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@Bad Thoughts, did you have any examples in mind in TWOK, of Carol Marcus being "the unwitting mouthpiece for dated male attitudes?"
The idea that Kirk feels he must remain unattached is baked into TOS, starting with Naked Time, no? It figured into the rationalization given for the dismissal of Grace Lee Whitney and the removal of her character: the captain needs to be free, and can't have attachments, especially on the ship. A girl in every port. If you read both volumes of Fifty Year Mission, there is plenty of evidence that Roddenberry was obsessed with the virility of his characters, sometimes openly using pornographic descriptions among colleagues. Meyers or Bennett or whoever did not make the character: Kirk was already set. It was a matter of using what TOS did to push the movie narrative forward.
 
The idea that Kirk feels he must remain unattached is baked into TOS, starting with Naked Time, no? It figured into the rationalization given for the dismissal of Grace Lee Whitney and the removal of her character: the captain needs to be free, and can't have attachments, especially on the ship. A girl in every port. If you read both volumes of Fifty Year Mission, there is plenty of evidence that Roddenberry was obsessed with the virility of his characters, sometimes openly using pornographic descriptions among colleagues. Meyers or Bennett or whoever did not make the character: Kirk was already set. It was a matter of using what TOS did to push the movie narrative forward.

Carol Marcus seems to admit that Kirk is a dick, "Jim Kirk was many things, but he was never a boy scout".
 
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