James Tiberius Kirk


Kirk once held the rank of Admiral, but was degraded in 2285 because of disobeying a superior officer in order to rescue his friend Spock on Genesis, but the Federation council was so gratefull for Kirk's role in saving earth from the devastating effects of an alien probe that it granted Kirk the captain's seat of the second starship Enterprise. Kirk played an important role in saving the historical Khitomer peace conference which lead to a peace treaty with the Klingon Empire.
Kirk was aboard the Enterprise-B on her maiden voyage and was believed killed saving the ship in 2294. Actually he remained in a temporal anomaly called the Nexus until 2371 when he emerged at Veridian to help fellow captain Jean-Luc Picard to defeat the obsessed scientist Tolian Soran, which cost him his life. He was buried on a mountain top on planet Veridian III.