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James Tiberius Kirk was the commander of the original Starship Enterprise during its five-year mission of exploration in 2264-2269.
Starfleet Serial number: SC 937-0176- CEC.

Childhood and family
Kirk was born in 2233 in Iowa on planet Earth. In 2246, Kirk, at age 13, was one of nine surviving eyewitnesses to the massacre of some 4.000 colonists at planet Tarsus IV by Kodos the Executioner.James Kirk lost his older brother, George Samuel Kirk (Whom only James called Som), and sister-in-law, Aurelan Kirk , on planet Deneva due to the invasion of the Denevan neural parasites in 2267. Kirk's nephew, Peter Kirk survived. Sam Kirk had two other sons who were not on Denevan at the time of the tragedy.

Kirk at the Academy
During his Academy days, Kirk was tormented by an upperclassman named Finnegan, who frequently chose Kirk as a target for practical jokes. Kirk found a measure of satisfaction years later, in 2267, when he had a chance to wallop a replica of Finnegan created on the amusement park planet in the Omicron Delta region. Kirk served as an instructor at the Academy and Gary Mitchell was one of his students. The two were good friends, and once Mitchell took a poisonous dart on Dimorus meant for Kirk, saving Kirk's life. Mitchell set Kirk up with a 'little blond lab tech' whom he almost married. Another of Kirk's friends from his Academy days was Benjamin Finney, who named his daughter, Jamie, after Kirk. A rift developed between Finney and Kirk around 2250 when the two were serving together on the U.S.S. Republic. Kirk logged a mistake that Finney had made, and Finney blamed Kirk for his subsequent failure to earn command of a starship. Kirk's service aboard the Republic was apparently while he was still attending the Academy, since he was an ensign on the Republic, but he was a lieutenant on the Farragut, which was described as his first posting after the Academy. One of Kirk's heroes at the Academy was the legendary Captain Garth of Izar, whose exploits are required reading. Years later, Kirk helped save his hero when Garth had become criminally insane and was being treated at the Elba II penal colony. Another of Kirk's personal heroes was Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States of America on Earth. At the Academy, James Kirk earned something of a reputation for himself as having been the only cadet ever to have beaten the 'no-win' Kobayashi Maru scenario. He did it by secretly reprogramming the simulation computer to make it possible to win, earning a commendation for original thinking in the process. Early days in Starfleet: Kirk's first assignment after graduating from the Academy was aboard the U.S.S. Farragut. One of his first missions as a young lieutenant was to command a survey mission to Tyree's planet in 2254. This incident presumably took place while Kirk was assigned to the Farragut. While serving aboard the Farragut in 2257, Lieutenant Kirk blamed himself for the deaths of 200 Farragut personnel, including Captain Garrovick, by the dikironium cloud creature at planet Tycho IV. Kirk felt he could have acted faster in firing on the creature, but learned years later that nothing could have prevented the deaths.Sometime in the past Kirk almost died from Vegan choriomeningitis. Aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise: Kirk's greatest renown came from his command of a historic five-year mission of the original Starship Enterprise from 2264-2269 that made him a legend in space exploration. By 2267, Kirk had earned an impressive list of commendations from Starfleet, including the Palm leaf of Axanar Peace Mission, the Grankite Order of Tactics (Class of Excellence), and the Preantares Ribbon of Commendation (Classes First and Second). Kirk's awards for valor included the Medal of Honor, the Silver Palm with Cluster, the Starfleet Citation for Conspicuous Gallantry, and the Kragite Order of Heroism. In 2267, Kirk became the first starship captain ever to stand trial when he was accused of causing the death of Benjamin Finney. Kirk's trial, held at Starbase 11, proved Kirk innocent of wrongdoing, and he was exonerated. During that original five-year mission, Kirk recorded a tape of last orders to be played by Commander Spock and Chief Medical Officer McCoy upon his death. While trapped in a spatial interphase near Tholian space, Kirk vanished with the U.S.S. Defiant and was declared dead. His last orders conveyed the hope that his two friends would work together, despite their differences. Kirk was once split into two personalities by a transporter malfunction. His living quarters aboard the original Enterprise were on Deck 5. It was during this five-year mission that Kirk's friendships with officers Spock and McCoy developed, friendships that would last the rest of their lives.

