#anti chapel x spock

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#687

I think Chapel/Ortegas and La'an/Una have more chemistry than Chapel/Spock and La'an/Kirk.

[deeneedsaname]

Lovesick girlies deserve rights

[doctor-mccoys-sanity]

im so anti Spock/Chapel that it hurts to watch the show. maybe i’m too queer but i don’t think they have chemistry and to me it makes no sense for the pairing to be requited love and also this version of chapel being suddenly into relationships makes no sense for her character tbh

[morns-fevered-dream]

Still binge watching SNW onto the next episode

Season 2 Episode 5

The recap is about Spock romance my least favorite thing from season 1

Oh boy back to the love triangle

Spock with the chef apron on lol

I'd perfer if Spock stayed on these anti emotion medication if I'm honest feels more Spock like

A pre marriage dinner years before a marriage?

I real don't care for this romance it's worse then most star trek romances surprising

Oh this is the human Spock episode I heard about

It is indeed a bad idea Pike

This is weird not in a bad or a good just strange

Poor Sam lol

What did the character of Spock do these writers damn

Was that supposed to be horny Spock? I thought we all agreed that was the worst part of Star Trek 3

Regulation beanie should have been that 70s Spock helmet toy

Spock hair after he pulled off the beanie

"You do not" slay

Like at first the awkward moments were slightly funny but it's a bit much now

I've gotten to the punching and kicking air Spock gif I've seen although I thought it was excitement not angry lol

Oh lord back on the nurse Chapel x Spock I know Trek has always had romance but this show feels like it's often more focused on romance then anything else

We skipped charades and all we got was some stupid "sad" romance scene?! Booooo I wanted Vulcan charades

Awww Spock speaking up for Amanda I'm not huge on Spock showing emotion in this show but I'll make an expectation this time

"I don't think your fellowship is ready for me" so far my favorite Chapel moment in this show tbh

"I want to feel this 😫" I think this is the most horny Star Trek show even over ENT but honestly I thought that in the first season of SNW

Lots of ups and downs in this one

[gender-snatched]

Hey so I want you to tell me every single thing I could possibly want to know about Star Trek

OK YEAH. under cut because. well. you know me.

So, in the 60s, Gene Roddenberry started a sci-fi series. This was Star Trek. It's about a starship named the USS Enterprise, which is part of Starfleet. Starfleet is the exploration branch of the Federation of Planets, which is basically the UN of the galaxy. The USS Enterprise is, at the time of the show, captained by James T Kirk, although it was previously captained by Christopher Pike. Kirk is an extremely traumatized nerd who is doing what he really wants to do. His First Officer (and Science Officer) is Mr. Spock, the only alien on the ship. Spock is (half) Vulcan, a species that values "logic" above all, yadda yadda. His Chief Medical Officer is his bestie, Leonard "Bones" McCoy.

He also has: Lieutenant Nyota Uhura (Communications Officer), Lt. Commander Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (Chief Engineer), Lt Hikaru Sulu (Navigator), Nurse Christine Chapel (Nurse), Ensign Pavel Chekov (pilot [?]), and Yeoman Janice Rand (Yeoman)

All these characters are MASSIVELY important for the time. Uhura was a black woman in a major position on the ship; Chapel, Uhura, and Rand were all strong women; Chekov was Russian during the Cold War; Spock was a metaphor for xenophobia and was also Jewish; Sulu was Asian in a time where anti-Asian racism was super high (and his actor, George Takei was Japanese and was raised in internment camps).

Importantly, Star Trek was so so amazing for a show from the sixties. It had one of the first interracial kisses on TV, and had multiple episodes with all sorts of metaphors. Yes, it had problems (misogyny and a fair bit of racism), but for the sixties? It was so incredible.

And the second season started with the episode "Amok Time", which was written by a queer man and focuses on the idea of Spock going into heat and going to die if he doesn't fuck. Somehow, writhing in the sand with Kirk cures this.

And that's the start of slash culture! Almost all slash culture is the fault of either Star Trek or X Files.

So Star Trek: The Original Series got 3 seasons and became a cult classic. And then in the 80s (?) it got the movies. The Motion Picture (bad, but tolerable), Wrath of Khan (pretty damn good), Search for Spock (bad and questionable), Voyage Home (aka The One With the Whales and fucking AWESOME), and then two others I didn't care about whatsoever.

