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[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Mireille
AGE: 23
JOURNAL: [Bad username or unknown identity: ”exopolitic”]
IM: sniper is a spy @ AIM
PLURK: sarasarus @ plurk
E-MAIL: mireikurei@gmail.com
RETURNING: NA

[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: James Tiberius Kirk, also known as Jim
SERIES: Star Trek 2009
CHRONOLOGY: post Star Trek: Into Darkness
CLASS: Hero

BACKGROUND:
Space, the final frontier. These are the three words that start nearly every episode of Star Trek, and words that summarize the series in a way no other phrase really can. While Star Trek IX (the 2009) takes place in an alternate reality compared to The Original Series, it can be inferred that most of the history and background are relatively alike.

Earth before first contact, as seen in First Contact, is rather Firefly-esque. World War III had devastated Earth completely and wholly, with nuclear weapons being deployed and leading to the death of approximately 600 million humans. The aftermath of all of this left Earth in shambles, with the groups of surviving humans living in small, secluded colonies and living just to get by. The idea of FTL is nothing more than wishful thinking, until Zefram Cochrane became the first human (after slight egging from the Enterprise crew in yet again, First Contact) to achieve faster than light travel. This discovery led to the Vulcans initiating first contact with Earth in 2063, an event that led to Earth pulling itself out of the ashes and forming the United Earth, a planetary state created to help govern Humans and our spread through the galaxy. The United Earth is formed by a joining together of the major settlements of humanity that survived, and serves as our representative in the United Federation of Planets, which it helps to create.

The United Federation of Planets is an interstellar federal republic, made up of various species and governments who keep the peace, very much like the Republic in Star Wars. It’s one of the largest and most powerful interstellar states in space, although it has its fair share of haters. The Romulans dislike the Federation, the Dominion hate them, and the Klingons have a forced, fragile peace. The Borg are equal opportunists and hate everyone. The Federation is described as a ‘peacekeeping and humanitarian armada’, with the armada part largely a reference to Starfleet, which I will talk about in a moment. The Federation’s original founders were the Humans, Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites, and as time went on, they welcomed new members as equal partners. The Federation was largely concerned with keeping the peace and space exploration, but as they grew, they came into contact with more militant races, namely the Klingon and Romulan Empires. While they were able to establish peace with certain species, there were many conflicts that could not be solved through diplomacy. An addendum about alternate reality Trek here; although the Federation is able to establish peace with the Romulans, a splinter group of them have not forgiven the Federation (and Spock) for being unable to save their homeworld, and travel through time (albeit accidentally!) to dish out revenge. These slight changes in events lead to the plot of the 2009 movie.

Okay, let’s now get into the alternate reality Star Trek, in which 2009 Trek takes place. As stated before, a singularity leads to a Romulan splinter group travelling back in time, attacking on the USS Kelvin, causing the death of Commander George Kirk, and beginning a butterfly effect on the future of this new reality. The Romulan ship the Narada, is captained by Nero, a Romulan bent on revenge against the Federation for the loss of his family and planet. His plot for revenge is simple enough; destroy the Federation, and every planet part of it. This leads to the destruction of Vulcan in this reality, along with the decimation of most Vulcans. As far as other differences in these realities go, the crew of the Enterprise is far younger, and incredibly green compared to the TOS generation. The USS Enterprise is the new pride and glory of Starfleet, and the mission to Vulcan is her maiden voyage, and one that ends up far more exciting than anyone expected. The crew have not yet had the time to grow and learn yet, and many illustrious career have been greatly shortened due to these events. Jim Kirk has not yet been a professor, he hasn’t had the time to become best friends with Spock, and for a good portion of the movie, he isn’t even assigned to the actual crew of the Enterprise. The movie is a baptism by fire, really.

Jim Kirk, formally James Tiberius Kirk, has his life start from the fracturing of this reality from the previous one. Born moments before his father George Kirk slams the Kelvin into the Narada, Jim grows up without a father figure, leading a rather carefree and directionless life until he joins Star Fleet after a fateful bar fight.

