I dislike agreeing with you, but, yes.
Those weren’t people, they were Gorn. :dubious:
Nasty, stinky, ugly lizards.
Well, it wasn’t all illusion.
Jackson is dead.
That’s one way of looking at it, fer sure. I just think it’s easier to assume the production company fucked up.
As for Kirk killing others, sure: at long range, in the heat of battle, must have. Face-to-face, with a phaser or any other weapon, I don’t recall he did. He could easily have zapped Gary Mitchell, but it was actually the landslide that got him.
It’s been a long day–I should have said, “…poking the sehlat.” I’ll try to do better.
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Tarentii wrote: “He could easily have zapped Gary Mitchell, but it was actually the landslide that got him.”
The landslide brought him down?
The landslide started by the phaser blast knocked him into the grave and crushed him.
Going over the list of TOS episodes:
-Kirk placed the anti-matter bomb that killed the blood-eating cloud in “Obsession”
-if that’s not visceral enough for you, he spears a guy to death (probably) in “The Gamesters of Triskelion”
-he possibly inflicted normally-lethal injuries to various Klingons in “Day of the Dove”, but the alien entity was causing everyone to heal rapidly
…and that’s about it, as far as I can tell. I’m assuming there isn’t any personal killing in the animated series, but he does kick Kruge into lava in The Search for Spock and that was pretty unambiguous even if clearly in self-defense.
Whoosh.
I have always enjoyed Catspaw. It’s got its cheesy moments, but it was a fun episode. And I can aver that, on the televisions of the day, you didn’t see strings. 
I think of killing the Vampire Cloud the same way I think of planting the anti-matter bomb in the Space Amoeba: pest control.
Klingons probably also died when Kirk and Spock blew up the ammo dump on Organia. Again, however, that was an impersonal act during time of war.
I know Kloog got a spear in the gut on Triskelion, but Kirk was forced to fight to save himself and his ship.
I’m talking about face-to-face killing for more personal reasons, like the time he tried to skewer Trelane on Gothos (and was again prevented from doing so).
I think he may have killed Colonel Green with his bare hands on Excalbia. But he wouldn’t shoot Wyatt Earp on Melkot, even when he could have blown his head off.
In the same movie he blasts a Klingon across the yard. I’ve always maintained that was Stun at maximum setting, but others disagree.
McCoy of all people guns down the Salt Monster (first ep!) and a Mugatu. Also is often seen with his phaser drawn. That’s how i like my doctors!!
In one episode Kirk and Spock shoot a Klingon with stun, and he falls out of a tower, presumably to his death.
Again, on Organia.
Actually, the Organians say “No one has died here for hundreds [or thousands] of years” at the end of the episode. I’ve always wondered if that extended to the Klingons as well.
I’ll just point out that the Gorn captain lived.
There’s a quick moment at the very end of “The Deadly Years” where you see Koenig’s real hair and his wig in successive shots. They must have inserted an earlier bit of film for some reason.
Well, yeah, but I was jokingly referencing that thing Antoinette Bower was wearing and, less blatantly, Shatner’s own Turbo 2000.
There is a perhaps apocryphal story that Shatner asked the blonde in The Gamesters of Triskelon out, and she later did not recognize him without his studio hair.
Her studio hair was green! 