I’ve only fully watched the series’ from TNG onward, plus the “must see” episodes of TOS. I’m just wondering if in canon he’s actually all that promiscuous.
There were 79 episodes, but Kirk had on screen kisses in 20 of them. That’s more than 25% of the series run that you can watch Kirk’s libido in action, so I can only guess it has become so normalized to some of us that we don’t even remember clearly how overt it was. That’s on top of the other relationships both on and off screen as well. I would say Kirk’s rep is well deserved.
For a refresher, I submit Exhibit A
In the modern sense, theres some problematic depictions, but he wasnt all that promiscuous. In the 60s sense he was very respectful which is what made him attractive to the women he encountered but he only has an on-screen kiss like three times. In that moment the show was very much eelfecting its day by having the crew encounter “regressive” societies that were illustrations of things going on in the present. The Kirk as playboy idea came about after the fact and gets reflected in the movies a bit, and in the development of the riker character.
To explore strange nude worlds.
To seek out nude life, and nude civilizations.How many Betazoid weddings have you been invited to?
I’m sorry, that’s not Vina and we didn’t see any Andorians in Starfleet.
No, Kirk is NOT promiscuous. He seems to respect fully the people he is seen attracted to. The promiscuity seems to come from the sheer number of women he is depicted being attracted to. He doesn’t chase them in any sense. Take for example “Miri”, where Rand says she had tried in the past to get him to look at her. Kirk doesn’t reply to that but I got the sense that he regretted in the moment not paying attention to Rand more, even in a platonic sense.
If you’ve watched SNW.
While this is an explanation that fits into what is presented in TOS and after, it works. Kirk tells La’An in “Subspace Rhapsody” after she revels the time they spent together in an alternate timeline (“Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”), that he can’t be with her. They frame the scene like those TOS scenes with the gold lighting. Kirk says he currently dating Carol Marcus who is pregnant. So while he may have indeed spent time with La’An, he has no memory of it and can’t be that person for her. He had an obligation to a girlfriend with an unborn child. If you factor in STII, the time we see in TOS suggest that he has no idea what came of his child because he was away from Carol so often. We know Carol choose to raise David without away from Kirk.
I might be thinking about this too much. Only a handful of romances are depicted. The only time promiscuity is truly depicted might be when he was with the Orion in ST09.
EDIT: I left a crucial word!
Is this available as a poster?
Very obviously AI.
“Explore Strange” immediately enrages me, even before the stable diffusion style clay art.
Strange what, robot? Strange what??
Strange is an old fashioned way of saying a woman, typically a woman who isn’t your wife so it does make sense in this context
“Strange” is slang for a random sexual encounter. Example: “I was out looking for strange and all I got was a case of numb tongue and grotesquely swollen hands.”
Not to my eyes. None of the tells are there, looks very coherent.
I’m not sure. I saw it posted on a forum, thought it was cool, so I stole it :)
I can’t blame him. How many pleasure planets did they end up on?
It’s called Risa for a reason, baby.
This makes me think of Kodos’ daughter in that Shakespeare episode. Kirk is attracted, but also trying to draw information from her about her mysterious father, like is she “crazy sexy” or “crazy crazy”? Will his powerful libido win out? Next time…on Star Trek! ::::weeeooow wailing theme::
