Star Trek's "Balance of Terror," where Pike's refusal to blow stuff up results in another Federation war against the Romulans.
Made to play by Pike's rules in Strange New Worlds, Kirk devises a "plan B" just in case diplomacy should fail. When fail it does, a wild James T. Kirk appears out of nowhere, flanked by an entire fleet of ships. As Kirk later explains, these ships are empty, weapons-free cargo vessels and freighters he rounded up at the very last minute, and his intention is to bluff the Romulans into believing they're looking at a deadly Starfleet Armada. Since the Romulans don't much care how many enemies they're facing, the gambit doesn't quite work, but it's an irable effort nonetheless... and not an entirely unfamiliar one.
In Star Trek: Picard's season 1 finale, a dying Jean-Luc pilots La Sirena against a fleet of Romulan Zhat Vash ships. Outnumbered and outgunned, Picard devises a new riff on his famous "Picard Maneuver" and tricks the Romulan sensors into seeing hundreds of ships assembled against them, each carrying a warp signature. The Romulans think they're under a mass assault and begin firing at ghosts, drawing their attention away from Picard's real ship. Kirk's bold bluff in Strange New Worlds and Picard's illusion in Star Trek: Picard share eerie similarities. Both are used against Romulan fleets, both are built around the basic principle of using one ship to generate the impression of a whole armada, and both tricks are used because the captains involved still believe a peaceful solution can be reached. Kirk and Picard's maneuvers even share the same result: the Romulans are duped, but start firing anyway because - as Erica "Lt. Stiles" Ortegas would say - that's just what Romulans do.
How Strange New Worlds Foreshadows Kirk's "Corbomite Maneuver"
Though nowhere near as famous as Star Trek's "Picard Maneuver" (where Jean-Luc made the Stargazer appear in two places at once), Captain Kirk does invent the "Corbomite Maneuver" in Star Trek: The Original Series' Prime continuity. Early during its five-year mission, Kirk's Enterprise attracts the ire of a fearsome one-man ship piloted by Balok - an entity the Federation has never before encountered. After Balok threatens to destroy Enterprise with his superior firepower, Kirk exploits his opponent's lack of Starfleet knowledge by telling a barefaced lie - that all Starfleet hulls are armed with "Corbomite," which will recoil back upon Balok should he open fire. The tactic is successful, and the two sides ultimately make friends.
In many ways, the Corbomite Maneuver echoes the freighter trick used by Paul Wesley's Kirk in Strange New Worlds. Both rely upon the enemy having no knowledge of Starfleet procedure, and both are complete bluffs used in battles where the Enterprise stands no chance of winning a straight fight. Star Trek's "The Corbomite Maneuver" episode comes before "Balance of Terror" in franchise chronology, but because Kirk isn't Enterprise captain in the altered timeline, he almost certainly didn't encounter Balok. Either Pike did, or that gaunt green face is still out there somewhere. Nevertheless, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season 1 finale perfectly foreshadows Kirk's preferred strategy of seizing upon an enemy's weakness and lying his way through tricky situations.