

Two weeks after the battle, the Farragut put in at Starbase 7 so that Kirk could receive treatment for his injuries.

Despite the intense pain, he stayed at his post and the Farragut successfully repelled the pirates, and he was awarded the Decoration of Valor. When the Farragut was ambushed by six pirate ships from Epsilon Canaris III, Kirk's knee was badly injured. In 2255, Kirk was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and was assigned bridge duty at the weapons console as a Tactical Officer. His subsequent report described a primitive but promising culture, and Starfleet endorsed his recommended policy of non-interference. By the end of the year, Kirk had earned the respect and trust of Captain Anthony Steven Garrovick, and escorted the captain on his first survey mission to the planet Neural, where he made friends with a local hill-man named Tyree. He was assigned to the USS Farragut, under the command of Captain Garrovick.įor the first six months of his tour, Kirk was assigned to manage ship's stores in the cargo bay.
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Before his third attempt, Kirk secretly reprogrammed the simulation computer, consequently becoming the only cadet in Academy history to beat the "no-win" scenario, and earning a commendation for original thinking.Īlso in 2254, Kirk was commissioned as an officer in the Federation Starfleet with the serial number SC937-0176CEC. Kirk refused to accept his first two defeats. During this post-graduate command training, Kirk confronted the Kobayashi Maru scenario, a simulation used to evaluate a student's reactions to a "no-win" battle and rescue situation. In 2254, Kirk, who by then was carrying the rank of Ensign, moved into the Starfleet Academy Command School. In the early 2250s, Kirk served as an Ensign, along with his friend Lt. The same year he had a brief romance with an Orion girl called Sivenna Talschi. One of the students in his class was Gary Mitchell despite some animosity between the two, they became great friends. In his sophomore year, Kirk had earned enough respect from his tutors that he was assigned to teach a Federation History class to first-year cadets. For his participation, Kirk was awarded the Palm Leaf of Axanar Peace Mission. They had persuaded the Axanarri to sign a peace treaty with the Federation and change the shape of the Federation-Klingon border. In his plebe year, Kirk was a participant in the successful peace mission to the planet Axanar. As a result, he earned the reputation of being a hard-nosed cadet who was slightly reviled by his fellow cadets. Because of the important backing he received, Kirk felt pressured to achieve excellent grades in his first year at the Academy, out of fear that he would let down those who had sponsored him. He was sponsored for entry by Captain Robert April and Admirals R. The thirteen-year-old Jim Kirk was one of only nine eyewitnesses to the massacre.īy 2250, Kirk, aged 17, had returned to Earth, ready to begin his Starfleet training. Kodos was unaware of the imminent arrival of relief ships led by Ambassador Sarek, the leader of the Symmetrists, who had come too late to save the colonists from Kodos. This organization had used the colony as a test site for the Virogen plague, which had started the food crisis. He was a member of a secret group called the Symmetrists. Kodos, the governor of Tarsus IV, tried to save a portion of his colony by killing the 4,000 colonists who he had deemed least able to survive. In that year, a food crisis was starving the colony of 8,000 people.

Throughout his early years, Kirk's father was rarely at home as he was assigned to Starbase 2 as Chief of Security, but by 2246, the family had moved from Earth to the Federation colony Tarsus IV. This happened while he sat in his father's arms watching the stars. Later that same year, James decided he wanted to go into space. In 2238, when Kirk was 5-year-old, his family visited the Starfleet War Memorial in San Francisco on Federation Day. He was the youngest son of George Samuel Kirk, Sr. Kirk was born in 2233 in Riverside, Iowa on Earth.
