Your Love Will Kill Me ( Kirk, Spock)

Explanation for this vid that you don t really need to read if you don t want to but it s here anyway: This is from Spock s point of view, even though Kirk is the one who dies according to the script. I really think that Theodore Sturgeon as aiming to combine sex and violent death on a subtextual level, as evidenced by what Spock says about how he has to take a wife or die, and the kaliffee having the meaning of both marriage and challenge, and the fact that there are two parts of the combat, one violent and one erotic. Anyway, in literature death is sometimes used as a metaphor for orgasm, and since Spock comes out of ponfarr as a result of Kirk s death, it s not so much of a stretch that we re supposed to combine the two in this episode. In this instance, Kirk s literal death caused Spock s figurative death (AKA orgasm), and since Kirk only entered into the combat out of love in the first place, Kirk,