With /usr/bin/zsh or /bin/zsh as the default $SHELL:

Alacritty, kitty and st work as expected with their respective -t options but kermit does not. However, if I do

kermit -e $(which bash) -t Foo

then the -t option works.

If I change SHELL to /bin/bash, then the -t option for kermit works, but if I do

kermit -e $(which zsh) -t Foo

the option stops working again.

With the fish shell the option also works as expected.