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Kirk, Spock and McCoy discovered [[Zefram Cochrane]], the inventor of the [[warp drive]], missing for 150 years, on a planetoid, kept alive and young by the [[Companion]] energy being. At Cochrane's request, Kirk did not log the encounter.
While visiting a Federation science colony on [[Gamma Hydra IV]], the strange [[radiation]] from a rogue [[comet]] affected Kirk and members of his party, causing rapid aging. Kirk's accelerated dotage forced the visiting [[Commodore]] [[Stocker]] to relieve Kirk from command of the ''Enterprise'' until a cure was discovered by Dr. McCoy.
=== 2268 ===
On stardate 4523.6, the ''Enterprise'' was dispatched to [[Deep Space Station K-7]], where Kirk's patience was tested by Klingons, Federation bureaucrats, and the cuddly but prodigious vermin, [[tribble]]s. Unknown to Kirk, his actions were observed and facilitated by [[Benjamin Sisko]] and the crew of the USS Defiant, NX-74205, brought from the 24th century via a [[Bajoran]] [[Orb]]; Sisko even got Kirk's autograph (although Kirk thought he was signing a shipping order) and told Kirk that it had been an honor to serve with him.
Kirk found the contaminated society of [[Sigma Iotia II]], based on 1920s [[Chicago]] [[gang]] culture, puzzling at first, but he quickly warmed to it. Uniting the world's "gangs" under one "boss", the [[Iotian]]s became a [[Federation]] protectorate.
[[Image:Flintlocktraining.jpg|thumb|On [[Neural]] in [[2268]]]]
As a means to avoid battle, or to divert his opponent long enough so he could get he upper hand, Kirk frequently 'bluffed' or lied his way through a parley. In two incidents, Kirk used his [[corbomite]] gambit. He misled Khan into expecting valuable data, rather than a devastating phaser strike in their encounter of 2285. His capitulation to [[Kruge]] was a lure to draw the bulk of the Klingon crew to the ''Enterprise'' before he ordered its destruction. Perhaps Kirk's most intricate, audacious misdirection of an enemy is found in the events leading up to his theft of a [[Romulan]] [[cloaking device]] in 2268.
The [[Neutral Zone Incursion|Romulan incursion]] of [[Federation]] space in 2266 led Kirk into a drawn-out cat-and-mouse chase against a [[Unnamed Romulans (23rd century)#Romulan Commander (male)|commander]] in whom Kirk found an instinctual rapport. The [[Romulan Bird-of-Prey (23rd century)|Romulan Bird-of-Prey]] had the ability to render itself [[cloak|invisible]] as well as delivering a powerful [[plasma torpedo]] that nearly overwhelmed the ''Enterprise''. Both captains used ruses that simulated more damage than actually received. Kirk was able to briefly track the Romulan, by mirroring its movements to simulate a [[sensor]] ghost. Finally, emerging from the camouflage of a [[comet]]'s tail, Kirk was able to disable the Romulan vessel. Before ordering his vessel's self-destruction, the Romulan captain remarked that under different circumstances he and Kirk might have been friends.
In 2267, Kirk found the USS Constellation NCC-1017, severely damaged and adrift in space, with only [[Commodore]] [[Matt Decker]] aboard. The ''Constellation'' had been attacked by a huge, ancient device, and the crew evacuated to a nearby planet, which the [[doomsday machine|planet killer]] destroyed and consumed. Kirk directed salvage of the ''Constellation'' and Decker was sent to the ''Enterprise''. Upon return of the [[doomsday machine]], the unmoored Decker assumed command of ''Enterprise'', endangering it in a useless attack. Kirk was able to maneuver the ''Constellation'' enough to distract the device. Decker was relieved, but stole a shuttlecraft he took into the maw of the device, destroying himself. Inspired by Decker's mad attempt, Kirk piloted the ''Constellation'' to the machine's mouth, detonating the engine's antimatter and destroying the device.
[[Image:USSReliantDisabled.jpg|thumb|''Reliant'' disabled in 2285]]