Relationships with women
Kirk was notably unsuccessful in maintaining a long-term relationship with any woman. Although he was involved with many different women during his life, his intense passion for his career always seemed to interfere. A few years prior to his command of the first Enterprise, Kirk became involved with Dr. Carol Marcus. The two had a child, David Marcus, but Kirk and Carol did not remain together, because their respective careers took them in separate directions. Other significant romances in Kirk's life included Ruth, with whom he was involved when he attended Starfleet Academy, Janice Lester, with whom he spent a year, also during his Academy days, Janet Wallace, a scientist who later saved his life, Areel Shaw, who, ironically, years later prosecuted Kirk in the case of Ben Finney's apparent death, and Miramanee, a woman whom Kirk married in 2268 when he suffered from amnesia on a landing party mission. Miramanee became pregnant with Kirk's child, but both mother and unborn child were killed in a local power struggle. Kirk fell in love with Antonia after his first retirement from Starfleet, and for the rest of his life regretted not having proposed to her. Perhaps Kirk's most tragic romantic involvement was with American social worker Edith Keeler, whom Kirk met in Earth's past when he traveled into the 1930s through the Guardian of Forever. Keeler was a focal point in time, and Kirk was forced to allow her death in order to prevent a terrible change in the flow of history.

David Marcus
Kirk was not involved with the upbringing of his son, David Marcus, at the request of the boy's mother, Carol Marcus. Kirk had no contact with his son until 2285, when Carol and David were both working on Project Genesis, and Kirk helped rescue the two from Khan's vengeance. Later, Kirk and his son were able to achieve a degree of rapprochement. Tragically, David was murdered shortly thereafter on the Genesis Planet, by a Klingon officer who sought to steal the secret of Genesis.

After the five-year mission
Following the return of the Enterprise from the five-year mission in 2270, Kirk accepted a promotion to admiral, while the Enterprise underwent an extensive refit. At the time, Kirk recommended Will Decker to replace him as Enterprise captain, although Kirk accepted a grade reduction back to captain when he regained command of the ship to meet the V'Ger threat in 2271. Kirk's first retirement from Starfleet happened some time thereafter. (The significant time gap between Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan might suggest the possibility that Kirk commanded a second five-year mission of the Enterprise following the events in the first Star Trek movie, although this is pure conjecture. If Kirk and the Enterprise did embark on a second five-year mission in 2271, they probably returned in 2276. Star Trek: Generations could be interpreted to suggest that Kirk's first retirement was some time between 2276, and 2282, when he met Antonia.)
Kirk returned to Starfleet in 2284 and became a staff instructor with the rank of admiral at Starfleet Academy. Kirk was dissatisfied with a ground assignment, and returned to active duty in 2285 when Khan Noonien Singh hijacked the Starship Reliant and stole the Genesis Device. Kirk's close friend, Spock, was killed in that incident. Upon learning that Spock's katra survived, Kirk hijacked the Enterprise to the Genesis Planet to return Spock's body to Vulcan, where the body was reunited with Spock's katra. Kirk ordered the Enterprise destroyed in the incident to prevent its capture by Klingons. Kirk was charged with nine violations of Starfleet regulations in connection with the revival of Spock in 2285. All but one charge was later dropped, and Kirk was found guilty of the one remaining charge, that of disobeying a superior officer. The Federation Council was nonetheless so grateful for Kirk's role in saving Earth from the devastating effects of an alien probe that it granted Kirk the captaincy of the second Starship Enterprise.
Kirk was an intensely driven individual who loved the outdoors. A personal challenge that nearly cost him his life was free-climbing the sheer El Capitan mountain face in Yosemite National Park on Earth. 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. He sold the cabin some time after his return to Starfleet. Kirk carried the bitterness for his son's murder for years, and opposed the peace initiative of Klingon chancellor Gorkon in 2293. He especially resented the fact that he was chosen as the Federation's olive branch and assigned the duty of escorting Gorkon to Earth. During that mission, Kirk (along with McCoy) was arrested and wrongly convicted for the murder of Gorkon by Federation and Klingon forces conspiring to block Gorkon's initiatives. Kirk nevertheless played a pivotal role in saving the historic Khitomer peace conference from further attacks. Kirk retired from Starfleet a second time about three months after the Khitomer conference.
Shortly after his second retirement, Kirk was an honored guest at the launch of the Excelsior -class Starship Enterprise -B in 2293. Kirk was believed killed on that ship's maiden voyage, although it was later learned that he had actually disappeared into a temporal anomaly called the nexus. He remained in the nexus until 2371, when he emerged to help save the inhabitants of the Veridian system. Kirk, working with fellow Enterprise captain Jean-Luc Picard, was successful in saving the Veridians, but the heroic effort cost Kirk his life at the hand of the deranged scientist, Tolian Soran. James T. Kirk is buried on a mountain top on planet Veridian III. He went boldly, where none had gone before. Kirk's first appearance was in 'Where No Man Has Gone Before' (TOS).

