He was charged with fifteen violations of the Cadet Honor Code and became a suspect in a bizarre computerized attack on Cadet Pavel Chekov. ( TOS - Starfleet Academy novel: The Delta Anomaly)ĭuring the Academy's "dead week" in May, Kirk experienced a mysterious illness which left him with a six-hour gap in his memory. A few days later, Hannah invited Kirk to "study" with her at her apartment. They were nearly killed, but the nanites retreated and left Earth after determining that "Assimilation is not advisable at this time". Kirk and McCoy entered the building's spire and battled the nanites. Patricia Park had determined that the Transamerica Pyramid was the Doctor's hideout. His team received a positive assessment from their test's programmer - unknown to Kirk, his future colleague Commander Spock. He also realized that the Doctor was a scientist collecting specimens in San Francisco. When Kirk and Hannah encountered members of a gang called the Mongol Saints, the former used an emergency transporter band to beam Hannah to the Academy shuttle hangar while he used his Starfleet close-combat training on the gang members.ĭuring the ATT Science mission final, Kirk realized that complex, fast-growing plants might be intelligent and ordered his team not to take samples from them. Kirk saw the Doctor near the Palace of Fine Arts, but the killer moved away too fast for him to follow. During that time, he also began a flirtation with a barista named Hannah, a botany grad student. Kirk and his Delta teammate Braxim rescued Cadet Gaila when she was attacked by the mysterious serial killer known as the Doctor. In summer 2255, after six months of training, he was elected captain of Team Delta for the final round of ATT testing. ( TOS movie, novelization & comic adaptation: Star Trek)Īs a top-performing Academy student, Jim Kirk was invited to participate in Advanced Tactical Training at Starfleet Command College. Pike, who was an admirer of Kirk's father and wrote his Academy dissertation on the Kelvin, saw the troubled young man's potential as something that Starfleet needed and encouraged him to enlist, rather than remain "the only genius-level repeat offender in the Midwest." Though initially refusing, Kirk reported to the Riverside Shipyard the next morning, where he met Leonard McCoy and left for Starfleet Academy. The fight was broken up by Captain Christopher Pike. ( TOS - Starfleet Academy novel: The Gemini Agent) In 2255, Kirk attempted to pick up Starfleet Cadet Nyota Uhura at a bar, and subsequently became involved in a bar fight with four other cadets. He attended Riverside Central, where he was kicked off the basketball team in his senior year. Kirk's rebelliousness continued well into his teens and early twenties, though his academic aptitude scores were off the charts. ( TOS - Starfleet Academy novel: The Gemini Agent) ( TOS - Operation: Annihilate comic: " Part 1" TOS movie, novelization & comic adaptation: Star Trek)Īs a boy, Kirk enjoyed walking with his eyes closed because "It made old places feel new." He first kissed a girl when he was eleven or twelve, "depending on how you technically define a 'kiss.'" He also went skinny-dipping in the Riverside Quarry. Kirk drove it over the lip of a quarry, barely escaping with his life. Young Jim stole his father's antique automobile, which Frank had claimed as his own. Life with Winona's brother was difficult for the family, with George Kirk's oldest son expressing frustration with "being a Kirk" in Frank's household, and leaving to live with his grandfather. Kirk grew up in Iowa on Earth, living with his mother and uncle Frank in or near the town of Riverside. He was named after his maternal grandfather (James), and his paternal grandfather ( Tiberius). He was born in space aboard a medical shuttlecraft from the USS Kelvin, delivered just moments before his father's death. Kirk was the youngest son of George Kirk and Winona Kirk. 1.7.6 Temporary assignment to USS Endeavourīorn on stardate 2233.04, James T.1.7.5.5 Listen all y'all it's a sabotage.1.7.5.2 The Teenaxi Negotiation and a Sense of Disconnect.1.6 Captain of the USS Enterprise (2258-2263).
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