Kirk meets Lincoln and has a fistfight with Genghis Khan, in one episode!
In another episode, hes on a planet of the Nazis!
On another episode, he meets the Greek God Apollo!
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Thats David A. Goodman, a TV writer with a longTrekhistory as both fan and creator.
Goodmans encyclopedic knowledge ofTrekled him to write the faux-historicStar Trek Federation: The First 150 Years.
(The foreword is written by Dr. (Thats not to mention the rebootedTrekseries with Chris Pine as Kirk an alternate universe thatAutobiographysidesteps.)
I was in a box created by other writers, Goodman laughs.
In narrative context, it doesnt make much sense.
We get in ruts.
We do the same stupid things over and over again.
He has to let her die to make it let history be saved a wonderful heros story.
But you start thinking about that realistically, that would be really traumatic!
That lasts a long time.
That might be what keeps him from getting seriously involved with a woman ever again.
They were hazing lowerclassmen.
That was something that, on examining, I had to face the truth of it.
Gary Mitchell, his best friend from the Academy, says he was stack of books with legs.
He had this bully, Finnegan, who gave him a hard time all the way through school.
Hes a different person now than he was then.
The Omega Glory
Kirk literally reads the preamble to the United States Constitution.
Its not a favorite episode among the fans, but that whole scene connects Kirk to our era.
He had this reverence for America.
Heres this guy in the future, and the American government which no longer exists in Kirks future!
is still this great important thing.
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
We found out that he had this son, David.
So that means Kirk is an absent father.
InStar Trek 2, its dump the mom didnt want him around.
And as fans, we like the fact that hes married to the ship.
The Autobiographyof James T. Kirkby David Goodman is available now.
