killabeez ([identity profile] killabeez.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] ship_manifesto 2009-04-10 09:06 am (UTC)

Those quotes you gave, are they from that episode, or another one?

"This simple feeling" is from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The other one is from "Turnabout Intruder" (season 3).

Do you think it's possible that Shatner & Nimmoy had it in mind too? Bcause that would just be so awesome!

I can't really say... I don't think Nimoy did, but I think he's relatively okay with the concept now. He signed a beautiful piece of K/S art for someone I know. As for Shatner, he might be less okay with the concept, I'm not sure -- however, those who know him say that he flirts with everyone and everything, it just comes naturally. I think that's a big part of what we read as subtext -- Shatner's flirting. (Check out the end of "Galileo Seven," omg.) I doubt he really had much idea about Kirk/Spock specifically, but I think in general, he's a very flirty, sexual creature, and that's just how he interacts with the world.

Roddenberry knew about K/S and was pretty open to it. He addressed it directly in a footnote in the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

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