Posted on 03/14/2012 2:36:36 PM PDT by presidio9
Captain James T. Kirk is one of the most famous Captains in the history of Starfleet. There’s a good reason for that. He saved the planet Earth several times, stopped the Doomsday Machine, helped negotiate peace with the Klingon Empire, kept the balance of power between the Federation and the Romulan Empire, and even managed to fight Nazis. On his five-year mission commanding the U.S.S. Enterprise, as well as subsequent commands, James T. Kirk was a quintessential leader, who led his crew into the unknown and continued to succeed time and time again.
(Image via Wikipedia) Kirk’s success was no fluke, either. His style of command demonstrates a keen understanding of leadership and how to maintain a team that succeeds time and time again, regardless of the dangers faced. Here are five of the key leadership lessons that you can take away from Captain Kirk as you pilot your own organization into unknown futures.
1. Never Stop Learning
“You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an irrational fear of the unknown. But there’s no such thing as the unknown– only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.”
Captain Kirk may have a reputation as a suave ladies man, but don’t let that exterior cool fool you. Kirk’s reputation at the Academy was that of a “walking stack of books,” in the words of his former first officer, Gary Mitchell. And a passion for learning helped him through several missions. Perhaps the best demonstration of this is in the episode “Arena,”
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2. Have Advisors With Different Worldviews
3. Be Part Of The Away Team
4. Play Poker, Not Chess
5. Blow up the Enterprise
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I’d buy that for a quatloo.
LOL
That “Thrall” went on to have a rather interesting film career.
I watched Faux Trek: Revenge of the Star Wars Groupies once... once. Bad parody. Imagine if Trek fans who loathed SW got to direct the next SW movie (then again, it would probably be better than the prequels).
The people behind the movie were SW fans who don’t like Star Trek?
Five Rules to Live By
1. Money cannot buy happiness, but it’s more comfortable to cry in a
Mercedes than on a bicycle.
2. Forgive your enemy, but remember the bastard’s name.
3. Help someone when he is in trouble and he will remember you when
he’s in trouble again.
4. Many people are alive only because it’s illegal to shoot them.
5. Reforming an Obama supporter is like trying to pick up a turd by
its clean end.
It was pretty obvious. And that scene in the bar where Faux (but hot) Uhura enters, it was a rip off of “Boogie Nights.” I mean, seriously, WTF ?!?
Number 1 has to be “Always take a run at the hot girl.”
And the last one needs to be rewriten “If things are dire, don’t hesitate to blow up the Enterprise.”
If I were on a ship and at risk of injury or death I’d want to be friends with the doctor too. Doctors are people and like most people will try harder to save someone they are friends with.
IIRC, "warp" drive consists of somehow attaching the ship to a (moving or generated) gravity wave. So the idea of pulling the ship along does, in fact, properly use the term "warp."
Anne Francis played Altaira. Leslie Nielsen played the captain. The effects were top rate for the time (1956). But the award that year went to The Ten Commandments.
I had not thought of it but that was part of why she was so alluring. and yes, sexy. Of course the fact that she was beautiful helped.
In just about all those old 1950s Sci-fi movies the professor has a beautiful daughter.
Don't sell the Marxist _resident short. His policies don't emanate from some gross Carteresque ineptitude. Rather, he is very effectively Cloward-and-Pivening our beloved Republic into the ashbin of history. Underestimate him at your own peril.
Apparently she had an interesting career beforehand, too.
http://www.burlesquebabesshop.com/2010/11/angelique-pettyjohn-shahna-in-star-trek.html
Technically “safe for work” (no nudity), but interesting nonetheless.
Enforce or disregard the Prime Directive, whichever is more advantageous to your current situation.
Indeed! And I'd forgotten that she had that small part in Get Smart!.
IIRC, Ms. Pettyjohn made a bit of money at the sci-fi conventions selling photos of herself wearing a "diminished" version of that Drill Thrall outfit.
Had she lived, I'll bet she would've turned up in one of those "New Voyages" fan films. Quite a few of the TOS guest actors did.
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