After 60 Years, Star Trek Gives Captain Kirk The Ending He Deserves

Published Oct 21, 2026, 9:47 AM EDT Robert Wood is a writer and editor based out of Cheshire, England. He is the author of 'The False Elephant: and 99 Other Unreasonably Short Stories' - 100 stories, each told in exactly 100 words. Rob got into comics via Bendis' Ultimate Spider-Man and the UK anthology 'The Mighty World of Marvel,' which was running Frank Miller's Daredevil, Classic Hulk and Contest of Champions II. Prior to journalism, he worked in copywriting and copyedited for Oxford University Press. He is on X as @PinchTwigs and Instagram as roobwoodjourno. Sign in to your ScreenRant account Sixty years after Captain Kirk's debut, Star Trek reveals the final fate of its most iconic hero. As the epic The Last Starship comic series ends, Kirk gets a surprising finale. Today's Star Trek: The Last Starship #12 - from Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Adrián Bonilla, Lee Loughridge and Clayton Cowles - ends with Kirk and his ally Captain Sato saving the galaxy. However, in a surprising twist, it's Sato who sacrifices his life, not Kirk. The comic ends with Kirk waking up months later on a distant planet, living a new life with lover Agnes Jurati, purged of her Borg transformation by Sato's sacrific. This is a developing story, more will be added shortly...