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84-571: Star Wreck relates the adventures of James B. Pirk (named after the Star Trek character James T. Kirk ), Captain of the starship C.P.P. Potkustartti (English C.P.P. Kickstart ). Other characters include Mr. Fukov, Mr. Spook (Finnish: Mr. Spökö) , Mr. Dwarf (Wuf) , Ensign Shitty and Mr. Info (loosely based, respectively, on Star Trek's Pavel Chekov , Mr. Spock , Worf , Scotty , and Data ). The characters speak Finnish ; subtitles in various languages, including Klingon, are available. In 2015, it

168-512: A Shakespearean actor to invigorate the character, whose dialogue at times is laden with jargon. Not only did Shatner take inspiration from Roddenberry's suggestion of Hornblower, but also from Alexander the Great  – "the athlete and the intellectual of his time" – whom Shatner had played for an unsold television pilot two years earlier. In addition, the actor based Kirk partly on himself because "the fatigue factor [after weeks of daily filming]

252-480: A YouTube video expressing disappointment at not being approached for a cameo. Although Shatner questioned the wisdom of not including him in the film, he predicted the movie would be "wonderful" and that he was "kidding" about Abrams not offering him a cameo. Kirk also appears in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , which is set six years before the events of the original series . He first appears in

336-519: A snowclone , a rhetorical device and type of word play in which one word within it is replaced while maintaining the overall structure. For example, a 2002 episode of Futurama that dealt with a character's devotion to Star Trek is named " Where No Fan Has Gone Before ", a level in the video game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time is called "Starbase: Where No Turtle Has Gone Before". The Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti became

420-488: A "superhuman redeemer" who "like a true superhero ... regularly escapes after risking battle with monsters or enemy spaceships". Although some episodes question Kirk's position as a hero, Star Trek "never left the viewer in doubt for long". Others have commented that Kirk's exaggerated "strength, intelligence, charm, and adventurousness" make him unrealistic. Kirk is described as able to find ways "through unanticipated problems to reach [his] goals" and his leadership style

504-555: A 1-DVD version of Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning – Imperial Edition was released also in Japan by AMG & Medallion Media. The version includes a professional dub for Japanese, as well as new sleeve design and a poster/cue card inside the DVD case. In 2012, a spin-off called Star Wreck 2π: Full Twist, now! was released. It is made by Swiss film makers, but Samuli Torssonen and Timo Vuorensola have

588-508: A better teacher, colleague, and husband because he watched Kirk run the Enterprise ; Pausch wrote that "for ambitious boys with a scientific bent, there could be no greater role model than James T. Kirk". David A. Goodman commented that Kirk "has as much reality as possible for a fictional character." In 2012, IGN ranked the character Captain Kirk, as depicted in the original series, films, and

672-442: A big way". McDowell claims to have received death threats after Generations was released. In Star Trek (2009), screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci focused their story on Kirk and Spock in the movie's alternative timeline while attempting to preserve key character traits from the previous depictions. Kurtzman said casting someone whose portrayal of Kirk would show that the character "is being honored and protected"

756-517: A guest appearance in their respective roles. There is also a spin-off animated Star Wreck , created by a different author who has no relation to Torssonen's team, called Star Wreck Asskicker which tells the story of the C.P.P. Asskicker . The Star Wreck Roleplaying Game is an English-language role-playing game (RPG) published in Finland by Energia Productions that is set in the Star Wreck universe. It

840-698: A hero for the ages". Although Kirk throughout the series becomes romantically involved with various women, when confronted with a choice between a woman and the Enterprise , "his ship always won". 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: [Kirk] has any normal man's insecurities and doubts, but he knows he cannot ever show them—except occasionally in private with ship's surgeon McCoy or in subsequent moments with Mr. Spock whose opinions Kirk has learned to value so highly. In Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Admiral Kirk

924-564: A large portion of the Farragut ' s crew, including his commanding officer, Captain Garrovick. Although the surviving Executive Officer disagreed, Kirk blamed himself for years for hesitating to fire his assigned weapons upon seeing the threat until a later encounter with the creature showed that firing immediately with conventional weapons would have been useless anyway. Kirk became Starfleet 's youngest starship captain after receiving command of

