i think kirk deserves a lot more credit for keeping a cool head based on some of the nonsense he had to deal with throughout the original
like fuckkkk i sent my men on a routine mission to an uninhabited planet and the fucking wizard got them. yeah he lives in a haunted castle and his shapeshifting cat friend brainwashed them into doing her bidding. yeah i fucked the cat lady to figure out the source of their power and then when i destroyed it they turned out to be some sort of blue chicken maybe???? god damnit dude i better not get sent into another evil dimension or the past or some other bullshit again when i get back
