Yes, there’s certainly some of that — 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 it’s the— we certainly had the feeling that the affection was sufficient for that, if that were the particular style of the 23rd century.
Gene Roddenberry, ‘Where No Man… The Authorized Biography of William Shatner’ (via allanson)