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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8687746" data-attributes="member: 7026617"><p>I think that the best way to think about it is when Kirk had a routine problem he'd handle it in a routine way, because that's what a proper Starfleet officer of his rank would do.  But he had a whole lot of non-routine problems, and when those occurred he'd use considerable outside-the-box thinking, some of which might border on or actually go outside of possible regulations on the subject, and in that fashion he was viewed as distinctive in ways that I suspect were viewed as more positive than negative, but not lacking in negative.  But of course during that period with Starfleet, running into things that the rules didn't seem to really engage with properly was probably much more common than later, given how exploration-oriented that period of Star Trek was.</p></blockquote><p></p>