broke: Jim Kirk and Nyota Uhura are romantic rivals who hate each other because they’re both in love with Spock.
joke: They’re amicable work friends, but their personal relationship is tense at best due to their very different personalities and because a lot of media (and a lot of people who consume that media?? what are yall smokin???) struggle with the concept of men and women having meaningful platonic relationships.
woke: Brother and sister. There’s not much canon support for it, but idec; they’re the ride-or-die, getting-ice-cream-together-at-2-am, roasting-each-other-relentlessly, acting-as-each-other’s-wingmen-in-gay-escapades kind of best friends.
Listen, I’m not obsessed with my ships being canon. If I like a couple and it’s never directly addressed in-text, it’s whatever (unless it’s queer baiting, in which case it’s shitty and I hate it, but it also won’t stop me from shipping the thing). But when I think of how close to canon K/S is (and has been), and how little effort it would take for official Star Trek writers to make their relationship romantic – when I think of how much evidence and support there is for a Kirk/Spock relationship and how likely it is that we will never see it canonized – I find myself filled with almighty, righteous rage; with earth-shaking, soul-crushing anguish; with catastrophic, thunderous fury that we have been denied the fulfillment of the most romantic relationship ever to grace the screen. I don’t need Kirk and Spock to be canon, but fuck, it’s like they’ve been dangling this carrot in front of our faces for five decades and I just want a goddamned bite of it.
