gone_ashore - CMO Confidential: Chapter Sixteen

Pike didn't need his reportsâ€"he usually spent the hour before Kirk arrived gathering all the information he needed about the shipâ€"but he liked to use the visits as an opportunity to test him on his grasp of the ship's functioning. ..... There are some deep reservations about your ability to command, to deal with authority, to make the right decisions under stress. They say that you have no introspection or understanding of what makes you who you are." "That's not true! ...