Where No Man Has Gone Before

bigmamag:

In October or November of 1979 Bill (Boggs) was doing his show and William Shatner was going to be his guest… . . The first question was about slash. We were stunned.

Bill, when asked, “What do you think about this trend in fandom, where Kirk and Spock are more than friends?” Bill looked at him, laughed and said, “Well, they’re gay, what do you think?” from here

SO LET ME GET THIS GAY: THIS SCENE WAS JUST AS PLANNED, WASN’T IT, SHATNER?

And this is why Shatner is the fairy godfather of a. slash and b. trolling one’s own fandom.

“As far as Bill and Leonard and K/S goes, both actors are very much aware of the fandom. I have a clip where Bill is doing a convention in England and someone asks him about K/S and his response was, ‘Well, I guess you just need to find love wherever you can.’ Also, when he did his first biography ‘Where No Man’, the two women who wrote the book were K/S fans and one day when he was at one of their houses working with them on the book, there were K/S zines laying right on the table in front of him. As far as Leonard is concerned, he has twice actually flipped through K/S zines when given them to autograph at conventions. I was present the second time he did so because it was my bestest K/S buddy Deanna Gray who handed him the zine so he could autograph a story of hers that was published in it. While we were in our hotel room before going to see the guys, she spent about a half an hour paperclipping all the revealing artwork so Leonard wouldn’t be able to see any of it and he spent about 10 seconds removing them all so he could peruse the zine before signing it.”