Season 1 was good, but Season 2 was too soft and attempted to be character-oriented. I don’t see the Freiberger-Koenig as being anything like Kirk, though, nor was there an attempt. Koenig was devoted to one girlfriend in the series, bed-hopping, didn’t engage in the weekly histriionics, and just seemed more adult. The US funders of the show wanted him, and he ruined the show. I have no idea how Fred “Show-Killer” Freiberger had a career in a genre he had no feeling for.
Koenig in Season 2 was much more of an impulsive sort. Destroying Mentor’s lab like he did in “The Metamorph” and screaming like a little girl when confronted by the blob monsters in “The Bringers of Wonder” would have made Season One Koenig puke.