Fan Rants

Basically i was watching a murder mystery show with a bunch of random actors playing themselves in the characters i know them as and they kept bringing up spock and kirk, aka Quinto and Pine, and i got so much glee from it because my brain was like oooo they’re making so many star trek references!

Glam and the Pentagrams sounds rad as hell. I can feel myself already spinning theories and trying to predict what will happen!

Ooo i cant wait for the angst that is Fancyland. I love a tragic comedy

So, throughout the series he’s been exploring his human side and episodes were often framed as him having to make a choice between his vulcan half (t’pring) or his human half (chapel). And he made the choice to explore his humanity (plainly stated in Those Old Scientists). I think that makes sense for where his character is now, even if i didnt always agree with the execution. Spock spent his childhood on vulcan as an outsider so it makes sense that the moment he’s in a more dominantly human space that he would take that chance to explore that part of himself.

My fear is that they might frame him returning to his vulcan mindset, i.e the spock we see in TOS, as a regression. Like, something scares him into receding to old patterns such as the pain of La’ans death for instance, or god forbid a simple break up (which i simply wont accept haha), or maybe he acts irrationally because la’an was in danger and his fear of losing control makes him return to his discipline (which i may or may not have used in an unpublished fanfic haha). Im not saying it would be a bad story line per say. Spock is a character who has battled his two sides his whole life, and its not until TMP that we finally see a spock at peace with himself. So, i know the story we get of spock in SNW is not the complete story. Its Act II at most. Its kind of an origin story, meant to explain how he became the spock we know and love.

That being said, to end a series on a regression kind of bums me out lol. Partly because this might be the last we see of spock for awhile since paramount doesnt seem to know what to do with trek. But also, it puts him right back to where he was at the beginning of the series and he doesnt actually grow. Its not that spocks arc has to end happily. As an origin, it simply has to lay a foundation for the Spock we see in TOS. So, what will his experiment into humanity conclude with then? What will be his takeaway? How will this inform his decisions we see in TOS?

My hope, though, is that they will frame it as him coming to appreciate his vulcan side without the baggage of feeling like an outsider. I want him to feel proud of being Vulcan without denigrating what he learned about his own humanity. His interaction with patton oswalt makes me think he can come to this conclusion (forgive me i forget his character name and dont care to look it up lol). Spock will have experienced his human half and chosen for himself that it is not his preferred state of being. He is more comfortable, more himself, with his vulcan discipline. And with it, he’ll decide that he needs to focus on himself and learning to balance who he is and wants to be. Then him and La’an can split amicably (no deaths or ill plotted break ups please).

I really only see them concluding his story these two ways: either a regression, or a choice to return. Either the spock in TOS is a choice he made, or it was a reaction to a traumatic experience that closed him off.