PROJECT THESIS + Episode List
Project Thesis:
I have a theory: That Captain James Tiberius Kirk is grossly misrepresented by his reputation.
Thus I created this blog to write down and organize my personal observations as I rewatch Star Trek: The Original Series for evidence either supporting or disproving my theory.
Is Captain Kirk a shamless lothario because every woman he encounters, be they human or alien, become a glorious sexual conquest? Is he as he is represented outside of the show?
Or is Captain Kirk a progressive and respectful man?
Project Goals:
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
Tally the total amount of romantic relationships in which Captain James T. Kirk takes part throughout the entire run of Star Trek: the Original Series.
I will be making episode by episode observations using the following criteria:
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Does the episode feature a love interest for Kirk?
YES or NO.
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If YES, does KIRK have a romantic relationship with the love interest?
YES or NO.
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If YES, when does the romantic relationship take place?
ON SCREEN, OFF SCREEN or BOTH.
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If a romantic relationship for KIRK is featured in the episode, is it CONSENSUAL?
For KIRK and for the LOVE INTEREST.
ADDITIONAL OBJECTIVES:
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Observe, record and tally all of the feminist moments.
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Tally the total amount of 'red shirts'. Note how many actually wear red shirts.
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Tally the total amount of times Sulu is the damsel in distress.
SPOILER, it's more than you'd expect.
SIDE OBJECTIVE (optional to reader):
I'm a spirk shipper, so I'm gonna ship! But if it's not your thing I totally understand. :)
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Tally the total amount of times Spock addresses and/or refers to Kirk as 'JIM'.
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Observe and record all 'SPIRK' moments.
Project Thesis + EPISODE LIST: S1 - S2 - S3
Episode List
SEASON ONE:
THE CAGE
[ S1E00 ]
Summary:
Capt. Pike is held prisoner and tested by aliens who have the power to project incredibly lifelike illusions.
THE MAN TRAP
[ S1E01 ]
Summary:
Dr. McCoy discovers his old flame is not what she seems after crew members begin dying from a sudden lack of salt in their bodies.
CHARLIE X
[ S1E02 ]
Summary:
Captain Kirk must learn the limits to the power of a 17-year-old boy with the psychic ability to create anything and destroy anyone.
WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE
[ S1E03 ]
Summary:
The flight recorder of the 200-year-old U.S.S. Valiant relays a tale of terror--a magnetic storm at the edge of the galaxy!
THE NAKED TIME
[ S1E04 ]
Summary:
The crew is infected with a mysterious disease that removes people's emotional inhibitions to a dangerous degree.
THE ENEMY WITHIN
[ S1E05 ]
Summary:
A transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into two halves: one meek and indecisive, the other violent and ill tempered. The remaining crew members stranded on the planet cannot be beamed up to the ship until a problem is fixed.
MUDD'S WOMEN
[ S1E06 ]
Summary:
The Enterprise picks up untrustworthy entrepreneur Harry Mudd accompanied by three beautiful women who immediately put a spell on all the male crew members.
WHAT LITTLE GIRLS ARE MADE OF?
[ S1E07 ]
Summary:
Nurse Chapel is reunited with her fiancé; but his new obsession leads him to make an android duplicate of Captain Kirk.
MIRI
[ S1E08 ]
Summary:
The Enterprise discovers a planet exactly like Earth, but the only inhabitants are children who contract a fatal disease upon entering puberty.
DAGGER OF THE MIND
[ S1E09 ]
Summary:
Kirk and psychiatrist Helen Noel are trapped on a maximum security penal colony that experiments with mind control and Spock must use the Vulcan mind-meld to find a way to save them.
THE CORBOMITE MANEUVER
[ S1E10 ]
Summary:
After the Enterprise is forced to destroy a dangerous marker buoy, a gigantic alien ship arrives to capture and condemn the crew as trespassers.
THE MENAGERIE: PART I
[ S1E11 ]
Summary:
Spock kidnaps the crippled Capt. Pike, hijacks the Enterprise and then surrenders for court martial.
THE MENAGERIE: PART II
[ S1E12 ]
Summary:
At Spock's court martial, he explains himself with mysterious footage about when Capt. Pike was kidnapped by powerful illusion casting aliens.
THE CONSCIOUS OF THE KING
[ S1E13 ]
Summary:
While Captain Kirk investigates whether an actor is actually a presumed dead mass murderer, a mysterious assailant is killing the people who could identify the fugitive.
BALANCE OF TERROR
[ S1E14 ]
Summary:
The Enterprise must decide on its response when a Romulan ship makes a destructively hostile armed probe of Federation territory.