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1008-528: A meeting with the time-displaced Spock of the original timeline, who inspires Kirk to live up to his full potential after learning about the parallel version of himself and his accomplishments as Captain in the elder Spock's timeline. Jeffrey Hunter played the commanding officer of the USS Enterprise , Captain Christopher Pike , in the rejected Star Trek television pilot " The Cage ". In developing

1092-460: A new pilot episode, called " Where No Man Has Gone Before ", series creator Gene Roddenberry changed the captain's name to "James Kirk" after rejecting other options like Hannibal, Timber, Flagg and Raintree. The episode title may have been inspired by Captain James Cook , whose journal entry "ambition leads me ... farther than any other man has been before me" inspired the episode title, and became

1176-519: A port of their Mac OS 7 operating system to Intel x86 processors, was referred to as "the OS that boldly goes where everyone else has been". In the sci-fi show Babylon 5 , the character Susan Ivanova implies that a woman is promiscuous by telling Captain John Sheridan , "Good luck, Captain. I think you're about to go where... everyone has gone before." The split infinitive "to boldly go" has also been

1260-454: A rewritten ending. Despite the rewrite, Generations co-writer Ronald D. Moore said that Kirk's death, which was intended to "resonate throughout the Star Trek franchise", failed to "pay off the themes [of death and mortality] in the way we wanted". Malcolm McDowell , whose character kills Kirk, was dissatisfied with both versions of Kirk's death: he believed Kirk should have been killed "in

1344-410: A slightly altered version of the full monologue at the end of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , separate from the version used on The Next Generation . In this version, the monologue describes the crew's mission as a search not just for new life, but for "new life forms ". The first statement, "These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise" is also augmented as "These are the continuing voyages of

1428-571: A starship is [Kirk's] first, best destiny", dies at the end of Star Trek II . In Star Trek III: The Search for Spock , Admiral Kirk leads his surviving officers in a successful mission to rescue Spock from a planet on which he is reborn. Although Kirk is demoted to Captain in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home for disobeying Starfleet orders, he also receives command of a new Enterprise , the USS Enterprise -A (NCC 1701-A). The ship

1512-466: 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 by a bizarre cloud-like creature that killed

1596-476: A variety of ways, including collectible busts, action figures , mugs , t-shirts , and Christmas tree ornaments. A Kirk Halloween mask was altered and used as the mask worn by the character Michael Myers in the Halloween film franchise . In 2002, Kirk's captain's chair from the original Star Trek was auctioned for $ 304,000. In a 2010 Space Foundation survey, Kirk tied with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin as

1680-593: A young version of the character in the 2009 Star Trek film, Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and in Star Trek Beyond (2016). Paul Wesley portrays Kirk on the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , set prior to Kirk's captaincy of the Enterprise. Other actors have played the character in fan-created media, and the character has been the subject of multiple spoofs and satires. James Tiberius Kirk

1764-465: Is "a fine, brash boy Kirk". Slate , which called Pine "a jewel", described his performance as "channel[ing]" Shatner without being an impersonation. Slate described Shatner's depiction of Kirk as an "expansive, randy, faintly ridiculous, and yet supremely capable leader of men, Falstaffian in his love of life and largeness of spirit". The Myth of the American Superhero refers to Kirk as

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1848-660: Is Chief of Starfleet Operations, and he takes command of the Enterprise from Captain Willard Decker . Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry 's novelization of The Motion Picture depicts Kirk married to a Starfleet officer killed during a transporter accident. At the beginning of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , Kirk takes command of the Enterprise from Captain Spock to pursue his enemy from " Space Seed ", Khan Noonien Singh . The movie introduces Kirk's former lover Carol and his son, David Marcus . Spock, who notes that "commanding

1932-598: Is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise. Originally played by Canadian actor William Shatner , Kirk first appeared in Star Trek serving aboard the starship USS Enterprise as captain. Kirk leads his crew as they explore new worlds and "boldly go where no man has gone before ". Often, the characters of Spock and Leonard "Bones" McCoy act as his logical and emotional sounding boards, respectively. Kirk has also been portrayed in numerous films, books, comics, webisodes, and video games. Kirk first appears in

2016-634: Is a phrase made popular through its use in the title sequence of the original 1966–1969 Star Trek science fiction television series, describing the mission of the starship Enterprise . The complete introductory speech, spoken by William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk at the beginning of each episode, is: Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise . Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before! This introduction began every episode of

