When Paramount hires you to serve as the executive producer and overall head honcho of all Star Trek productions, you get to make that decision. Until then, potential continuity issues get decided by Alex Kurtzman and the people he hires
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It has tos stick to canon because that is what was planned and that is what has been built on. if the show , when announced said this is a full reboot in an alternate reality like the kelvin verse, than canon would not matter.
I swear, there is something strange here on this board, if I did not know better i would say many people here are kurtzman and godsman plants and paramount plus PR gurus or the myth of how people give the pretty white blonde girl character a pass must be true and don't apply the same rules they set for other characters.
You people are the same folks that gave the kelvin films a hard time even though that series is not prime canon but SNW that is prime canon, these same folks are now saying it should not matter when SNW has by 99% more objective reason to stick to canon that was demanded of the kelvin films that never had too.
No I am not going to let that kind of inconsistency slide after all the hate that has shown to kelvinverse. SNW , on paper... the way it is writing some characters should get more hate than the kelvin films ever did especially for characters like Pike, Chapel and Ortegea. Heck even Hammer been killed off is far more bad writing and hollow than Kelvin Pike getting killed off.
No, there will be big Issue if they go too far with spock and chapel, this will create more continuity issue than even Michael Burnham because at least Michael we can argue she was classified and spock never saw her again. Spock gets to see Chapel every day and not once did Spock even return her feelings, if this was a lost love there will be some traces or some signs that something happened but TOS never showed that from Spock POV. TOS Spock never even understood Chapel or
knew her well enough in TOS. He found most of her crush on him behaviour odd. Also SNW has already damaged canon with Chapel knowing about Sybok.
Seriously I am kind of shocked by how much Chapel seems to be getting a pass here, when she is been written worse than her TOS self and is the character that is breaking canon the most. she knows sybok, she knows tpring. Yeah Laan may know Michael but Laan is not a TOS Character.
Taking advantage of a situation to come onto him. Her face on her hands that is not a friend thing. Chapel should not have done that because Spock is engaged to Tpring. She crossed a line that is why it is over the top because she is not respecting boundaries. which is very odd because considering episode 7 when she says she knows were she stands with him. So Chapel is written to be obsessed here. I think she wanted Spock to kiss her , that is why she had his hand in his face. She was egging him on hence her disappointment on her face as she watched him go.
Sorry that will be a TAS Episode, cant remember the name but she uses a love portion on Spock.
Chapel is the worst female on the show and she is lucky she is the pretty white girl because if things were different I doubt fans will be giving her a pass so easily.
Finally yes SNW is Discovery 2.0 because Hammer is now the Airiam of Discovery. I find it badly hilarious that Spock in this Nu trek TV show era, has ''mourned'' the loss of two characters he was barely close too.
The Nimoy Spock from TOS will find it quite illogical.
