Not objective necessarily the case since snw has already overdone the characters more than jj trek ever did. Uhura in the Undiscovery country could not even speak klingon but in snw she know 37 languages. This has become a meme already on google and youtube. Chapel is a nurse in snw but she seem to know more about medical issues and is a good combat person than both Dr membga or Dr McCoy ever showed in TOS.
I see no reason why Chapel could not practice a little Aikido in the rec room, which is probably a holodeck. She could get master instructors there. Aikido does not rely on brute force. She does a wrist throw with pirate number one and body slams the other one. Perfectly plausible to me, not overdone. If she was a Kung Fu master it would be overdone.
There is solid criticism of snw on how over equipped the characters are that it contradicts their role in TOS. I believe Sam once told uhura how good she was at every thing even if she is still a cadet that shadows people so she is not meant to be good at everything that is why you shadow people in the first place.
Also dont you see your inconsistency but also you are helping me prove my point, you ae saying JJ Trek uhura was overqualified, overconfident, more competent than existing experienced officers not only is this not tire but these seem to be the same traits SNW Chapel seems to have that I am even pointing out because TOS Chapel never had that, So if you have issues with JJ trek Uhura, you should have more issue with SNW Chapel .
SNW Chapel is not "just a nurse." . By the time TOS rolls around she is bona fide researcher with a PhD .This is part of her character description from the sixties. She is no doubt a nurse practitioner. What has she done in sickbay that is so above her skill level? I need concrete examples. Every complex task I see her doing is under the scrutiny of M'Benga. What: She can't put goo on T"Pring's face and stick a quartz crystal on it? I need concrete examples of how Chapel is overqualified, seeing that she is at Stanford Moorehouse Institute probably in graduate school again.
Now lets even debunk this with some of the events that took place in canon about JJ trek uhura.
jj trek uhura - The reason she even gets to be main enterprise room is because she could interpret romalian after it became what was meant to be a throw away plot point but wasn't. she was not just put on the bridge there. jj trek uhura is not over powered or giving skills we know she is not meant to have like snw Chapel or uhura. So if anything snw Chapel and uhura have more poor characterization due to some mary sue traits.
Please list these Mary Sue traits. A Mary Sue is perfect. Please list all the examples of Chapel having skills she was not meant to have seeing she is studying graduate level epigenetics.
To put it in the super hero terms. they are over powered and that is what fan boys like to call bad boring characters in comics. This may have been done on purpose because what looks to be an ongoing issue is that the sexism of the 60s made tos look so bad that snw may have over upgraded some characters as a way to apologise for that but still snw characters have some Mary sue traits that is not in line with their future self in TOS when snw is meant to be an actual prequel unlike jj trek that was an alternate reality.
We know those classic line from Bones both in TOS and JJ Trek when Bones says I am a doctor not a ....this or that. However SNW Chapel can do what Bones never does of what Bones knows he is not meant to be doing since he is on medical team and is trained only in that profession.
Chapel, once again had a PhD in TOS. That is in her character description.
Uhura in TOS and JJ trek showing combat skills make sense as she goes on missions and can speak many languages, she is an interpreter and is a negotiator , so her knowing a bit of self defence combat skills is realistic. we see this combat skills in the mirrorverse, some star trek tos movie and in JJ trek. However i
n SNW Chapel can turn a hypospray into a better like gun weapon for fighting combat?
talk of overqualified and more competent than existing experienced officers to Bones or Dr Crusher from TNG or even The Doctor from Star Trek Voyager who did not seem to have much combat knowledge. lol. Worse is that Chapel can do this in her 20s in SNW but not her 30s like TOS? So where did the traits go?
Actually Chapel did the hypospray thing in TOS. It's a trope now. What you seem to want is for SNW Chapel to be written and portrayed exactly like TOS Chapel. Of course no actress nowadays would want this role and then, of course there would BE no role. Jess Bush is the actress now. She's more athletic. The actors do have some input into their characters and Jess, naturally, wants Chapel to get out of sickbay once in awhile. You are fine as long as Chapel is diminished, dismissed, humiliated and merely McCoy's assistant. You seem to like that because you want it back. Most fans I believe would want that to change. I know I do.
JJ trek Uhura is a more realistic female character and a better character in writing as she is working within her range of profession compared to SNW Uhura and Chapel. I dont even think this should be an argument if we have seen both movies and tv shows, although this strengthens my point SNW chapel has been given many of uhura traits since both of them are the only legacy female characters that have already been established well enough and now seem to have switched some traits as I have proven here with actual examples of uhura been more of the combat girl withing her line of work profession to Chapel who never was or should ever be because she never showed that in TOS like Uhura did and her nursing profession should not really allow it either. The overqualified, overconfident, more competent than existing experienced officers is more of a thing with SNW Chapel and even Uhura as she is more overqualified and competent than her tos self in star trek 6.
I always felt it looked perfectly fine for 22nd century trek. That show adhered to canon much better than SNW and Discovery imo.
