see.. the main thing that they don't tell you.. the thing suppressed in the canonical ST prme time line, is that in the ~80 years between kirk & picard, the was a HUGE ideological & genetic purge, in which all ideologues & irrational people were turned into a tasty & crunchy green cracker..
this could be traced directly to donald trump's (aka temporally teleported james t. kirk) attempt to colonize mars with the 'trump' branding, which failed miserably, but lead to an episode of unenforceable squatting on the red planet, beginning on feb 22, 2222 in which the remains of dead investors were removed from the abandoned habitats by the great-great-great-great-great grandchildren of Matt Derick (see StP, episode 22 "in which i meet my last significant other") and his unnamed desert lover, who emerged, as legend has it, from a canal of unfathomable depths, after he had first mistaken her for a large crockagator, and tried to escape...... but.. was. well... ultimately unsucessfull..
A statue of Glorious Leader was erected just outside of the compound, 10KM from Mons Olympus (kirk/trump having declared the views would be "hugely overpowering" and the unpredictable erruptions of which resulted in 200 million trillion dollars of economic loss) which was later used for targeting practice by the newly formed Starfleet, leading to an eradication of nearly all records of anyone associated with the early 21st century website or their descendants, as the transported photon torpedoes carried the unexpected property of what has now come to be recognized as 'Temporal Anti-aliasing" which uses negative dark anti-energy to change the future as an proportional inverse against the will of the people as opposed to the desires of ego and the principles of "fuck you" inertias..
After the original StP mars squat was destroyed by the various anti-photon quantum harmonic convolutions, Glorious Leader and several of the original (ca. 2009-2016) mods were placed into new Constellations, from which they continue, to this day, to make kirk & picard hate each others guts as much as possible, while they try & figure out a preemptive antidote for the emergence of classical analytical thought, & the consequences throughout history which it has had in its primary summation of "Might, motherfucker, Makes Right"..
remember; picard was willing to fail, but only under *his* terms, writers be damned.
kirk was willing to pretty well much kill anyone who disagreed with him..
a lying politician or an honest, violent redneck?
take yer pick, because jesus fuck christ..
fantasy is *always* easier than reality...