No way, there can be very cool stories with healthy relationships! Or healthy enough for fiction. Or I guess getting to the healthy part can be the plot. Unhealthy relationships are usually the dull ones, where they expend too much energy moping and navel-gazing and ~~misunderstanding each other (so hard to pull off) when they should be sexin' or fighting vampires or st. I guess I come at it fr a romance novel pov. I'm into the slash usually for a greater sum of happiness. Or sometimes a little pining or noncon with some characters that it turns my crank for.

The bridge scene was very cool, BUT! It had nothing to do with friendship or any good relationship buildup. It was about Kirk's tactical decision to get Spock out of power by hitting him at his weakest point in his weakest spot and encouraging him to do something he'd be VERY ashamed of later.

I mean in the movie it was kinda hot. But eh for the characters it's eh