The best of these comes in The Changeling, when Kirk reduces the powerful sentient space probe Nomad to little more than a blithering idiot. Whether it was Daystrom’s M-5, Norman the android, or Landru, give Kirk a few minutes alone with it and pretty soon it’ll be melting circuit boards all over the place out of sheer logic. If there was one thing Captain Kirk was especially good at, it was talking to computers until they blew themselves up. There’s Kirk as commander, Kirk as negotiator, but we’ve always loved Kirk the trickster, when he talks or bluffs his way out of situations, such as here, where Kirk introduces his gangster captor to the intricacies of the card game “Fizzbin.” (And look at the way McCoy leaps into the fray with that karate chop at the end!) A Royal Fizzbin, “A Piece of the Action.” When Kirk realizes that both his crew and their Klingon foes are being manipulated by some sort of creature that feeds on their hostility, he forces himself to put his anger aside and convince the Klingons to lay down their arms and come together in good will, leading to that rarest of sounds: a Klingon belly laugh.ģ. Sometimes you do what it takes to get the job done.Ģ. Outclassed and out of his depth when going hand-to-hand with genetically enhanced superman Khan Noonien Singh, Captain Kirk tries his usual array of Kirk Fu fighting moves, to no avail, and eventually has to resort to something a little more direct: the warp-engine equivalent of a monkey wrench.
When it comes to Star Trek commanding officers, there’s Captain James Tiberius Kirk and then there’s everybody else.ġ.
Check out their terrific list of 13 GREAT CAPTAIN KIRK MOMENTS.
UPDATED 3/22/22: William Shatner turns 91 today! It’s time, then, to re-present this list of 13 GREAT CAPTAIN KIRK MOMENTS! - Danġ3th Dimension contributor Scott Tipton and his brother, David, have written many of the best-received Star Trek comics for IDW - so they certainly know of which they speak. Posted By Dan Greenfield on | 13 comments
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