Greg Cox wrote:

TOS was constantly finding excuses for Spock to beat up Kirk, in "The Naked Time," "This Side of Paradise," "Amok Time" . . . whenever he was emotionally compromised in some way.
I always figured Spock smacking Kirk around the bridge of the new Enterprise was basically a homage to those scenes.
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I always thought the K/S ladies (esp in the '70s) seriously got off on those scenes