Chapel Character Teaser

Don't sweat it honey. It's obviously beyond your comprehension.

 

Yes, it is. Chapel is fine as she is. And, evidently, bisexual. Terms like "politically correct" and "virtue signaling" are dog-whistles, and otherwise content-free labels.

 

More like vile and disgusting, but yeah.

 

*I've been a feminist since I was 50 so you're probably right.*
I meant to say I've been a feminist for 50 years - since I was 17. But it still stands. It is beyond my comprehension that anyone still thinks like that. I don't know why really, since we seem to be going backwards in RL. Hence my love of this Chapel whose body is all her own to do with as she pleases.

 

1. "Spock Amok" was an outstanding episode. The personal interactions are credible and compelling, each of which is rare in Trek singly, all the more so together.

2. Chapel's role in this episode was just brilliant. She's made a friend in Spock. I suspect the seeds of her attraction to Spock are now planted, and that she feels she'd be open to more than just a casual no-strings hookup with him, except she knows that's not possible because of Spock's commitment to T'Pring. That's what she was thinking when she censored herself near the end, I think. In any case, she's been transformed as a character by this new friendship.

 

The only new crewmember seems to be Uhura, no?

 

Perhaps Chapel's free approach to sex is a nod to Roddenberry's notorious enjoymentof free love? Also, if Chapel knows about T'Pring, her reaction in Amok Time isn't surprise at his announcement of his fiancée but shock that her rival is still on the scene.

Let's also not forget Uhura isn't above getting a crewman to fix her rattling doors.

 

Well, Sam Kirk. And M'Benga had to introduce Chapel. So, those two and Uhura.

 

Hemmer is referred to as the new chief engineer.

 

It's actually pretty easy to understand, it's just deeply misogynist garbage. It's been poisoning society for centuries and one of simplest ways of thinking humans have.

 

Okay. I wasn't sure about Hemmer, since others aboard seem to know him.

 

It's possible he served under the previous Chief.

 

When Pike took temporary command of Discovery the Chief Engineer of the Enterprise was Louvier. With that, the way Hemmer was introduced as “the new chief engineer,” and as you said, the fact that Spock and the crew seemed familiar with Hemmer, I’m assuming he was already previously an engineering crew member on the Enterprise.

Precisely what ‪‪I was thinking.

He could have arrived after they went back into service in the season premiere, maybe because he was too far to return in time, as they were rushed back ahead of schedule to rescue Una.

 

He and Spock practically acted like they were friends.

 

Odd thing I noticed. Spock and T'Pring meet at a restaurant and there is a fire burning in the background. Spock and Christine meet at a restaurant and there is a fire burning exactly the same in the background. Coincidence? The fire represents passion. Two women two different fires. I'd like to think that the director is literary enough to create little symbolic gestures like this.

 

Yes.

 

Yup.

 

Or maybe it's just that Starfleet Naval engineers design their ship lounges exactly the same way as they design their Starbase lounges.

 

They're modular.