Spock was the science officer aboard the original Starship Enterprise under the command of Captain James T. Kirk. Born 2230 on planet Vulcan. His mother, Amanda Grayson, was a human schoolteacher from Earth, and his father, Sarek, was a diplomat from Vulcan. As a result, he was torn between two worlds, the stern discipline of Vulcan logic and the emotionalism of his human side. The struggle to reconcile his two halves would torment him for much of his life. Spock's Starfleet service number was S179-276 SP. As of 2267, he had earned the Vulcanian Scientific Legion of Honor, had been twice decorated by Starfleet Command, and held an A7 computer expert classification. His blood type was T-negative.

Childhood and family
When he was five years old, Spock came home upset because Vulcan boys had tormented him, saying he wasn't really Vulcan. As a child, Spock had a pet sehlat, sort of a live Vulcan teddy bear. Spock was raised with an older half-brother, Sybok, until Sybok was ostracized from Vulcan society because he rejected the Vulcan dogma of pure logic. (Gene Roddenberry considered the Sybok story to be apocryphal.) Spock himself endured considerable anti-human prejudice on the part of many Vulcans, an experience that may have later made it easier for Spock to find a home in the interstellar community of Starfleet. At age seven, Spock was telepathically bonded with a young Vulcan girl named T'Pring. Less than a marriage, but more than a betrothal, the telepathic touch would draw the two together when the time was right after both came of age. Spock experienced Pon farr, the powerful mating drive, in 2267, when he was compelled to return to Vulcan to claim T'Pring as his wife. T'Pring spurned Spock in favor of Stonn, freeing Spock. Spock's father, Sarek, had hoped his son would attend the Vulcan Science Academy, and was bitterly disappointed when Spock instead chose to join Starfleet. Spock and his father had not spoken as father and son for 18 years until a medical emergency drew them together.

Aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise
Spock was the first Vulcan to enlist in the Federation Starfleet, and distinguished himself greatly as science officer aboard the original U.S.S. Enterprise. His logical Vulcan thought-patterns proved of tremendous value when Spock first served aboard the Enterprise during the command of Captain Christopher Pike. Spock said he worked with Pike for 11 years, 4 months, which suggests he was young enough when he first came on board the Enterprise that he was probably still attending Starfleet Academy. Because of this, we speculate that Spock's first year on the Enterprise was as a cadet. Under the command of James Kirk, Spock suffered infection by parasites on planet Deneva in 2267, an intensely painful experience. He survived the Denevan neural parasites after being exposed to intense electromagnetic radiation that drove the parasites from his body. Spock was briefly feared to have been blinded by the light, but it was later learned that his Vulcan inner eyelid had protected his vision. Spock was critically wounded on Tyree's planet in 2267 with an ancient weapon known as a flintlock. He survived using a Vulcan healing technique in which the mind concentrates on the injured organs. Following the conclusion of Kirk's five-year mission, Spock retired from Starfleet, returning to Vulcan to pursue the kolinahr discipline. Although he completed the training intended to purge all remaining emotion, Spock nonetheless failed to achieve kohlinar because his emotions were stirred by the V'Ger entity in 2271. Spock subsequently remained with Starfleet and was eventually promoted to Enterprise captain when that ship was assigned as a training vessel at Starfleet Academy.

