They encounter each other again during a mission we don't see during TOS. She doesn't tell him she's pregnant when he gets assigned back to starship duty. Kirk and Carol meet while Kirk is an instructor at the Academy, She's the Blonde Lab Tech. With Kirk's duty to Starfleet, it wasn't like he was going to be there all the time anyway, and Carol wouldn't have wanted a man to give up that kind of potential when it clearly wasn't needed. So I would believe that Kirk always knew of David, and respected Carol's wishes, even at his own expense. Kirk of course followed in his father's footsteps, and Carol didn't want that influence in David's life, right or wrong. Kirk's father was in Starfleet, and that would mean George was away a lot. At the same time, Kirk would not force himself into Carol's life-especially when she is insisting the exact opposite. Kirk wouldn't walk away from a responsibility like that. It's clear Carol told Kirk, and it sounds like Kirk offered to raise David. Someone whose drive was matched only by his deeds. He would have been a natural talent that was driven and someone that could rise through the ranks quickly. A man that gets promoted to captain that quickly is a superstar. Makes some sense even though that's not canon.Ĭarol would have known that despite their relationship, Kirk's first love was his ship and his best destiny was command. More likely though, he took time between the Farragut/Republic era to be an instructor at the academy, where Mitchell could have sent that blonde scientist his way. So he would have met Carol when he was out of the academy, but on either the Farragut or the Republic. He got command of the Enterprise around 2265 give or take. So he would have been 28 when David was born. So according to Memory Alpha, he was born in 2261. I think one question should be "How old was David?" the question for everyone is: What did Kirk know, and when did he know it? Is he a deadbeat dad, or did Carol leave him in the dark about David for years? Did he meet David as a child at some point before TWOK? Was he there for his son's birth, or was he long gone by then? Did he find out about David before TOS, during TOS, after TOS? Maybe even some time between TMP and TWOK? And have any of you changed your mind on this question over the years? I haven't read the novel, but it sounds like it fits the available facts. Trek comic book writer Glenn Greenberg told me that Michael Jan Friedman's 1992 novel Faces of Fire is a post-TOS story that depicts Kirk finding out about David, who is a young boy during the story, and that Spock deduces their father/son relationship over the course of the book. Fontana) have done stories where that's the case. Click to expand.Kirk didn't ever act like a man who knew he had a son somewhere out there during the run of TOS, but some of the novel and comics writers (including D.C.
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