Winona Kirk ( alternate reality ) Winona Kirk was the wife of Starfleet officer and the mother of . She was with her husband aboard the in 2233 before it was destroyed ; they named their son after her father and his father Tiberius . When George was an adolescent , he owned a PX70 motorcycle and Kirk would put Winona on the back of it which would drive her nuts . ( ) In 2233 of an alternate reality , the " Kelvin " fell under the attack of the Romulan mining vessel from the future called " Narada " . Winona was in the final stages of pregnancy at the time , and was wheeled to the escape shuttle s on order of her husband , who had assumed the duties of command following the death of Captain Richard Robau at the hands of Nero . She went into labor shortly before boarding " Medical shuttle 37 " and evacuating the ship . George Kirk spent his final moments on the comm with his wife , deciding on the name " " before the " Kelvin " collided with the " Narada " . Winona returned to Earth , ultimately remarried , and settled her family in Iowa . In the early to mid - 2240s , she was off - planet when James stole and crashed his step - father ' s 1965 Corvette . ( ) When James sacrificed himself to save his crew on the in 2259 , he heard the voices of his parents as he lay between life and death . ( ) James later planned to call his mother on the day of his thirtieth birthday , in 2263 . ( ) Appendices . Background information . In the film " Star Trek " , Winona Kirk was portrayed by Jennifer Morrison . She received an on - screen credit in the sequel , for use of her voice in the audio to the first film . In the script of , Winona Kirk was referred to as a twenty - five year - old at the time she is depicted in the film , during Kirk ' s birth in 2233 . The script also explained that at the time of the corvette incident , she was in Africa , and expected to stay there for another five months , Winona ' s sons being cared for by their abusive uncle . However , the role of Frank was edited out of the movie , his auditory appearance reworked into Winona ' s new husband , though only in the credits is it mentioned Winona remarried after George Kirk ' s death . The main universe James T . Kirk was established as having an uncle in , which implies that either George or Winona had a sibling . " Star Trek " writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci revealed Winona , at least as they thought of her , was a Starfleet officer , hence her presence aboard the " Kelvin " . On the " Star Trek " audio commentary , Producer Damon Lindelof stated that , in an early form of the script , Winona died in childbirth – in an emergency , the transporter could be used to remove a baby from the womb , but at the cost of the mother ' s life . According to J . J . Abrams , earlier scripts also included her in the angry telephone call during young Kirk ' s joyride , but this was dropped since , given her portrayal in his birth scene , it would feel " counter - intuitive " to cast her in this negative light . Apocrypha . Information from several of the novels and short - stories states she was born in 2210 and was of Sioux descent . The name " Winona " originated in Vonda N . McIntyre ' s TOS novel " " , and became canon with its inclusion in the 2009 film . She had a male counterpart , mentioned in " Parallel Lives , Part 1 " .