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What do you think about people "Shipping" Kirk and Spock?

Kirk/Spock relationship?

  • I think they have minor romantic qualities, Kind-of. (Y)

    Votes: 8 10.8%
  • there is no way in hell. (N)

    Votes: 4 5.4%
  • they're definitely in love (Y)

    Votes: 4 5.4%
  • they're just best friends (N)

    Votes: 52 70.3%
  • other opinion (please comment!!)

    Votes: 6 8.1%

  • Total voters
    74
You're saying Kirk when was under the impression that he was getting a massage from Spock, they were just two men, celebrating each other's strength?


It's a bit of an obscure piece of trivia that the original purpose of the Bechdel Test (a movie has at least two named women, who have a conversation with each other, which is about something other than a man) was so the originator (Bechdel's friend Liz Wallace) could imagine there was a lesbian (well, two lesbians) in the story.
Re: Kirk's impression, I'm just saying that when he thought Spock was touching him, there was nothing remotely sexual about it. Especially concerning the maker's intentions.

Re: the Bechdel test, that origin is shocking. It would once again reduce women's place in the film to a mere sex-and-romance function, as much as any 1960s spy spoof ever did. Cool! :bolian:
 
Re: Kirk's impression, I'm just saying that when he thought Spock was touching him, there was nothing remotely sexual about it. Especially concerning the maker's intentions.
I just couldn't resist the reference.
Re: the Bechdel test, that origin is shocking. It would once again reduce women's place in the film to a mere sex-and-romance function, as much as any 1960s spy spoof ever did. Cool! :bolian:
I suppose it gets to the matter of what part of yourself you aren't seeing represented, a woman being independent versus a queer woman being in the world without being villainous or tragically doomed or an object of ridicule. Plus, the social dynamics of a same-sex pairing are very different from a heterosexual one; an incidental/imaginary lesbian relationship in the background is very different from the only female presence in a story being a Bond girl whose function is to titillate the audience and reward the male main character.
 
It's a bit of an obscure piece of trivia that the original purpose of the Bechdel Test (a movie has at least two named women, who have a conversation with each other, which is about something other than a man) was so the originator (Bechdel's friend Liz Wallace) could imagine there was a lesbian (well, two lesbians) in the story.
Perhaps the eventual INDEPENDENCE DAY remake might fulfill that requitement by using two femaliens.:borg:
 
I've been thinking that while SNW's Spock is exploring romantic relationships with all these women, why not have him explore a romantic relationship with a man? It wouldn't be anymore out of character than the other relationships.
 
I've been thinking that while SNW's Spock is exploring romantic relationships with all these women, why not have him explore a romantic relationship with a man? It wouldn't be anymore out of character than the other relationships.
They could also pull a temporary Tuvix with him, mixing him with other TOS regulars.

Next week: the coming of CHOCK.....the navigator who cannot wake up out of comas by himself.
 
No idea what that's supposed to mean.

They changed the Academy spelling into an easily digestible two words so nobody could mistake ''TOPGUN'' for a foreign film instead. Tony Scott (its director) also considerably dumbed down the second TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE remake. No Ridley he.
 
More likely it was because the movie was based on the article Top Guns – by Ehud Yonay from California Magazine, May 1983. The author uses "Top Gun" throughout. In the Navy (Village People below) they tend to write it TOPGUN as one word, all-caps.

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