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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x05 - "Spock Amok"

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I didn't much care for this episode the first time I saw it. But after re-watching it a few times it has grown on me. It's a very good Star Trek episode.
 
I just finished watching it again. What goes on with Chapel's character is delightful. She's become one of my favorites on the show.

I think I expected that this series would try to either become a rerun of TOS or otherwise turn into just another series making all the same moves in the same ways as the other sequels. And it's neither.

It is the sequel that TOS always deserved.
 
I loved this episode because it was equally as comedic as it was romantic. Even in TOS, Spock was sought after by quite a few ladies, not to mention Christine Chapel's obvious crush on him (Something I'm so glad they are including in SNW). Exploring Spock and T'Pring's relationship was such an excellent idea for this series and they way they played it out in this episode was genius. So, I would definitely say that Spock is more of a ladies man than either Kirk or Pike, even if he doesn't think he is or doesn't want to be. XD

I'm not sure being engaged to a woman he both loves and respects (and slightly fears), and being conflicted (and possibly in denial) over his attraction to another woman qualifies Spock as a ladies man. Kirk was defined that way back in ancient times because he (supposedly) had a lot of casual sexual relationships. He was a "player" in modern parlance. That's the definition of "ladies man."
 
I think by "Ladies man" the poster means the ladies are into him, but to no avail. Just for the sake of argument Kirk had quite a few ladies in his past. We have several women giving him langorous eyes and he gives it right back with an air of "Yeah, baby later".
Honestly both Spock and Kirk avoid commitments. It's all part of their Star Fleet heroism. They seem to believe they are above such mundane things.
 
Just finished this episode over lunch. Had forgotten about “the punch”. :lol:

Five for five on the rewatch.

Whaddya mean I have to wait for June to get new episodes? I thought we’d solved the instant gratification conundrum. :scream:
 
Doing a rewatch binge leading up to Season 2 and am at "Spock Amok". Peck and Sandu play their scenes marvelously. You can sense the passion between the characters even though they're delivering the line in a very Vulcan manner.
 
Their romance is one of the things I'm not too big a fan of in this show get. It's too passionate and human
 
They're Vukcans. Seeing them always kissing rubs me the wrong way.

They are, indeed, Vulcans. And Vulcans who have not undergone Kolinahr still experience emotion. And just as D.C. Fontana, who wrote "Journey to Babel" and probably did more to establish Mister Spock's character than anyone other than Gene Coon, always said, Vulcans in a relationship express love and affection for each other in privacy.
 
They are, indeed, Vulcans. And Vulcans who have not undergone Kolinahr still experience emotion. And just as D.C. Fontana, who wrote "Journey to Babel" and probably did more to establish Mister Spock's character than anyone other than Gene Coon, always said, Vulcans in a relationship express love and affection for each other in privacy.

Sure, and I don't like the flanderized Berman era automatons either. But I feel post 2009 ST always goes too far in the other direction

I guess I'd like a somewhat more alien like romance instead of them just acting like humans. Especially since, IIRC, they never actually lived each other during TOS
 
Sure, and I don't like the flanderized Berman era automatons either. But I feel post 2009 ST always goes too far in the other direction

I guess I'd like a somewhat more alien like romance instead of them just acting like humans. Especially since, IIRC, they never actually lived each other during TOS
Well to be fair. In the Pike/TOS era, we're exposed tom a half-Human/half-Vulcan hybrid, whose Vulcan father had a fetish for full Human women (We know he married at least two.) And ultimately T'Pring chose the full Vulcan Stonn over half Vulcan Spock. ;)
 
Well to be fair. In the Pike/TOS era, we're exposed tom a half-Human/half-Vulcan hybrid, whose Vulcan father had a fetish for full Human women (We know he married at least two.) And ultimately T'Pring chose the full Vulcan Stonn over half Vulcan Spock. ;)

True. I just always thought they never liked each other as much as SNW shows them
 
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