranks.
By 2265, at the age of thirty-two, Kirk assumed command of the Constitution-class USS Enterprise from Christopher Pike. Kirk's father lived long enough to see his son earn his first captaincy.
Along with the Enterprise, Kirk also acquired Pike's science officer, a Vulcan lieutenant commander named Spock, as his first officer.
Kirk commanded the Enterprise from 2265 to 2270, which made him a legend in space exploration. In addition to his primary mission statement – "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life, and new civilizations" – Kirk received standing orders to investigate all quasars, and quasar-like phenomena. Kirk and his bridge crew became the first Starfleet officers to make visual contact with a Romulan, finally revealing their appearance to Starfleet. Kirk became the first Federation starship captain to ever face a court martial, after he was accused of causing the death of Lt. Commander Benjamin Finney, the Enterprise records officer. Kirk was exonerated after Finney was discovered alive, having faked his death and the evidence implicating Kirk.
Several of Kirk's voyages involved travel through time, either personally through time portals or along with the entire starship Enterprise via acceleration through gravity wells. According to the Federation's Department of Temporal Investigations, Kirk, who sometimes ignored regulations when he felt it was for the greater good, amassed seventeen separate temporal violations during his career, more than any other person on file as of 2373. Kirk and crew visited 20th century Earth on multiple occasions during his captaincy. When the Enterprise travelled back in time from 2267 to Earth of 1969, but was accidentally observed by the United States Air Force, Kirk, with Sulu, beamed down to a military base in Omaha, Nebraska, to destroy photographic evidence of the Enterprise's appearance. By warping around the sun's gravity well in a slingshot manoeuvre, Kirk and his crew managed to rectify the situation and return to their own time aboard the Enterprise. In 2268, Kirk was ordered to repeat the recently proven slingshot manoeuvre, taking the Enterprise back to 1968 on a mission of historical observation. Intercepting enigmatic agent Gary Seven, Kirk attempted to stop his interference but eventually cooperated with Seven's effort to avert a nuclear exchange between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. His extensive knowledge of his ancestral background served him well on numerous occasions. In travels to Earth's past, or on planets mirroring Earth's development, Kirk was able to function and pass himself off as a native of the time or culture with (more or less) ease. Kirk spent a huge portion of his life aboard starships, and consequently relished the times he could spend outdoors. He was an accomplished equestrian and kept a horse at a mountain cabin that he owned during his first retirement. Another companion at his mountain cabin was Butler, his Great Dane. A personal challenge that nearly cost him his life was free-solo climbing the face of El Capitan mountain in Yosemite National Park on Earth.
The USS Enterprise returned to Earth in 2270. Kirk's successful missions resulted in his promotion to rear admiral and a posting as Chief of Starfleet Operations in San Francisco for the following two and a half years. Kirk retired from Starfleet sometime before 2284. Shortly after retirement, Kirk joined his friends Montgomery Scott and Pavel Chekov as the honoured guests of Captain John Harriman on the maiden voyage of the Excelsior-class starship USS Enterprise-B. The event was little more than a ceremonial cruise, as the Enterprise-B was not yet fully crewed or equipped for regular duty. Soon after departure, the ship received a distress signal from two Whorfin-class ships transporting refugees, trapped in an energy distortion called the Nexus. With the advice of Kirk, and the help of Scott and Chekov, the rescue mission was a partial success, but the Enterprise-B succumbed to the Nexus' gravimetric field. Declining Harriman's offer to take command, Kirk volunteered to modify the ship's deflector relays and successfully enabled the ship's escape, but not before a burst of energy from the Nexus breached the secondary hull. Kirk was lost and presumed dead.
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