2100-477: Is anime voice actor Vic Mignogna , who also plays the role of Kirk. Rounding out the core cast is fellow voice actor Todd Haberkorn as Spock, Chris Doohan (son of the original Scotty actor James Doohan ) as Scotty, and as McCoy first author-producer Larry Nemecek , followed by voice actor Chuck Huber . It also co-starred Grant Imahara ( MythBusters ) as Sulu. The first episode, " Pilgrim of Eternity " (with Michael Forest reprising his role as Apollo from

2184-425: Is attacked by a Romulan ship from the future. In the film, George and Winona Kirk name their son James Tiberius after his maternal and paternal grandfathers, respectively. Although the film treats specific details from Star Trek as mutable, characterizations are meant to "remain the same" though with Kirk being initially portrayed as "a reckless, bar-fighting rebel" but who eventually matures. According to Pine,

2268-466: Is depicted as an orange tabby cat . The Kirk crater on Pluto 's moon, Charon , is named after the character. In addition to television, feature films, books, and parodies, Kirk has also been portrayed in non-canon fan fiction . The Star Trek: New Voyages fan production , known from 2008 until 2015 as Star Trek: Phase II , portrays the further voyages of the original Enterprise crew. The series' creators feel that "Kirk, Spock, McCoy and

2352-449: Is most "appropriate in a tight, geographically identical team with a culture of strong leadership." Although Roddenberry conceived the character as being "in a very real sense ... 'married' " to the Enterprise , Kirk has been noted for "his sexual exploits with gorgeous females of every size, shape and type"; he has been called " promiscuous " and labeled a " womanizer ". The Last Lecture author Randy Pausch believed he became

2436-573: Is ordered decommissioned at the end of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country . In Star Trek Generations , Captain Jean-Luc Picard finds Kirk living in the timeless Nexus, despite the fact that history recorded his death during the Enterprise -B 's maiden voyage, Kirk having fallen into the Nexus in the incident that caused his "death". Picard persuades Kirk to return to Picard's present to help stop

2520-817: Is revealed to be stored in stasis at the Daystrom Institute by Section 31 . Shatner has since written a series of novels featuring Kirk being brought back to life by a Borg -Romulan alliance to serve as an assassin against Picard, but he is restored to normal and returns to provisional active service in Starfleet, including opposing his Mirror Universe counterpart. In this series, Chris Pine plays Kirk, Zachary Quinto plays Spock, Karl Urban plays "Bones" McCoy, Simon Pegg plays Montgomery "Scotty" Scott , Zoë Saldana plays Nyota Uhura , John Cho plays Hikaru Sulu , and Anton Yelchin plays Pavel Chekov . The series takes place in an alternate course of events known as

2604-400: Is such that you try to be as honest about yourself as possible". A comedy veteran, Shatner suggested making the show's characters as comfortable working in space as they would be at sea, thus having Kirk be a humorous "good-pal-the-captain, who in time of need would snap to and become the warrior". Changing the character to be "a man with very human emotions" also allowed for the development of

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2688-440: The Enterprise (NX-01) : On this site, a powerful engine will be built. An engine that will someday help us to travel a hundred times faster than we can today. Imagine it – thousands of inhabited planets at our fingertips... and we'll be able to explore those strange new worlds, and seek out new life and new civilizations. This engine will let us go boldly... where no man has gone before. Leonard Nimoy as Spock delivered

2772-615: The Enterprise ' s re-dedication ceremony in Star Trek Into Darkness ; the version spoken by William Shatner's Kirk is used, altered with " Her five-year mission". Star Trek Beyond uses the same version from The Next Generation , spoken by Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Bones, Sulu, Chekov, and Uhura. The phrase has also gained popularity outside Star Trek . In 1989, NASA used the phrase to title its retrospective of Project Apollo : Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions . The phrase has become

2856-550: The Star Trek episode " The Man Trap ", broadcast on September 8, 1966, although the first episode recorded featuring Shatner was " Where No Man Has Gone Before ". Shatner continued in the role for the show's three seasons, and he later provided the voice of the animated version of Kirk in Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1974). Shatner returned to the role for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) and six subsequent films. American actor Chris Pine portrays