And then, after the movies, The Next Generation came out. It takes place a bit later, with better cameras and effects. The spaceship is smoother, and it's also incredible. Its cast includes: Captain Jean Luc Picard, First Officer William Riker, Chief Medical Officer Beverly Crusher, Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge, Lt Cmr Data (what is his role I can't remember), Security Officer Tash Yar, Worf (also can't remember his role), Dr. Pulaski (I don't like her), Guinan (bartender), and Wesley Crusher.

Terrible confession, but I only finished TOS. I still know TNG pretty well tho.

After TNG we got: Deep Space Nine (my BELOVED), Voyager (wish I had watched more), Enterprise (good if you ignore the misogyny), and then all the nuTrek I haven't been paying attention to because I can't watch it.

Deep Space Nine is the other one I never finished but know, and it focuses on a space station near the planet Bajor. Bajor just threw off the rule of Cardassia, an empire. The Federation, with questionable motives, is helping them rebuild. They send a captain there, and then a wormhole opens, making the space station super super important. Then a war happens but I didn't reach that.

It focuses on Captain Sisko, his son Jake, his first officer Major Kira Nerys, his CMO Julian Bashir, his science officer Jadzia Dax (trangender worm), his engineer Miles O'Brien, a cop Odo, a bartender Quark, a "simple tailor" (actually an exiled Cardassian spy) Garak, and later, Worf.

It's really good, because while TNG pulls a full utopia, DS9 contradicts it and also has just amazing characters. Shame I didn't finish it before Netflix lost it. It also has the first CANONICALLY bisexual character in Star Trek.

There's a LOT of Trek, and I can probably give vague overviews about all of them and also answer any and all questions about it. Please. Please have questions.

[calliecat93]

Twelve chapters into A Contest of Principles. So far I’m enjoying this! On the one hand, this was VERY cleary written with the 2020 election in mind with one of the plots (there are three main ones, each following the main trio) focusing on an election and all the fun that you can imagine with that. Normally I’d rather NOT have to relieve that even though the election went as I hoped, but not only is it just one main plot, but Star Trek HAS focused and delved into political and social themes. TOS outright had episode about anti-war, the dangers of toxic patriotism, commentary on the Vietnam War, religion, racism, and a bunch of other stuff. So honestly this fits ST’s wheelhouse and again, it has the other plots to balance it out.

Otherwise so far I’m enjoying it. Kirk is dealing with a hostile election and an asassination attempt. McCoy got kidnapped to another planet to tend to a ln ill princess and that planet has it’s own issues that he’s stuck in between. I’m LOVING his plot though and him struggling between wanting to fet the Hell back to the Enterprise, not not leave an ill patient cause of his oath. Spock gets saddled with ‘rescue McCoy’ duty due to Kirk’s mission and so far it’s been fun with him dealing with the law engorcement on a third planet and their political issues. Oh and Chapel is there too and I am LOVING her getting attention and that the author wisely chose to have her over her crush on Spock so the focus can be on her as a nurse wanting to get McCoy back. Hell, the author is doing pretty good with the gender balance and all the women are real good so far~

Of course I still have like... 20+ chapters to go but I’m invested. It had some fun moments too like Chapel borrowing the ‘I’m a doctor, not a x’ line and the image of Spock in a suana to meet with a reproter flr intel is hilarious to me for some reason. Plus some other funny quips and such, this book has gotten Bones down to put it simply haha. So far it’s been a nice read a d Doctor’s Orders should be here today, so the second I’m done it’s on to anxiety mess McCoy in command drama! Yay~!

[redshirtrights]

a private little war

[tos s2 ep 19]

it’s been a HOT MINUTE

weird how kirk lived with a local..i thought that was against prime directive

mccoy being rudely interupted from collecting plants 

AFKSDLJAHP SPCOK GOT SHOGT/?

HE’S BLEEDING! 

SCOTTY WORRIED ABOUT SPOCK... SPOCK X SCOTTY RIGHTS!! RIGHTS!! 

m’BENGA?!?!!!! 

this is probably a prime spirk ep but yet....spock x scotty.....

i also...don’t like spirk? okay maybe that’s not the right word but there are ships i prefer infinitely more 

i know this is probably a broke take but uh..who actually reads these 

love 2 see a wigless chekov

love 2 see acting first officer scotty

“research is not the klingon way” damn what do u know 

“i did not invite a debate” okay kirk sorry that you hate your crew being smart....this uhura x scotty x chekov tag team style debate....chef’s kiss 

SCOTTY’S GOT THE CON! 

bones look so hot??? in this outfit. 

also why is here....like...he’d the cmo like get his ass on the ship in case spock goes into crit condition. 

