Although Kirk initially refuses the offer, he agrees when he realises that the Nexus cannot give him the one thing he has always sought: the ability to make a difference.

Spock objects that one must have power ; Kirk informs him of the Tantalus Field, and Mirror-Spock agrees to consider the idea ( Marlena is presumably now on his side ).

Captain Kirk and Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy witness one of Spock's outbursts, and McCoy agrees Spock needs some " time off.

Kirk agrees and returns it — along with several well-fed ( and huge ) tribbles that scare it away.

Kirk agrees, but things turn out to be more exciting than they expected when the Museum is attacked by terrorists with unknown motives.

" When Charlie finally does vanish, Kirk agrees that it is for the best.

During the pause, Bailey, now calmer, returns to the bridge and requests to return to his station, to which Kirk agrees.

Kirk agrees to leave Federation advisors and educators on the planet to help the civilization advance, free of Landru's dominance.

He offers the stones to Kirk as payment, if he agrees to leave Pyris VII immediately and never return.

Kirk contacts the ship and agrees to keep Cochrane's prescence secret.

She agrees to help, but her true intentions remain uncertain, leaving Kirk and the others to speculate that the fate of the entire crew rests on her actions.

Kirk agrees, but he wants Scotty monitored by a " psycho-tricorder " and orders Lt. Karen Tracy to beam down and administer the test.

With no choice, Kirk agrees, and the brains send him back to the arena.

He offers to help rescue Kirk, and seeing no alternative, Spock agrees.

Spock agrees that this small nation rose from being beaten and bankrupt to near world domination in only a few years but Kirk points out it was a horrible system that had to be destroyed at terrible cost.

McCoy agrees that absolute power corrupts absolutely, Spock dryly pointing out all the examples from Earth history of that mentality and Kirk tells them " we just went through one civil war, let's not start another.

Not remembering the imminent doom of the asteroid, Kirk agrees.

He agrees to Natira's marriage proposal only if she allows Kirk and Spock to go free.

Kirk agrees to beam down and finds himself sent from one transporter room, directly to another, identical transporter room.

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

In the end, the disease infected the crew members of the SCS Goliath, a powerful warship, whose commander, Raemes T. Quirk ( a rather blatant spoof of Captain Kirk, as portrayed by William Shatner ), subsequently attacks the Eureka.

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

Meanwhile, a member of the Andorian delegation, Thelev, attacks and stabs Captain Kirk.

Kirk then talks to M-5 to see whether he can persuade it to stop the attacks.

Anan 7 informs Kirk that the simulated attacks and following executions is the agreed system of war decided by both sides in a treaty with Vendikar.

Kirk and Spock then fend off attacks from the zombified crewmen.

Suddenly another Mugato attacks and Kirk vaporizes it with his phaser.

Meanwhile, Kirk romances Rayna but M4 appears and attacks him.

Flint is quickly shamed into restoring the ship, but when he realizes Rayna will not turn her love to him, Flint attacks Kirk and a brawl ensues.

" In Season 2, Episode 1 (" Amok Time ", 1967 ), Captain Kirk tells Spock, " As one of Finagle's Laws puts it: ' Any home port the ship makes will be somebody else's, not mine.

In the late 1970s, fiction that included a sexual relationship between two of the male characters of the media source ( first Kirk / Spock, then later Starsky / Hutch, Napoleon / Illya, and many others ) started to appear in zines.

This became known as slash from the '/' mark used in adzines to differentiate a K & S story ( which would have been a Kirk and Spock friendship story ) from a K / S story, which would have been one with a romantic or sexual bent between the characters.

The difference was remarked upon in dialog between characters in " Trials and Tribble-ations ", an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine when modern-era characters travel back in time to the days of Kirk and Spock ( and via then-brand new CGI techniques, appear within the TOS episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", frequently coming into contact with the Enterprise crew ).

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew, led by Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ), first officer Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ), and chief medical officer Dr. Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ), in the 23rd century.

Like Enterprise, the new film ( which did contain an indirect reference to the series: Scotty believes he has been " exiled " to the remote Starfleet outpost, where Kirk and the older Spock encounter him, as punishment for losing Admiral Archer's beagle-whom Kirk is quite familiar with-in a transporter mishap ) also adopted a prequel concept, with a different approach.

One element from Yesteryear that has become canon by depiction within Star Trek: The Original Series is the Vulcan city of ShiKahr, depicted in a background scene wherein Kirk, Spock and McCoy walk across a natural stone bridge ( first depicted in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ) in the remastered " Amok Time ".

" Exquisite chemistry " among Kelley, William Shatner, and Leonard Nimoy manifested itself in their performances as McCoy, Captain James T. Kirk and science officer Spock, respectively.

While Spock represented " extreme logic, extreme science " and Kirk symbolized " extreme emotion and intuition ", McCoy's role as " a very colorful doctor, essentially a very humanistic scientist " represented the " two extremes that often served as the glue that held the trio together.

" They chose to reveal McCoy befriended Kirk first, explaining the " bias " in their friendship and why he would often be a " little dismissive " of Spock.

McCoy is someone to whom Kirk unburdens himself and is a foil to Spock.

* In Dalla Van Hise's 1985 Killing Time, the Romulans use time travel to alter history, which results in James T. Kirk becoming an ensign and Spock a starship captain.

Captains: Robert April ( James Doohan, Gene Roddenberry ), Christopher Pike ( Jeffrey Hunter ), James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ), Willard Decker ( Stephen Collins ) ( refit ), Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) ( refit )

" In the " The Apple " Spock points out that Starfleet Command may not agree with his choice to interfere with the computer controlled culture to which Kirk replies " I'll take my chances.

In " The Paradise Syndrome "," the Enterprise attempts to save a pre-industrial planet by moving an asteroid that was on a collision course with it ; when McCoy asks Kirk if he should warn the people, Kirk and Spock only point out the people would not understand the warning, and neither makes any reference to the Prime Directive.

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.

In Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Kirk leads his surviving officers in a successful mission to rescue Spock from a planet on which he is reborn.

The 2009 film Star Trek introduces an alternate timeline that reveals different origins for Kirk, the formation of his association with Spock, and how they came to serve together on the Enterprise.

Kirk and Spock clash at Starfleet Academy, but, over the course of the movie, Kirk focuses his " passion and obstinance and the spectrum of emotions " and becomes captain of the Enterprise.

In the 2009 film Star Trek, 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.