Joseph Samuel T'Kol T'Lan Kirk was the child of James T. Kirk and Teilani of Chal. Joseph was born in 2375, a month premature, after his mother nearly died from a poisoning. Joseph never came to know his mother, however, since she was killed at Halkan during a rescue operation aboard the USS Pathfinder several weeks after his birth. He was subsequently raised until the time of his apparent death by his widowed father, James T. Kirk.