Spoilers Did Kirk lack stamina in Generations?

[CaptainsCredentials]

We all know that Kirk was a tough cookie and had survived for many years against great odds - and yet a fall from a bridge in which he receives a few minor grazes kills him?

http://www.startrek.com/uploads/assets/articles/death-of-kirk.jpg

Was it a lack of stamina on Kirk's part?

 

[Dukhat]

I don't think it's necessary to have a spoiler tag for a movie made 22 years ago.

I don't think lack of stamina had anything to do with anything. If Arnold Schwarzenegger had fallen off a bridge like Kirk did, he'd be dead too. And it wasn't a "few minor grazes."

 

[Terok Nor]

He fell from a great height and was crushed. I don't see many people surviving that.

 

[CaptainsCredentials]

This video should give you an idea of where I am coming from with this.


https://www.facebook.com/570726106430738/videos/vb.570726106430738/570726329764049/?type=2&theater

 

[Dukhat]

^So basically this topic is just a big joke. Fine, I will treat it as such.

That video is moronic, amateurish, not funny at all, and certainly not worth my time to talk any more about it.

 

[Kor]

Maybe he only had a few visible exterior grazes, but, obviously, a fall like that would have done some serious internal injuries. Kirk is only human, after all.

Now let's all just forget about this unfortunate mishap of a movie and discuss something else.

Kor

 

[CaptainsCredentials]

^So basically this topic is just a big joke. Fine, I will treat it as such.

That video is moronic, amateurish, not funny at all, and certainly not worth my time to talk any more about it.

Be reasonable?

 

[Ronald Held]

I expected between the fall and the metalwork on top of him, that he sustained massive internal injuries.
Another thread might ask, if Kirk was beamd to a non crashed E-D when Picard found him, could his life have been saved?

 

[Dukhat]

Be reasonable?

What part of what I said did you not understand?

 

[CaptainsCredentials]

What part of what I said did you not understand?

Can't we be reasonable about this thing.

 

[Dukhat]

I am being reasonable. It was a stupid video, and I'm not even sure why you're using it to make whatever point you're trying to make.

 

[T'Girl]

Another thread might ask, if Kirk was beamd to a non crashed E-D when Picard found him, could his life have been saved?

It does seem that if you're still breathing when you get to sick bay that your chances of survival are pretty good.

But not always.

 

[Kemaiku]

He was like 70, see if you survive falling off a cliff and having a massive metal object fall on you at that age.

 

[OtherGene]

Now let's all just forget about this unfortunate mishap of a movie and discuss something else.

Kor

I don't think it was that bad and I think Shatner nailed Kirks death with only a handful of lines.

 

[Spot261]

So he fell 40ft plus feet onto solid rocks, along with a metal bridge which visibly crushes his chest and leaves him lying in a position to suggest he had at the very least hit his head, not to mention his neck being at a distended angle with blood pouring from his mouth which we are left to gather is the result of massive internal injuries. At 70 plus years of age, having just lost a fist fight with a visibly much stronger opponent.

In what sense does his realising he was about to die indicate a lack of stamina?

 

[MacLeod]

I'd say for a138 year old he had plenty of Stamina

 

[Spot261]

pedant....

 

[Terok Nor]

So he fell 40ft plus feet onto solid rocks, along with a metal bridge which visibly crushes his chest and leaves him lying in a position to suggest he had at the very least hit his head, not to mention his neck being at a distended angle with blood pouring from his mouth which we are left to gather is the result of massive internal injuries. At 70 plus years of age, having just lost a fist fight with a visibly much stronger opponent.

In what sense does his realising he was about to die indicate a lack of stamina?

What a horrible way to die. I'd have preferred it if he'd just been swept into space like everyone assumed for 78 years.

 

[STEPhon IT]

Was it a lack of stamina on Kirk's part?

He lacked common sense.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I'm just glad this thread wasn't trying to sell us some kind of stamina-boosting agent.

If the spambots ever figure out how to make their posts Trek-topic-relevant, we're all doomed...