SOURCE: "'I Have Been, and Ever Shall Be, Your Friend': Star Trek, The Deerslayer and the American Romance," in Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 20, No. 1, Summer, 1986, pp. 89-104.
In the following essay, Selley focuses on the relationship between Captain Kirk and Dr. Spock in the television, film, and literary series Star Trek, identifying it in the tradition of mythic male friendship initiated in American literature by Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales.
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