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* [[A Father to His Men]]

* [[I Can Still Fight]]

* [[Improbable Age]]: Minor example in-universe. [[All There in the Manual|Background material]] states that, at 30-ish, he is the youngest man yet to command a first-rate Starfleet ship.

* [[Large Ham]]: He's played by [[William Shatner]], after all.

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]

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* [[Always Save the Girl|Always Save Jim Kirk]]

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* [[Actor Shared Background]]: Both DeForest Kelley and Bones are natives of Georgia and have Irish sounding names.

* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: He's grumpy, sarcastic and has little respect for authority (With the exception of Kirk). But when the chips are down, You can always count on him to do the right thing.

* [[The Medic]]

* [[More Hero Than Thou]]: In "The Empath" when aliens offer Kirk the choice of sacrificing McCoy or Spock, McCoy takes out Kirk with drugs. Spock is glad; since this leaves him in command, he can make the sacrifice himself. McCoy proceeds to drug him as well and sacrifice himself.

* [[Promotion to Opening Titles]]

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* [[Action Girl]]: In "Mirror, Mirror."

* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Her first name "Nyota" was used in the non-canon novels for decades before finally being made official. Very early Trek guides suggest that "Penda" was considered a possibility by the fans.

* [[The Cast Showoff]]: [[Nichelle Nichols]] got to show off her singing ability a couple times.

* [[Absentee Actor]]: Missing for much of the second season because [[George Takei]] was filming ''The Green Berets''.

* [[Badass]]

** [[Took a Level in Badass]]

* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: Don't expect to ever hear Sulu say "''Oh, my''." That's [[George Takei]]'s personal [[Catch Phrase]]. Sulu himself was the only regular who lacked a memorable [[Catch Phrase]] or [[Verbal Tic]], one of the reasons he didn't show up in too many parodies (and when he did, he was usually the [[Straight Man]]). More recently, given Takei's predilection for [[Adam Westing]], parodies of Sulu are basically parodies of Takei (including the [[Camp Gay]] antics - see below).

* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Again, "The Naked Time".

* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: "The Naked Time" and "Mirror, Mirror".

* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Every [[Mirror Universe]] character was hammy, but Takei was a particularly rich, dripping slice.