“do i have a choice?” sir you BEAMED down. 

KJFAKJSLFHEK WHAT IS THIS WHITE YETI THING

mccoy screaming back at the yeti. mood

i literally have no memory of this episode at all. 

fucking huge fan of this lady’s orange crop top? 

what.....is she drugging him? 

oh my god....mccoy...y ou are so DUMB DONT USE YOUR PHASER RTJKAHJAHAA 

idk if im just seeing things and if 60′s makeup was just that bad but this woman looks like she’s in brownface but i actually cannot tell 

WAIT IS THIS THE EP WHERE CHAPEL SLAPS SPOCK AND SCOTTY WALKS IN LIKE....NOOO WHAT ARE YALL DOING AND THEN MBENGA COMES IN AND KEEPS SLAPPING SPOCK AND SCOTTY IS LIKE. ???? WHAT IS THIS 

IT IS ISN’T IT. 

you think when kirk inevitably gets sat down for a prime directing violation meeting people believe him when he says: “yeah sorry this native witch compelled me to break the prime directive” 

“HIT ME. HARDER” 

“WAHT ARE YE DOING WOMAN??” SCOTTKYJAKH 

scotty: “WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT?”

love to think that scotty is pissed ppl are beating up on spock

spock x scotty RIGHTS 

classic bones x kirk ethical debate

“so say if i’m wrong” yeah, kirk, you are. 

am i anti kirk? no. but sometimes he just rubs me the wrong way? 

poor tyree.....

aw he’s really a nice guy.

is nona dead?

“serpents for the garden of eden”

SO uh. im not saying this ep is bad. it clearly is trying to say SOMETHING but uh. 4/10. 

[enterprisetrampstamp]

scrolling through the t'pring tag again and saw a post that was essentially a counterpoint argument to the t'pring post I reblogged with A Lot Of Emotion(tm) yesterday it was basically saying that because of some enterprise episode, there's canon basis to assume t'pring could have just divorced spock rather than pit him and kirk against each other, and........ okay, I haven't watched enterprise, so that's probably true! but it's also distinctly a retcon. there is absolutely nothing in the tos episode to suggest t'pring had any choice other than the one she took, right down to her explanation of her actions and spock confirming them as logical. like... if she could have just divorced him, don't you think he would have pointed that out? especially while he's in the middle of mourning jim? look, I'm coming into star trek from a comic book background, where raiding canon for the bits we like and saying fuck off to the rest of it is pretty much a given. I would much rather ignore a retcon whose interpretation results in the demonization of a lady character than, well, demonize one of my ladies (this is also why I ignore that whole "talia drugged bruce into sleeping with her and that's how damian happened" thing) the post was also using this anti-t'pring standpoint to argue for more janice rand, which don't get me wrong, I HELLA EMPATHIZE WITH. I love janice, and fandom DOES seem to have forgotten about her I haven't written a character study in ages, but the more I think about how she must have felt during charlie x and that episode (I forget the name) where kirk's evil half tried to force himself on her, the more I want to. I almost certainly WILL write janice/nyota or janice/nyota/christine fic at some point, too, because I'm trash for femslash in the absolute best way but there isn't a maximum amount of lady-centric fan content, yeah? more janice doesn't have to mean less t'pring; the t'pura fic I've been fiddling with doesn't mean those janice fics aren't going to happen, or that the chuhura fic I've already written doesn't exist I'd just rather grab up every female character canon's bothered to bless me with and cradle them all against my chest than pit them against each other, you know? I've got room in my heart to love both t'pring and janice rand... as well as nyota uhura, number one, deanna troi, k'ehleyr, tasha yar, beverly crusher, christine chapel, katherine pulaski, guinan, AND that one engineering ensign who spilled chocolate milk on picard

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#352

"I find it annoying when people treat the Spock/Chapel relationship going sideways as either entirely Chapel or entirely Spock's fault.

Chapel is an established commitment phobe who fears emotional connections and gives zero effort to correcting this issue in her relationship with Spock.

Spock is an established cheater who has shown time and time again that he doesn't actually know what he wants for himself, let alone in a partner.

This relationship was ready to implode from word one, and both of them are to blame for that."

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#893

I don't really see any chemistry between Spock and Chapel or Bashir and Ezri. Both couples would be more believable if they were lavender marriages.

[doctor-mccoys-sanity]

wake up and break up 🤞