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Kirk: Spock?
Spock: Yes, captain?
Kirk: Be one with the horse.
Spock: Yes, captain.
This week, the world’s most famous Vulcan boldly went where no man has gone before – okay Ricky Martin went there first, but that hardly counts since he’s a bottom. Mr. Spock finally admitted what we all knew all along: he’s a ‘mo.
Kinda gets your ears hard just thinking about it.
Rumors about the half-human‘s willingness to explore strange new worlds have been around for light years. But with Starfleet Command’s recent abolishment of its Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Policy, what was once fiction has become fact. Though many fans’ gaydar pinged into the red over Spock’s life-long interest in art, music, literature and poetry from many worlds, as well his mastery of the Vulcan lute and harpsichord, a good deal of the assumption about Spock playing for the pink team has always been due to his heavy bromance with the man he affectionately calls his captain. Few ever doubted that they two shared more than Vulcan mind-meld moments of intimacy.
Witness Kirk and Spock’s tear-streaked confrontation in The Naked Time, Kirk’s tantrum when Spock takes up with a woman in This Side of Paradise, Spock’s jubilation at seeing “Jim” alive in Amok Time, and Kirk sacrificing his career, his ship, and his son to have Spock back at his side in The Search for Spock. Less specifically, the countless moments the two share significant looks has always been all the proof anyone needed that Spock and Kirk were in fact a couple. That proof of the obvious has always been referred to but seldom chronicled is undoubtedly due to Spock’s reticence with showing human emotions – especially ‘those’ kind – as demonstrated in The Final Frontier, where Kirk moves to hug his friend, and Spock says, “ Not in front of the Klingons.”
“Spock’s lips beneath his were warm and yielding; his breath, intoxicating. Kirk held himself quiet, drawing away after only a moment, but immediately the dark eyes opened and a small sound came from the back of the Vulcan’s throat. His captain captured it, swallowed it, pressing their mouths together once more-”
The chemistry between Kirk and Spock has always been a given and took off at warp speed into the world of gaydom through the creation of ‘Slash Fiction’ back in the 1970s. The ‘love that dare not speak its name’ morphed into a blabber-mouth as more and more writers began providing a glimpse into the love – and photon torpedoes – shared between the two. Their bromance that blossomed into something more was even acknowledged in the 1979 novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Captain Kirk mentions their romantic relationship in the book’s forward and twice in the novel Spock refers to Kirk as ‘T’hy’la’, a term that a footnote explains means friend/brother/lover.
Chris Pine, one of Captain Kirk’s alter egos used when visiting the planet Earth explains, “It’s a relationship between two men that spend a lot of time together in space. It is very much a story about two men learning really to love one another.” And the hunkster Pine should know. His preference for outies has been an accpeted fact in Hollywood ever since his adorable face shot onto the scene.
Spock: Captain.
Kirk: Spock, we’re on leave you can call me ‘Jim’.
Spock: Jim.
Kirk: Yes, Spock?
Spock: Life… is not a dream.
Kirk: Go to sleep, Spock.
Spock is not the first officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise to open the closet door. Chief Helmsman Lt. Sulu transponded out of the pink ether in 205. But Asians don’t age as well as Vulcans do and the world let out a collective, “Eh” not indifferent about his coming out so much as rather aghast at the mental image of the 58 year-old Asian acting out his new-found freedom to engage thrusters on full. But Sulu opened the closet door, allowing Spock to own up to his own gayness, and to perhaps finally accept his deep love for his favorite captain. Possibly it was the wise words of Spock Prime (the old Spock) telling his younger self, “ I could not deprive you… of a friendship that will define you both in ways you cannot yet realize.”
Live long and prosper, indeed.
Kirk: Damn it Spock, goddamn it!
Spock: Captain, what I have done?
Kirk: What you have done is betrayed every man on the ship.
Spock: Worse, I have betrayed you. I do not expect you to forgive me.
Kirk: Forgive you? I ought to knock you on your goddamned ass.
Spock: If you think it would help?
This mean that Master Spock’s personae he uses when visiting Plant Earth, Zachary Quinto, is also gay, though as Quinto, Spock has refused to discuss his preference for men in the past. But has acted pretty gay in an off-Broadway production of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America at the Signature Theater in New York, playing Louis, the gay word-processing court employee with lofty political critiques and a lover dying of AIDS, who he cheats on with a closeted Mormon, and more recently on TV in he new sci/fi series, American Horror Story.
Quinto announced his homosexuality during an interview in New York Magazine, while promoting his film Margin Call, a financial-crisis thriller in which he co-stars alongside Kevin Spacey, Stanley Tucci, and Jeremy Irons . . . wait! Kevin Spacey?
Ouch!
That must be a bit uncomfortable. Time to seek out a few final frontiers yourself there Kevin?
Stry said:
Although I wasn’t a real big fan of the last Star Trek movie – the one with Pine as Kirk and Quinto as Spock – probably because they sort of rewrote the original Star Trek historyline (they destroyed Vulcan, dammit) – I do think that both actors are fine, fine, fine. It would interesting, if there is going to a Star Trek 2 (in this latest incarnation), if the storyline played up the gay (or male on male) aspect between them a bit more prominently.
dropdeadguys said:
I understand they are planning another movie, it will be interesting to see if Quinto forces them to add a bit of gay awarness to the film, that’s something the franchise has refused to do to date. Or is that stardate.