Say what you will about “Wolf in the Fold”, but this is TOS’s most Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat moment.
Your gagh is barely moving, do you complain to the chef or humbly eat it because you’re afraid of him?
Determining whether or not I like a Trek series is easy: The crew must be made of people whom I genuinely look up to, and could proudly serve in Starfleet with. Including the Captain.
TOS to ENT are my comfort food, because I know that the main characters are (for the most part) rational, experienced, thoughtful adults. — By contrast, post-2009 “Nu-Trek” seems to frequently parade around Starfleet “officers”, the majority of whom should’ve flunked the Acadamy psych test.