#i was hoping they wouldve played into this chapel keeps her distance thing more and she was just a relentless flirt

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what do you think of snw making spock and chapel official even if he never broke it up with tpring? Spock is now some kind of polygamist.

so what these writers are saying is that chapel was spock's side-chick 10 years ago and she was the woman he went it when he took a break from tpring.

this show braged about writing so called strong female characters but somehow they are okay with making chapel the side chick since spock has never called it off with tpring.

I ship spock/uhura and wanted more het pairing for spock and kirk but I am glad uhura is not chapel here in SNW. No way will I be happy if uhura was in an open affair with spock while he had a fiancé, especially as a black female character, some may just call her a bed wench.

As for Chapel, I just dont think she was ever destined to be a good female character.

she was disliked in TOS for having an unrequited feeling for spock and now in snw, she dates him but with another woman still in his life. an affair

this is bad and for spock, I feel this is one of his worst arcs. Kirk wont juggle two women talkless of spock.

Honestly, ive hated the chapel/spock plot since the beginning. I wish they would’ve established their friendship in season 1, and given Chapel more of a history or arc unrelated to her romantic plot which seems to dominate her character. Or even, showed us more about how she keeps her distance from romantic interests like she did in the beginning with that guy at the bar. And maybe by around the end of season 1 does she suddenly have her epiphany of sonofabitch that unfeeling bastard made me feel something.

And spock having feelings for her seems really rushed. I think they should have used this episode for him to only now realize oh hey, this chapel person stirs something in me. I wanted him to spend more time figuring out what exactly those feelings were. Was he just close to her because she was his friend or was it something more? Should he explore those feelings or should he suppress them because they were illogical? There wasn’t enough of a battle for me there.

And im not anti spock/chapel per say. I, personally, read their situation in TOS as them both having feelings for each other at some point or another but Spock either didnt want to give in to those feelings or didn’t want to start something with her he knew he couldnt commit to. So to have them hook up essentially in the past and then split (because we know its doomed) could have added some context to TOS but the way it was handled made them both seem sloppy and they deserved better than that.

So at the moment, im mostly just curious how they plan to end it. What long game are the writers playing with spock to bring him back to his vulcan discipline? How does that play in with chapel and does it? Until the series ends, I’m (mostly) reserving judgment and trusting they have a plan. Once it ends though all bets are off haha