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[[File:KirkInTheMiddle.jpg|link=Star Trek: The Original Series|frame|[[William Shatner|I...can't...de...cide...but-I-must!]]]]
{{quote|''"[[Captain's Log]], stardate 8675309: Once again I find myself faced with [[Sadistic Choice|an impossible dilemma]]. Do I save the planet [[Sugar Bowl|Pupolon]] by [[Save the Princess|rescuing the]] [[The High Queen|High Priestess]], despite her Klingon captors doubtlessly [[Inescapable Ambush|waiting in ambush]]? Or do I ignore their plight and, by [[The End of the World as We Know It|letting it be destroyed]], obey the [[Alien Non-Interference Clause|Prime Directive]] and get the [[Aesoptinum]] needed to protect [[The Federation]]? My friends and officers [[The Spock|Spock]] and [[The McCoy|McCoy]] have been [[Debate and Switch|debating this at length]], with no clear answer.
▲{{quote|''"[[Captain's Log]], stardate 8675309: Once again I find myself faced with [[Sadistic Choice|an impossible dilemma]]. Do I save the planet [[Sugar Bowl|Pupolon]] by [[Save the Princess|rescuing the]] [[The High Queen|High Priestess]], despite her Klingon captors doubtlessly [[Inescapable Ambush|waiting in ambush]]? Or do I ignore their plight and, by [[The End of the World as We Know It|letting it be destroyed]], obey the [[Alien Non-Interference Clause|Prime Directive]] and get the [[Aesoptinum]] needed to protect [[The Federation]]? My friends and officers [[The Spock|Spock]] and [[The McCoy|McCoy]] have been [[Debate and Switch|debating this at length]], with no clear answer."''}}
▲{{quote|''"[[Take a Third Option|There has to be a better way...]]"''}}
Rounding out the archetypal [[Freudian Trio]] with [[The Spock]] and [[The McCoy]], '''The Kirk''' must balance these opposing personalities while being able to take their advice and choose between them (or literally, [[Take a Third Option|choose "between them"]]) without being overcome either by emotion or dispassionate logic, representing what in [[Sigmund Freud|Freudian psychology]] is called the ego.
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* Tobias in ''[[Animorphs]]'' takes this role whenever he's alone with Marco and Ax.
** What do you mean? Out of the Animorphs Marco and Ax are the two most logical. Both are occasionally given to bouts of emotion overwhelming logic (understandable seeing as they're both teenagers) but out of the group they're definitely both closer to [[The Spock]] end of the scale than [[The McCoy]] end.
*** A better example from ''Animorphs'' would be Jake, with Rachel and/or Cassie at [[The McCoy]] end, depending on whether the story is about saving things or killing them.
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*** Sheppard fully ascends to Kirkdom in the last season. Woolsey is [[The Spock]], while Teyla & Ronon are [[The McCoy]].
* [[The Captain|Mal]] in ''[[Firefly]]'' can be pretty emotional and [[Anti-Hero|amoral]] in his own right, but has the virtue (much as he'd deny it) of listening to his crew before making a decision, but being brave enough to take unpopular decisions regardless.
* Lee Adama in ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** When he isn't blinded by his own prejudice and fear, that is.
* Carly in ''[[iCarly]]'', the centre of the [[Freudian Trio|trio]] that includes [[The Spock]] like Freddie, and [[The McCoy]]-type Sam. In ''iDate Sam & Freddie'' where Samantha and Freddie start dating, she ends up having to solve all their fights, until the end where it becomes too much and she tells them if they can't stop fighting they shouldn't date at all.
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