All the " deceased " officers begin to rise, and Spock ( now revealed as the cadets ' instructor ) orders the trainees to the briefing room.

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 ).

They realize that Spock is now the " Controller " — a living computer that the Eymorgs hope will last 10, 000 years.

For Picard however, the tone of the mission has changed — he must now inform Spock that his father has died.

In the caves on the surface, Picard and Data, now out of costume, fill Pardek and Spock in on the message they intercepted.

Spock and Scott desperately attempt a manual override, but they discover M-5 has bypassed its power source and now draws energy directly from the ship's warp engines.

Upon arrival, Science Officer Spock reports that all life in the system has been destroyed and Malur, a world with a recorded population of 4 billion, is now devoid of life, including the Federation science team that was on the planet.

His victories had come despite the fact that Spock was the one who wrote the computer's chess program and the machine should therefore be incapable of doing any worse than a draw ; when McCoy asks how that is possible, Spock explains he is convinced that the system has somehow been tampered with since game programming he made three months before has now been altered.

As the giant cat threatens Kirk and Spock, Kirk calls out: " Sylvia, I have the transmuter ; it ’ s mine now.

Spock, now disguised as an Ekotian soldier and Kirk acting as his Zeon prisoner, disable a Gestapo officer and Kirk obtains his uniform.

She is no longer jealous, and now understands what Spock experienced.

Upon awakening, though Spock suggests that they return to the surface, Gem holds up McCoy's medical tricorder and Kirk says, " The best defense is a good offense, and I intend to start offending right now.

With the conclusion of the crisis, Kirk, Spock, Scotty and McCoy all agree to allow Mira to complete her original assignment on Memory Alpha, which will now involve overseeing the salvaging and repairs.

Hodin tries to stop Spock, but Spock warns him not to interfere since he has just disobeyed Starfleet orders and must now return to resolve the matter.

The second story ( he is just referred to as " Merco "), puts him in a slightly different outfit ( now red instead of blue, with an " M " on his belt buckle ), but with pointed ears ( like Mr. Spock ) in his human form ( which no one comments about ).

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.

While Kirk and McCoy were imprisoned, Spock assumed command and led an investigation into the attack on Gorkon's ship and his assassination.

In the non-canon short story " Infinity " ( written by Susan Wright and collected into The Lives of Dax ), the shuttle in which Torias Dax dies is testing a prototype version of the transwarp drive ( as seen in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ) with the assistance of Lieutenant Saavik and under the command of Captain Stiles ( both appear in The Search for Spock ).

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.

Spock, not wanting command of the ISS Enterprise as it would make him an instant target of assassination, decides instead to study the Captain as long as he can.

* Color corrections also were done, and as a result the command tunics worn by Kirk and Spock were revealed to have a distinctive gold cast, different from the sand-colored tunics worn by many of the crew.

In accordance with regulations, despite the objections of both his mother and Dr. McCoy, Spock halts his participation in Sarek's procedure in order to assume command of the Enterprise, as the situation is too critical to leave in the hands of a less experienced officer.

As the machine attacks, Decker comes to the bridge, and quoting Starfleet regulations he pulls rank on Spock and assumes command.

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

The Tholians claim this particular area of space and attempt to ensnare the Enterprise in their energy web, but the Enterprise, under the command of Spock, is able to escape and retrieve Kirk from between dimensions.

Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) commands the Enterprise, serving as a training ship, at the beginning of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ( 1982 ), but Kirk assumes command when the ship investigates problems with Project Genesis.

The Romulan Nero ( Eric Bana ) captures Captain Pike, and command nominally shifts to Commander Spock ( Zachary Quinto ).

At the film's conclusion, Kirk is promoted to captain and receives command of the Enterprise, with Spock as first officer.

The ship is placed under the command of newly demoted Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) as " punishment " for his and his crew's actions in the rescue of Captain Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

First Officer Mr. Spock is left temporarily in command.

When Spock shows more interest in the archaic weapon than Latimer's death, Lieutenant Boma begins to criticize Mr. Spock's methods of command.

Kirk beams down to the planet with Dr. McCoy, First Officer Spock and a security officer, leaving Chief Engineer Scott in command.

As Kirk continues to age, he becomes increasingly forgetful, prompting Commodore Stocker to order Spock to commence a compentency hearing in order to rule him unfit for command.

He summons Spock to consider Kirk's fitness for command.

After listening to the Doctor, the Romulan Commander orders Spock to assume command of the Enterprise, Kirk mutters words of outrage and disgust, then lunges at Spock.

Spock manages to resist Tommy's influence and quickly leads Kirk into the turbolift, reassuring him that he is indeed in command.

" 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.

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.