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

[Nerys Myk]

The Simpsons and Family Guy are still on.

I know. But they haven't evolved much.

 

[MarcKle1964]

From The Motion Picture Novelization:

“I was never aware of this lovers rumor, although I have been told that Spock encountered it several
times. Apparently he had always dismissed it with his characteristic lifting of his right eyebrow which
usually connoted some combination of surprise, disbelief, and/or annoyance. As for myself, although I
have no moral or other objections to physical love in any of its many Earthly, alien, and mixed forms, I
have always found my best gratification in that creature woman . Also, I would dislike being thought of as
so foolish that I would select a love partner who came into sexual heat only once every seven years.” -- Adm. Kirk

 

[Lucky]

I see Kirk and Spock as best friends, but I have no issues with people shipping them.

 

[Forbin]

Unless the original writer wants to chime in, it is all open to interpretation. Being born in 1971, I can really only interpret the line through the world I grew up in.

Unless it's bloody obvious, like that was then.

 

[BillJ]

Unless it's bloody obvious, like that was then.

Obviously it isn’t as obvious as you want it to be or else folks wouldn’t have differing interpretations.

 

[BK613]

Obviously it isn’t as obvious as you want it to be or else folks wouldn’t have differing interpretations.

Oh, please, it's a joke about whose going to wear the pants in the family after they're married (to use a contemporary colloquialism from the same era as the joke was written.)
Really, fans will squabble over anything here.

 

[Ssosmcin]

Unless it's bloody obvious, like that was then.

I see people still trying to judge a 1966 line of dialog by 2025 standards.
In 1966, "temporarily at least, I am still your superior officer" was a joke about wives casting off the submissive, demure guise used to "catch" their man, and becoming "the boss" of the house once they were married.

Oh, please, it's a joke about whose going to wear the pants in the family after they're married (to use a contemporary colloquialism from the same era as the joke was written.)
Really, fans will squabble over anything here.

I grew up with the show and first saw it just a few years after the episode was made. It's not a "bloody obvious" joke. It can absolutely be taken more than one way. My sister and I discussed it when we were younger and she still shakes her head at it because of how she interprets the line.

You being insistent doesn't make you right, it just shows me how you took the line. Considering how Star Trek treated women in Starfleet, it's reasonable that Angela wouldn't be reporting to her own husband. Just like Lt. Palamas would leave the service once she "found the right man" (you shoulda seen the head shaking over that one in my house - lol).

And it's just as reasonable that it's a joke.

That's why this is a discussion board.

 

[Forbin]

And it's just as reasonable that it's a joke.

It is indeed - a bloody obvious joke.

 

[Ssosmcin]

It is indeed - a bloody obvious joke.

Sure

 

[johnnybear]

The idea that Kirk and Spock were gay wasn't a thing for TV shows back in 1966-69 and it's only people who want to deride the series in these enlightened times that see that. They were just people who liked each other and trusted one another and that's it. Plus to have a lovely affair between such characters would affect the way you view the episodes even to this day I'm sure.
JB

 

[Phoenix219]

They are good friends, but not even the kind of friends that stay together/do everything together. Many times they went their separate ways, and had to reconnect, like TMP, TWOK and TUC, not to mention when Kirk was with Antonia, and whatever Kirk was doing during Generations. (I do think it was a waste to not include Nimoy in that movie, though, as Spock was already in the 24th century. I hated most things about that movie.)