What was Kirk�s solution to most problems?

Kirk was a cowboy. Kirk was a man of action. He wanted to get things done and it was his colleagues that restrained him from the immediate off-the-cuff reaction all the time.

Kirk, as a character, was probably not a lot different from a lot of the leading male characters of the time. He was somewhat of an action hero, albeit on the small screen. His whole thing was to be a rebel and bend the rules and to pick up the phaser.

When they brought the Kirk character to an end in Star Trek Generations, they ended up re-shooting that ending several times. They really tailored the end of the film towards each character�s characteristics, for lack of a better way of putting it.

Captain Kirk was the man of action right down to the very end. They had him off punching out the bad guy at the end of Star Trek Generations, and meantime they had Captain Picard as the intellectual trying to dismantle the missile by doing it through the computer screen.

If you wanted to see the difference in the two captains, you could see it right there, it was the quintessential difference between the two. I�m not sure it made for the best ending for a film, but really it was true to the characters. That was Kirk versus Picard, right there in a nutshell.