James T. Kirk/Legacy

Sometime after 2285, Kirk made a brief appearance in a film called The Tardigrade in Space, which was about the adventures of a female and a DOT-7 robot called Dot. His appearance in the film depicted his first encounter with Khan Noonien Singh in sickbay, when he was first awakened from cryosleep in the year 2267. ()
His missions were read by grade school students and Starfleet Academy cadets alike. (; ) As a child in grade school, future Enterprise-B Captain Harriman read about Kirk's missions. () While nearly a century later, in 2377, as Icheb began his cadet training aboard Voyager, he recited a report for Early Starfleet History, that described when Kirk concluded his "historic five year mission", that "one of the greatest chapters in Starfleet history came to a close." ()
Captain Kathryn Janeway of the USS Voyager nostalgically recalled Captain Kirk (and his contemporaries) as belonging "to a different breed of Starfleet officer." She went on to note that, given "the era they lived in, [...] It's not surprising they had to bend the rules a little. They were a little slower to invoke the Prime Directive, and a little quicker to pull their phasers." She opined, "Of course, the whole bunch of them would be booted out of Starfleet today. But I have to admit, I would have loved to ride shotgun at least once with a group of officers like that." ()
Along with Kirk's seventeen separate temporal violations, which gave him the distinction of having the biggest file on record with the Department of Temporal Investigations, Kirk also had a long standing first contact record to his name. () It remained untouched until 2378, when Captain Janeway concluded her seven-year trip across the Delta Quadrant aboard the USS Voyager. ()
During a visit to the 23rd century from 2373, Lieutenant Commander Worf remarked that it would be an honor to meet Kirk. ()
The defensive pattern Kirk Epsilon was a battle tactic that was still in use during the late 2370s. ()
In 2380 and 2381, Kirk was mentioned multiple times by various crew members of the , including Brad Boimler and Beckett Mariner. ()
Kirk's old bar on Starbase 25 still had his and Spock's names scratched into the counter top as of 2381. ()
In 2383, Kirk was an option for a crewmember in the Kobayashi Maru scenario. Jankom Pog suggested that he and Dal R'El use "this JT Kirk guy," but Dal was uninterested as they already had a captain: himself. ()
In 2384, Hologram Janeway noted that both Captains Kirk and Sulu were "Starfleet legends". To the Enderprizians, Kirk was known as "James'T the Warrior", and he had at least one namesake on Planet 0042692, James'T. () Kirk also had at least two others named in his honor during his lifetime, Jame Finney and Leonard James Akaar. ()