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LoglineA shuttle accident leads to Spock’s Vulcan DNA being removed by aliens, making him fully human and completely unprepared to face T’Pring’s family during an important ceremonial dinner.

Written by Kathryn Lyn & Henry Alonso Myers

Directed by Jordan Canning

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Much to my own surprise, I'm a complete sucker for this budding Spock/Chapel romance. I just want these two beautiful people to be happy together, damn it! We all know it's doomed, unfortunately, and I hope that whatever inevitably destroys it doesn't turn out to be too painful for the characters involved. Spock and Chapel are obviously not engaged in a romantic relationship in TOS, most obviously in Amok Time when such a pairing would have rendered the entire story trivial.

Someone mentioned in a previous thread that Spock's Pon Farr (seven years before Amok Time) is closing in. I was skeptical in that thread that they would choose to touch on it then, but the events of this episode do make that seem quite a bit more likely, if (again) increasingly difficult to square with Amok Time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm holding out hope for Spock/Chapel. I actually think SNW subtly branched away from the Prime timeline some time ago, so the future for these characters is not yet written!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The Temporal Cold War has made ripples in the timeline. The Romulan time traveler in "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" strongly hinted that history was at least a little bit different than it had been, with the date of the Eugenics War as case in point. I think the writers are freeing themselves up to make minor changes to canon. I don't think it's a branching timeline, though, it's still Prime. Just a little bit different, like Gabriel Bell being replaced by Captain Sisco.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's sci-fi -- if the producers feel strongly enough to make a blank slate, they can always retcon or shall I say future-con, and have SNW branch out a different timeline.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But there is nothing in the series so far that suggests SNW has diverged. Unless you count the visual aspects, I suppose, although that means Disco is also an alt-timeline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@triktrek @CaptainProton Our instances sometimes don’t federate correctly, so I'm gonna reply from Mastoson this time! Here’s the reply that shows how SNW has, maybe, diverged: https://beehaw.org/comment/658690

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Woah woah ... they're fighting words!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I don't know but what Amok Time was Spock's first pon farr. Vulcans age and mature more slowly than humans, right?