James T. Kirk (Mirror)

In the mirror universe, James T. Kirk was a Terran officer in the Imperial Starfleet who commanded the ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701) in the 2260s. In 2267, Kirk became one of the first Terrans to crossover into a parallel universe, and eventually rose to become Emperor of the Terran Empire.

James T. Kirk was born in a farmhouse in Riverside, Iowa on Earth in 2233.

In 2238, James learned Morse code while staying at his grandparents' house in Vermont. Kirk and his brother spent a month playing cowboys and Indians with the local McLaughlin boys. In August of that year Kirk's family visited the Starfleet War Memorial in San Francisco. Later that same year, 5-year-old James decided he wanted to go into space, while he sat in his father's arms watching the stars. Throughout his early years, George was rarely at home as he was assigned to Starbase 2 as chief of security, but by 2246, the family had moved from Earth to Tarsus IV. In October 2246, a deadly famine gripped the colony and there was only enough food for half the colonists. In order to save one half of the population, Governor Kodos gave the order to kill the other half. While fleeing Kirk rescued young boy by the name of Kevin Riley and led a gang of children who siezed a food warehouse and executed Kodos.

The early Starfleet career of this Kirk likewise followed a similar course to that of his counterpart in the prime universe. Kirk. However, in this universe, Kirk was assigned as first officer aboard the ISS Enterprise in 2264, under the direct command of Captain Christopher Pike.

Kirk remained as first officer under Pike until 2266, when he seized upon the opportunity to kill him. Whilst out patrolling at the edge of the Empire, the ship encountered the First Federation vessel Fesarius, commanded by Commander Balok. Pike wanted to claim the vast Fesarius for himself and sent Kirk and a landing party over to acquire the vessel. They were greeted by Balok, but Kirk simply killed him and raided his laboratory for any useful technology. One piece of technology he came across was the Tantalus field, which Kirk was able to use to assassinate Pike and assume command of the Enterprise.

Captain Kirk's command of the Enterprise was virtually unchallenged and he appointed science officer Spock, a man he perceived to be no threat, as his new first officer. Kirk's first action as captain of the Enterprise was to suppress the Gorlan uprising by completely destroying the planet Gorla. This was shortly followed by the execution of 5,000 colonists on Vega IX after they threatened to secede from the Terran Empire.

During a visit to the planet Exo III, Kirk destroyed the last surviving android of a society of robots which had turned on their masters and killed them.

Kirk also had a personal security squad as bodyguards, led by Farrell. His woman in the late 2260s was Marlena Moreau, a lieutenant assigned to the sciences division and also a skilled assassin.

In 2267 he visited the planet Halka. The Empire had noted the Halkan homeworld's vast dilithium reserves and threatened to destroy the Halkans if they did not comply. When Kirk's landing party attempted to beam up from the Halkan homeworld, an ion storm caused him to switch places with his duplicate in another reality.

When he rematerialized Kirk found himself aboard the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) in a different world than he knew. Spock noted it was more difficult for the barbaric mirror landing party to behave civilized than it was for the civilized crew to feign barbarity on the other side. After being imprisoned by Spock, he offered him fantastic bribes to get his command back. Spock proceeded to place the captives on the transporter, to wait for when the crew from his landing party reciprocated the action, and beamed themselves back into the places of the duplicates.

Upon his return Spock allied himself with Kirk who aided in his rise to power. Kirk became Starfleet's commander-in-chief within five years of the transporter accident and five years after that became Emperor Tiberius by assassinating Emperor Androvar Drake. Kirk only reigned for a few months before being overthrown by Spock, but in that short time he became the most famous and some say depraved dictator in the Terran Empire's history.

After his ousting he went to the Klingons and Cardassians and talked them into helping him reclaim the Empire, but was betrayed by them after he helped forge their alliance. As a result humans and Vulcans became enslaved by the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. Kirk fled the Alliance, knowing they would betray him, in a sleepership during the Battle of Wolf 359.

Due to a malfunction on the ship went off course and Tiberius and his most trusted generals remaind in stasis for seventy-eight years until the ship was discovered by a Klingon research vessel whose crew revived the occupants and intened to take Kirk to Qo'noS for a war-crimes trial. However Tiberius seduced a female crewmember and took over the ship and executed everyone onboard.

Following the take over of the Klingon ship, Tiberius began consolidating power and recruiting allies in positions to aid in his rise to power, among these were Intendent Picard and Logan MacLeod.

Tiberius would leave his agents in place as long as they were useful and able to maintain their cover, unless an oppurtunity arose where they would be more useful elsewere. If they were in danger of being exposed and possibly exposing him in the process Tiberius would ensure they were eliminated before they could endanger his plans.