He meets his soon to be best friend and major curmudgeon Leonard McCoy, also known as Bones on his way to academy, and somehow the two band together and become fast friends, with Bones spending most of his waking hours being incredibly exasperated by the exploits of Jim Kirk. He spends three years in Academy, serving two stints aboard the USS Farragut and excelling in command track, earning himself high recognition and praise, although he develops a reputation for being something of a smartass. None of his exploits bring him total infamy, although his 'passing' of the Kobayashi Maru makes him somewhat of a known name on campus. Hailed as unbeatable, Jim fails the Kobayashi Maru two times, only to try once more and somehow pass. It wasn't fate or luck that passed him; it was good old-fashioned cheating. He is put on academic probation after evidence of his interference is brought forward, but still manages to make it aboard the USS Enterprise with the help of his friend Leonard McCoy and a vaccine for mud fleas. The Enterprise and several other ships are heading to the aid of Vulcan, which was experiencing unusual seismic activity. The conditions around Vulcan alert Jim, and his presence saves the crew after alerting Captain Pike to the trap the fleet was flying into. Unfortunately for the Enterprise, it's too late to stop, and they fly straight into the fire, with the ship and crew entirely outclassed by the Narada. Demanding a cease fire and explanation, Captain Pike goes aboard the enemy ship, but not before making Spock the acting captain and Jim his first officer. While Pike attempts to diplomatically handle the situation, Jim, Sulu and an unfortunate red shirt are sent on a spec ops mission to sabotage the Narada's drill.

The drill is sabotaged, but the planet Vulcan is consumed by a black hole, created through red matter injected into the core of the planet. Spock manages to save some members of the Vulcan Council, but loses his mother in the process. Spock decides to regroup with Star Fleet to form a plan, only to have Jim disagree and attempt good old fashioned mutiny. Jim knocks out a few guards only to have Spock give him a slight pinch, and Jim is ejected off the ship and onto Delta Vega, where he comes across Spock Prime, from the original timeline. Spock Prime greets him warmly, and explains where Nero came from through a mind meld, and tells Jim that he must stop Nero by taking back command of the Enterprise. With some help from Engineer Scotty, Jim is beamed back aboard the Enterprise and sets out to prove that Spock has been emotionally compromised and not fit to be Captain.

He succeeds, and ends with up with a rather nasty neck bruise for his trouble. Now with command, Jim decides to take the fight to Nero, and tracks him back to Earth to end it once and for all. With the help of Spock, Jim manages to take Nero down, save Earth, and rescue Captain Pike in the process. Shortly after, he is given official command of the Enterprise, relieving Pike, and selecting Spock as first officer.

Everyone hug and take a shot, because now we're onto another movie.

Into Darkness spoilers follow!

Approximately a year after Jim officially becomes Captain, he’s assigned to scout Nibiru, a class-m planet whose civilizations have not yet achieved interstellar flight. He breaks the Prime Directive in order to save Spock from a volcano, and is relieved from command of the Enterprise after a lecture from Admiral Pike. It’s a harsh blow, and he takes it rather personally, especially seeing how it was taken from him because Spock revealed to Pike that he had broken Prime Directive by saving Spock. Pike receives command of the Enterprise again, and appoints Kirk as his first officer, while Spock is reassigned to another ship. Before any of this takes effect, a man named John Harrison blows up a Star Fleet secret operations base, and attacks Star Fleet headquarters, killing Captain Pike and several other unnamed admirals. Jim asks to be reinstated so he can personally go after John Harrison, even if it means going on a mission that isn’t 'officially' sanctioned. Admiral Marcus approves, giving Jim full permission to kill John Harrison without trial, and even sends the Enterprise 72 missiles as a gift. These missiles cause an issue with the crew, and Chief Engineer Scotty quits when he refuses to compromise his morals and allow weapons of unknown make onto his ship. Jim feels pretty bad about this, but he still has his mission and a vendetta. Spock states his concerns over the mission, and reminds Jim that a trial is what all criminals are afforded under reguation. Kirk lets his anger abate, and decides to bring Harrison back to justice, instead of letting his emotions control him and bombing the planet.

