There is no scope for plots in which two copies of Kirk roam the universe until they meet in a dreadful epiphany: in quantum teleportation, the original copy of Kirk is destroyed by the very process of being entangled with the transporter.
Rome was no longer the glamorous dolce vita city of the 1960s, when Kirk Douglas, Audrey Hepburn and other celebrities were regular customers at Bulgari's store on the Via dei Condotti.