How should James T Kirk have died?

[Deja Q]

Poll question: How should James T Kirk have died?

Well?

[El Fuego]

1. From a sexually transmitted disease he caught from a Klingon prostitute

[Deja Q]

5. !

:spray:

Too realistic, but :spray: nonetheless!

Indeed, "The Mark of Gideon" suggests Kirk has a disease. They only lightly imply it's an STD until it's revealed the Gideons want Kirk to get jiggy with the babe of the week so she can acquire the disease and spread it to others.

:wow:

The story itself is crackers, but there are elements of the plot that, when aren't showing us how self-aware the show is, are brilliant conceptually...

[jobycom]

24. You win. nt

[wildhorses]

2. he should ride off into the sunset

isn't kirk from iowa??


i wish he would die on earth...not off somewhere

[Lethe]

3. on the Enterprise

or a clone of it. Commanding a ship was what he did best, and what he liked to do best.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Death by snu-snu.

:thumbsup:

[bmbmd]

39. Death

by Badonga.

[racaulk]

41. LOL

That's how we should all die, my friend. ;)

[MonkeyFunk]

6. Nibbled to death

by tribbles.

Or an exploding toupee.

[mongo]

7. choking on a tribble N/T

[Lautremont]

8. A meld gone wrong.

Or an accident on the holodeck.

[Connonym]

9. Organ collapse from wearing his corset too tight n/t

[LeftyMom]

10. Down with his ship, saving the crew

I can't think of another way that wouldn't have felt wrong.

[YankeyMCC]

11. He shouldn't have - by which I mean

he should've disappeared and only be presumed dead.

My second choice would be he dies similarly to how he was supposed to have died at first, saving the Ent-B. Some scenario like in the "Doomsday Machine" where he's on the crippled ship saving the day and gets transported at the last minute but this time there's no chance of that happening and he has just enough time to give a last short message to whoever is listening.

[hickman]

22. Bingo. He should have never died, just disappeared.

Maybe back into that slipstream (what was it called?) where Picard found him.

[YankeyMCC]

33. I think you mean the Nexus nt

[Deep13]

12. Freak washing machine accident.

[KamaAina]

13. 20 minutes after the woman of his dreams fell in love with him

turnabout's fair play, after all...

[Kutjara]

14. Shatner didn't want Kirk killed off.

He fought against it, and even tried to give Kirk a shot at the afterlife with his ad-libbed last words "oh my" (delivered with his eyes on eternity like he saw something beyond).

Shatner even wrote a Trek book that picks up where Generations left off, in which Kirk is revived (in a sort-of clone form), and fights the Romulans alongside Picard and the TNG crew. I think he "wrote" a few more in a similar vein and has always said in interviews that Kirk may not be absolutely, totally dead. Unfortunately for Bill, the owners of the ST franchise say that Kirk is dead as velvet crimplene leisure suits, so that appears to be that.

Of course, someone could always revive him in an alternative timeline, but they'd have to do it soon, before Shatner himself gets too old. Oh, wait. That already happened thirty years ago.

[bikebloke]

15. At the cinema.

I was waiting in line for whatever Star Trek movie it was. The previous show let out. This one kid grumbles to another "Captian Kirk was killed. That sucks." And it sucked for all of us in line knowing what was going to happen.

[Kutjara]

17. I'm surprised the kid made it home alive.

Revealing the plot to people waiting to see a movie should be grounds for justifiable homocide.

[fujiyama]

32. That was Generations

It reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer and Marge are walking out of "Empire Strikes Back" and Homer yells really loud "OMG, I can't believe Darth Vader is Luke's father!" in front of the line of movie goers.

I agree with the other poster. That's justifiable homicide!

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. In a 1,701-foot fall from the face of Half Dome

without Spock there to catch his derring-doing ass.

[Giant Robot]

18. With a phaser in one hand and

a hot green alien woman in the other.

[Deja Q]

19. Naturally!!

[Dukkha]

20. bonitis

in his trademark pauseneatic convolutions

"My only regret...is that I have...bonitis!"

[LostInAnomie]

21. A Richard Gere-esque tribble experiment.

If you know what I mean.

:yoiks:

[JVS]

26. It found nutrients up there and just kept multiplying.

[wildhorses]

29. ---

:spray::rofl:

[Canuckistanian]

23. He died as he should have, let it go, man.

Sheesh.

[edbermac]

25. Showing Uhura his 'photon torpedo'

[JVS]

27. It would have won back all those angered by the kiss they had...

by proving to America that interracial sex will KILL you!

[YankeyMCC]

34. I've always heard that the got no hate mail over that nt

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

28. Lynched by a pack of jealous husbands.

No wait, that's how *I* should die.

[driver8]

30. Hit by a bus. n/t

[Vidar]

31. Explosion of his "Great Big Giant Head"..

[Porcupine]

35. "Beam me up Scotty"

Kirk should just vanish in transit during a transport. Preferably with some bizzare ass watchamathingy zipping through the region at warp 10.

Hold on. Wasn't that the way he died? I forget.

[regnaD kciN]

36. Vanished in the Bermuda Triangle...

...while travelling on a ultra-low-cost airline whose tickets he bought on Priceline.com.

[Seabiscuit]

37. Head lopped off by light sabre wielded by Darth Vader

[Eagle_Eye]

38. Alone on the bridge saying "I wonder what this switch does?"

-CLICK-
KABOOM!
moral to this story:
If you don't know what it does
Don't mess with it

[underpants]

40. Kirk died?

:shrug: really?

[Hugin]

44. He's feeling much better now...

:rofl:

[JVS]

42. no death. collision with soil sample collection probe makes him spend eternity killing stuff

[JVS]

43. The wrath of Mudd