They follow Harrison to the Klingon home world, where Harrison strangely saves them from a patrolling platoon. Confused by his actions, Kirk questions him, asking why he'd save them from the Klingons, and why he turned himself in so easily turn once he’d heard they had 72 missiles. Harrison reveals his true identity as Khan, and a plot created by Admiral Marcus to send the Federation to war with the Klingons. When you speak of the devil, he appears, and Admiral Marcus appears on the massive USS Vengeance, a ship designed by Khan and built for warfare. Marcus demands Kirk turn over Khan, and after stalling for time, Kirk decides to disobey orders, telling the Admiral that he was taking Khan back to Earth for trial. Marcus is really tired of Kirk's sass and beautiful hair by now, and spins up a story that involves the destruction of the Enterprise and death of her crew. Uncool, man. Kirk, realizing he's stuck in between a rock and a hard place, asks Marcus to let his crew live, in exchange for Khan and the frozen members of Khan's crew. The admiral refuses, and states rather plainly that he never intended to spare Kirk's crew.

A few exciting things happen in between, involving Kirk teaming up with Khan and ending with Kirk being betrayed by Khan. Kirk is well aware of the incoming betrayal, and tells Scotty to fire on Khan when he has the chance. Things don’t go entirely as planned; they stop Admiral Marcus, and save science officer Carol Marcus, but Khan gains the upper hand on him, demanding that the Enterprise give him the 72 torpedoes that contained his cryofrozen crew in exchange for the lives of Kirk, and the others. Some of the most important things happen after all of this, involving Khan crashing the Vengeance into San Francisco after being set up by Spock, but one of the most important things in all of this is Kirk's sacrifice to repower the Enterprise, which required him crawling with highly irradiated chambers to the Enterprises warp core to realign it. Kirk dies of radiation poisoning, but not before telling Spock that he considered the Vulcan to be his friend, and that he was afraid of dying.

We’ve all seen Wrath of Khan, and there’s no way Hollywood would let its leading man die. With Khan’s blood, the crew is able to revive Kirk, and he wakes up in the hospital two weeks later to thank Spock, with McCoy grumpily reminding him in the background that others had a hand in his revival too. One year later, the Enterprise is rebuilt and sent out on a five year mission, the first of its kind, with Captain Kirk back at her helm.

PERSONALITY:
Cunning, courageous, and confident describe Kirk according to wikipedia. These are true, but don't paint an entire picture of Kirk, especially reboot Kirk. Kirk starts the film as your typical teenage rebel, reckless, arrogant, and a little angry at the world. He lets his mouth run and more often than not it gets him in trouble with people, but he's totally fine with that, almost welcoming it at times. His attitude can be described as 'devil may care', and childish to an extent. He lives in the now; consequences are something he'll worry about later. His personality pre-movie is molded by the lack of male authority figure that he respects; the death of his father leads to his mother raising him on her own, and up until Starfleet, there is no one he truly respects besides his mother. His stint in Star Fleet and the events of the movie help redirect Kirk's passion from being a carefree vagrant towards something more purposeful, getting the job done. It also leads him to develop a newfound respect for his fellow cadets and senior officers.

He’s best described as tenacious, never losing sight of a goal once he has it established in mind. He takes life head on, and sees every warning of ‘impossible’ as a challenge to prove otherwise. He’s willing to go to extremes to get things done, whether it be cheating on a starfleet exam or getting a rise out of acting Captain Spock, and nearly losing his life in the attempt. While others would focus on the ‘what ifs’: what if I’m wrong, what if I fall off this drilling platform and die, what if Spock really goes nuts and kills me, those are rarely thoughts that pass through Kirk’s mind. He’s reckless, disruptive, and often a pain in the ass to those in charge. More than once he vocally disagrees with a Captain’s orders, and often fights back against the chain of command.