Death and rebirth
Spock was killed in 2285 while saving the Enterprise from the detonation of the Genesis Device by Khan Noonien Singh. His body was consigned to space, but unknown to anyone at the time, his casket landed on the Genesis Planet. Although believed dead at the time, Spock had, just prior to his death, mind-melded with McCoy. Spock had apparently intended for his friend to return Spock's katra to Vulcan in accordance with Vulcan custom. The presence of Spock's living spirit in McCoy's mind was later found to be an extraordinary opportunity to reunite Spock's body and spirit when his body was found to have been regenerated on the Genesis Planet. The fal-tor-pan (refusion) process was conducted at Mount Seleya on Vulcan, supervised by high priestess T'Lar.
(Spock's younger selves in Star Trek III were played by Carl Steven, Vadia Potenza, Stephen Manley, and Joe W. Davis.)
Later, Spock underwent several months of reeducation, during which his mind was instructed in the Vulcan way, but his mother, Amanda, was concerned that he regain knowledge of his human heritage as well. Spock elected to return to Earth with his shipmates from the Enterprise to face charges stemming from Kirk's violation of Starfleet regulations in Spock's rescue.

Later career
In later years, Spock's work became more diplomatic than scientific, even while he was still part of Starfleet. At the request of Ambassador Sarek, Spock served as Federation special envoy to the Klingon government in 2293, paving the way for the Khitomer peace accords with Chancellor Azetbur. In 2368, Spock secretly traveled to Romulus, on a personal mission to further the cause of Romulan/Vulcan reunification. Spock's disappearance caused great consternation among Federation authorities, and the Enterprise -D was dispatched to determine his whereabouts and intentions. Spock's contact on Romulus was Senator Pardek, who was believed to have met Spock during the Khitomer conference in 2293. Pardek was later learned to be an agent of the conservative Romulan government, seeking to use Spock's initiative to cover an attempted Romulan invasion of Vulcan. Following the attempted invasion, Spock chose to remain underground on Romulus in hopes of furthering the cause of reunification. Spock continued his activities in the Romulan underground, and in 2369 helped arrange the defection of Romulan vice-proconsul M'ret to the Federation. Spock indicated he believed the escape of M'ret would help establish an escape route for other Romulan dissidents who lived in fear for their lives. Following the death of his father, Spock had one final, unexpected encounter with Sarek. Prior to his death, Sarek had mind-melded with Jean-Luc Picard, sharing with Picard his deepest emotions, unclouded by Vulcan logic. On Romulus, Picard allowed Spock to mind-meld with him, and Spock finally came to know of his father's love for him.

As far as we know, Spock remained on Romulus. In 'Sarek' (TNG), Jean-Luc Picard noted that he had, years ago as a young lieutenant, attended the wedding of Sarek's son. Gene Roddenberry said he thought Picard was probably talking about Spock, but there is no direct evidence that Spock ever married. Picard did mention in 'Unification, Part I' (TNG) that he had met Spock once before the episode, possibly at Spock's wedding? Spock's first appearance was in 'The Cage' (TOS), the first pilot for the original Star Trek series. Leonard Nimoy, under the pseudonym 'Frank Force', provided the computer voice heard in the Excelsior elevator in Star Trek III. Nimoy's former assistant, Theresa E. Victor, played several roles in the Star Trek movies including a bridge voice in Star Trek II, the Enterprise computer voice in Star Trek III, and an usher in the Federation Council in Star Trek IV.

