Gay spock

As for the actors, things veer from the neutral to the positive. The two scripts he contributed to the Star Trek universe? Kirk/Spock, commonly abbreviated as K/S or Spirk[2] and referring to James T. Kirk and Spock from Star Trek, is a popular pair in slash fiction, possibly the first slash pairing, according to Henry Jenkins, an early slash fiction scholar.

The most important player of all, at the end of the day, is Gene Roddenberry himself. Often we are told that he is not canonically gay, so we shouldn’t try to force a narrative, but so many fan interpretations do not simply paint Spock as homosexual, but as queer.

This book was published inwhen there was still time a-plenty for unholy hell to come down on his head were he to suggest a physical relationship between Kirk and Spock. What a world. Join me for a look at a queer reading of everyone's favorite Vulc. Which is both the crowning achievement and the waffling difficulty of the whole affair but more on that in a minute.

The feeling between Ilia and Decker? Romantic love. What a win for queer geeks. So then, shall we not read the same emotion into our other adventure Starfleet captain and his logical companion, reconciling over the finally recognized importance of a certain unnamed feeling?

Kirk Spock and Star : It demonstrates this through a closed reading of the episode “ Amok Time” from Star Trek: The Original Series, and specifically, the reading of Spock as a closeted gay man

The first thing to know is that Roddenberry was inspired by Alexander the Great and Hephaestion when he imagined the relationship between Kirk and Spock—he discusses it in an interview that can be found in the William Shatner biography Shatner: Where No Man.

I bring up that little comment to discuss a far more famous one, perhaps the most famous in regard to our besotted officers. Deep love. The gay spock difference being, the Greek ideal—we never suggested in the series—physical love between the two.

[3]. I confess this is no damning evidence, but part of a larger cumulative effect I wanted to create. That brings us to the snag I mentioned earlier. Kirk and Spock. Of course, the actual details of why Spock has chosen to purge himself of all emotion are on the vague side in script and novelization, but whatever it was seems to have happened quite suddenly and left an enormous, painful emotional rift between himself and Kirk.

Death of the Author meant reams of thoughtful, beautiful interpretive work being swept under the rug in the name of mischaracterizing Kirk as a womanizer among other things though he was in fact a fine specimen of a feminist. That is its own brand of important, since reinterpreting media to create space for the unseen has been one of the few recourses of marginalized voices for many years.

The Enterprise—headed by new captain Decker and a very midlife crisising Kirk—go out to try and stop the incoming threat, where they run into Spock attempting to do the same hold that thought. Spock connects with the outsider in all of us, and that absolutely includes LGBTQ+ viewers.

Queer as Spock Denim :

Did you catch all that? Sorry, should I maybe explain that a little more?

Spock is an inspiration to queers, and has been for half a century. What a team. But let me not be coy.