" 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.

When they arrive, Franklin tells Kirk and Pam about a local swimming hole and the couple head off to find it.

", in which Captain James T. Kirk tells Apollo that " Mankind has no need for gods, we find the one quite adequate.

When someone has to go down to deflector control to effect a repair, Harriman offers to go, but Kirk opts to go instead and tells Harriman he should remain on the bridge.

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 tells Spock that Moreau " seems like a nice, likable girl " and that he thinks they " could be friends.

Kirk tells the rest of the landing party to also try or find new lives in the past if they fail to return.

Alarmed, Kirk tells Edith to stay there before running to find Spock.

McCoy tells Kirk that he could have saved her.

In Blish's version, Kirk allows Edith to die, with the result that Spock tells him, " No other woman was ever almost offered the universe for love.

Kirk tells the Klingon captain, Koloth, that he may only bring members of his crew down 12 at a time, and that he will provide one security guard for each Klingon who beams down to ensure that there will be no trouble.

Kirk is given the chance to address the Organian council where he tells them of the Klingons, who are a " military dictatorship ," but the Organians are completely unconcerned.

Seven tells Kirk that he is an Earth human from a far more advanced world.

" It understands Kirk is trying to help and tells him the missing pump is in the " Vault of Tomorrow.

Trelane tells Kirk he must face a trial for " treason ," " conspiracy ," and " fomenting insurrection.

Though repulsed by the machine's words, Kirk decides to play along with Nomad's mistake, and tells Nomad not to " sterilize " anything further, which for now, it obeys.

Kirk tells Nomad that Nomad itself has made a mistake, something only an imperfect being can do.

" As they're about to transport to the Enterprise, a frustrated Kirk tells the Professor, " Your creature is killing my people!

He tells Captain Kirk that he feels ashamed when he feels friendship toward him.

However, Riley has turned the engines off and the Chief Engineer Scotty tells Kirk that he is going to need more time to restart them than they have left.

Returning later, Miri is confronted by Kirk, who tells her she and the others will eventually contract the disease just like the grups if they don't help him find a cure.

Spock tells Kirk not to let Sylvia touch the wand.

James T. Kirk tells Edith Keeler that " a hundred years or so from now ", a famous novelist will write a classic using the theme " Let me help " and indicates that he will come from " a planet circling that far left star in Orion's belt.

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.