Kirk sees rules as guidelines: a basis point, but something that can be ignored and broken when there's bigger things afoot. He doesn't accept no-win as an outcome, and expects his crew to give it their all and more when times call for it. His attitude can be brusque, but he expects as much from himself as he does from his crew. He's a passionate captain, and certainly has the charisma to inspire a crew. He gets things done, regulations be damned, and this attitude often caused (and probably still will) him to butt heads with Spock.

He has a relaxed sense of humor, colouring even the most serious of situations with a humorous light. Kirk is certainly a smart-ass and has that uncanny ability of getting under people's skins with the slightest bit of effort. Luckily, he doesn't take himself too seriously, and he's able to laugh at his own expense and even throw a joke back. Humor is something Kirk thrives on, there's nothing sexier than a girl who can hold her own and turn his jokes back on him. (Except perhaps, a naked girl. That's probably slightly sexier.) He gets along with the strangest of people, his best friend being McCoy, a rather grumpy doctor who has no time to deal with Kirk’s bullshit. His idea is a little frustrating; teasing and egging on are how he shows affection, much to Uhura’s chagrin. But he’s a good friend to have, and an even better one to have at your back. He may joke and tease and whine, but nothing breaks his loyalty to his friends and his crew.

You'd never expect it from the way Kirk acts, but he's actually incredibly intelligent. While emotions fuel his motivations (as a foil to Spock), Kirk still takes advice from his crew when it comes to vital decisions. He doesn't flaunt his knowledge, instead revealing it only when necessary. He found a way around the Kobayashi Maru exam, being the first cadet to ever pass (even if he cheated). He surprises Uhura his oddly in depth knowledge of xenolinguistics, only to fall back into the flirting routine once he’s caught her attention. Kirk is comparable to the loud kid who sits in the front of class, who questions the lecturer every few minutes whatever topic they’re on today. Highly intelligent, called ‘genius’ by Captain Pike, he’d much rather prefer to have fun than sit around debating Federation laws regarding treatment of prisoners of war. He most definitely could, and he’d probably have a very polarizing opinion on the topic, but his interests lie elsewhere. He’s all business when he’s in the captains seat, but while on shore leave? Not when there’s women to talk to.

The events of Into Darkness give Kirk a well needed reality check; he learns he isn’t the infallible Captain he assumed he once was, and it was a well needed reminder that he can’t play God either. He’s developed a sort of ‘unbeatable’ attitude, after being Captain for approximately a year and never losing anyone under his command. It’s the attitude that causes him to break Prime Directive, valuing the life of Spock (and his friend) over the one rule that Star Fleet can’t break. It causes him to lose his ship, his command, and for a while, his life. After being brought back to life, it teaches Kirk a rather important lesson that he can't continually dive head first into situations without planning; he risked the life of his entire crew and nearly lost them all when he did.

He has rather deep father issues, stemming from losing his and never having someone to look up to until Captain Pike. He lived his life sort of rolling his eyes every time his father was brought up in conversation; there was always a constant reminder that his father was a hero, that his father saved hundreds, but what a lot of people fail to realize was that while George’s actions caused him to become a hero, it also removed him completely from Jim’s life, never having known the man but always having to live in his shadow. Jim has little or no grudge against his father; he just had no real direction or authoritative figure in his life until Star Fleet changed that. His crew is his family now.

In a nutshell, James Tiberius Kirk is a passionate man, whose intelligent and dedication are only outshadowed by his arrogance and ambition. He finishes what he starts, and if there was one goal he has in life, it's to make a difference.

He's also a giant flirt and womanizer, and somewhat afraid of commitment. The guy's 26, give him some slack.


