The worst bit of Star Trek lore?
Your world of starship captains doesn't admit women."
Thankfully retconned, but still a real wtf for me.
I discuss it and provide several possible explanations in post # 67 at:
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/st-...and-contradictory.304041/page-4#post-13366149
Snakes have two dicks? I didn't even know they had one. As for my Lore thingy I would go with
1 Sarek's Princess ex-wife that never gets brought up.
2 Kirk and Spock have Godlike powers but never use them after Plato's Stepchildren.
Jason
Kirk and Spock would only have half a season's worth of episodes and then the animated series and six movies, and one or two other movie and TV appearances to use those super powers.
I believe that a typical long lasting episodic television series was probably considere by the creators to be a bunchof different events which the protagoists might possible experience. Thus each episode, except for ones which were sequels to others, was more or less a stand alone story in the views of the creators. In science fiction terms, each episode of a highly episodic series should be considered to happen in a separate alternate universe of its own, except for the few episodes which are sequels to other episodes.
I actually created a thread asking which
Star Trek productions are sequels to other productions. In the case of highly episodic series, very few productions are sequels to other productions. There are only about a dozen TOS productions that episodes of TNG, DS9, or VOY are clearly sequels to. And "Plato's Stepchildren" is not one of them.
So anyone who accepts the theory that most
Star Trek episodes made before this millennium happen in their own separate alternate universes can simply decide that "Plato's Stepchildren" happens in a separate alternate universe without any sequels. Thus there are no produced episodes or movies where Kirk and Spock know about and ignore their ability to have kironide based superpowers.
For another example, see post # 55.