While TMP does allow freedom of inference, there's still that one scene about "the oath"...

[JonnyQuest037]

But wouldn't this oath be for everybody, and more likely so, because of - in all probability - Kirk's antics? Keep in mind, in 79 episodes of TOS, which were repeated regularly, we saw Kirk going at it with any number of ladies across the galaxy - generally hinted at, but "Wink of an Eye" makes it more direct thanks to the commercial break leading into Kirk and Deela putting clothes back on and brushing hair and all. Did 5 years out of the captain's chair really change Kirk so much to become a stickler for the rules? Did he get promoted to Admiral but on the condition he stop banging every wriggling thing in the universe?!

Oh come on. Kirk doesn't behave like that on TOS. That's the pop culture cliche of Kirk. He didn't--and doesn't--seduce every woman he encounters, and he certainly doesn't sleep with his subordinates.

 

[Tallguy]

and talks about “love instructors”

What scene was that again?

and crew members having public sex all over the ship

Nope. Having sex in a closed cubicle that Spock is able to overhear while he is trying to meditate.

As for the line where Kirk has utmost confidence "And in you too, Lieutenant": Kirk is making a point of her being Deltan specifically as regards the well being of his second in command. But he's trying to be discrete about it.

Ilia waves away this discretion as unnecessary and slaps back on him by reinforcing that "You know as well as I do why this isn't a problem, Captain." "My oath of celibacy is on record."

She then asks to do her job and Kirk replies "By all means." I might be reading too much into this but I think there is a shade of apology in the line. "You're right, I should know better."

 

[mb22]

What scene was that again?

In Roddenberry's TMP novelization, Kirk's first name is revealed to be a tribute to his mother's "love instructor".

 

[Tallguy]

In Roddenberry's TMP novelization, Kirk's first name is revealed to be a tribute to his mother's "love instructor".

I actually know that. I just don't think...

Of course, it’s all a hundred times worse in the novelisation, where Roddenberry describes Kirk getting a boner on the bridge and talks about “love instructors” and crew members having public sex all over the ship.

that everyone actually does. It's usually referred to like some Roddenberrian fever dream. But It's just like you described, @mb22. Kirk says he was named after his mother's love instructor. It's far from the craziest thing in the book. But boy, it sounds like something doesn't it?

 

[CoveTom]

I actually know that. I just don't think...



that everyone actually does. It's usually referred to like some Roddenberrian fever dream. But It's just like you described, @mb22. Kirk says he was named after his mother's love instructor. It's far from the craziest thing in the book. But boy, it sounds like something doesn't it?

Imagine being Kirk's father and you find out that his mother was more impressed with her love instructor...

 

[Tallguy]

Imagine being Kirk's father and you find out that his mother was more impressed with her love instructor...

Well they named the first kid after Dad (George) and James was also the name of George's brother.