Tropical Storm Kirk was kind of a bust, only briefly achieving hurricane status before wandering north up the Atlantic and into a footnote in the history of meteorology. About the only interesting thing to come of it was a rare moment of levity from the National Weather Service:

TROPICAL STORM KIRK DISCUSSION NUMBER 20
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL112012
1100 AM AST SUN SEP 02 2012

KIRK IS NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE LONG AND PROSPER. VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGES AND A 1214 UTC ASCAT PASS INDICATE THAT THE SYSTEM STILL HAS A CLOSED CIRCULATION BUT IT IS BECOMING ELONGATED. MAXIMUM RELIABLE WINDS IN THE ASCAT PASS WERE AROUND 45 KT SO THE INITIAL WIND SPEED IS HELD AT THAT VALUE. KIRK WILL LIKELY BECOME POST-TROPICAL LATER TODAY OR DISSIPATE JUST BEFORE IT MERGES WITH A FRONT THAT IS CURRENTLY LOCATED ABOUT 200 N MI TO ITS WEST.

(Emphasis added)

I could point out that “Live long and prosper” is Spock’s line, not Kirk’s, but there’s a more obvious joke here: since the storm initially talked big but proved to be nothing but a mass of hot air destined for obscurity, it had much more in common with Kirk Cameron than with Captain James T. Kirk. I couldn’t find any appropriate Kirk Cameron memes, though, so here are a few riffs on Captain Kirk instead.