I’m fully on team Bones about this. He’s committed to not using them. Like when he cameos in TNG and refuses to transport, so they have to pick him up in a shuttlecraft.
I was blown away by how good Balance of Terror was on my current rewatch. The tension, the strategizing - this is the kind of action that I find exciting.
Back when everybody had to get their close-ups, lol. I think it was partly because TVs were small back then, and they wanted to show off clear shots of the stars.
My favorite is how every woman they meet gets the same shot, but with that “Vaseline smeared on the lens” effect.