Happy Birthday, James Tiberius Kirk!

Just 212 years from tomorrow, the future Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 will be born in Riverside, Iowa to George and Winona Kirk. His adventures would eventually be chronicled in a television series known as Star Trek -- which, strangely enough, premiered September 1966, long before he was born...hmm. Anyway, interest in the series and its characters has spurred a bevy of books and other materials and an veritable army of fans and fanatics.

(March 22 also marks the 81st birthday of little-known actor William Shatner. Whoever that is.)