Up until the Thasians brought up they gave him his powers to survive and would never stop using them.
It's quite obvious after many years alone he would never learn how to cope living with humans.
Kirk ignores the prime directive as if it was no bodies business. He feels like anything is possible. I always found it funny how they had a loose cannon like Kirk as a captain. And felt sorry for poor logical Spock that kept trying to steer Kirk away from all his insane notions.
But yeah basically Kirk was naive/careless imo.
No, because he's human. He wanted to give the benefit of the doubt to a teenage boy who had been isolated for years. And this was not a violation of the Prime Directive. Charlie was human, from a Federation family. If helping him is a violation of the Prime Directive, then rescuing any ship wrecked individual is also a violation. As well as defending, say, Vulcan from an attack, or the Andorian home world from a rogue comet.
shareActually he could have made a thriving business in Starfleet making undesirable people disappear. Kirk recognized this.
Problem his power is too great a temptation and being given it at a very young age has meddled with his way of learning and adapting.
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