how many of you enjoy Kirk/Spock SLASH.

[1bulma1]

kirk and spock are the most famous slash couple in history. however I still cant imaging kirk and spock engaging in sexual activity especially in 09 star trek,and even in TOS there relationship was more like david and jonathan

am not homophobic or anything but I just feel true love and romance more when it is between a man and a woman.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I like slash, but Kirk/Spock is too much like your parents having sex.

That does not apply to the new guys, of course.

Still, my tastes in slash veer heavily towards DS9 and ENT rather than TOS. Go figgure.

am not homophobic or anything but I just feel true love and romance more when it is between a man and a woman

Booooring. Also, you're missing the point. Slash isn't really about romance or even sex, really. You can write perfectly good erotic stories about canon couples. The fun of slash is fans taking over the characters and breaking the rules - doing stuff the writers aren't allowed to do, or wouldn't want to do, even stuff we wouldn't want to see them do in "reality." Everyone likes breaking stuff and making a big mess.

 

[Set Harth]

I prefer Kirk/Slash.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Well, I laughed my head off at this:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xSOuLky3n0[/yt]
and this, does that count?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Somebody has got to post this, so I might as well do it. NSFW!!! And don't let gramma see it! Unless your gramma is a FREAK!

 

[Tulin]

kirk and spock are the most famous slash couple in history. however I still cant imaging kirk and spock engaging in sexual activity especially in 09 star trek,and even in TOS there relationship was more like david and jonathan

Uuuuuuummmmmmmmmm...................there are many people who will tell you that David and Jonathan WAS the Bible's version of slash!

"I love you more than the love I have for any woman".

If that aint TEH GAY, bugger me if I know what IS!!!

 

[Itisnotlogical]

kirk and spock are the most famous slash couple in history. however I still cant imaging kirk and spock engaging in sexual activity especially in 09 star trek,and even in TOS there relationship was more like david and jonathan

Uuuuuuummmmmmmmmm...................there are many people who will tell you that David and Jonathan WAS the Bible's version of slash!

"I love you more than the love I have for any woman".

If that aint TEH GAY, bugger me if I know what IS!!!

Wow. Talk about immaturity. To quote God-Emperor of Dune, one of my favorite books: "You're not talking about love, you're talking about sex."

I don't read slash- it ain't my thing. The idea of nerds re-casting TV characters as porn stars has alternately made me go "Wow, what dorks" and "Wow, I'm a bit sick to my stomach". Maybe it's a heterosexual thing, maybe it's my religion, maybe it's the fact I actually have a girlfriend, but "Eroticus IV- starring The Gorn and The Captain" doesn't seem like good, quality sexual fun. It seems to me a bit similar to a 12-year-old going "tee hee hee, that (insert unusually-shaped object here) looks like a (insert erotic term here)".

 

[Tulin]

Now THAT'S immature.

Just like there is good and bad fan fiction, there is good and bad slash and, indeed, slash of ALL kinds. Some is erotic, some just porn. Some is sensual and emotional. It is EXTREMELY immature and judgemental just limiting all slash as the titterings of twelve year olds.

And yes, MANY people put the story of David and Jonathan down to a homosexual relationship. Of course being a homophobic, biased religious person means you are going to be against any kind of love except that which YOU feel right from the get go.

 

[M'Sharak]

I'm still not really sure why this thread is even here, but knock off taking swipes at each others' maturity (or lack thereof,) relationship status, religious biases (or lack thereof,) gender preference (or fear thereof) and it might just stay open long enough for me to find out, 'K?

 

[Sky]

I like some fanfic. And some of the fanfic I like is K/S.

 

[shapeshifter]

I don't 'get off' on it, if that's what you mean but I have seen some very funny slash.

 

[SiorX]

am not homophobic or anything but I just feel true love and romance more when it is between a man and a woman.

Well, there's another possible answer to the slash question right there, isn't there? For some of us, unconventional shipping is appealing because our feelings and experience of relationships doesn't correspond to the kinds traditionally depicted in most media.