2940-427: The Star Trek score, and other changes. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning was re-released on an Imperial Edition DVD in 2006, with updated models and effects. Star Wreck has enjoyed a relatively large niche following among sci-fi fans, but it was only the 2005 movie that really pushed it into the limelight. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning was downloaded over 700,000 times during the first week after its release and

3024-459: The USS ; Enterprise for a five-year mission, three years of which are depicted in the original Star Trek series. Kirk's most significant relationships in the television series are with first officer Spock and chief medical officer Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy . McCoy is someone to whom Kirk unburdens himself and is a foil to Spock . Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence 's The Myth of

3108-551: The "Kelvin Timeline" that reveal different origins for Kirk, the formation of his association with Spock, and how they came to serve together on the Enterprise . Whereas The Original Series portrayed Kirk as having been born in Iowa, the Star Trek film portrays him being born on a shuttle escaping the starship USS Kelvin in an alternate timeline in which his father is killed when the Kelvin

3192-435: The 1979 song " Where's Captain Kirk? " by Spizzenergi , the 1982 rap song " Tough " by Kurtis Blow , and 1983's " 99 Luftballons " by Nena (both German and English versions). More recently, in the 2003 remix of 1998’s " That Don't Impress Me Much ", Shania Twain puts forth Captain Kirk as one of the unattainable ideals to whom her unappealingly haughty suitor apparently thinks himself equal. Kirk has been merchandised in

3276-409: The 8th smartest character of Star Trek . In 1985, Riverside, Iowa petitioned Roddenberry and Paramount Pictures for permission to "adopt" Kirk as their town's "Future Son". Shatner and Roddenberry approved the proposal. Paramount wanted $ 40,000 for a license to reproduce a bust of Kirk, but the city instead set a plaque and built a replica of the Enterprise (named the "USS Riverside "), and

3360-401: The American Superhero describes Kirk as "a hard-driving leader who pushes himself and his crew beyond human limits". Terry J. Erdman and Paula M. Block, in their Star Trek 101 primer , note that while "cunning, courageous and confident", Kirk also has a "tendency to ignore Starfleet regulations when he feels the end justifies the means"; he is "the quintessential officer, a man among men and

3444-502: The No. 6 most popular space hero. Captain Kirk has also been portrayed in feline form. First, anthropomorphically, in two episodes of the 1975 Filmation Saturday morning animated children’s series The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty . The cartoon is based around the title character’s fantasies about being various heroic felines based on popular culture icons. Later came scientific illustrator Jenny Parks ' 2017 book Star Trek Cats , in which Kirk

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3528-508: The Riverside Area Community Club holds an annual "Trek Fest" in anticipation of Kirk's birthday. Kirk has been the subject of a wide range of television spoofs that aired in many countries, including The Carol Burnett Show and KI.KA 's Bernd das Brot . John Belushi 's impression of Kirk for Saturday Night Live , which he described as his favorite role, was "dead-on". Jim Carrey has been praised for his satire of

3612-428: The Spock character. Shatner wrote that "Kirk was a man who marveled and greatly appreciated the endless surprises presented to him by the universe ... He didn't take things for granted and, more than anything else, respected life in every one of its weird weekly adventure forms". Shatner did not expect Star Trek to be successful, so when it was cancelled in 1969, he assumed it would be the end of his association with

3696-518: The United Space Ship Enterprise . Assigned a five year galaxy patrol, the bold crew of the giant starship explores the excitement of strange new worlds, uncharted civilizations, and exotic people. These are its voyages and its adventures... Under their influence, the above narrative quote went through several revisions before being selected for use in the TV series. In-universe , the sentence

3780-473: The actor has enough swagger "to be passable in the role". Cawley's portrayal was well-known enough at Paramount that a group of Star Trek: Enterprise writers called for Cawley's attention at a science fiction convention by shouting "Hey, Kirk!" at him while Shatner sat nearby. 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

3864-478: The character in a 1992 episode of In Living Color . Comedian Kevin Pollak is well known for his impressions of Shatner as Kirk. Kirk's memorable scream of "Khan!" in the 1982 movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan has become a pop culture icon in its own right, spawning internet memes and is widely parodied and paid tribute to. Kirk has been referenced in the lyrics of many pop songs . Early examples include

3948-525: 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 . He is also aided by

