omorka | Sometimes, you just have to go back to the original. (Reply)

So, I haven't actually read that much K/S. Not because of any particular distaste for the pairing, although it's not my favorite Trek slash pairing (I generally ship Four Kings or Spock/Bones if I'm shipping the original at all); just haven't run into a lot, because most of those fans are older and don't wander around on the usual spots I read. One could argue that 99% of the really juicy K/S is on badly mimeographed fanzines printed in the years near my birth.

But I was poking around a bit, and ran across this fanpage. It's short; go read it and then come back. It's SFW unless your work filter automatically kicks anything with the word "sex" on the page.

Okay, so, the quote's not canon, but it was written by the Great Bird of the Galaxy, so it's as close as makes no odds. My thought on reading the 'Kirk's response' part? That's damn near a word-perfect Mick Jagger non-denial denial, there.

And that makes sense. Kirk's a rock star in his universe, and for someone writing in the late '70s, it would be reasonable to extrapolate a certain amount of 'bisexual chic' in the Federation's far future. Certainly someone who cared about his sexual reputation wouldn't want to categorically state that he was only straight, if that were the case. Religious sexual morality is right out in Trek, anyway. Kirk is deliberately being cagey, and so is Roddenberry. He's very carefully not sinking anyone's 'ship.

Ironically, this suggests that the more recent no-gays-in-Trek-no-way-no-how issues did not stem from Roddenberry. Not that I blamed him, anyway. But it would be interesting for, say, Riker, to have something similar come up, and get a "well, I experimented, sure, hasn't everyone?"

And the end of the page has one of the best "slashers and gens can be friends!" codas I've seen.