Pavel A. Chekov was navigator on the original Starship Enterprise under the command of Captain James Kirk. Born in 2245, Chekov held the rank of ensign during his first mission aboard the ship. His Starfleet serial number was 656-5827B. Pavel Andreievich Chekov was an only child, although he once imagined he had a brother named Piotr while under the influence of the Beta XII-A entity. While at Starfleet Academy, Chekov became involved with a young woman named Irina Galliulin, but the relationship did not last because Galliulin was uncomfortable with the structured way of life required by Starfleet. Years later, the two met again when Galliulin sought the mythical planet Eden with Dr. Sevrin. In 2267, Chekov was the only member of an Enterprise landing party to Gamma Hydra IV who was not affected with an aging disease. During the mission, Chekov became startled at the sight of a dead colonist. The surge of adrenaline protected him from radiation sickness that caused the aging process. Chekov was promoted to lieutenant and assigned as security chief aboard the Enterprise following the conclusion of Kirk's first five-year mission. Chekov later served aboard the U.S.S. Reliant as first officer under Captain Clark Terrell, before returning to the Enterprise after the Reliant was destroyed at the Mutara Nebula by Khan. Chekov was an honored guest during the maiden voyage of the U.S.S. Enterprise -B in 2294.

Chekov joined the Star Trek cast in 'Catspaw' (TOS) at the beginning of the second season, although Khan claimed to have remembered him from 'Space Seed' (TOS), filmed before the character was created. Walter Koenig's wife, actor Judy Levitt, played several roles in the Star Trek movies. These included a doctor at Mercy Hospital in Star Trek IV, and a Starfleet Command officer in Star Trek VI.

Hikaru Sulu was helm officer aboard the original Starship Enterprise under the command of Captain James Kirk. Sulu, born in 2237 in San Francisco on Earth, was initially assigned as a physicist aboard the Enterprise in 2265, but later transferred to the helm.
Sulu assumed command of the Starship Excelsior in 2290, and subsequently conducted a three-year scientific mission of cataloging gaseous planetary anomalies in the Beta Quadrant. Sulu and the Excelsior played a pivotal role in the historic Khitomer peace conference of 2293 by helping to protect the conference against Federation and Klingon forces seeking to disrupt the peace process. Sulu had a wide range of hobbies, including botany and fencing. The latter interest surfaced when Sulu suffered the effects of the Psi 2000 virus in 2266, and Sulu threatened everyone in sight with a foil. Old-style hand guns were another of Sulu's hobbies, and he had always wanted a Police Special in his collection.
Hikaru Sulu had a daughter, Demora, born in 2271.

Sulu's first appearance was in 'Where No Man Has Gone Before', but by 'The Corbomite Maneuver' he had assumed his familiar post at the helm. A scene that was filmed for Star Trek II, but not included in the final cut of the movie, would have shown that Sulu was about to assume command of the Excelsior at that time. A scene for Star Trek IV that was in the final draft of the script but not filmed would have had Sulu meeting a young boy in San Francisco who was Sulu's great-great-great-grandfather. Sulu's first name, Hikaru, was authorized by Gene Roddenberry in 1979, but was not used on film until Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

Uhura was communications officer aboard the original Starship Enterprise under the command of Captain James Kirk. Born in 2239, her name is derived from the Swahili word for 'freedom'.
A highly skilled technician, Uhura was also a talented musician, and enjoyed serenading her fellow crew members with song. Her memory was wiped clean in 2267 by the errant space probe Nomad, requiring her to be reeducated.
Following the reassignment of the original Enterprise to Starfleet Academy in 2284, Uhura served at Starfleet Command on Earth. Uhura was scheduled to give a seminar at the Academy in 2293, although she volunteered to return to her old post on the Enterprise -A at Kirk's request prior to the historic Khitomer conference.
Uhura's first appearance was in 'The Corbomite Maneuver' (TOS).

