Quote:It wouldn't just have been Kirk protecting himself, but every member of his crew who could potentially have been held responsible for some kind of dereliction in permitting the ship to be taken over.
Every member of the command crew to be sure. The remainder of the ship's crew? I don't think so.
Quote:We saw Kirk bend, if not break regs multiple times during the original series. Sometimes he took responsibility and reported his actions up the chain of command prepared to accept any consequences (entering the RNZ in "Balance of Terror," contacting the natives in "A Private Little War," and sometimes he didn't (agreeing not to report that Zephram Cochrane was alive)
Do you see Kirk as somewhat of a liability to Starfleet? So, instead of keeping him around headquarters or assigning him to protect and serve, he given a ship and sent off to explore instead?
The best way to frustrate a cyberbully is to ignore him.