SHORE LEAVE
[ S1E15 ]
Summary:
The past three months has left the crew of the Enterprise exhausted and in desperate need of a break, but does this explain McCoy's encounter with a human-sized white rabbit or Kirk crossing paths with the prankster who plagued his days at Starfleet Academy?
THE GALILEO SEVEN
[ S1E16 ]
Summary:
The Galileo, under Spock's command, crash-lands on a hostile planet. As the Enterprise races against time to find the shuttlecraft, Spock's strictly logical leadership clashes with the fear and resentment of his crew.
THE SQUIRE OF GOTHOS
[ S1E17 ]
Summary:
A being that controls matter and creates planets wants to play with the Enterprise crew.
ARENA
[ S1E18 ]
Summary:
For bringing hostility into their solar system, a superior alien race brings Captain Kirk in mortal combat against the reptilian captain of an alien ship he was pursuing.
TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY
[ S1E19 ]
Summary:
The Enterprise is thrown back in time to 1960s Earth.
COURT MARTIAL
[ S1E20 ]
Summary:
Kirk draws a court martial in the negligent death of a crewman.
THE RETURN OF THE ARCHONS
[ S1E21 ]
Summary:
Seeking the answer to a century-old mystery, Kirk and crew encounter a vacantly peaceful society under a 6000-year autocratic rule that kills all those it can't absorb.
SPACE SEED
[ S1E22 ]
Summary:
While on patrol in deep space, Captain Kirk and his crew find and revive a genetically engineered world conqueror and his compatriots from Earth's 20th century.
A TASTE OF ARMAGEDDON
[ S1E23 ]
Summary:
Kirk and Spock must save their ship's crew when they are declared all killed in action in a bizarre computer simulated war where the actual deaths must occur to continue.
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
[ S1E24 ]
Summary:
The Enterprise investigates a planet whose colonists should be dead, but are not.
DEVIL IN THE DARK
[ S1E25 ]
Summary:
The Enterprise is sent to a mining colony that is being terrorized by a mysterious monster.
ERRAND OF MERCY
[ S1E26 ]
Summary:
With a war with Klingons raging, Kirk and Spock attempt to resist an occupation of a planet with incomprehensibly placid natives.
THE ALTERNATIVE FACTOR
[ S1E27 ]
Summary:
Existence itself comes under threat from a man's power-struggle with his alternate self, with the Enterprise's strained dilithium crystals presenting his key to a final solution.
THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER
[ S1E28 ]
Summary:
When a temporarily insane Dr. McCoy accidentally changes history and destroys his time, Kirk and Spock follow him to prevent the disaster, but the price to do so is high.
OPERATION - ANNIHILATE!
[ S1E29 ]
Summary:
The Enterprise crew attempts to stop a plague of amoeba-like creatures from possessing human hosts and spreading throughout the galaxy.
Star Trek: The Original Series blank
"The original Star Trek series focuses on the 23rd century adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and the U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701), a powerful interstellar spacecraft dispatched by Earth-based Starfleet Command to explore the galaxy. Kirk commands a crew of 430 men and women aboard his starship, which can travel at speeds surpassing the speed of light. Kirk’s five-year mission—and his mandate from Starfleet—is to seek out new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before." +
Summary of Results:
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
Tally the total amount of romantic relationships in which Captain James T. Kirk takes part throughout the entire run of Star Trek: the Original Series.
I will be making episode by episode observations using the following criteria:
-
Does the episode feature a love interest for Kirk?
? / 79 episodes
-
If YES, does KIRK have a romantic relationship with the love interest?
? / ? episodes
-
If YES, when does the romantic relationship take place?
ON SCREEN, OFF SCREEN or BOTH.
-
If a romantic relationship for KIRK is featured in the episode, is it CONSENSUAL?
For KIRK and for the LOVE INTEREST.
ADDITIONAL OBJECTIVES:
-
Observe, record and tally all of the feminist moments:
??
-
Tally the total amount of 'red shirts'. Note how many actually wear red shirts:
?? 'red shirts'
?? wearing red shirts
?? wearing blue shirts
?? wearing gold shirts.
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Tally the total amount of times Sulu is the damsel in distress.
??
SIDE OBJECTIVE (optional to reader):
I'm a spirk shipper, so I'm gonna ship! But if it's not your thing I totally understand. :)
-
Tally the total amount of times Spock addresses and/or refers to Kirk as 'JIM'.
??
-
Observe and record all 'SPIRK' moments.
??
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