Stamets used to be on a broad Startrek instance mod team with Kirk, where Kirk would go on long tirades about how people were bullying and threatening him and how he should have singular say over their communities. How they aren’t doing enough to curb rudeness and dissent. Then he way overstepped, somehow. Maybe started banning en masse for silly reasons? I can’t recall specifically.

Rather than doing anything about the mentally unstable goober, startrek’s head admin, a friend of Kirk, washed their hands of the situation and stamets left their mod teams to create separate communities on other instances, which are the Star Trek meme communities we see today. And Kirk took all of this as a personal attack, and stated something about death threats, but no one was listening at this point.

Long story short, Kirk’s always been a dictatorial weirdo. Only recently have they become a real, tangible nuisance.