Discussing the reasoning behind the romantic subplot, Orci explained: “It was a decision that was made largely because Spock had just suffered the death of his planet, and you felt for him so dramatically, and in a moment like that the person he would talk to - in his own Spock way - would have been Kirk, except him and Kirk weren’t friends at that point. So, it felt like there was an organic way to make Uhura his secret confidante. What happens in that scene is that you are paying tribute to a variant of what happened in the original series, and want Spock to have a hug in that scene. And because he can’t express emotion - well, he can but he chooses not to - we felt like [Uhura kissing Spock was] a really good way to allow the audience to do that for him.”
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Fascinating, no?
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