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.
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.
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!
I think it’s an earlier episode than “Miri”, but the one where they get infected and everyone is doing stuff because their barriers are down (drunk), Kirk mentions in his breakdown before Spock kicks sense into him the ensign that he sees every day, but can’t do anything. So there was the thoughts deep down, but Kirk has disciple and morality. Even more so in the novel version, Kirk is a prodigy in most canon books and wouldn’t do that stuff.