The Fates of Kirk and Crew in the Main Novelverse

[Cryogenator]

Captain James Tiberius Kirk died aged 60 in 2371. He was born in Riverside, Iowa on March 22, 2233, was temporally displaced by the Nexus phenomenon from 2293 to 2371, and died fighting Dr. Tolian Soran on Veridian III.

(In the parallel universe of the "Shatnerverse" ennealogy, Kirk is resurrected a month after his death through a combination of Borg nanotechnology and Romulan temporal sorcery. After overcoming Romulan brainwashing which drove him to attempt to assassinate Captain Jean-Luc Picard, he returned to active duty and remained in Starfleet as of 2381, often collaborating with Picard.)

Chief Science Officer S'chn T'gai Spock died aged 161 in 2263. He was born in ShiKahr, Vulcan on January 6, 2230, died fighting Khan Noonien Singh in the Mutara Nebula in March 2285, was resurrected later that year on Genesis, temporally displaced by the Hobus supernova event from 2387 into an alternate 2258, and died of old age on New Vulcan in that alternate reality.

Chief Medical Officer Leonard Horatio "Bones" McCoy, born in Atlanta, Georgia in 2227, was still alive at 154 years old as of 2381, when the retired admiral participated in a Médecins Sans Frontières relief operation at a Vulcan monastery near the Vulcan-Andorian border after the Borg Invasion of 2381. (This implies that his frail and slightly confused state aboard the Enterprise-D at age 137 in 2364 was partially alleviated by subsequent medical advances.)

Chief Engineer Montgomery Christopher Jorgensen "Scotty" Scott was still alive at 125 as of 2422. Born in Scotland in 2222, he was temporally displaced in an emergency stasis chamber he jury-rigged from a transporter pattern buffer while lost in space from 2294 to 2369, and was presumed dead in 2383 after being pulled into a transslipstream wake and stranded aboard the USS Challenger in the NGC 4414 galaxy 62 million lightyears away. However, he returned (as Spock speculated at his memorial service that he might) some time later through unknown means and attended the opening of the Montgomery Scott Engineering Sciences Building at Starfleet Academy in San Francisco, 200 years to the day after his birth.

Helmsman Hikaru Kato Sulu was still alive at 135 as of 2372. Born in 2237 in San Francisco, he captained the Excelsior after his service aboard the Enterprise, and was rescued by the battleship Defiant along with the rest of the crew of the shipwrecked science ship Victoria Adams while undercover as a man named "George" in 2372.

Chief Communications Officer Nyota Uhura was still alive as of 2360, aged 121. Born in the United States of Africa in 2239, she participated in over one hundred first contact missions as captain of the Leondergrance in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud following her departure from the Enterprise. She retired from Starfleet in 2333 and by 2360 was known to be close friends with the Trill-human symbiont Curzon Dax, who was also a close friend of Captain Benjamin Sisko, commanding officer of Deep Space 9.

Ensign Pavel Andreievich Chekov was still alive at the age of 132 as of 2377. He was born on September 19, 2245 in Saint Petersburg, and eventually rose to the rank of grand admiral before ultimately retiring from Starfleet in 2377.

(In the parallel universe of the fanfilm Renegades, he retains his grand admiralty as of 2388 at age 143.)

 

[Markonian]

Just because it's the shortest bio, here's a nugget from Star Trek Online's "Yesterday's War" and ''Future Proof" story arcs: Chekov made captain during the "monster maroon" uniform era. He was recruited as Temporal Agent by 29th century Starfleet. Chronologically, we don't know how long he lasted but as a temporal agent he was aware Scotty ended up in the 24th century. In 2554, he was one of the temporal agents aboard USS Enterprise-J, helping install the Tox Uthat so that Captain Dax's ship could destroy the Tuterian Command Sphere, and the entire sphere network at Procyon.

 

[Extrocomp]

It's Andreievich, not Alexandrovitch.

 

[Cryogenator]

It's Andreievich, not Alexandrovitch.

Thanks. I accidentally used part of his "known alias" "Pavel Alexandrovitch Chuikov." I thought it sounded wrong because I recalled him saying his full name in the first Kelvin movie.

 

[Tosk]

So the fates of five out of the seven are to still be alive.

 

[Cryogenator]

So the fates of five out of the seven are to still be alive.

Indeed. "Fate" doesn't necessarily mean death (hence "fate worse than death").

Healthspan and lifespan will undoubtedly be extended as much as depicted here at the very least, although I expect significantly longer and possibly indefinite healthy lifespans by the late 24th century.

 

[Christopher]

Helmsman Hikaru Kato Sulu

Where does the middle name come from? I mean, yeah, it's the name Sulu was given in the Japanese dub of TOS, but when did a work of tie-in fiction claim it was his middle name?

 

[Extrocomp]

Where does the middle name come from? I mean, yeah, it's the name Sulu was given in the Japanese dub of TOS, but when did a work of tie-in fiction claim it was his middle name?

It was originally from Who's Who in Star Trek #2 and it was also used in every Portuguese TOS novel translation published in Brazil.

 

[Cryogenator]

Where does the middle name come from? I mean, yeah, it's the name Sulu was given in the Japanese dub of TOS, but when did a work of tie-in fiction claim it was his middle name?

