Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

[Donald]

she must have spent hours gelling that elaborate do into place.

She is the Vulcan captain of a (by the looks of it) mostly human ship. She read humans use size to assert dominance so she's using her hair to make herself look bigger to reinforce her position as leader. Logical.

 

[Umbran]

And don’t understand the remorse. Those 7000 people were willing to kill millions.

Yes, but they were also still 7000 people. A goodly sized town, all at once.

Kirk was having the most common moral quandary in heroic fiction - when you fight monsters, you must be careful to not become a monster yourself. The fastest road to heck is to say, "Well, they were bad people, and so killing them is not a moral crime." Because the definition of "bad people" will slip...

If he hadn't been effected by the first time he ordered 7000 people to die, I'd fear he would be a sociopath.

 

[Ryujin]

Yes, but they were also still 7000 people. A goodly sized town, all at once.

Kirk was having the most common moral quandary in heroic fiction - when you fight monsters, you must be careful to not become a monster yourself. The fastest road to heck is to say, "Well, they were bad people, and so killing them is not a moral crime." Because the definition of "bad people" will slip...

If he hadn't been effected by the first time he ordered 7000 people to die, I'd fear he would be a sociopath.

And we all know that Kirk isn't a sociopath. He's a philanderer.

 

[James Gasik]

And we all know that Kirk isn't a sociopath. He's a philanderer.

Unless AI's are involved.

 

[Micah Sweet]

And didn't even need to serve out her full suspension. Why do they have so much trouble following through on any development of this character?

Maybe it's because, cool as she is, she's a prequel character with much thinner plot armor and narrative history than Pike, Spock, Chapel, Scotty, or Uhura? And her story is IMO less compelling than Lin'a [sic], M'Benga, or Number One.