Spock's "I am a Vulcan. I have no ego to bruise" would suggest otherwise.
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Spock's "I am a Vulcan. I have no ego to bruise" would suggest otherwise.
Just because he accepts his human half does not mean he would reject his Vulcan half too.
I just found in TWOK that Spock appeared to be more at peace with himself. More 'relaxed' for lack of a better word. I always thought his encounter with V'Ger changed him (which would happen again after his resurrection). Before that he was always trying to reject his human half and upbringing. After V'Ger he seemed to realize that logic was the beginning of wisdom, not it's end (as he told Valeris in TUC). It seemed to me for the first time after encountering V'Ger he became a whole person. He no longer seemed to reject his human half. Oh, he would still have his little chess match with Dr. McCoy, thanking him when he'd make some quip about him being Vulcan. But I think that's just something the two of them had grown accustomed to. They were the kind of friends that showed their affection for one another by cracking 'jokes' about one another.
None of that means Spock would suddenly start being all emotional. It just means he's come to an acceptance about himself, and that he has found some value in his human half. We certainly see that by the time of Star Trek (2009). And I always thought that started with his encounter with V'Ger, when he realized knowledge and logic were not enough.
Moreover, the visuals go for this effect, too: set designers went to the trouble of actually including a fairly prominent picture of the ship exactly as she was seen in TOS!
It's bordering on subtle, perhaps. But it both shows intent, and does its job at actually inserting TOS into TMP for us all to see.
The movie wants to estabish that things have moved on since TOS, in-universe and out-universe. For TMP to be the new thing, it needs to acknowledge there was the old thing, and that's how it does that. Which I think is pretty neat.
(Now, it's too bad the movie moves back in so many other ways, artificially degrading the technology almost back to 1970s NASA levels. But every piece of "new Trek" has done that so far... TNG tried to pretend that touchscreens were the epitome of modernity, DSC has see-through monitors, and I'm sure PRO will manage this type of fumble somehow as well.)
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But then you have the Klingons, and an almost ground-up reimagining of the world, and Roddenberry's hand-wavy, "that's what it was always supposed to look like" and the novel's contention that TOS was an exaggerated dramatization. I think the dialogue about the refit and the TOS-era Enterprise picture were put in to homage the series and lampshade the differences but the idea that TOS was supposed to be taken as seen comes from "Relics" etc. much later (and even then, the later examples of TOS aesthetic in TNG/DS9/ENT each had a specific reason to use said aesthetic, relating to nostalgia, and the idea that those examples should lock DSC into a stiflingly retrograde vision seems to be like expecting the Nolan Batman films to look like the Adam West series).
TWOK took a lax approach to the minutiae of continuity, with Chekov knowing Khan and Meyer citing Conan Doyle's "What matter, so long as I hold my readers?" Meyer wasn't a fan of the "space pajamas" of TOS and probably didn't care too much about being consistent with them.
