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'Shore Leave' also contained a back massage scene where Kirk believes that he is being massaged by Spock. During the production of ' Shore Leave', writer Theodore Sturgeon suggested, when criticising a scene with McCoy and two women, that 'the whimsical friction between Bones and Spock' should be addressed in a future episode with a prostate massage. It has also been noted that although Kirk has had many female companions throughout the series, he always leaves them behind, citing his duties to the Enterprise, but he frequently risks the Enterprise and defies his stated duties in order to keep Spock safe. Īnother key scene which can be interpreted as homoerotic is in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, when Spock dies, and tells Kirk, 'I have been and always shall be your friend.' In 1985, Roddenberry recalled from publication Killing Time, a novel that suggested the existence of such a relationship between Kirk and Spock.

Also, I would not like to be thought of as being so foolish that I would select a love partner who came into sexual heat only once every seven years. 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. 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. I was never aware of this 'lovers' rumor, although I have been told that Spock encountered it several times.

In the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture co-written by Gene Roddenberry, a footnote was added where Kirk addresses a rumor that he and Spock were lovers:

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Eye contact and gestures throughout the series have also been cited as being part of a homoerotic subtext in their relationship. Woledge points out that both the gesture and the words are 'ambiguous', and can be interpreted as homoerotic. In a particular scene from the film, Spock, lying down in sickbay, clasps Kirk's hand and says that he understands 'this simple feeling'. For example, in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Spock realizes that emotions 'play an important part in the richness of life'. Many homosocial scenes between Kirk and Spock have been interpreted by some fans as having significant homoerotic undertones. As the first slash pairing, K/S was created and developed largely independently from the influence of other slash fiction, with most of the conventions of the slash genre seeing their debut first in K/S slash. As of 1998, most academic studies on slash fiction focused on Kirk/Spock, as Star Trek was by that point one of the longest-lived and most prosperous subjects of slash fiction, while its mainstream popularity made it one of the most accessible titles for academics and their audience. Early in the history of Star Trek fan fiction, a few fan writers started writing about a romantic and sexual relationship between Kirk and Spock, highlighting a romantic or sexual element to the friendship between the men. Kirk and Spock from Star Trek, is a pairing popular in slash fiction, possibly the first slash pairing, according to Henry Jenkins, an early slash fiction scholar. Kirk/Spock, commonly abbreviated as K/S and referring to James T.

This scene from Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) has been pointed to as supporting a homoerotic interpretation of Kirk and Spock's relationship.

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