De acordo com um memorando de Forest Research para Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan de 14 de outubro de 1981:
Kirk has NEVER collected antiques. Perhaps a line might be planted that he has developed a new interest. (One of the problems with the Kirk character is that he was never consistently written. He was always what the writers needed THAT week.)
A citação foi encontrada aqui . O cartaz dizia:
UCLA has many of [de Forest's] memos from the original series in the Roddenberry papers. The one from TWOK is in the Nick Meyer papers at the University of Iowa.