Spoilers The Autobiography of James T. Kirk - announcement and reviews
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No reason he couldn't have been. His line in The Voyage Home was "I'm from Iowa," not "I was born in Iowa." Riverside, Iowa claimed itself as the "Future Birthplace of James T. Kirk" for the tourism, but of course that's not canonical.
I think the screenwriters' intention was that the Kelvin was on its way home when Nero came through, and that Nero's attack caused Kirk to be born a week or two early. But that's not canonical either.
Plus a bit problematic since the Kelvin scenes give the impression the ship was a good bit out from Earth with Robau's line about there being "no help form them there" implying reinforcements were a good ways out.
Also, the deleted scenes and comics imply that the Kelvin was close to the Klingon border. On the other hand, they're not cannon.
Well, the Klingon homeworld was four days from Earth in "Broken Bow." So it doesn't seem to be a particularly remote border. (It was scripted as four weeks, but changed in shooting, so that's what we have now.)
Actually, this blurb is somewhat inaccurate. The book only goes up to his "death" in "Generations". And the birth issue (Kelvin vs. farm) is actually solved in the book. I'm not going to say how. You'll have to read it to find out how I managed to please everybody.
And the birth issue (Kelvin vs. farm) is actually solved in the book. I'm not going to say how. You'll have to read it to find out how I managed to please everybody.
The Kelvin lands on the farm in Iowa at the moment of Kirk's birth?
And the birth issue (Kelvin vs. farm) is actually solved in the book. I'm not going to say how. You'll have to read it to find out how I managed to please everybody.
The Kelvin lands on the farm in Iowa at the moment of Kirk's birth?
I wish I'd thought of that!
And the birth issue (Kelvin vs. farm) is actually solved in the book. I'm not going to say how. You'll have to read it to find out how I managed to please everybody.
The Kelvin lands on the farm in Iowa at the moment of Kirk's birth?
I wish I'd thought of that!
Born in the hydroponics bay on the Kelvin?
This have to apart of any diehard fan collection.
And the birth issue (Kelvin vs. farm) is actually solved in the book. I'm not going to say how. You'll have to read it to find out how I managed to please everybody.
The Kelvin lands on the farm in Iowa at the moment of Kirk's birth?
Nice one, Christopher. Now I have to buy the book.
I'm a big fan of my friends Judith and gar's books but most of them take place chronologically after the "death" of Kirk on the enterprise b, and this book ends there.
Autobiography? Somehow, I don't picture Jim Kirk writing a book about himself.
Not for self-aggrandizement, surely. But consider that for part of his career in the Admiralty, he was evidently the commandant of Starfleet Academy (at least according to some sources). So he had an interest in educating the younger generation of Starfleet personnel, and thus it stands to reason that he might decide to write a book in order to impart the lessons of his experience to the next generation (to coin a phrase).
Well, on the original series aside from his captain's log he also kept a personal log, which had no official purpose other than to share his thoughts, presumably for posterity. So I think there's enough precedent that the character was interested in sharing his story.
From the forward of the TMP novelization (Gene Roddenberry writing as Kirk, circa 2274):
"...our five-year mission was so well documented, due to an ill-conceived notion by Starfleet that the return of the U.S.S. Enterprise merited public notice. Unfortunately, Starfleet’s enthusiasm affected even those who chronicled our adventures, and we were all painted somewhat larger than life, especially myself.
Eventually, I found that I had been fictionalized into some sort of 'modern Ulysses' and it has been painful to see my command decisions of those years so widely applauded, whereas the plain facts are that ninety-four of our crew met violent deaths during those years—and many of them would still be alive if I had acted either more quickly or more wisely.
Nor have I been as foolishly courageous as depicted. I have never happily invited injury; I have disliked in the extreme every duty circumstance which has required me to risk my life. But there appears to be something in the nature of depicters of popular events which leads them into the habit of exaggeration. As a result, I became determined that if I ever again found myself involved in an affair attracting public attention, I would insist that some way be found to tell the story more accurately."
This, of course, was written well before Khan/Genesis/Whaleprobe and the Khitomer incident. I could see a full autobiography by Kirk, written between the latter event and the Enterprise-B tragedy, as an extension of that effort to set the story straight and deconstruct the legend somewhat (especially, as Christopher notes, for any Academy cadets who might try to follow in his footsteps). Am I right, Mr. Goodman?
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