4032-453: The conclusion of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ; he notes that the next crew of the Enterprise will continue "boldly going where no man... where no one... has gone before", a change prompted by criticism from aliens earlier in the film of the crew's human-centrism. The neutral version of the final phrase had already been in use in the introductory speech for The Next Generation , which debuted four years earlier. The full monologue

4116-412: The current estimates by the hosting service, Magenta sites, are between 3.5 and 4 million downloads, including mirror sites. This has been claimed to make In the Pirkinning the most popular Finnish film of all time, topping the movie theatre viewings for The Unknown Soldier (approx. 2.8 million viewers); the comparison, however, may not be particularly meaningful. Numerous TV and magazine interviews of

4200-451: The earth has now been explored and men now turn to the exploration of outer space as their next objective. Following an early expedition to Newfoundland, Captain James Cook declared that he intended to go not only "... farther than any man has been before me , but as far as I think it is possible for a man to go" (emphasis added). Cook's most famous ship, the Endeavour , lent its name to

4284-657: The film's authors have been published, both in Finland and abroad. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning has also been shown on Finnish national television, YLE TV2 , on the Belgian national television channel Canvas, and Italian TV-channel Jimmy. A new Imperial Edition DVD has also been released by Universal Pictures in Scandinavia. With the Imperial Edition release, all the space scenes with Star Trek or Babylon 5 ship models were removed and completely remade. In September 2007,

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4368-403: The film's production about the possibility of Shatner making a cameo appearance . According to Abrams, the production team considered ways to resurrect Shatner's deceased Kirk character, but could not devise a way that was not "lame". However, Abrams believed Shatner misinterpreted language about trying to get "him" into the movie as a reference to Shatner, and not his character. Shatner released

4452-593: The final episode of Season 1, portrayed by Paul Wesley , and appeared as a recurring guest in Season 2. In this series, the Enterprise has another captain, Kirk's predecessor Christopher Pike , who first appeared in " The Cage ". Other fellow crew characters from the original series, such as Uhura , Spock and Nurse Chapel are main characters in Strange New Worlds . According to Shatner, early Star Trek reviewers described his performance as "wooden", with most of

4536-470: The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise . Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no one has gone before! The series produced after The Next Generation would not use any form of introductory speeches, until the prequel series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . The introduction, spoken by Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike , Kirk’s predecessor, leads

4620-513: 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

4704-568: The first barista in space on the International Space Station , tweeting "To Boldly Brew..." in May 2015; she wore Star Trek garb for the occasion. The phrase was parodied on the retail box of the 1987 computer game Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter , which read "His mission: to scrub dirty decks...to replace burned-out lightbulbs...TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO MAN HAS SWEPT THE FLOOR!" (emphasis original). In 1992, Apple's Star Trek project ,

4788-490: The franchise. Following Star Trek's popularity after its cancelation, Shatner went on to voice Kirk in the animated Star Trek series, star in the first seven Star Trek films, and provide voice acting for several games. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan director and writer Nicholas Meyer , who had never seen an episode of Star Trek before he was assigned to direct, conceived a " Hornblower in outer space" atmosphere, unaware that those books had been an influence on

4872-468: The icy deserts through the dark to where unknown Kadath, veiled in cloud and crowned with unimagined stars, holds secret and nocturnal the onyx castle of the Great Ones. The phrase was first introduced into Star Trek by Samuel Peeples , who is attributed with suggesting it be used as an episode name. The episode became " Where No Man Has Gone Before ", the second pilot of Star Trek . The phrase itself

4956-649: The last-produced Space Shuttle , much as the Star Trek starship Enterprise lent its name to the Shuttle program's test craft . Similar expressions have been used in literature before 1958. For example, H. P. Lovecraft 's novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath , written in 1927 and published in 1943, includes this passage: At length, sick with longing for those glittering sunset streets and cryptical hill lanes among ancient tiled roofs, nor able sleeping or waking to drive them from his mind, Carter resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare

5040-445: The new Kirk in 2009 film Star Trek , as the number one top character of the Star Trek universe. In 2016, Kirk was ranked as the #1 most important character of Starfleet within the Star Trek science fiction universe by Wired magazine, out of 100 characters of the franchise. In 2018, CBR ranked Kirk the best Starfleet character of Star Trek, including later television series. In July 2019, Screen Rant ranked Kirk

