Subj : Re: Neener neener
To   : All
From : Wiseguy
Date : Fri Jun 27 2014 13:41:24

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: epwise@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Neener neener

ToolPackinMama <philnblanc@comcast.net> 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
> 
> ====
> 
> <<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.>>
> 
> 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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