Interviewer: Many Star Trek fans consider the single most powerful Kirk-Spock scene to be the one in The Wrath of Khan in which the helpless Kirk and the dying Spock talk, with that divider physically separating them. Did you know when you did that scene that you’d hit an emotional home run?
SHATNER:Yes, and the coincidence on that scene was sitting in Harve Bennett’s office, with Harve and him saying, “Spock dies and Kirk can’t get to Spock.” I kind of described what I thought – the glass door and the hands touching – verbally, and then that worked out (in the film). It’s unusual to speculate something in an office and then have it work out practically months later on a set. But that scene seemed to me to be the contact point between Kirk and Spock, absolutely.
Kirk and Spock as Mulder and Scully um I’m not the only one who saw the similarities, right…? (although i’m not sure how this would work because spock is an actual alien and that’s why i drew him with human ears here, but… yeah)
"The lovers rumor. The rumor about Spock and I, the rumor that Spock and I are in love and got married and are t’hy’la. The lovers-married-soul mate rumor. That rumor?"
- a summary of James T. Kirk’s response in TMP novelization to the rumor that he and Spock were lovers (via plaidshirtjimkirk)
