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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 kal-if-fee 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 pon-farr 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&#
