#it's like chapel and spock having a negative development and la'an and uhura having a positive one. opening up and relaxing

[lenievi]

I think it’s going to be really funny if the Spock we know from TOS is going to be a result of his failed relationship with Chapel. He experimented with human emotions with her and it destroyed(?) him.

SPOCK: The joys of love made her human, and the agonies of love destroyed her.

Because of unsuccessful but powerful love, he decided to embrace his Vulcaness 1000% to the point where he started to feel that he shouldn’t even have friends. Being friends with someone was shameful.

He buried his ability to love. He buried his ability to feel.

KIRK: Will you try for one moment to feel? At least act like you've got a heart. We’re talking about Gary.

SPOCK: If I seem insensitive to what you're going through, Captain, understand it's the way I am.

and it’d be funny if The Naked Time and his interaction with Chapel was what kind of brought him back to accepting some feelings again, which led to him giving in to a hunch in the Galileo Seven, and his ordeal with Pike was almost the finishing line

KIRK: This regrettable tendency you've been showing lately towards flagrant emotionalism...

after that episode you have Spock struggling more and more between logic and emotions.