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[KAS]

Me and my mom were discussing the signature quotes and what have you from the show and we got to arguing about if Kirk ever acually talked to the ships computer.
I personally don't think he has ever done so, or asked it a question like the did in voyager, DS9, or TNG, but mom seems to remember Kirk doing so in later episodes. Can somebody who REALLY knows settle this?>>

 

[MacLeod]

Well there was "Tomorrow is Yesterday" where Kirk talks to the computer, it insisted on calling him dear.

 

[Green Shirt]

He accessed the self destruct in Let That Be Your Last Battlefield. He had the computer play the video summary for the Genesis Project in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He spoke with Dr. Daystrom's M-5 computer while it acted as the ship's computer in The Ultimate Computer.

 

[Greg Cox]

In "Conscience of the King," Kirk asks the computer for information regarding Anton Karidian and Kodos the Executioner.

 

[Green Shirt]

In 'Mirror, Mirror', Kirk spoke to the computer to get information on their counterparts, and get info to help with their escape.
Doesn't the ship's computer record the Captain's Logs? But that may not technically count as "talking to" the computer.

 

[22 Stars]

Yes, as already stated, many times.

 

[A beaker full of death]

I hear he also sat in the captain's chair. Could be one of those myths.

 

[OneBuckFilms]

I think Kirk had ordered Self Destruct a couple of times as well.

 

[Greg Cox]

I think Kirk had ordered Self Destruct a couple of times as well.

He did it at least once--in "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield."

And again, of course, in the third movie.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The Enterprise blowed up real good.

 

[GSchnitzer]

[Briefing Room]

COMPUTER: Library computer.

KIRK: History files--Subject: former Governor Kodos of Tarsus Four, also known as Kodos the Executioner. After that, background on actor Anton Karidian.

COMPUTER: Working. Kodos the Executioner, summary: Governor of Tarsus Four, twenty Earth years ago. Invoked martial law; slaughtered fifty percent of population Earth colony, that planet. Burned body found when Earth forces arrived. No positive identification. Case closed. Detailed information follows: On stardate 2794.7....

KIRK: Stop. Information on Anton Karidian.

COMPUTER: Director and star of travelling company of actors sponsored by galactic cultural exchange project, touring official installations last nine years. Has daughter, Lenore, nineteen years old,

KIRK: Stop. Give comparative identification between actor
Karidian and Governor Kodos.

COMPUTER: No identification records available on actor Anton Karidian.

KIRK: Give information on actor Karidian prior to Kodos' death.
COMPUTER: No information available, Anton Karidian, prior to twenty years ago

KIRK: Photograph Kodos. [An image of a red-haired man with a beard comes on the monitor] Photograph Karidian. [The grey-haired man with a small moustache] Now photograph both.
[Door opens, and Mister Spock enters]

 

[Jeffty5]

In "Conscience of the King," Kirk asks the computer for information regarding Anton Karidian and Kodos the Executioner.

May just be me, but that scene in "Conscience of the King" always reminds me of the scene in "Bladrunner" when Deckard is analysing photos with the Esper machine.

 

[MarsWeeps]

He also talks to the computer in "Wolf in the Fold" during the investigation of Scotty.