[ SECRET POST #4679 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4679 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

How does their relationship change what he said or its implications? Whether or not Kirk (or the writers) MEANT it to be horribly insulting to everything Spock struggled with about his heritage, and given how much Kirk loved him I don't for a moment think he did, that doesn't change the fact that it IS. Kirk could have said anything else. He could have said Spock's soul was the most noble, the most brave, the most pure. Instead he chose to say human, which maybe he thought exemplified all those things, but in a universe with multiple other species, of which Spock was one, that line of thought still inevitably comes off as humanocentric at best, somewhat racist at worst.

Spock spent decades, right up until the previous movie, struggling with his dual heritage, usually veering more vulcan to compensate, and what he learned over the course of those decades was to value both sides of his heritage, and then comes his funeral and his best friend chooses entirely to put the focus on one. The one like himself. Whatever Kirk intended, and I'm sure it did come from love, it was not the only thing that came across.