Does nuTrek Spock scare you?

[The Rock]

He kinda scares me. Prime Spock seemed to have a calm demeanor about him. But nuTrek Spock seems a bit.......psychotic. As if he could go medieval on your ass if you piss him off. Not saying that prime Spock wouldn't do the same thing, but prime Spock just seems warmer in a way.

Anyone know where I'm coming from?

 

[C.E. Evans]

Like a young half-Vulcan/half-Human that hasn't quite fully mastered the suppression of his emotions yet?

He doesn't really scare me, but he hasn't found that balance between logic and instinct that the way more experienced Spock Prime did, IMO.

 

[wulfio]

Sylar

 

[urbandefault]

Probably about the time Quinto is allowed to play Spock as we know him, the film series will be done and we'll have to start all over next time with a different actor.

 

[Melakon]

Prime Spock seemed to have a calm demeanor about him.

A pointy eared guy screaming "The women!" is a guy with a calm demeanor to you?

 

[USS Triumphant]

Sylar

It really is all that needed to be said, isn't it?

But just 'cause, I'll add to it - American Horror Story.

 

[2takesfrakes]

"Prime" Bones 'scares' me, more. Always getting loud and emotional over stupid shit all the time and he was the ship's surgeon! Imagine having to let someone that unstable operate on you. That's messed, however you want to look at it. I'd be asking for Doctor M'Benga all the time! Now, NuSpock's incorporated some of those "Bones" traits and, you know, what are you gonna do? At least he's not operating on people, but he does have those strange, magical powers. I don't like the idea of the Vulcan Mind Meld, anyway ... having someone's brain fiddled with by a Vulcan would indeed be a scarey prospect ...

 

[Hypaspist]

I think that TOS Spock and nuSpock are both fish out of water in different ways. TOS Spock isn't quite as comfortable with his human side so he suppresses his expressions and everything a lot more. In the movies, he is a lot more communicative while still appearing wise.

I like the new one because he seems like he's more willing to assert himself. It's not that he's angry or anything like that, just that he seems to be more of a soldier. I can't imagine him simply walking away if a crew member talked back like in Balance of Terror.

 

[Melakon]

One of TOS Spock's most serious moments is in "All Our Yesterdays". After another insult from McCoy, Spock grabs him by the throat and says, "I don't like that. I don't think I ever did, and now I'm sure."

Unfortunately, it's explained as being under the telepathic influence from emotional primitive Vulcans of 5000 years ago.

 

[fireproof78]

I think they each have their moments. Spock in "Amok Time" is a little scary, especially when he is strangling Kirk.

Also, and I might have to revisit it, but I think "This Side of Paradise" features another Kirk and Spock tussle, where Kirk has to get Spock emotionally riled up to deal with alien spores. Rather bad plan, on Kirk's part

Actually, parallels Trek 09 a bit.

 

[xavier]

Not really but he does scare his teammates. did you see when he was choking Kirk in the first film. the look of scotty, bones, uhura and his father (Sarek) face. they were all godsmarked , fearful and shocked. Uhura looked like she might cry and sarak was embarrassed by his behavior.

 

[Commishsleer]

Just don't make him angry...
you won't like him when he's angry...

Its not really that easy to make nuSpock angry.
He took a whole bunch of racist remarks and inappropriate touching from nuKirk without going ballistic.

Just don't kill anyone Spock likes or talk trash about his mother and you'll probably be OK.

 

[F. King Daniel]

He kinda scares me. Prime Spock seemed to have a calm demeanor about him. But nuTrek Spock seems a bit.......psychotic. As if he could go medieval on your ass if you piss him off. Not saying that prime Spock wouldn't do the same thing, but prime Spock just seems warmer in a way.

Anyone know where I'm coming from?

I'd rather be beaten half to death by new Spock than telepathically raped by Old Spock as Valaris was in STVI. That scene made Spock a dispassionate evil and should never have been played that way.

 

[Commishsleer]

He kinda scares me. Prime Spock seemed to have a calm demeanor about him. But nuTrek Spock seems a bit.......psychotic. As if he could go medieval on your ass if you piss him off. Not saying that prime Spock wouldn't do the same thing, but prime Spock just seems warmer in a way.

Anyone know where I'm coming from?

I'd rather be beaten half to death by new Spock than telepathically raped by Old Spock as Valaris was in STVI. That scene made Spock a dispassionate evil and should never have been played that way.

I'm not having a go but I'm just curious, are you OK when
PrimeSpock 'hypnotised' the guard in a Taste of Armageddon and the girl in "Omega Glory". Or when nuSpock extracted info from the unconscious Romulan.
Are nuSpocks actions towards the Romulan that much difference to PrimeSpocks with Valeris?

 

[F. King Daniel]

It was the way the scene played out. Valaris' screaming and terror was totally different to any of the other examples. They treat it like rape - the stronger Spock forcing himself into Valaris' mind. Not only is that unpleasant, I hate the way the crew just sit and watch. In Into Darkness, when Kirk hits Khan over and over, and at the end when he's defenceless and Spock is wailing on him, Uhura speaks up.

 

[Dac]

Considering NuSpock beats a man (whom while Khan isn't innocent, he's not the one who killed Kirk. Marcus was) with a metal chunk while his girlfriend is pleading him to stop, yeah. That's pretty fucking psychotic.

 

[Smellmet]

It was Khans last attack on the enterprise that crippled it though

 

[CaptainMurdock]

Plus we can't forget that Khan was responsible for Admiral Pike's death. Whom Spock served with before so for all we know Pike was somewhat of a father figure to Spock too.

 

[Dac]

It was Khans last attack on the enterprise that crippled it though

I just rewatched it. Khan fires 10 phaser shots that do very little to the Enterprise.

Plus we can't forget that Khan was responsible for Admiral Pike's death. Whom Spock served with before so for all we know Pike was somewhat of a father figure to Spock too.

And yet, Spock didn't wail on Khan when he met him on Kronos, or when he was in Custody.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Had Khan not made that final attack on the helpless Enterprise, the warp core wouldn't have failed, the ship wouldn't have started falling and Kirk wouldn't have had to irradiate himself. Khan chose to attack, thus it's very much his fault.

(EDIT: Just rewatched the scene, from Khan's "No ship should go down without her captain!" to the subsequent attack targeting the engineering section - including a few hits which go through the hull and out the other side, I think it's pretty clear who's fault the Enterprise's final breakdown was)