5124-439: The no-win Kobayashi Maru scenario, which Kirk had cheated his way through, forces Kirk to confront death and to grow as a character. Both Shatner and test audiences were dissatisfied that Kirk was fatally shot in the back in the original ending of the film Star Trek Generations . An addendum inserted while Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories memoir was being printed expresses his enthusiasm at being called back to film

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5208-536: The original series episode " Who Mourns for Adonais? ") was released in 2013. The second episode, " Lolani " (featuring guest star Lou Ferrigno ), was released in February 2014, and a third episode, " Fairest of Them All " was released in June 2014 and won a Burbank International Film Festival award for "Best New Media – Drama". Star Trek Continues also won a Geekie Award for "Best Web Series". On June 19, 2015, Episode 4 of

5292-479: The production of Star Trek . Jack Lord was Desilu Productions ' original choice to play Kirk, but his demand for fifty-percent ownership of the show led to him not being hired. The second pilot episode was successful, and " Where No Man Has Gone Before " was broadcast as the third episode of Star Trek on September 22, 1966. William Shatner tried to imbue the character with qualities of "awe and wonder" absent from "The Cage". He also drew upon his experiences as

5376-450: The quotation was taken from Introduction to Outer Space , a White House booklet published in 1958 to garner support for a national space program in the wake of the Sputnik flight. It read on page 1: The first of these factors is the compelling urge of man to explore and to discover, the thrust of curiosity that leads men to try to go where no one has gone before. Most of the surface of

5460-563: The rest should be treated as 'classic' characters like Willy Loman from Death of a Salesman , Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings or even Hamlet , Othello or Romeo . Many actors have and can play the roles, each offering a different interpretation of said character." James Cawley played Kirk in most of the ten episode Phase II series from its beginning in 2004 before replacing himself with actor Brian Gross. Wired observes that while Cawley's depiction "lacks Shatner's vulnerability",

5544-713: The role. Jimmy Bennett played Kirk in scenes depicting the character's childhood. The writers turned to material from the novel Best Destiny for inspiration as to Kirk's childhood. In preparing to play Kirk, Pine decided to embrace the character's key traits – "charming, funny, leader of men" – rather than try to fit the "predigested image" of Shatner's portrayal. Pine specifically did not try to mirror Shatner's cadence, believing that doing so would become "an impersonation". Pine said he wanted his portrayal of Kirk to most resemble Harrison Ford 's Indiana Jones or Han Solo characters, highlighting their humor and "accidental hero" traits. A misunderstanding arose during

5628-402: The same speech. Versions of the full monologue were used at the end of each film in the Star Trek reboot trilogy; all use the more neutral final phrase. In the 2009 film Star Trek , the monologue is spoken by Leonard Nimoy and uses his version from The Wrath of Khan with the word "continuing" removed. The monologue is used in-universe as part of a speech delivered by Chris Pine 's Kirk at

5712-421: The series catch-phrase in the opening voice-over. The character is in part based on C. S. Forester 's Horatio Hornblower hero, and NBC wanted the show to emphasize the captain's "rugged individualism". Roddenberry had previously used the middle name of Tiberius for the leading character in his earlier television series, The Lieutenant , which was to feature several actors who would later go on to be part of

5796-591: The series except the two pilot episodes : " The Cage " (which preceded Shatner's involvement) and " Where No Man Has Gone Before ". This introduction was used for the beginning of each episode of the show Star Trek: The Next Generation , but with the phrase "five-year mission" changed to a more open-ended "continuing mission", and the final phrase changed to the gender- and species-neutral " where no one has gone before ". The complete introduction, spoken by Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard , is: Space:

5880-417: The series was posted and titled "White Iris". All eleven full episodes have been released as of December, 2017. In October 2021, Kirk's actor from The Original Series William Shatner flew to space aboard a Blue Origin sub-orbital capsule. At age 90, he became the oldest person to fly to space and one of the first 600 to do so. Where no man has gone before " Where no man has gone before "

5964-515: The show's acting praise and media interest going to Nimoy. However, Shatner's mannerisms when portraying Kirk have become "instantly recognizable" and Shatner won a Saturn Award for Best Actor in 1982 for The Wrath of Khan . Star Trek II director Nicholas Meyer said Shatner "gives the best performance of his life" in The Wrath of Khan . The Guardian called Pine's performance of Kirk an "unqualified success", and The Boston Globe said Pine

