Samuel Abraham Kirk

Samuel Abraham Kirk was a human male Starfleet officer in the 22nd century. He was the great-grandfather of the famous Starfleet Captain James T. Kirk.

History
By 2163 he held the rank of lieutenant and served as Ship's Historian aboard the the USS Pioneer (NCC-63). He befriended the ship's qnthropology and archaeology officer, Ensign Henry Polanski.

In April, following a disastrous engine test, thePioneer stuck in a decaying orbit of a super-Jovian planet. The crew was evacuated to the catwalks due to the planets radation ring. Kirk calmed down the raging crew of the Pioneer, how blamed Tobin Dax's engineering team for the situation. This is when he fall in love with Lieutenant Valeriana Williams, the ship's tactical and security chief.