I've heard that she has said that, but it seems to contradict what is actually depicted on screen. We very rarely see Vulcan romance throughout the franchise. I think it might be more accurate to say that Vulcans are capable of performing at any given time, but that they mostly choose not to. Let's face it, if being intimate is like reading the newspaper, then why bother?
Who pays any attention to gender pronouns?
The person who originally played Spock was even more amazing. I think Sybok is just a little less of a concern.
Angel tells Spock that being brought up in Vulcan culture is merely geography. This is plainly nonsense.
You forgot ENT S4 Storm Front Parts 1 and 2 too.
Maybe but she only has two years til Korby disappears. They have to be engaged before that. Chapel makes it pretty plain she is acting out over a previous dude who broke her heart. It may have been the girl that was bi and misunderstood Chapel. Chapel said it was a misunderstanding. SOOOOO. I vote against the bisexual thing.
In addition Spock says Sybok was born out of wedlock. I have read that he was born of Sarek's first marriage.
Agreed about the kiss with Spock. What person, knowing the other person is creating a ruse reacts like that to a faked kiss? They look at each other for along moment. Vulcans are touch telepaths. Did he tell her something? Then Spock makes the long trip to sickbay to ask her if she wants to talk about her feelings.Does he want her to say something out loud? Eh? He pays an inordinate amount of attention to her for a man "in love" with T'Pring.My first 9, not because it was a great episode, but because it's carrying the water for the entire show really well. And this is just the first season. Mahvelous! I won't go much into anything except a couple things:
1) I still believe that Chapel already knows Korby and they've had a relationship and she's not free to tell anyone about it. We'll see what happens there. That kiss with Spock was too passionate and T'Pring knew it was a first kiss (any woman would see that).
2) T'Pring's little secret smirk right when Stonn told her about the call from the Enterprise tells me she's already boinking Stonn. Search me as to why but call it some sort of writerly instinct. We'll see...
3) Spock throwing the pirates around like rag dolls made me grin so widely it hurt.
4) Stonn AND Sybok... loving the canon fodder here
Just like in Amok Time.
I was disappointed in this one again. Jesse James Keitel's performance just didn't work for me, and the beaming away reminded me of the ending of Chief Wiggun, PI.
("Aw, let him go. I have a feeling we'll meet again... always in more sexy and exciting ways")
Pikes whole blase attitude to being captured and his ship and crew taken seemed out of place, even though he knows his own future, he doesn't know his crews.
I get they needed something for Chapel to do but making her into an off screen Rambo is an... odd choice. And we get a return of the classic Star Trek False Surrender war crime! Although she's a civilian so I guess she doesn't know better. Although why a civilian nurse would also have knowledge of the Enterprises computer systems to the extent shown in Engineering is another question.
Disagree. She looks athletic and muscular to me. A woman can indeed use Aikido or other suitable martial art to flip a bigger and stronger man. T'Pring's clocking the Vulcan though is ridiculous. Chapel is not dealing with an official foreign military organization that signed onto a charter of some kind. She's dealing with pirates. All's fair. Also shoujldn't anyone on the ship be trained to do some basic things like send a distress call? She was trying various ways of logging in.
I was hoping we'd see good ol' auxiliary control, but I guess it's cheaper to set it in engineering.
Spocks character arc is also an odd choice. It's like they are trying to speed run him through stages that took 25 years in the original run. Personally, I think they'd have been better off going the Kelvinverse route and showing him struggling against his human half & trying to be more Vulcan in this show, making his later acceptance of his human side and discovery that logic is not the end point of wisdom better.
I thought Kolinahr was a special, elite process above and beyond regular Vulcan control, that only a small percentage chose to follow. Here it seems like a ritual for all Vulcans?
Was that a Reman punching Pike and messing up his hair?
Pikes pirate talk at the end was a nice TOS episode throwback (the Captain making a joke at the end of a mission).
More Small Universe Syndrome with Sybock being Angel's husband who is in prison, but that's just how the show rolls
How many pirates were there, that they managed to overpower the hundreds of crew members so easily?!?!
Nah. The only explanation needed is the same one as for the other TOS episodes she wasn't in.