I'm not into K/S. But have read some wonderful Uhura/Chapel and Sulu/Chekov.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

It seems to me a bit similar to a 12-year-old going "tee hee hee, that (insert unusually-shaped object here) looks like a (insert erotic term here)".

You got that right! But a little immaturity can be fun. (With the caveat that slash is like fanfic in general, most is putrid and the good stuff is a chore to find.)

Slash is all about taking the characters away from the responsible professionals, experimenting, making a mess, challenging preconceived notions and "the right way of doing things" - the same impetus behind fanfic in general, just taking it further.

 

[Agenda]

I'm not a big fan because it doesn't seem credible to me. I can't conceive of two guys, who've gotten laid by half the woman in the quadrant, embarking upon a same-sex romantic relationship. But I can see them as close friends.

 

[1bulma1]

Jeez....................thank you

some1 finally gets me.

 

[Sector 7]

I avoid fan fiction like The Plague, normally. I had never heard of "slash" fan fiction until joining TrekBBS. As a gay man Kirk/Spock "slash" does not repulse me... then again heterosexual "slash" fan fiction does not repulse me either. Maturity does have its advantages.

 

[Sanae]

Oh, touchy subject!

Regarding the actual possibility that Kirk and Spock or any other character embarking on a same-sex relationship, I would ask everyone to remember that Star Trek occurs several centuries ahead of our future. If we had lived in, say, the Victorian period and someone suggested that in the 21st century couples could live together and have children without being married we would have been horrified at the very thought whereas now it's pretty much acceptable.

What is to say that in the 23rd and 24th centuries homosexuality or even bisexuality won't be much more commonly accepted and even encouraged? This sort of thing has been done before, in Ancient Greek society, same-sex relationships were pretty much the norm, especially among close friends and masters and their subordinates. I fail to see how thinking of Kirk and Spock in those terms is so incredibly far-fetched when Gene Roddenberry himself left the meaning of the word T'hy'la open to a lot of different interpretations.

I think that Mr Roddenberry wanted to make us think and be more open minded and I, for one, don't really mind K/S fanfiction as long as it's well researched, properly written and stays true to the characters and respects them as much as humanly possible. This all said, I do prefer reading stories about their friendship because it's so epic it could easily fill entire encyclopaedias. But that's just me.

 

[T'Girl]

embarking upon a same-sex romantic relationship

The whole thing about slash is that it isn't about a romantic relationship, not usually, in the majority of slash stories I've read, it's just two friends who come together for some enjoyable sex within their friendship, not romance. It like real life, there are people you date and try to establish a relationship with and then there are your friends who you hang out with and occasionally have sex with.

The origins of slash IIRC was Kirk "helping" Spock through a pon farr without the benefit of a Vulcan female.

Just being a buddy.

 

[indranee]

Somebody has got to post this, so I might as well do it. NSFW!!! And don't let gramma see it! Unless your gramma is a FREAK!

hehe. That vid's a total hoot. By the way, the "Killa" on that vid is the same person who wrote probably the best (and one of my favorite Trek fics ever, K/S or not) K/S fic ever -- Bitter Glass. The sheer emotion and intensity in the friendship between the two characters was astounding to me. She's a great writer.

The thing is, well-written, K/S stories can be convincing. After all, Gene Roddenberry himself alluded to the existence of it in fandom in his novelization of TMP. And he didn't sound too outraged

 

[indranee]

embarking upon a same-sex romantic relationship

The whole thing about slash is that it isn't about a romantic relationship, not usually, in the majority of slash stories I've read, it's just two friends who come together for some enjoyable sex within their friendship, not romance. It like real life, there are people you date and try to establish a relationship with and then there are your friends who you hang out with and occasionally have sex with.

The origins of slash IIRC was Kirk "helping" Spock through a pon farr without the benefit of a Vulcan female.

Just being a buddy.

Actually, you are wrong about it being this way in K/S fic. Quite the opposite, in fact. Much of K/S is about the strength of emotions between the two men and about how nobody and nothing else can supercede that. It's part of the reason K/S has been so long-lived. It takes pointers from the depiction of the chemistry and intensity between Kirk and Spock in the actual show and the movies.