![]() Well, let’s not go talking all kinds of crazy here. But we can’t really compare them because the space-time continuum is ripped and, for all we know, Kirk might bypass Starfleet altogether and get a really good job as a bouncer and. OK, so this new/old Kirk may actually act a lot like the old/new Kirk. “Get two more guys, and then it’ll be an even fight,” he brags. This Kirk thinks nothing of picking a fight with a handful of fledgling Federation soldiers. This Kirk has one eye on trouble and the other on the shortest skirts he can track down. The upshot is that this movie’s Kirk-a swaggering force of nature with charm to spare and some seriously bad intentions-is a ne’er-do-well Iowan who seemingly couldn’t care less about the future. But this is science fiction-one of the few genres where the past can be present, the future past and the present all mixed up. Little did/does he know that, years before/after, a ticked off Romulan evildoer actually killed his father before the elder/younger Kirk even had a chance to meet his newly born son, thus taking away half of the “good parenting” equation and sending Kirk’s past/future trajectory into an entirely different space quadrant. Oh, sure, he was a little unorthodox at times, but he was a hero, through-and-through. ![]() Kirk on the big screen, he was a highly respected captain-turned-admiral-turned-captain for the galactic Federation-a near legendary figure with a curious speaking cadence and a penchant for derring-do.
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