Subj : Re: Neener neener
To   : All
From : ToolPackinMama
Date : Thu Jun 26 2014 23:30:11

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: philnblanc@comcast.net
Subject: Re: Neener neener

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.

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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

====

<<Alan Asherman -- You created STAR TREK, and your name is known all 
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.>>

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