First and foremost what he forgot was the last sentence in Shatner`s legendary intro "to BOLDLY go". About the boldest thing Picard ever did was read Moby Dick all the way thru. LOL! It`s no small coincidence that Roddenberry wanted a frog as the captain in TNG. Jean-Luc Picard was a 23rd century armchair general except he had a whole starship to sit in. In TOS`s "Spectre of the Gun" Kirk convinces the melkots that their isolationist mindset is wrong and wins the day! In TNG, to avoid the obliteration of the enterprise and crew Picard BOWS to the isolationist viewpoint of an incredibly powerful race. The whys and wherefores aren`t really important, what is important is that TOS was not morally relativistic and everything called star trek since IS.
