Listen. Here's what I want to talk about:
That lingering eye contact between Chapel and Spock as she's turning away from him.
I might start shipping Spock/Chapel for the first time.
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Oh, the joy and wonders of shipping.
it can be very toxic, i say this as a person who was anti reylo (rey/kylo) from star wars and I loathe how JJ Abrams thought it was a good idea to make it cannon, when it made no sense. he was evil.
So shipping wars can very toxic but also good if it is well written and worth it in explaining why you ship a couple.
However I doubt any ship in SNW will go well and get a loyal fandom based on past writing of Nu TV trek Although Tyler and Michael form Discovery seem to have a fan base and no one cares of her and Book, but who watches discovery minus hard core star trek fans.
For SNW, I think the ship can go many ways but that will depend more on chemistry, I did not like most of the mini trailers for the characters because I felt Spock was shoehorned in with all the characters, especially the girls. Be that as it may, it opens the doors for shipping possibilities for ships.
spock/chapel
Anyone can start shipping spock/chapel based on their interaction, from the trailer she is the one that heavily flirts with him the most. Although I hated the slap. if Spock had been the one to slap her, it will be since as abuse. this is not how to write strong women to me.
Spock/Laan
Anyone can start shipping Spock/Laan since he has done a mind meld with her or does one with her, not to mention the Khan connection.
Spock/Uhura
Anyone can also start shipping Spock/Uhura because based on the final scene from the Uhura's trailer. Uhura also does stair at him, more than she should , I think people will ship or try to force this ship the most, because they already have quite a fan base because of the Kelvin Films. I saw an interview on Collider where they were asking Ethan Peck, what was it like meeting Uhura for the first time and Peck answer was pretty grey.
Spock/Tpring
Then yes, I am also going to mention Spock/Tpring. I dont care that we already know how it ends based on Amok time from TOS but this is a possible ship too and Tpring seems to like Spock here.
So it will all depend on the chemistry and dynamics, However if I am going to guess the one ship they will build up to, My money is on Spock/Uhura, because not only is it Alex Kurtzman the same person behind star trek 2009 , the writers have also said they wanted to explore a relationship that they felt could have happen but never did in TOS and that was one of the reasons Kurtzman gave when he wrote star trek 2009, the trek timline that made Spock.Uhura canon.
Be that as it may, I think he could also have been referring to Chapel, but TOS portrays both women differently with Spock, Chapel was portrayed as a woman with love lorn crush, While Uhura was portrayed more as a women who may have liked him, flirts once in a while that he had no issue with, but unlike Chapel it is not a love lorn crush , However in fairness to Uhura, she was a black woman and her stories line were limited. I will always say this about Uhura, no chance a woman that fine would not have had one of the big 3 (Kirk, Spock,Mccoy) not like her. this never happens on TV shows with sexy girls, however racism in the 60s was still a big deal. So we may never known how things would have gone....until now?????
So I guess the ship wars would have been fun to look forwards too but I don't have too much faith in any of the writers, I am not going in thinking I will get harry potter kind of shipping wars, meaning I am not going in looking for good writing. But it will be nice to sit through it.
