Ha ha.It's funny when someone brings up Kirk & Spock because it all started with Kirk/Spock back in the 80s! It's why I stay out of ST fandoms. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are the Holy Trinity for me and I refuse to have their dynamic reduced to slash ships.
K/S started way before the 80s - my guess is, around the first half of S1, in 1966-67? A friend of mine was doing "The Man from UNCLE" slash around the same time.
I loved ST back in its day (though I was watching it in the 80s, not when it first aired in the 60s) along with Starsky and Hutch and The Professionals. Slash wasn't even a thing I knew about then and I only even saw these relationships as amazing male friendships. I still do. Even with all the slash writing available to read I can't go there. I think mostly because of the history I have with the characters.
S/D and J2 are the only pairings I read and that could be because it's become part of my fandom experience and I find that I can disconnect the way I watch the show and what I read.
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Date: 2013-05-11 03:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-11 07:13 pm (UTC)K/S started way before the 80s - my guess is, around the first half of S1, in 1966-67? A friend of mine was doing "The Man from UNCLE" slash around the same time.
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Date: 2013-05-12 10:42 am (UTC)S/D and J2 are the only pairings I read and that could be because it's become part of my fandom experience and I find that I can disconnect the way I watch the show and what I read.