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unusual facts about Captain Kirk



Chad Hugo

Hugo has been described by The Source Magazine as the "Mr Spock" to Williams' "Captain Kirk", an analogy that does not sit well with Hugo, as he does not see himself as "stiff" like "Mr Spock".

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Lewis Carroll, in the poem at the end of Through the Looking-Glass, used a variation of Row, Row, Row, Row Your Boat sometimes called A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky It was sung by Captain Kirk, Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock at the beginning and end of the film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), reflecting issues about the need for self-discovery.


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Knik Glacier

Knik Glacier was the setting for a scene in which Captain Kirk and Dr McCoy are rescued from the Klingon ice planet prison Rura Penthe.

Kobayashi Maru

Randy Pausch, of Last Lecture fame, had the childhood dream of "being Captain Kirk".

Spizzenergi

The BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel described "Where's Captain Kirk?" as... "the best Star Trek associated song".

Where's Captain Kirk?

BBC Radio DJ John Peel said that "Spizzenergi went on to record the only Star Trek tribute worthy of the Enterprise's jukebox" in reference to "Where's Captain Kirk?" on a Star Trek television special.