In the Classic series of Star Trek, Captain James T. Kirk is the man who holds the ultimate power. Played by William Shatner, Kirk is the man who commands a top of the line spaceship with exquisite technology and weaponry and who is assisted by a crew of all nations.
Gene Roddenberry based Kirk on Captain Horatio Hornblower, a man of action and yet of emotion and reason. Within Star Trek, Spock personified the reason and Dr. McCoy personified the emotion, thereby completing Kirk as one of three in a classic trio. William Shatner always played Kirk close to his own character but as he has said this is more out of necessity than any other reason when you are one of the stars of a televsion show.
Although Kirk was not the first Captain of the USS Enterprise, he certainly was its Captain for the longest time. After the first five year mission, shown in the original series that ran from 1966 to 1969 (and the animated show of 1973 and 1974), he returned to the NCC1701 in Star Trek The Motion Picture and remained at its helm until he deemed it necessary to destroy her to turn death into a fighting chance to live (Star Trek III The Search For Spock, by the words of Dr McCoy).
Kirk subsequently captained the NCC1701A until that vessel was decommissioned (after Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country). After an unfortunate event that seemed to claim his life aboard the Enterprise B, Kirk finally met his fate while playing a pivotal role in the defeating of Soran on Veridian III (in Star Trek Generations).
William Shatner has also written several books about Kirk in what is jokingly referred to as the Shatnerverse (the Star Trek Universe according to Shatner). Since he brought Kirk back from his own demise with The Return, he has been campaigning to also be resurrected in the films but since J.J. Abrams took over the reins of the franchise, the role of Captain James T. Kirk is in the capable hands of Chris Pine.
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