Kirk orders McCoy's commission reactivated in Star Trek: The Motion Picture ( 1979 ); a resentful McCoy complains of being " drafted ".

Although Kirk is demoted to captain in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home for disobeying Starfleet orders, he also receives command of a new USS Enterprise.

Disobeying orders, Kirk and his officers spring McCoy from detention, disable USS Excelsior, and steal Enterprise from Spacedock to return to the Genesis planet to retrieve Spock's body.

Desperately, Kirk orders a delay in the attack for 12 hours.

This piques mirror-Spock's curiosity, but he obeys the order ; he does report the suspicious activity of his Captain to Starfleet Command, and receives orders to kill Captain Kirk if he does not carry out the order to destroy the uncooperative Halkans.

However, Kirk suspects a trap and orders a point-blank phaser shot that detonates the bomb.

Kirk orders Sulu to follow his previous orders and to withdraw, stranding Kirk and Spock on the surface.

Soon, however, Kirk receives a priority signal with orders to proceed to Altair VI to represent the Federation at an inauguration ceremony for the planet's new president.

Kirk orders him to report to Sickbay.

Furthermore, Kirk is let off the hook for disobeying orders when Starfleet retroactively grants permission to divert to Vulcan at T ' Pau's request.

Kirk orders Thelev brought to the bridge and questions him about his and the attacking ship's motives, though Thelev is evasive.

As the machine veers off, Kirk personally orders Spock to relieve Decker of command on his authority as officially designated Captain of the Enterprise.

With everything prepared, Kirk orders the others back to the Enterprise and steers the Constellation toward the planet killer's maw.

Kirk orders a temporary halt to the beaming down of personnel until the landing party can discover what is really happening.

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

Kirk orders the bombing to be postponed, but other officers become suspicious and one attempts to assassinate him for acting against the interests of the empire.

The Klingons take Kirk and Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ) prisoner ; Spock and the Enterprise crew disregard Starfleet orders and instead rescue Kirk and McCoy.

In an effort to win its confidence, Kirk orders his Chief Medical Officer, Dr. McCoy, to come and help the creature while Spock mind melds with it again.

On stardate 4385. 3, the starship USS Enterprise, under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, is instructed to make peaceful contact with the Melkotians, the mysterious alien inhabitants of Theta Kiokis II, but is warned away by a strange space buoy that orders it not to proceed to the Melkotians ' planet.

Kirk orders Spock to mind meld with each member of the team, in an attempt to wipe away any and all doubt from their minds and convince them that the bullets from the Earps ' guns are mere phantasms, and will pass through their bodies without injury.

Kirk for going into the domain of the Unseelie court, where he had been warned not to go, and decided to imprison him in Doon Hill — for one night in May 1692, the Rev.

Kirk's cousin, Graham of Duchray, was then to claim that the spectre of Kirk had visited him in the night, and told him that he had been carried off by the Fairies.

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.

Picard asks for help from an " echo " of Guinan in the Nexus ; she sends him to meet Kirk, who is also safe in the Nexus.

Kirk is mortally wounded from the encounter ; as he dies, Picard assures him that he helped to make a difference.

In 2266, McCoy was posted as chief medical officer of the USS Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk who calls him " Bones ".

He was given private tuition by James Mitchell in arithmetic and writing, and learned from him the history of the Kirk with emphasis on the Covenanters.

After Kirk receives no answer, he discovers that the door is unlocked and enters the house, where Leatherface ( Gunnar Hansen ) appears and kills him.

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.

However, Kirk is mortally wounded ; as he dies, Picard assures him that he helped to " make a difference ".

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.

Shatner wrote that " Kirk was a man who marveled and greatly appreciated the endless surprises presented to him by the universe ...

Initially, Spock was supposed to knock out an evil Kirk in the Engineering room by striking him on the back of the head.

The character's first broadcast appearance is in " The Man Trap " ( 1966 ), which introduces him as the ship's science officer and first officer under Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ).

He had been staying with his family in Glasgow, until Mary brought him to their estate, Kirk o ' Field, with the intention of incorporating him into the court system again.

Although he continued to work with William Shatner in the Star Trek movies, in private life Doohan didn't care for him, and was once quoted as saying " I like Captain Kirk, but I can't say that I'm very fond of Bill ," declining to be interviewed by Shatner for Shatner's first Star Trek: Memories book about the show.

Mitchum played Jeff Markham, a small-town gas station owner whose unfinished business with gambler Whit Sterling ( Kirk Douglas ) and femme fatale Kathie Moffett ( Jane Greer ), comes back to haunt him.

Kirk, McCoy and Taylor rescue him from a hospital and return to the now-recharged ship.

When Kirk and Spock are traveling on a public bus, they encounter a punk rocker blaring his music on a boom box, to the discomfort of everyone around him.

" On learning about the scene, Kirk Thatcher, an associate producer on the film, convinced Nimoy to let him play the role ; Thatcher shaved his hair into a mohawk and bought clothes to complete the part.

In the film, Pike encourages the young James T. Kirk ( Chris Pine ) to follow in the footsteps of his father, and challenges him to enlist in Starfleet.

According to tradition, Jesse Kirk, Kirksvilles first postmaster, shared a dinner of turkey and whiskey with surveyors working in the area on the condition that they would name the town after him.