Summary

Warning : contains spoilers forStar Trek#21 !

Captain Kirk ’s “ dying ” has uncover a potentially dark truth about theStar Trekuniverse . Kirk ’s passing in 1994’sStar Trek : Generationswas a landmark event in the franchise , and symbolized the passing play of the torch . Now , inStar Trek#21 , T’Lir , the last of the Organians , break they knew Kirk ’s fate years ahead of time . Thisinsight opens up some sullen deduction for theStar Trekuniverse as a whole .

Star Trek#21 is written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and drawn by Megan Levens . The god - like T’Lir is the last of the Organians , who take the form of a Vulcan as a fashion of surviving . The emergence feature a text objet d’art , made to resemble T’Lir ’s journals of their time on Organia . T’Lir reveals , that on Organia , they met Captain Kirk . Kirk , Spock and fellowship come to Organia to keep it fall to the Klingons , unaware of the Organians ' lawful nature .

Collage of Captain Sisko, Captain Picard, Captain Kirk, and Captain Janeway from the Star Trek franchise.

T’Lir recounts thatKirk had the “ worldly signature ” of the Nexus , even then .

Star Trek GenerationsKilled Off Captain Kirk in a Controversial Move

Kirk’s “Death” Seemed to be Pre-Ordained

Paramount Pictures releasedStar Trek : Generationsin 1994 , bringing together Captains Kirk and Picard for the first sentence . In the film ’s opening successiveness , Kirk is seemingly killed rescuing El - Aurian refugees . In fact , Kirk was not dead , but had fallen into a traveling cosmic anomaly called the Nexus . Inside , the laws of clock time and blank were meaningless , and they allowed Kirk to live until the 24th 100 , when he was disengage by Captain Picard . Kirk was then killed in the battle with Doctor Tolian Soran on Viridian III . Kirk ’s trunk eventually foundits way to a Section 31 readiness .

However , T’Lir seemingly live Kirk ’s fate , decades before it was to come to pass , and this raises some intriguing and disturbing dubiousness about the idea of predestination in theStar Trekuniverse .

However , T’Lir apparently knew Kirk ’s fate , decades before it was to add up to pass , and this raises some challenging and shake up head about the estimation of predestination in theStar Trekuniverse . T’Lir ’s observation about Kirk and the Nexus would inculpate that the Captain was always going to run across this fate – there was no way around it . Kirk pull through many harrowing encounter , but was unable to dodge the Nexus and his eventual death on Viridian III . In essence , the destiny of mortals in theStar Trekuniverse is predestined , whether they require it or not .

Picard and Riker in season 1

Does Freewill Truly Exist in theStar TrekUniverse?

Mortals May Be Able to Circumvent the Will ofStar Trek’sGods

Theassembled gods in the Pleromaseem to reenforce this fact , but the military action of both Sisko and Kahless seem to say otherwise . Kahless ’ crusade against the god of theStar Trekuniverse showed they can be wound and even killed , implying they are subject to the same laws mortals are . what is more , Sisko and troupe , using a extremely advanced applied science designed by T’Lir and Scotty , were able-bodied to introduce the Pleroma . If Klingons and humans can short circuit the will of the gods , then freewill may in truth survive in theStar Trekuniverse .

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Robin Curtis and Kirstie Alley as Lt. Saavik in Star Trek.

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Text piece revealing Kirk had the Nexus energy in him years before encountering it

A hand picks up Captain Kirk’s Starfleet pin from his grave in Star Trek Generations

William Shatner as Captain Kirk, and the Nexus from Star Trek: Generations

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