From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: epwise@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Neener neener
ToolPackinMama wrote in news:loiog5$els$1@dont-
email.me:
> On 6/26/2014 5:26 PM, Will Dockery wrote:
>> On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 2:50:49 AM UTC-4, ToolPackinMama wrote:
>>> Yeah, so, anyway....
>>>
>>> Roddenberry has been quoted as officially affirming that "I
definitely
>>> designed it [Kirk/Spock] as a love relationship." And when pressed
>>> about what type of love he said, "Deep love", and, "We never
suggested
>>> in the series - physical love between the two. But... we certainly
had
>>> the feeling that the affection was sufficient for that".
>>
>> Well, if Roddenberry commanded it, it will be made so.
>>
>> "Kirk, Spock... Engage."
>>
>
> Well, yes. Nothing is in the show that is accidental.
>
> Roddenberry did nothing alone, he had a huge team of people who all
> worked on it. Roddenberry was calling the shots, yes, but dozens of
> people, including the actors, were responsible for making the show
what
> it was/is.
>
> ===
>
> Here's a couple of interesting GR quotes:
>
> Gene Roddenberry: "I'm sorry I never had a homosexual relationship,"
he
> remarks pensively, out of the blue, one afternoon, "because I know
that
> there must be many joys and pleasures and degrees of closeness in
those
> relationships. I think that I have in a way been cursed by having
> picked my particular time period and background and so on, because I
> have no doubt that I am capable of homosexualism. As a matter of
fact,
> remind me, I'm in the midst of making a decision about homosexuality -
> male and female - and how we are going to treat it on Star Trek, the
> lovely ways in which we will treat it - without defying present
average
> conditions."
>
> [From Gene Roddenberry; The Last Conversation (by Yvonne Fern, 1994)]
>
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520088425/107-6930241-6153356
> <-- buy it
>
> ====
>
> < over the world. How does it feel?
>
> GR -- I feel, as I wake up every morning, "I hope today isn't the day
> they find me out."
>
> AA -- Can you recall the first thing you thought about when you
> conceived STAR TREK?
>
> GR -- I guess it was the thought that under the terrible restrictions
of
> television it might be a way I could infiltrate my ideas, and that's
> what it's been all the time.>>
>
> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/3253/regular/aa_roddenberry_gene.html
None of which has anything to do with Kirk and Spock having a gay
relationship.
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