Dr. Leonard H. McCoy was chief medical officer aboard the original Starship Enterprise under the command of Captain James Kirk, who gave him the nickname 'Bones'. As of 2267, McCoy had earned the Legion of Honor, and had been decorated by Starfleet surgeons.
Early in his medical career McCoy's father was struck with a terrible, fatal illness. Faced with the prospect of suffering a terrible, lingering death, McCoy mercifully 'pulled the plug' on his father, allowing him to die. To McCoy's considerable anguish, a cure for his father's disease was discovered shortly thereafter, and McCoy carried the guilt for his father's possibly needless death for many years. Prior to his assignment to the Enterprise, McCoy had been romantically involved with the future Nancy Crater.
McCoy first joined the Enterprise crew in 2266, and remained associated with that illustrious ship and its successor for some 27 years. In 2267, McCoy suffered a serious overdose of cordrazine in a shipboard accident. In the paranoid delusions that followed, McCoy fled the ship, then jumped through a time portal being studied by Enterprise personnel. In the past, McCoy effected serious damage to the flow of time until Kirk and Spock followed him to restore the shape of history. In 2268, McCoy was diagnosed with terminal xenopolycythemia and chose to resign from Starfleet so that he could marry a woman named Natira, high priestess of the Yonadan people. McCoy rejoined Starfleet after a cure was found in the Yonadan memory banks.
McCoy retired from Starfleet after the return of the Enterprise from the five-year mission, but he returned to Starfleet at Kirk's request when the ship intercepted the V'Ger entity near Earth. McCoy, along with Kirk, was wrongly convicted for the murder of Klingon chancellor Gorkon in 2293, a conviction that was later overturned. McCoy was scheduled to retire shortly after the Khitomer peace conference, but he either changed his mind, or later returned to Starfleet. As a retired Starfleet admiral, McCoy made an inspection tour of the Enterprise -D in 2364 at the age of 137.

An unofficial part of McCoy's back story was developed by Original Series story editor Dorothy Fontana, who had written a story entitled 'Joanna', which would have established that McCoy had been married and later endured a bitter divorce, and it was the aftermath of this experience that drove him to join Starfleet. The episode would have introduced Joanna, McCoy's now-grown daughter from that failed marriage. 'Joanna' was written for the Original Series' third season, but was so heavily rewritten (becoming 'The Way to Eden' [TOS]) that Fontana removed her name from the final version. Since the McCoy back story was never incorporated into an episode, it isn't 'official'. On the other hand, it is mentioned here because it offers insight into the McCoy character, and because of Fontana's pivotal role in the development of many Star Trek characters. McCoy's first appearance was in 'The Corbomite Maneuver' (TOS).

Montgomery Scott was also known as 'Scotty. Chief engineer aboard the original Starship Enterprise under the command of Captain James Kirk. Scott's Starfleet serial number was SE 19754.T.
Scott's engineering career began in 2242, and he served on a total of eleven ships , including a stint as an engineering advisor on the asteroid freight run from planet Deneva, making the cargo run a couple of times.
The original U.S.S. Enterprise was the first starship on which Scott served as chief engineer, and he distinguished himself many times in that position by improvising engineering miracles that more than once saved the ship and its crew. While serving aboard the original Enterprise, Scott once suffered from a near-fatal accelerated aging disease He was actually killed in 2267 by space probe Nomad, although the errant probe later returned Scott to life.
Scotty was scheduled to retire some three months after the Khitomer peace conference incident in 2293, and had bought a boat in anticipation of having more free time. Later that year, Scott was an honored guest at the launch of the Starship Enterprise -B. Captain James T. Kirk was lost and believed killed on that flight.
He finally did retire in 2294 at the age of 72, having served in Starfleet for 52 years. He was in the process of relocating to the retirement community at the Norpin Colony when his transport ship, the Jenolen, crashed into a Dyson Sphere. Scott, the only survivor of the crash, survived for 75 years by suspending himself inside a transporter beam. He was rescued in 2369 by an away team from the Enterprise -D. Following his rescue, Scott embarked for parts unknown aboard a shuttlecraft 'loaned' to him by Enterprise captain Picard.
Scott never married but he became romantically involved with fellow crew member Mira Romaine in 2269. That relationship ended when Romaine transferred to Memory Alpha.
The writers of Star Trek: Generations were indeed aware that Scotty, in 'Relics' (TNG), seemed to think that Kirk was still alive, in contradiction of Kirk's apparent death in Star Trek: Generations. 'Relics' (TNG) had been produced before it was known that Kirk would die in Generations, and the decision to include Scotty despite the error was motivated simply by fondness for the Scotty character, and the desire to see him one more time. James Doohan also provided many voices for the original Star Trek series, including Trelane's father, Sargon, the M-5 computer, and the Melkotian buoy. Scotty's first appearance was in 'Where No Man Has Gone Before' (TOS).

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