From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: ryon@dslnorthwest.net   
   Subject: Re: "Tholian Web" Notes (K/S) [Humor, commentary]   
      
   On Sep 22, 9:32aam, ToolPackinMama  wrote:   
   > On 9/22/2011 12:02 AM, Ron wrote:   
   >   
   > > Thos people would have risked their lives for each other because they   
   > > were mor than friends, they were family. you can't argue this; you see   
   > > it when McCoy hypoed both Kirk and Spock, to be tortured to a   
   > > senseless death rather than let spock's prescious mind be destroyed.   
   > > So don't make out Spock's devotion to Kirk to be any greater than that   
   > > of McCoy-- or Sulu, or Scotty, Chekov, or Uhura.   
   >   
   > No... there is something obviously special between Kirk and Spock.   
   >   
   > http://allyourtrekarebelongto.us/turnabout.html   
   >   
   > It's frankly stated outright to be special, many times.   
   >   
   > http://allyourtrekarebelongto.us/yours.jpg   
   >   
   > It's also demonstrated to be special, many times.   
   >   
   > http://allyourtrekarebelongto.us/simplefeeling.html   
   >   
   > Others in their universe also recognize that their relationship is   
   > special, and when they don't it's obvious that those folks are blind as   
   > bats.   
   >   
   > http://allyourtrekarebelongto.us/backrub.html   
   >   
   > Even Roddenberry admitted that Kirk and Spock have a special   
   > relationship, a love relationship, and that _that_ was by design.   
   >   
   > << We [the interviewers] tell Gene [Roddenberry] something of our recent   
   > interview with Bill [Shatner] and Leonard [Nimoy] - touching on the   
   > Kirk-Spock relationship, and Nimoy's feeling that Kirk was essential to   
   > Spock's life:   
   >   
   > "I know you've told us you designed that relationship as 'Two halves   
   > which come together to make a whole'. Is that how you still see it?"   
   >   
   > [Roddenberry]: "Oh yes. As I've said, I definitely designed it as a love   
   > relationship. I think that's what we're all about - love, the effort to   
   > reach out to each other. I think that's a lovely thing. Also,   
   > dramatically, I designed Kirk and Spock to complete each other." a>>   
   >   
   > <<[the interviewers]: a"There's a great deal of writing in the Star Trek   
   > movement which compares the relationship between Alexander and   
   > Hephaistion* to the relationship between Kirk and Spock - focusing on   
   > the closeness of the friendship, the feeling that they would die for one   
   > another..."   
   >   
   > [Roddenberry]: "Yes, there's certainly some of that - certainly with   
   > love overtones. Deep love...we certainly had the feeling that the   
   > affection was sufficient for that >>   
   >   
   > [From: Shatner: Where No Man...: The Authorized Biography of William   
   > Shatner (Chapter 7 - Page 145, 147-8)]   
   >   
   > In short, Ron, you are wrong. aKirk and Spock DO have an especially   
   > passionate love and devotion for one another, and it is NOT identical to   
   > what they feel for others aboard the ship.   
   If ya say so... But what Roddenberry says is not canon. He can say tha   
   tthey secretly hate each others guts, but what matters is what seen on   
   the screen. And what's seen is that each of the bridge crew-- and of   
   course, Chapel too-- would give their lives for each other. No more,   
   no less, than Kirk and Spock, Had it been Spock lost in interphase and   
   Sulu was in command, h would have done everything he could-- even if   
   it meant breaking orders. We saw him in ST: VI defy Starfleet in   
   helping get Kirk and McCoy back from prison.   
   Ron   
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