In the 2009 film, the mystery regarding Uhura's first name is the subject of a running joke as Kirk repeatedly tries to find out what it is, before finally hearing Spock utter it.

This causes Truman to begin questioning his staged life, and as he tries to get away from it the writers are forced to write a plot in which Kirk had not drowned but had suffered from amnesia.

The mirror Kirk tries to bribe Spock with rewards of " a command of ( his ) own " if he's freed, but Spock simply replies " fascinating " and continues investigating.

Kirk tries to return to his ship, but finds the effects of the time changes cause the Enterprise to become the Condor, a pirate vessel.

When the Romulan ship decloaks to launch a torpedo, Kirk tries to spring his trap, but an equipment failure leaves the phasers off-line and Mr. Stiles incapacitated.

The team heads down and they encounter a woman named Luma who tries to activate her bracelet, but Kirk quickly stuns her with a phaser.

When Seven tries to beam himself down, Kirk stuns him with a phaser.

Later, Kirk tries his best to instill Charlie with some manly qualities, and attempts to teach the young man how to fight.

Kirk tries to disconnect M-5, but discovers it is protecting itself with a force field.

Kirk tries to get the probe to return to the holding cell, but it kills the two security guards sent to escort it.

Kirk arrives with a phaser and a handful of salt and tries to entice the creature into attacking.

However, when Yeoman Rand becomes hysterical over their impending fate and Kirk tries to console her, Miri becomes jealous and runs away to scheme with her friends.

Desperate to prevent any more bloodshed in his name, Karidian / Kodos jumps into the line of fire as Lenore tries to shoot Kirk.

Kirk tries to subtly extract information from her while he has her charmed, and learns that Sylvia and her partner Korob are explorers, but not from this galaxy.

She then tries to finagle the device away from Kirk.

Kirk tries to contact the Enterprise for assistance, but his signals are being blocked by some unknown phenomenon.

Kirk tries to convince the Companion that she is not compatible with Cochrane, and that she is not capable of loving a human the way another human can.

Kirk tries to wriggle the ship free of the hand by using the ship's impulse engines, but to no avail.

Thinking Tyree is too weak and hesitant to arm the people, Nona tries to seduce Kirk with her potions, but Kirk resists and Tyree witnesses her treachery.

Kirk tries to soften Shahna up by telling her about the other planets he has visited and about the concepts of freedom.

" Kirk tries to offer a peaceful solution ; Krako rejects it out of hand, and has Kirk locked up under threat of imminent death hoping he'll change his mind.

Once again, Kirk tries to wrestle Tracey's phaser away, but fails.

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 ).

The ribbon makes contact with the ship's hull and causes major damage to the section Kirk is in ; being exposed to the vacuum of space, he is presumed to be dead.

For example, as part of the Federation's then-ongoing hostilities with the Klingons, Captain Kirk was ordered to make contact with the seemingly pre-industrial Organians in " Errand of Mercy.

Initially unsure of what has happened and having lost radio contact with Pacific Fleet Command, captain Matthew Yelland ( Kirk Douglas ) launches reconnaissance aircraft which discover an intact Pacific battleship fleet at Pearl Harbor.

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 Kirk attempts to contact him, it is not Spock but Leila who opens the communicator.

On Deep Space Nine, which takes place over 100 years after the original contact with the Mirror Universe, it was revealed that drastic changes had occurred in the Mirror Universe because of the interference of the regular universe's Kirk.

The builders of the ship want to make contact with the Federation, but only if Kirk can pass a series of philosophical tests to prove his worth.

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.

Captain Kirk assembles a landing party consisting of himself, First Officer Spock, Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Leonard McCoy, and Navigator Ensign Pavel Chekov and beams down to the surface of the planet to make contact.

Since M-5 has disabled communications, Kirk is unable to contact Commodore Wesley and explain what is happening.

On stardate 3497. 2, the starship USS Enterprise, under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, arrives at Capella IV to negotiate a mining contact for topeline.

Kirk is offered some food by a Capellan woman, but McCoy manages to restrain Kirk from physical contact with a small bulbous object that she is holding, for touching it mandates hand-to-hand combat with her closest male relative.

Starfleet sends a priority message to Captain Kirk and orders him to investigate Sector 39J where contact has been lost with the colonies in the Gamma 7A system.

Kirk orders Spock and McCoy to go to the local radio station and try to contact the Enterprise while he goes after Oxmyx.

Spock finally makes contact with the Enterprise and explains their situation while Kirk orders Dr. McCoy to beam down and examine Gill.

Kirk becomes himself again and flicks his communicator open to contact the ship.

Eye contact and gestures throughout the series have also been cited as being part of a homoerotic subtext in their relationship .< ref name = Woledge > Woledge, Elizabeth ( August 2005 ) " Decoding Desire: From Kirk and Spock to K / S < sup > 1 </ sup >" Social Semiotics, Volume 15, Issue 2 August 2005, pages 235-250 Another key scene which can be interpreted as homoerotic is in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, when Spock dies, and tells Kirk " I have been and always shall be your friend.

One of Lichtenberg's plot arcs concerned the idea that James T. Kirk, having been in contact with a number of telepathic alien species, had begun to be telepathic himself.