I’m a fairly knowledgeable, regular watcher of the original Star Trek, and over the years have watched one or two scenes with Kirk and guest actresses get blown up into CAPTAIN KIRK BANGED LOTSA GREEN ALIEN CHICKS!
No, never really happened. There’s only one actual scene that even hints to the fact that Kirk actually had sex with a woman (they’re in his quarters, and we get a one-second shot of him pulling his boot on).* He had ex-girlfriends in a couple episodes, used a couple women to defeat the bad guys, but nothing like the comedians would have you believe. Some uber-fan even has a site listing all Kirk/female encounters, and they’re all pretty tame stuff.
So, what are other commonly accepted television myths that, upon closer examination, are nonsense or hyperbole? You can either mention the fictional world of the characters, or if you like, myths about the actors, whatever, on a show.
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*Kirk, suffering from amnesia, married a transplanted Indian, and they were expecting a child before she got stoned, but he wasn’t himself. God, that does sound very 1960s, doesn’t it?
Johnny Carson and Raquel Welch’s (or whatever female celebrity you want) cat.
Supposedly the female celebrity brought her cat on the show and had it in her lap. She asks Johnny, “Would you like to pet my pussy?”, to which Johnny supposedly says, “Yeah, if you move that damned cat!”
Johnny addresed this on an anniversary show and says it never happened. The fact that the female celbrity’s name changes and no on can remember the date exactly makes it BS.
What about the “Jack Nicklaus’ wife admits she rubs his balls before a tournament for luck” story? I’m assuming that is an urban legend as well. What venue did it suppposedly take place in – Carson, also?
Yes, Kirk marrying and being in love should not be lumped with “banging.” Nor should the visits of ex-girlfriends, where perhaps they might have a moment or two of “what might have been” dialogue be lumped in with the legends. For the most part that leaves us with “Kirk pretends to be interested to solve the plot,” a category into which we can place most all of the rest of the encounters he ever had.
He simply was not a space-age gigolo, with a girl at every spaceport.
Different topic. A lot of people falsely remember that Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke) always tripped over the ottoman, but in many eps opening credits, he smugly sidestepped it. Question: Was there a rhyme or reason to what credits (tripped or sidestepped) preceded what episode? Early seasons vs. later seasons, perhaps?
Oh c’mon. This was television in the '60’s. Of course it was tame stuff. What did you expect them to show? Said comedians are just exptrapolating what really would have happened after Kirk pressed those space chicks to his manly bosem.
When I was a kid I didn’t figure out for the longest time that Hawkeye was banging all those nurses. I mean they didn’t show anything but hugging and kissing. It was only that one episode where he said he “couldn’t”. And suddenly the scales fell from my eyes. Ok, this was mostly due to to my being a kid. But that’s the point…even in the 70’s they didn’t show that much. But you were supposed to figure it out.
^^^Not the same. The very very very clear implication is there that Hawk is banging nurses. It is not there for Kirk (except the case I noted). This is, as I noted, just comedians and horny teenaged fans going well beyong any implications.
If you say so. But I think the implication is just as resonable to make there as it was in countless Code era movies. Even if it was being made be horny teenagers
bet, really, I’m just be very literal, the impications are there that he had a way with the ladies, I’m just pointing out cases of it being FIRMLY IMPLIED WITH NO DOUBT that Kirk literally had sex. So, I’m just reacting to the charge that he was “ALWAYS banging.” Most of the time, he’d be, as you said, “hugging them to his manly bosom,” they would spill the beans he needed, and he’d be out the door, phaser in hand. No actual sex.
Well, talking of Star Trek (I’m amazed no one has mentioned this), Captain Kirk never actually said “Beam me up, Scotty” on any episode of the show. Likewise, Ralph Kramden never said “Bang zoom, to the moon!” to Alice.
^^^What did Ralp say, then? It was close to that, right.
And in the 1986 ST film, The Voyage Home, Kirk says, “Scotty, beam me up.” It was written the classic misremembered way, but for whatever reason, Shatner refused to say “Scotty” at the beginning of the line.
