Blame Time Travel For Kirk’s Scarred Psyche

Click to viewBy now , you might have remark that James Tiberius Kirk is , well … variety of a dirtbag in the unexampled Star Trek movie . He junk a gorgeous Corvette at years 11 , and just gets more obnoxious from there on out . He ’s not just cocky like ShatnerKirk , he ’s in reality irresponsible , where Shatner was sort of nervy . Is it just because he ’s young and immature ? Or is there something else going on , which might really make for a more interesting movie ? spoiler ahead .

How exactly does Kirk muddle up in the movie ? From what I can gather from interviews and presentations , he ’s a fairly dirty plebe who washes out of Starfleet Academy , before Captain Pike gives him the big motivational words you hear in the trailer . He hits on Uhura in a really smarmy , patronise way , and later stalker into her quarters to watch her undress . Worst of all , it looks like there ’s gon na be some angst , as Kirk figure out who he really is .

The pic ’s Romulan baddie , Nero , travel back in prison term and destroy the U.S.S. Kelvin , the ship where both Kirk ’s parents are serving . As a result , Kirk and his brother have to go live with their uncle Frank . We already hump , from actor Brad William Henke , that Uncle Frank is abusive and alcohol-dependent , and create the Kirk boy ’ survive hell . ( That ’s Uncle Frank ’s Corvette that Kirk drives off a drop-off in the drone . ) So there ’s a Modern timeline – one in which Kirk had a horrible abusive puerility . The Kirk who ensue is not the same Kirk whom we hump in the original serial . And whether he steps up and becomes a keen starship skipper , he ’ll never be quite the same Kirk .

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Let ’s guess about how time traveling ferment in the Trek existence for a sec . It ’s a minute inconsistent , but here are a few pointer . In “ City On The Edge Of eternally , ” McCoy goes back and changes history , and the go-ahead suddenly is n’t in celestial orbit any more . The timeline has change , and only those protect by the Guardian ’s aureole remember . In the episode where Kirk and co. go back to the sixties , they have to be very careful not to leave behind any traces , because any alteration to chronicle will have obscure branching .

On the other hand , in the TNG crapfest “ Time ’s Arrow , ” Data ’s straits twist up in the ground even though Data has n’t yet gone back in fourth dimension to have his foreland buried . On the whole , though , I think there are multiple timelines and it ’s possible to exchange history , so that affair never happened . So then Old Spock goes back in time to hear and forestall the worst of Nero ’s meddling . plainly , NimoySpock is n’t able to save the Kelvin from being destroy .

But I ’m going to go out on a tree branch and say that Nero does n’t manage to wipe out the planet Vulcan with his black - hole drill thingy . And he probably does n’t bolt down Kirk , either . NimoySpock ’s hardest mission may be to help Kirk become the person he was supposed to be , before Nero forced him to go live with mean Uncle Frank . According toMemory Alpha , Kirk ’s pre - Nero childhood would have been quite different . There ’s no citation of Uncle Frank in the original serial publication , but Kirk did have a different childhood hurt .

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He was endure on the Planet Tarsus IV when there was a solid food crisis , and Governor Kodos decide to kill the 4,000 people least worthy to survive . ( So if Kirk ’s parents had lived , he would n’t even be in Iowa to dash that Corvette ; he ’d already be living on Tarsus IV . ) Also , Kirk may not have been an warning cadet in Starfleet Academy , but he was promising enough to take part in a peace missionary station to the planet Axanar in his plebe twelvemonth . And he distinguished himself enough on that delegation to win a Palm Leaf , according to the episodes “ Court Martial ” and “ Whom Gods Destroy . ”

For my money , a expectant part of ShatnerKirk ’s appealingness is that he is kind of uptight . Sure , he ’s a man-about-town , trying to bottom as many immature woman as potential . He disobey Starfleet ’s instructions whenever potential , and ignore the Prime Directive on a hebdomadal fundament . But he ’s also a rigorous taskmaster and is obsessed – literally haunted – with the base hit of his ship and his crew . The only reason why nobody ’s ever made a YouTube video of all the times Shatner aver “ my ship ” is because it would be twenty minute long . ( Now watch out somebody post that video . )

So actually , the Kirk coming - of - age narrative that ’s on the face of it at the gist of Star Trek may really be the tale of an alternative timeline where Kirk mother emotionally and mentally damaged by Uncle Frank . And his honest-to-goodness friend , Spock , has to go back in time and rescue him . belike , the picture wo n’t even import this out , but it add up an interesting spare stratum for multitude who actually care about this poppycock . Bottom argumentation : Do n’t find fault Kirk if he turns out to be a bit of a twerp in the new movie – it ’s all the fault of his clock time - traveling - induced abusive childhood . Mmmkay ?

Lesdilley