You know what. I need to defend Kirk. How the hell did he get saddled with the "womanizer" label when McCoy and Chekov were running around as horny as can be I'll never know.
This is the expression that McCoy makes at the prospect of strippers:
He spends the entire episode of "Shore Leave" trying to get in this patient's pants
And then at the end, he ditches her for more strippers
Meanwhile, Kirk is spending the entire episode either chastising a pretty yeoman for giving him a back massage because only Mr. Spock is allowed to touch him there or staring misty-eyed into the distance at some long-lost woman while faintly whispering, "Ruth.... Ruth!" to himself.
I am 100% convinced Chekov had a threesome with these robot chicks
And he spends "The Apple" trying to invent original sin with this chick
Kirk, admittedly, will flirt with women, even have sex with them! all in service of protecting the Enterprise, and while I'm sure he's not broken up about it he's not actually pursuing these women because he genuinely wants to be with them. He wants something from them. That's a difference. Kirk doesn't pursue people casually; when we see him develop an attraction to someone it is always someone who is very intelligent and it is a meeting of the minds: Edith Keeler, Areel Shaw, Carol Marcus... Spock.
























