who played captain kirk
Confidence votes 173K. There are three kinds of answers: ones that are mostly right, ones that are mostly wrong, and those that once were right but now are wrong. William Shatner was James T. Kirk (captain and later admiral) in the Star Trek original series and in the first 6 movies. Chris Pine plays James T. Kirk in a different timeline than the original Star Trek universe, as re-imagined in the 2009 movie and its sequels.