The model Starfleet Captain.

James Tiberius Kirk was not a man to be reckoned with. Kirk never backed down from a fight, and if he was losing a game, he would just change the rules. In defiance to losing, Kirk blew up his own ship, the U.S.S. Enterprise just to kill a pack of angry Klingons.

See Also: The Kobayashi Maru

Kirk First appeared in Where No Man has gone before.
Kirk Died in Star Trek VII Star Trek: Generations