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I disagree that it was selfish; he was doing it for his crew and his ship. Quite the opposite of selfishness if you ask me.
You can respect woman and still be lecherous. In the end he was always just trying to get in their pants or get something they owned. He never really fell in love with anyone like Picard or Sisko did.
‘Tomorrow is Yesterday’ is a bad example since woman served in the military back then IIRC. The writers were just trying to make a point, what do you bet that crewman was just a Yeoman and not an engineer or security officer? Even Uhura was just a glorified telephone operator! The first equal female character we see on Star Trek is Maj. Kira on DS9.
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Alright my friend perhaps you should have a look here,
http://allyourtrekarebelongto.us/toswomen.htm
I think we're both at a stalemate considering neither of us has incontrovertible proof that Kirk was or was not a lecher.
Perhaps I should rephrase, Ransom and his crew were being selfish. They murdered an alien species as fuel for their journey home. In a way that was him being personally selfish because instead of following protocol and being respectful to all sentient life. Ransom ignored all the oaths he took in joining starfleet so he could get himself and his crew home. You could say he was doing it for them but if he were thinking about his crew he wouldn't have ordered them to violate and abandon all the laws they swore to uphold.
Yeoman Rand was the Captain's secretary not a glorified position in any respect but the responsibility for administering all the staff aboard the ship by writing up duty rosters can't be easy and I respect that the enterprise's stations were crewed at all times without sleepy crew. Nurse Chapel was also a respectable character with a respectable job, she saved peoples' lives, in truth all shows of that time period used women as supporting roles. But Star Trek did something that no other show did. Uhura was African-American and she was a Woman and she was part of the senior staff not the ship's maid or cook or any other part. She was the communication's officer in effect the Radio-woman for the ship. You try running a switchboard sometime and tell me you don't find some new kind of respect for the job.