[ SECRET POST #2804 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2804 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Was Roddenberry really leaving cryptic, to-be-decoded messages to K/S shippers though?

[(Anonymous)]

No -- I don't think it was for K/S shippers. I think it was there to make sure that if anyone had an issue with the Kirk/Spock relationship and him making the pon farr comparisons and then including the lover thing, he could point to that and let the reader come to their own conclusion.

Granted, maybe it IS K/S shippers reading too much into it, but it just seems like a TON of work to put in to dissuade the shippers and it's SO very likely to backfire. I mean, creating a specific word to describe their relationship and then including the definition of lover? Yeah…

Plus there's other things that just strike me as…well…interesting considering the climate at the time the book was released. The use of San Francisco. The rainbow on the cover. How, in the author's preface, Roddenberry makes it a point to emphasize love as truth.

Then there's the comparisons between Kirk and Spock and Ilia and Captain Decker (their reunions…) and Ilia and Decker are definitely romantically inclined. Ilia bears striking similarities to Spock while Decker is a Captain like Kirk was and they certainly share attributes as well.

I just have a hard time believing he wrote it to dissuade K/S given how it's tied into the story and given the events surrounding the release of the book.