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How old was Captain Kirk when he entered the Nexus?

Cakemo

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Believe it or not, but this is actually for a university assignment. I'm trying to figure out the age difference between Captain Kirk and Captain Picard. To do this I need to know how old Kirk was when he entered the Nexus or what year it happened. They were born 72 years apart but I believe Captain Kirk stopped ageing while he was in the Nexus?
Sorry, I really haven't seen much of the show and could really use some help.
 
Kirk b.2233 - disappeared 2293 (age circa 60)
Picard b. 2305 Generations set in 2371 (age circa 66)

Amusingly, Kirk in Generations is the same biological age as Picard was in TNG's second season. Presuming he was in shape, he was game and the will was there Kirk could reenlist as Captain and have a long shelf life. Pending a little matter of him surviving Veridian III of course.
 
Kirk b.2233 - disappeared 2293 (age circa 60)
Picard b. 2305 Generations set in 2371 (age circa 66)

Amusingly, Kirk in Generations is the same biological age as Picard was in TNG's second season. Presuming he was in shape, he was game and the will was there Kirk could reenlist as Captain and have a long shelf life. Pending a little matter of him surviving Veridian III of course.

Thank you!
 
That means that Kirk was actually younger than Picard. Ironic that he'd be the one long retired.
 
63 or 64, using the Star Trek (2009) birth year of 2233 and the year of his disappearance, 2295/96.
 
Still bugged by him doing engineer duty when he was far more experienced than Harriman and the best Engineer in Star Fleet history is on the bridge??? I just don't get it.

Kirk was pushing 70 at that point. Still hate to see him go in the way Ronald D. Moore had written. Unbelievable to watch both deaths sucked ass royally.
 
63 or 64, using the Star Trek (2009) birth year of 2233 and the year of his disappearance, 2295/96.
As mentioned above, he disappeared in 2293. The caption when they jump to the TNG portion of the movie (which we know is set in 2371) is "78 years later." 78 years prior to 2371 is 2293. Meaning, that sequence is probably a matter of months after TUC.
 
^ There is production art out there that implies that Generations was originally intended to be set in 2295, though. Which makes sense from the perspective of taking some time to build the Ent-B after the Ent-A was decommissioned. The way it looks now is that Ent-B must have almost been finished during TUC anyway (although they could say it originally had another name, and SF renamed it after Ent-A was retired).

I assume they had to change it when they realized Nimoy and Kelley didn't want to participate, and they were replaced with Doohan and Koenig, so they had set the film before Scotty disappeared on the Jenolan.
 
One guess is that when Starfleet was going to retire the Enterprise after she returned from her training cruise (Battle with Khan). they were preparing to build or were building a new Excelsior-class Enterprise to replace her. However with Excelsior's failed pursuit and refit prior to Captain Sulu gaining command, the new Enterprise might have been delayed until they could work out the bugs on Excelsior. Then they added new systems that increased the time to get the new ship completed. Newly demoted Captain Kirk, who while a major hero, was probably still in trouble with the Starfleet brass, got himself a renumbered Constitution-class starship for about seven years.

Enterprise under Kirk is recalled to be decommissioned. Kirk and his crew seem to know they are due stand down within six months at the start of the movie. It isn't clear in the film why she'd being decommissioned and why Kirk and his staff were likely retiring within the year, the logical explanation is that the new Excelsior-class starship Enterprise was expected to be finished by then. Kirk's command staff is getting older and may not feel like getting acquainted with the new Excelsior-class after decades of training and retraining on Constitutions.

I seem to recall someone having the idea that the next Enterprise would have been NCC-2001 had they not had the extra Constitution-class ship added to the list prior to the Excelsior's completion of her trials. Starting the trend of -A, -B and so on. If the older trend had continued, the Galaxy-class Enterprise could have potentally been NCC-70101 or something of that sort. (NCC-70701 also possible)

Manditory retirement age use to be 75 years old based on the "Counter-clock Incident" involving Robert April. Kirk was several years away from being forced to retire by age.
 
63 or 64, using the Star Trek (2009) birth year of 2233 and the year of his disappearance, 2295/96.

I don't think it's wise to use Trek09 as a basis for Trek Prime dating. There are too many differences, such as age of the Enterprise, Chekov's age, etc...
 
^^2233 was when Kirk was born in the Prime Universe anyway, based on him being 34 in The Deadly Years (which takes place in 2267).
 
Timing differences in Trek2009 are events that take place after Nero shows up. Kirk was born that day, perhaps early, but that same year. Chekov was born a decade or so later, so time wiggles a bit. And Starfleet does what it does defending on threats and the like.
 
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