6048-411: The show. Meyer also emphasized parallels to Sherlock Holmes , in that both characters waste away in the absence of stimuli: new cases for Holmes; starship adventures for Kirk. 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

6132-468: The starship Enterprise"; the ship's "five-year mission" is consequently changed to the crew's " ongoing mission". The complete monologue is: Space: the final frontier. These are the continuing voyages of the starship Enterprise . Their ongoing mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new lifeforms and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before! The final phrase is referenced in-universe as Kirk narrates his final captain's log at

6216-506: The subject of jokes regarding its grammatical correctness. British humorist and science-fiction author Douglas Adams describes, in his series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , the long-lost heroic age of the Galactic Empire, when bold adventurers dared "to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before". In the 1995 book The Physics of Star Trek , Lawrence M. Krauss begins

6300-512: The title sequence of every episode and combines Kirk’s version of the speech with the neutral final phrase. A variation of the phrase "where no man has gone before", "by oceans where none had ventured" , was first used by the noted Portuguese poet Luís de Camões in his epic poem The Lusiads , published in 1572. The poem celebrates the Portuguese nation and its discovery of the sea route to India by Vasco da Gama . Blogger Dwayne A. Day says

6384-571: The villain Soran from destroying Veridian III's sun. Although Kirk initially refuses the offer, he agrees after realizing the Nexus cannot give him the one thing he has always sought: the ability to make a difference. The two leave the Nexus and stop Soran. However, Kirk is mortally wounded; as he dies, Picard assures him that he helped to "make a difference". Picard buries Kirk on the planet, however in Star Trek: Picard 's third season (2023), Kirk’s body

6468-450: Was "tricky", but that the "spirit of Kirk is very much alive and well" in Pine's depiction. Due to his belief that he could not take himself seriously as a leader, Pine recalled having difficulty with his audition, which required him "to bark ' Trek jargon'", but his charisma impressed director J. J. Abrams . Pine's chemistry with Zachary Quinto , playing Spock, led Abrams to offer Pine

6552-442: Was announced that two new films were going to be released. The first one will be a short film titled "Star Wreck: Timecrash", set in future Soviet Union, and the second, currently untitled one will be a feature-length film. All Star Wreck films are available online under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND licence . The first five Star Wreck films were re-released on Star Wreck: Legacy DVD in 2006, with original score replacing

6636-483: Was attributed in the Star Trek: Enterprise pilot episode " Broken Bow " to warp drive inventor Dr. Zefram Cochrane in a recorded speech during the dedication of the facility devoted to designing the first engine capable of reaching Warp 5 — thus making interstellar exploration practical for humans — in the year 2119, some thirty-two years before the 2151 launch of the first vessel powered by such an engine,

6720-591: Was born in Riverside, Iowa , on March 22, 2233, where he was raised by his parents, George and Winona Kirk. Although born on Earth, Kirk lived for a time on Tarsus IV , where he was one of nine surviving witnesses to the massacre of 4,000 colonists by Kodos the Executioner . James Kirk's brother, George Samuel Kirk, is first mentioned in " What Are Little Girls Made Of? " and introduced and killed in " Operation -- Annihilate! ", leaving behind three children. Kirk became

6804-586: Was first released at Ropecon in 2006. The game is a parody of the numerous Star Trek roleplaying games, but is also playable on its own. Its rule mechanics are built to emulate the setting of the films, with experienced characters becoming more heroically incompetent instead of getting better at their tasks, as is the case in most mainstream games. In August 2007 the game was licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license and made available for free download. James T. Kirk James Tiberius Kirk , commonly known as Captain Kirk ,

6888-424: 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

6972-593: Was once again spoken at the end of the Star Trek: Enterprise series finale, " These Are the Voyages... ," by the captains of the three main starships to bear the name Enterprise ; Patrick Stewart spoke the first two sentences, William Shatner the third and fourth, and Scott Bakula — as Captain Jonathan Archer — the final sentence. This version combines the phrases "Its continuing mission" (spoken by Stewart) and "where no man has gone before" (spoken by Bakula) into

7056-458: Was subsequently worked into the show's opening narration, which was written in August 1966, after several episodes had been filmed, and shortly before the series was due to debut. It is the result of the combined input of several people, including Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and producers John D. F. Black and Bob Justman . One of the earliest drafts is as follows: This is the adventure of

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