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“I definitely designed it as a love relationship. I think that’s what we’re all about - love, the effort to reach out to each other. I think that’s a lovely thing. Also, dramatically, I designed Kirk and Spock to complete each other…the two halves…certainly with love overtones. Deep love. The only difference being, the Greek ideal - we never suggested in the series - physical love between the two. But we certainly had the feeling that the affection was sufficient for that, if that were the particular style of the 23rd century.”
Eugene Wesley “Gene” Roddenberry on Kirk and Spock.