Almost 60 posts and nobody's even needed to pull out the Kirk/alien fight video. Why? Because all the olds arguing in Kirk's favor have no leg to stand on. Horrible acting, lame scene after lame scene, a supporting cast that helped define him by taking the spotlight away from his absolute shittiness... it was little more than a nighttime comedy with which Roddenberry learned to make mistakes and screw around whilst shaping his vision and writing towards his most preftigious apogee.
TBF, Kirk was pretty good in that movie with Picard; the one with the temporal anomoly (yeah, that narrows it down, lol). Probably because he was acting alongside a master; Shatner coudn't even pass a 6th grade recital of Shakespeare, let alone hold a candle to Stewart.