POWER:

JJ Abramsing, also know as lensflare
The ability to create lensflares that originate from somewhere in the background. He has control of where they originate and how brightly they shine, giving him the opportunity to use them as convenient censoring or to mildly dazzle people.

insane luck
Every twenty four hours, he’s able to turn an outcome that would have otherwise been bad, into something better. It can’t be used towards things like the lottery, and at first, he’ll have very little control over it, and he’ll think it’s nothing more than his typical extraordinary luck at work. Examples of how it’d work are having a beer bottle aimed as his head miss and his opponent knock himself out against the bar table!

all of these are non canon, since Jim is a normal human guy.


[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
Back where I’m from, we usually ask people for permission before dragging them off to Oz and telling them they’re suddenly a hero. This is gonna sound crazy I know, but sometimes, politeness works.

[ he’s well aware of the irony of him say that, but he remembers he needs to put his best foot forward. He’s here representing humanity on what seems to be a Earth, or something remarkably similar to it. Oh, and time travel’s somehow involved. So he's here, representing future humanity... for present humanity who are still is unaware of the rest of the galaxy. Cool. ]

Anyway, the names Kirk. Jim Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise. You guys need heroes, and I’m pretty sure I fit the bill. Need something done? I’m your man. Leave a name and number, and I’ll get back to you in order of priority.

[ he gives the camera a wink and wide grin, before continuing on. He means well when it comes to helping and the offer is genuine, but it comes off as somewhat cheesy. ]

Oh, and while I got your attention: if you see any other guys wearing the same cool logo— [ he pulls up his shirt, and points to his command pin, before giving it a small tap ] tell them I'm looking for them. And that this time, it wasn't engineering.

LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
For a few minutes, Kirk stands outside the building, staring intently up, following the outline of buildings as they reached up to casually brush an empty sky. No ships, no transports, only the occasional plane, helicopter, and human. (Weird.) He supposes it’s how older Spock felt, falling decades back in the past, to the point society was alike, yet vastly different. It's an odd feeling, being so grounded on Earth without his ship and crew, and yet he can't help but think of it as an adventure— come on, how crazy was it to fall back in time?

He strips down to his command tee, rolling up his gold uniform and tucking it safely under his arm, before casually strolling down the avenue, shooting grins to girls who smiled back and smirks to others who stopped to stare. He’s used to stares; he got them often at academy or while on shore leave for one reason or another. He waves off the sniggering with an ironic wave, and gives a wink to the girls who find an excuse to stare a bit longer. Attention’s nice in any form he supposes, even if it’s accompanied by what he thinks is an insult. (Import he kind of gets, but nerd? Captain Virgin? Come on.)

He finds a store that looks affordable enough in his near penniless state, and splits his time between chatting up the giggling shop girl and trying on on various shirts, laughing inwardly as he looks into the mirror and sees hipster Captain Kirk staring back at him. Half the strangeness is seeing himself out of regulation uniform, and the other finding humor in the mundanity of it all. Outside of Star Fleet and his crew, he’s almost forgotten what people do besides drink and sleep while on leave. He keeps the v-neck, if only to please the shop assistant, and the leather jacket, bought with money newly found on his tags, a kiss, and a surreptitiously borrowed employees discount. All in all it’s a good trip, and he leaves with a phone number tucked into his new coat.

Jim's out of his usual habitat, but he’s always been good at finding his own pace. Spock would have cautioned him against drawing attention, and told him to spend time observing before acting, but Jim has other ideas. He settles in at an internet cafe, taking up a whole row of computers, casually tinkering with each and hoping that what he was doing wasn't too illegal. Requisitioning computers to scour the net for mentions of “Star Fleet AND/OR Federation AND/OR Enterprise” couldn't be against the law yet, he reasons, since The Federation hadn't even been created. Time loopholes, or something like that.

After a moment, he reconsiders his query, and goes back to add another term into his search. “WILLIAM SHATNER”, whoever that hell that was. For all the mention he was getting, the man had better be damned important.

FINAL NOTES:
na!