Discussion on the talk page for Memory Beta's article on Sulu mentions that "Who's Who in Star Trek?" gives Sulu's middle name as Kato (and birthplace as Los Angeles, despite being released half a year after The Voyage Home established Sulu's birthplace as San Francisco), which is the middle name Memory Beta includes at the beginning of the article. In parentheses, it claims he was also known as Hikaru W. Sulu and Itaka Sulu. "Itaka" is actually from an early fan publication which also suggests "Upenda Uhura" and, amazingly, "Xtmprszntwlfd Spock."

This article says Nichelle Nichols said she initially decided on "Uhuru" (from Swahili) and then changed it to "Uhura" after Gene Roddenberry said "Uhuru" sounded too masculine, and that Nichols went on to say that a writer suggested "Nyota Upenda Uhura" as her character's full name when the original series was nearing cancellation, although this post says "Nyota" was introduced in Star Trek II: Biographies by William Rotsler in 1982.

I couldn't find the origin of "Hikaru W. Sulu."

 

[Extrocomp]

Hikaru W. Sulu is from the FASA roleplaying game. Itaka Sulu's only appearance in a licensed story was in Husian Gambit, which is one of the newspaper comic strips.

 

[KRAD]

At least one fan speculation was that Sulu's first name was Walter, which may also be where the middle initial W. comes from.

 

[David cgc]

"Xtmprszntwlfd Spock."

I believe the story for that one was D.C. Fontana was answering a fan letter asking what Spock's first/last/other name was, and just mashed the keyboard to get something appropriately unpronounceable.

 

[Cryogenator]

At least one fan speculation was that Sulu's first name was Walter, which may also be where the middle initial W. comes from.

Do you know the origin of this speculation?

 

[KRAD]

Do you know the origin of this speculation?

Gad, I don't recall precisely. It's something I read a thousand years ago in one of the Best of Trek collections that reprinted articles from the fanzine.

 

[Christopher]

Gad, I don't recall precisely. It's something I read a thousand years ago in one of the Best of Trek collections that reprinted articles from the fanzine.

Yeah, that's where I read it, though I don't remember which volume it was. But I think the article said it was George Takei's own suggestion at conventions, probably in reference to Walter Koenig.

 

[Markonian]

Did the novel postulate living descendants of the TOS/TAS heroes?
I don’t remember Demora Sulu’s fate by the 2380s.
Come to think of it, strange that Scotty didn’t run into or mention any great-grandchildren, for instance.

 

[Cryogenator]

I don’t remember Demora Sulu’s fate by the 2380s.

Memory Beta says she was last seen in the Novelverse commanding the USS Mandela in 2344 and in the Shatnerverse in 2375 as an admiral with young grandchildren at Kirk's wedding to Teilani.

 

[Cryogenator]

More classic characters' last known whereabouts:

Christopher Pike (born in Mojave, California in 2219) and Vina (born in Paris, 2206) lived in a world of illusions amongst the telepathic Talosians and, after a decade of studying their ancient, abandoned technology, Pike was able to help restore their world and have a son with Vina, named Phillip Joshua, born on Talos IV in 2276. Spock returned to Talos IV in 2290 to offer Pike the ability to leave the planet by having his brain transplanted into a cyborg body in a risky experimental procedure, but he chose to remain with his family on Talos IV. Christopher and Vina died sometime prior to 2320.

Christine Chapel, born in Cleveland, Ohio around 2237, attended Kirk's memorial in 2293 along with Saavik, Rand, M'Benga, and many others, and served as chief medical officer aboard the Excelsior in 2298. In 2376, Scotty was shocked when he thought he saw her on Risa long after her death, but it was actually the now-immortal Una-Chin Riley going by the name...

"Morgan Primus," whose body was killed three years later by the Beings but whose consciousness survived within the Excalibur's mainframe until she became dangerously insane and was destroyed by a computer virus designed by the Doctor and Seven of Nine in 2380.

Saavik, born on Thieurrull (Hellguard) in 2264, became first officer of the Armstrong by 2329 and remained in that post until at least 2344, when Uhura sent her to retrieve Spock from Romulus. After they prevented a rogue praetor from triggering a war with the Klingon Empire, Saavik and Spock married with McCoy and Uhura in attendance. In 2373, she assumed command of the USS Alliance at the onset of the Dominion War but returned to Vulcan after injury in combat the following year, where she managed planetary defenses. After her recovery, she reassumed command of the Alliance, and in 2377, Uhura sent her to rescue Chekov from the Watraii. She remained in command as of 2379.

Janice Rand, born on Earth in 2242, was promoted to commander and was last seen under Sulu on the Excelsior in 2298. Her descendant Athena Rand was aboard the Saratoga during the Battle of Wolf 359 in 2367, and her nephew Josh Rand was a lieutenant aboard the Voyager during its time stranded in the Delta Quadrant.

Joseph M'Benga was born on December 29, 2223. In the Shatnerverse, he retired near the Voroth Sea on Vulcan, farming plomeek and raising a family. His great-granddaughter Andrea M'Benga was a Starfleet doctor in the 24th century. In another parallel universe, he served aboard the IUES Enterprise I with McCoy, Sulu, and Gav under Kirk.

 

[Smiley]

What are the sources for some of these? Uhura is head of Starfleet Intelligence in Vulcan's Soul around 2377. I'm sure there are inconsistent fates depending on what material one is reading, so I'm curious where the information in the first post is coming from.

 

[Christopher]

I'm sure there are inconsistent fates depending on what material one is reading

Yeah, I was just thinking that. There are many different incompatible continuities in the novels and comics, and it's long annoyed me that Memory Beta lumps them together and obscures the differences between them.