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 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.

Kirk tries to contact the Enterprise, but Tracey suddenly interrupts him and forcibly takes his communicator.

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

Uhura's assignment is Lars, a handsome and somewhat arrogant bronze-skinned man, and Kirk meets his own thrall, Shahna ( Angelique Pettyjohn ), a beautiful and shy woman with green hair who is exotically dressed in a silver outfit.

Shahna is tough with Kirk at first but seems to have growing compassion for the Captain.

During training, Kirk finds time alone with Shahna.

Kirk manages to kill two of the thralls and injure a third, but the Providers replace the injured warrior with Shahna.

Kirk lingers behind for a final kiss from Shahna and explains to her that there will be no more games, and the Providers will help them start a free civilization.

" The Lorelei Signal " and " The Infinite Vulcan ", the latter written by Walter Koenig, are rare occurrences where Captain Kirk comes close to actually saying, " Beam me up, Scotty " ( long erroneously believed to be a Star Trek catchphrase ), when he commands " Beam us up, Scotty.

" Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home arguably comes closer to it by having Kirk say " Scotty, beam me up ".

The phrase was never uttered by anyone in the original series, although " Scotty, beam me up " was spoken by Admiral Kirk in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

As irregularities in the books of Cendant were discovered in early 1998, an audit committee set up by Cendant's Board of Directors launched an investigation and discovered that the former management team of CUC, including its top executives Walter Forbes and Kirk Shelton, had been fraudulently preparing false business statements for several years.

Anne had been brought up a Lutheran, but she may have discreetly converted to Catholicism at some point, a politically embarrassing scenario which alarmed ministers of the Scottish Kirk and caused suspicion in Anglican England.

In the offseason, the Bulls gave up Lucas to the Toronto Raptors, Brewer to the New York Knicks, Korver to the Atlanta Hawks, Watson to the Brooklyn Nets and Aşık to the Houston Rockets, but brought back Kirk Hinrich.

He then is beaten up by four thugs ( Kirk Douglas and others, from I Walk Alone ).

* Famous musicians such as Kirk Hammett of Metallica and Exodus, Marc Biederman of Blind Illusion, Les Claypool ( former member of Blind Ilusion currently of Primus ), Larry " Ler " LaLonde of Primus and Possessed, Jason Beebout of Samiam and Isocracy and John Kiffmeyer of Green Day and Isocracy all grew up in El Sobrante, and most of them attended De Anza High School.

In spite of everything, Kirk was determined not to give up on his namesake town, and Kirkland was finally incorporated in 1905 with a population of approximately 532.

Just before the prison warden reveals who set them up, Kirk and McCoy are beamed aboard the Enterprise by Captain Spock.

In 1225, the Lord Justice caused Odo O ' Flatherty to give up Kirk Castle to Odo O ' Connor, King of Connaught ; for assurance of his fidelity.

The Auld Kirk was to be the standing authority in the town up until the 1840s.

His life's story beyond his encounter with Kirk at Gamma Canaris in " Metamorphosis " is depicted up to his death during the events of the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

One was set up by Little Sur River, one at Kirk Creek and a third was later established in the south at Anderson Creek.

Blackjack is largely responsible for his son's captaincy, and his strict expectations that his son not follow in the footsteps of people like Kirk have presented much for Harriman to live up to throughout his life.

Marshall Kirk McKusick, then a Berkeley graduate student, optimized the BSD 4. 2's FFS ( Fast File System ) by inventing cylinder groups, which break the disk up into smaller chunks, with each group having its own inodes and data blocks.

In UFS2, Kirk McKusick and Poul-Henning Kamp extended the FreeBSD FFS and UFS layers to add 64-bit block pointers ( allowing volumes to grow up to 8 zettabytes ), variable-sized blocks ( similar to extents ), extended flag fields, additional ' birthtime ' stamps, extended attribute support and POSIX1. e ACLs.

* Maciste il Vendicatore dei Mayas / Maciste, Avenger of the Mayans ( No American title, 1965 ) ( Note * This Maciste film was made up almost entirely of re-edited stock footage from 2 older Maciste films, Maciste contro i mostri and Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste, so Maciste switches from Kirk Morris to Reg Lewis in various scenes ; this movie is very scarce since it was never distributed in the USA and is not available in English.

* Maciste il Vendicatore dei Mayas / Maciste, Avenger of the Mayans ( no American title, 1965 ) ( Note * This Maciste film was made up almost entirely of re-edited stock footage from 2 older Maciste films, Maciste contro i mostri and Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste, so Maciste switches from Kirk Morris to Reg Lewis in various scenes ; this movie is very scarce since it was never distributed in the USA and is not available in English.

Tradition has it that in 1904, football manager and student R. J. Kirk came up with the nickname Wheatshockers.

Much like Kirk, characters are frequently depicted as coming up with very innovative or surprising ways of handling the situation.

In A. C. Crispin's novel Sarek, Peter Kirk, James T. Kirk's nephew, uses his experiences throughout the novel to come up with another way to defeat the unwinnable scenario, this time against Romulan opponents.

He also wanted a shot of Kirk Douglas entering the Pentagon, but could not get permission because of security considerations, so he rigged a movie camera in a parked station wagon to photograph Douglas walking up to the Pentagon.

During his time as Prime Minister Kirk, a non-smoker, kept up an intense schedule and rarely took vacation time.