Yes, I fully believe there is room for more than one Spock at a time. But I do believe they would need to be sufficiently different from one another. Right now, I think Quinto and Peck are too "similar", in that both are kinda' prequel versions of Nimoy with a slight reboot-painting.
They are only similar in that Ethan could play kelvin Spock's sibling but the characters? Foundamentally different already.
Kelvin Spock is already working with kirk&Co, he has a girlfriend - he could have kids! - (while disco Spock won't, unless they decide to retcon that too), he lost his mother and one of his home planets, he has a better relationship with Sarek (supposition I guess, but there is every reason to believe it won't be like tos spock), he doesn't have a step sister and may not even have a brother. He never got insane because he had red angel visions. The more we will see disco Spock, the more different kelvin Spock will be.
No one could mistake disco Spock for a prequel of kelvin Spock unless they didn't watch the movies.
I think keeping them separated and liking them both on their own merit may be very easy, not to mention possible.
I just don't think it's a good idea to have them both at the same time.
I don't think it's an issue but IF it is, it might be more for Discovery than the movies imo.
Hahaha, pretty well captured my feelings towards Quinto-Spock at the time.
Not sure I understand why, though. Kelvin Spock isn't really a prequel of Nimoy's Spock.
Yeah, the only real open question is wether he works things out with Uhura or not. But Beyond heavily implied it's all going to be much more into the direction of TOS anyway. But who knows? Maybe a ST4 could have radically changed the direction of the Kelvin-verse again....
Hardly. Compared to tos, his emotional development was accelerated. He's not the same and if he were to become like tos Spock, it would mean going backwards for him and basically make it seems his whole character arc in the movies was...useless.
Him looking at the picture of tos Spock in the end doesn't mean he will be like him. He was only further inspired to not give up about his career and 'family' after seeing that it was the only valuable thing tos Spock had too.
It isn't only a detail that right after that scene he tries to be better with Uhura too by going to the party made for their friend and captain only because she is there and he values spending time with her. He admits that without any problem. Tos Spock would.. just finish his mission report ^ pre-beyond Spock would probably do his homework too and just tell Uhura he'd see her later anyway. In fact, there was a teasing tone in her question.
I think the fact he lost so much already and he almost lost more has changed this Spock and his perspective on things. He is always evolving, but not into how tos Spock was at his age.
In many ways, and the creative team said that too, the death of Spock prime was a pretext for this Spock to also move on and live his own life.
There is a line by this Spock from the script of the first movie that I wish they'd keep in the final cut too because it's poignant.
It's from the scene between him and Spock prime:
"My future cannot be determined by your past. We are one, but not the same."
