You're the first person I've met who shares my feelings on turbulence. It's nice to know I'm not alone in this. :-)
As for Kirk/Spock: I definitely see their intense friendship in TOS, and I think it's mostly because Kirk is played by Shatner that I just can't picture the two of them together romantically.
That particular problem doesn't apply to ST XI; my difficulty with the pairing in the Reboot universe is more 1) they don't have that intense connection, and--Spock Prime's matchmaking aside--I'm not sure that they ever will. I'm sure they'll become friends, but the two of them have other supportive relationships (Kirk with McCoy and Spock with Uhura, and both of them in different ways with Pike) and don't have the same need to rely on each other that they do in TOS.
And 2) I think that most of the issues I have with Spock/Uhura as a longterm relationship apply equally to Kirk/Spock. The major differences are that I think Kirk would be almost as bad at talking about and dealing with emotions as Spock--although I think Kirk would need that in a relationship and feel as though something were missing that he felt helpless to fix--and that they don't even have the shared interests that Spock and Uhura have.
That said, I've read a dozen or so AOS Kirk/Spock stories that I have enjoyed, and I'm sure there are a lot more excellent stories that I've not had the chance to enjoy because I read the pairing so infrequently. But it does tend to take a really great author writing a particular type of story for me to be fully persuaded by the relationship.
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Date: 2009-07-27 06:37 am (UTC)As for Kirk/Spock: I definitely see their intense friendship in TOS, and I think it's mostly because Kirk is played by Shatner that I just can't picture the two of them together romantically.
That particular problem doesn't apply to ST XI; my difficulty with the pairing in the Reboot universe is more 1) they don't have that intense connection, and--Spock Prime's matchmaking aside--I'm not sure that they ever will. I'm sure they'll become friends, but the two of them have other supportive relationships (Kirk with McCoy and Spock with Uhura, and both of them in different ways with Pike) and don't have the same need to rely on each other that they do in TOS.
And 2) I think that most of the issues I have with Spock/Uhura as a longterm relationship apply equally to Kirk/Spock. The major differences are that I think Kirk would be almost as bad at talking about and dealing with emotions as Spock--although I think Kirk would need that in a relationship and feel as though something were missing that he felt helpless to fix--and that they don't even have the shared interests that Spock and Uhura have.
That said, I've read a dozen or so AOS Kirk/Spock stories that I have enjoyed, and I'm sure there are a lot more excellent stories that I've not had the chance to enjoy because I read the pairing so infrequently. But it does tend to take a really great author writing a particular type of story for me to be fully persuaded by the relationship.