Tag: star trek

randsexual:

Every time I complain about reboot Kirk characterization, people are like, “Well, it’s an alternate universe. Don’t you think that Kirk losing his dad might have changed his personality and given him some daddy issues, making him a bit of a womanizer?” And I mean yeah whatever okay.

But the problem is, we don’t NEED that Kirk. The market is flooded with swashbuckling, cocky male protagonists who forget the names of the legions of women they seduce. Reboot Kirk is just like every other blockbuster hero. Our time, and our society, doesn’t need him.

We need a Kirk who enjoys sex, but still respects the fuck out of every woman he meets. We need a Kirk who waxes poetic about a woman’s right to choose.

We need a Kirk who knows and remembers the name of every single crewman on his ship, because he JUST CARES SO MUCH.

We need a Kirk who was heartbreakingly handsome in Academy, but still worked hard. We need that Kirk who was gorgeous but studious: that lovely stack of book on legs.

We need a Kirk who is a man of deep feeling.

We need the writers to understand more about James Tiberius Kirk than the shallow image pop culture draws of him.

We need TOS Kirk back.