Category: Captain Kirk

  • The Enemy Within

    Captain Kirk, Lt. Sulu, Geological Technician Fisher, and three otherEnterprise crew members are approaching the end of a routine, one-day geological survey and specimen gathering mission on the planet Alpha 177. Helm Officer Sulu is tending to a doglike creature indigenous to the planet.

  • The City on the Edge of Forever

    The City on the Edge of Forever is Star Trek’s most poignant time travel story. The technology of the Guardian of Forever’s Time Portal is not made explicit. Specification of the Vortex’s technoscience would have detracted from the emotion/meaning of Kirk’s fateful choice between his love for Edith Keeler and preservation of the galactic timeline.

  • Arena

    In the pre-Klingon and pre-Borg Original Series episode Arena, Captain Kirk is involved in a one-on-one duel against an antagonistic and radical alien Other, the Gorn commander. The episode is entitled Kaijû Gôn tono Taiketus, or Duel With the Monster Gorn, in Japanese dubbing.

  • Captain Kirk Was Never the Original, by Alan N. Shapiro

    In its prevalent forms, the cottage consumer industry of Star Trek is a classic virtuality of identification where the viewers’ senses of self, otherness, and reality are blurred by the contemplation of iconic spectacles. The fanatic relationship to media objects and fetishized paraphernalia is a partial, transitional realization of the reign of simulacra.