Kirk accepts the offer as Ruth appears again, and authorizes the crew to beam down.

He expresses his desire to learn more about humans and their culture, and Lt. Bailey is volunteered by Kirk to remain on Balok's ship as an emissary of the Federation, an assignment Bailey happily accepts.

Kirk takes Carolyn aside and tells her to reject Apollo if he does not comply with Kirk's demands to leave, as she will condemn all of them, including herself, to becoming slaves if she accepts him.

Kirk reluctantly accepts Spock's suicidal request and allows him to launch.

Kirk accepts Miramanee's offer to " settle " with him, and asks her to pick the day of " joining " where they will be married.

Kirk accepts on condition that the Romulans simultaneously transport two of their officers over as an exchange.

McCoy accepts under the circumstances and Kirk and Spock are released.

Kirk happily accepts despite objections from Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy and Chief Engineer Scott.

King James, however, finding the Roman Catholic lords useful as a foil to the tyranny of the Kirk, was at this time seeking Spanish aid in case Queen Elizabeth I tried to challenge his right to the English throne ; Huntly, always one of his favourites, was pardoned.

She invokes koon-ut-kal-if-fee, her right to a physical challenge between Spock and Stonn, but instead of Stonn, she picks Kirk to be her champion.

Since she could only legally divorce Spock through the koon-ut-kal-if-fee, and allowing Stonn to take the challenge as her champion would risk losing him, she instead chose Kirk, knowing that regardless of the outcome she and Stonn would be together — as Kirk would not want her and Spock would probably release her.

It has been alleged that the Chinese government takes IT secrets of international companies operating there and passes them on to local companies to boost their competitiveness Kirk has also been critical of China's internet censorship policies, and he is reported to be considering whether to challenge such censorship regulations in the WTO as an unfair barrier to trade ; it would be the first case of its kind.

In 1970, Eckerd entered the Republican gubernatorial primary to challenge incumbent Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr. A third candidate, State Senator L. A.

When Kirk and Gurney endorsed Carswell, Lieutenant Governor Ray C. Osborne, a Kirk appointee, abandoned his own primary challenge to Cramer.

At Starfleet Academy, Kirk became the only student to defeat the Kobayashi Maru test, garnering a commendation for original thinking by reprogramming the computer to make the " no-win scenario " winnable.

" Kirk ," as he was sometimes called, taught the young Lewis much about thinking and communicating clearly, skills that would be invaluable to him later.

" Despite having cheated, Kirk had been awarded a commendation for " original thinking.

In William Shatner's novel Avenger, Captain Christine McDonald of the USS Tobias tells Captain Kirk that in her time, the Kobayashi Maru scenario is no longer used to test character, but rather to evaluate the very " original thinking " for which Kirk had received a commendation.

" Kirk recalls thinking of his academy days, then, as Spock expected, Finnegan reappears.

Kirk orders everyone to come to attention and stop thinking about anything.

Kirk, still under the influence of Elaan's tears, manages to pull himself together and bluff the Klingons into thinking the Enterprise is fully operational.

Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda tried to trick the Athletics into thinking that Kirk Gibson was not going to pinch-hit in Game 1.

Kirk meanwhile tricks Deela into thinking he has adjusted to their cause, until Kirk surprises her and steals her weapon.

After hanging up on Kirk once, thinking he's being made fun of, Chris ecstatically agrees.

Metallica's Kirk Hammett and Lars Ulrich can be seen dancing to " Hit That Perfect Beat " during the closing credits of the Metallica video " A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica ".

During the era of the original series, Captain James Kirk once noted ( in the episode Metamorphosis ) that humanity was on " a thousand planets and spreading out ;" however, this number apparently encompasses Earth's many off-Earth colonies and the various alien worlds on which humans can be found ( just as non-humans have been depicted as residing on Earth ) and should not be taken to mean that the Federation itself had a thousand members at that time.

After locking a colleague in a closet, Uhura uses the transporter station to beam Kirk, Leonard McCoy and Hikaru Sulu to the Enterprise so they can use it to rescue Spock from the Genesis Planet.

Kirk and Spock then procure the whales so the crew can return to the 23rd century and save Earth.

The church is sometimes pejoratively referred to in Scotland as the " English Kirk ", but this is misleading and can cause offence.

The 2009 J. J. Abrams film depicts cadet James T. Kirk ( Chris Pine ) reprogramming the test so the Klingon ships ' shields suddenly drop, allowing all five to be destroyed with ease so the safe rescue of the Kobayashi Maru can commence.

The player can have Forrester face the unaltered version of the test, or have Forrester reprogram the computer as Captain Kirk did, altering the scenario in one of three ways.

Oakshaw is a conservation area and on the high ground many of Paisley's significant buildings can be found, such as the High Kirk, the Coats Observatory and the former John Neilson Institution, which was once a school and is now converted into residential flats.

Kirk deduces that they must have switched places with their mirror-universe counterparts, that the landing party from this universe must now be aboard his Enterprise, and that his landing party must impersonate their counterparts until they can find a way home.

They manage to get control of the Transporter Room, and Kirk and Spock return to see if time can be repaired.

This begins with an explanation by Kirk about how one of the crew can go wrong, even though " we have continuous psych-probes.

With the exception of some stock footage of New York City used on this episode ( in which the Brooklyn Bridge can be seen as well as a street in front of the apartment Kirk and Spock live in ), all the exterior shots were filmed on " the back forty ," Desilu Studios ' film backlot in Culver City, California.

* A tribble can be seen in the 2009 Star Trek film, in a cage on Montgomery Scott's desk when Scott is first met on Delta Vega by Kirk and Spock Prime.

Before Mitchell can kill Kirk, the doctor attacks and weakens him.

Mitchell fatally injures Dehner, but before he can recover from the effort, Kirk uses a phaser rifle to create a rock slide, killing Mitchell.

The two commanders are soon locked in a battle of wits ; at one point the Romulan commander refers to Kirk as a " sorcerer " who can read his thoughts.

Thankfully, owing to his unusual Vulcan physiology, Spock's body can survive in this " brainless " state mechanically, giving Captain Kirk about 24 hours to find his stolen brain.

Spock makes contact with the landing party through a communicator, but before anything can be done, Kirk and his party are apprehended by Kara, the same woman who appeared on the Enterprise bridge.

When pressed by Kirk, she admits she can say it only " after a fashion, and with much practice.

Kirk can mean " church " in general or the Church of Scotland in particular.

In more recent times, the traditional names have been revived, so that in many cases both forms can be heard: Glasgow Cathedral, as well as the High Kirk of Glasgow, and St. Giles ' Cathedral, as well as the High Kirk of Edinburgh.

Within Loudoun can be found the towns of Darvel and Newmilns, alongside Loudoun Hill, Loudoun Castle, Loudoun Kirk and Loudoun Academy.

A sundial dating from the 1840s is also visible, and a stone coat of arms thought to originate from the Auld Kirk manse can be seen nearby, in Reform Street.