We've no clue what Spock and Chapel's relationship was prior to TOS. We only know what it was in TOS. We also don't know about him and T'Pring. Shocked (if that was actually their reaction) is about Spock's use of the term "wife". So they can cut to commercial on a dramatic sting
Having just watched the scene, their reaction is more puzzled that shocked. Uhura is the only future SNW character who wonders about T'Pring's identity. IIRC, she and T'Pring have never met on SNW.
You ever pine for a ex? It happens. Exes not interested for various reasons are a thing too.Sure they have done it. Added Backstory that makes sense is great. Stuff that doesn't make sense not so much. Spock and Chapel. Chapel was obviously pining for Spock during TOS. Spock simply could not reciprocate that. He would not allow himself to do so. Unless of course under some type of influence. SNW (about 6-7 before TOS. Both are doing it like a pair of Rabbits all over the ship.
. Let's face it the whole thing is a stretch. It's very thin and before SNW this was never the way it was intended or even portrayed in TOS. Everyone is surprised by T'pring in Amok time. Chapel included.The Starfleet crew of DISCO definitely did not act like professionals quite often.
What examples?
Probably when Chapel goes and gets married to someone she only just met.
Not buying any of it. The tone in TOS just doesn't support it. It's a complete rewrite. Also Spock can't marry Tpring In SNW. Because he already technically is. It was an marriage arrangement from their parents at 7 years old. Less than a marriage but more than a betrothal According to Spock.
So when did Spock get married if Tping was just his fiancee in SNW and Chapel never knew? Seems like a stretch that She never knew they were married since her and Spock had an intense sexual relationship 6 or 7 years previously and she did indeed meet T'pring during SNW. Also I find it hard to believe that Uhura had zero knowledge of T'pring during SNW. You would think she would have heard through at least her friend Chapel.
It's like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. By God they will keep trying though.
For example...
That's nice, but others certainly did.
There were huge swathes of fandom complaining about Voyager's Dark Frontier rewriting history regarding Federation contact with the Borg. And then when Enterprise came along, there was someone every week complaining about some perceived continuity error the show made, often contradicting themselves. IE, in the first season people complained about the fact the show didn't use TOS Klingons, those same then later complained when the explanation came that it was "unnecessary."
Twenty-five years later. Anyone who is okay with that owes it to themselves to withhold complaints about any changes made in the modern shows until twenty-five years have gone by.
The aesthetics I don't mind too much except for the rescaling of the ship and the huge cavernous turbo lift interior that makes absolutely ZERO sense. Some of the tech like exterior robot mechanics yeah those would have come in handy during the Khan incident.... ...but instead they sloppily patched the ship up with some "boards". And yes those Gorn.....Oh my they are totally rewritten....
Fine and normal are different things than a good idea. Some retcons are better/worse than others.
Yeah, I totally remember the vitriol being thrown towards the "Killer Bs" on this very board during the Dark Frontier discussions.
They were retconned from the ground up. Nothing survived from TOS except the facial hair.
