29 Days of Star Trek - Day 28 - Your favourite friendship in Star Trek?

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The obvious one to go for is Kirk, Spock and McCoy. I don't know how deliberate it was, but they're very much a version of 'the heart, the head and the hand' in the way that the epigram of Metropolis has it 'The mediator between Head and Hands must be the Heart', with McCoy being the hands, Spock the head and Kirk the hands. The interesting thing is that, despite their deep disagreements, they are friends, and it's very rare that they threaten to stop this friendship because of their disagreements.

Then there's Geordi and Data, and the interesting thing is how Geordi is the crewmember who most often sees that Data is a robot (there being a difference between knowing, and having to check his wiring), but he's also the one who is most determined that he is not a toaster.

I have a soft spot for Odo and Quark's Odo and Quarkiness, because they're fun. And O'Brien and Bashir's friendship which is every man who has golfing buddies (or tennis buddies, or squash buddies ...), and it's one of the examples of taking something everyday and turning it just slightly sci-fi with the addition of the holodeck. But I <3 Dax and Sisko's friendship because yay, cultural depiction of a friendship between a man and a woman where neither party is attracted to the other, and also it draws on who she was in the past, while it's still clear that Sisko is friends with Jadzia as well as Curzon.


Day 1 - Which Star Trek series is your favorite?
Day 2 - Who is your favorite character?
Day 3 - Who is your least favorite character?
Day 4 - What was the first episode/movie you watched?
Day 5 - What was the first Star Trek series you watched?
Day 6 - Your favorite canon pairing?
Day 7 - Your favorite non-canon pairing?
Day 8 - Your favorite actor/actress? (Not the same as character.)
Day 9 - Your favourite species
Day 10 - What's your favorite species?
Day 11 - What's your least favorite species?
Day 12 - Favourite Funny Moment
Day 13 - Favourite Dramatic Moment
Day 14 - What's your favorite Star Trek quote?
Day 15 - How did you get into Star Trek?
Day 16 - Are you involved with Star Trek fandom?
Day 17 - Have you read any of the books? If so, which ones?
Day 18 - If you could be any species in the Star Trek universe, what would you be?"
Day 19 - How did the Star Trek reboot affect you?
Day 20 - Favourite One-Off (Non-Recurring) Character
Day 21 - Which Star Trek food would you want to try at least once?
Day 22 - Which Star Trek world would you want to visit at least once
Day 23 - Is there anything you'd want to change about Star Trek
Day 24 - Is there anything about Star Trek that has disappointed you?
Day 25 - How has Star Trek changed you?
Day 26 - Lots of Star Trek Parodies out there. Which do you dig?
Day 27 - What would you cross over with Star Trek?

Day 29 - If you could tell Gene Roddenberry one thing, Star Trek related or not, what would it be?