Scenes where Kirk is slower than the audience

[trevanian]

How about "Wolf in the Fold"? Kirk sends Scotty and a female tricorder technician off to be alone in an isolated room, despite having just recently found Scotty standing over a stabbed woman in the street with the knife in his hand and no explanation.

If her parents ever read the mission report, they'd have a good case for Kirk's court-martial regardless of the Redjack angle. Kirk was incredibly reckless, or "slow" beyond all belief, to put her in that position.

It's weird there wasn't a redshirt with her, especially given how so many of them show up to be toast during Coon's reign, but I guess that would undercut the show's statement about preying on women because of their susceptibility to falling prey to terror. If you had to show a security guy doing the Chekov scream, and then had Kirk run in and see that guy AND Lt Tracey dead, it might have given greater cred.

 

[MacLeod]

Kirk also gave the order to "energise defense screens" in TWOK. Who knows perhaps that prevent even more damage.