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It's the Vulcan in me--I need to see a logical extrapolation from the media source product to the suggested extra-textual relationship (slash or het). Connect all the dots for me--explain what is in canon (the characterizations, backgrounds, history, specific relationships, physical setting, time period, larger culture and worldview, etc.) that makes it possible (or even likely) and also rationally explain away whatever there is in [[canon]] that mitigates against it. <ref> comment from [[klangley56]] in [http://goodnightsong.livejournal.com/235854.html the subject of slash], dated June 1, 2008, accessed Feb. 11, 2011; [http://www.webcitation.org/5wNOTl2kY  WebCite]. </ref>}}

It's the Vulcan in me--I need to see a logical extrapolation from the media source product to the suggested extra-textual relationship (slash or het). Connect all the dots for me--explain what is in canon (the characterizations, backgrounds, history, specific relationships, physical setting, time period, larger culture and worldview, etc.) that makes it possible (or even likely) and also rationally explain away whatever there is in [[canon]] that mitigates against it. <ref> comment from [[klangley56]] in [http://goodnightsong.livejournal.com/235854.html the subject of slash], dated June 1, 2008, accessed Feb. 11, 2011; [http://www.webcitation.org/5wNOTl2kY  WebCite]. </ref>}}

It certainly isn't that the creators of a show ''don't'' add subtext to imply specific things. In a February 1992 interview, Bob Justman confirmed that the subtextual message in the ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" (1966) concerning the 1960s' massive anti-war protest movement was intentional.<ref>H. Bruce Franklin, [https://web.archive.org/web/20161019112544/http://www.depauw.edu:80/sfs/backissues/62/franklin62art.htm Star Trek in the Vietnam War Era].</ref>

It certainly isn't that the creators of a show ''don't'' add subtext to imply specific things. In a February 1992 interview, Bob Justman confirmed that the subtextual message in the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "[[The City on the Edge of Forever]]" (1966) concerning the 1960s' massive anti-war protest movement was intentional.<ref>H. Bruce Franklin, [https://web.archive.org/web/20161019112544/http://www.depauw.edu:80/sfs/backissues/62/franklin62art.htm Star Trek in the Vietnam War Era].</ref>

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