I don't think it's a personal viewpoint, I think it's following the evidence. The idea of Kirk as an inveterate skirt chaser is a pop-culture caricature. If you look at the actual text, especially during the time when Rand was part of the series, Kirk was written as extremely disciplined, serious, repressed, and determined to avoid looking at female crewmembers as anything other than crewmembers. In "Mudd's Women," he was the only human male on the ship who was completely unaffected by the women. In "The Man Trap," when Nancy first appeared, he was the only one who saw her in a neutral and unalluring form. In "Miri," Rand had to beg him to notice her legs. The only times he showed any sexual interest in members of his crew were when he was in an altered mental state -- split in two in "The Enemy Within," disinhibited by the virus in "The Naked Time," brainwashed to think he loved Helen Noel in "Dagger of the Mind." He only flirted with women like Lenore Karidian when he had a deeper, colder motive. Areel Shaw was an old flame from quite a few years back. And when he did finally fall in love, with Edith Keeler, it was a deep and devoted connection. Reading first-season Kirk as a womanizer, let alone one who would engage in inappropriate relations with a subordinate crew member, is a profound misunderstanding of the text, resulting from years of pop-culture mythology tainting our perceptions of the character. If it's a personal preference to write James T. Kirk as he was actually written rather than as we've exaggerated and mythologized him after the fact, then I'll cop to that preference. But I don't see how it's any different from the other ways in which I've tried to be canon-accurate in my Trek writing, or scientifically accurate in all my writing. It's simply a matter of researching the evidence and basing my conclusions on it instead of secondhand interpretations of it.
