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I think the point we are supposed to take away is that he’s very young, relatively speaking, to the Spock we know and love from the movies and TNG. He’s a work in progress on his way to becoming that person

The first episode of the season had Spock discussing with Doctor M’Benga the fact that embracing his anger to help him fight the Gorn last season in “All Those Who Wander” broke down his mental conditioning. It’s also been shown in three of four recaps at the beginning of episodes this season. I would assume they’re building towards something.

As for Spock “never” having emotions, I’d suggest rewatching some TOS. His wry enjoyment when Uhura teases him with her song in “Charlie X”, his outburst at seeing Kirk alive at the end of “Amok Time”, and just how ridiculously horny he is in “The Cloud Minders” all come to mind, never mind those instances when he’s affected by some outside force suppressing his conditioning.

Yeah, it's weird how they're embracing this...foundational aspect of the character.

100%

So much so that I’m at the point where I’m wondering if this show is still canon.

I really like Strange New Worlds. The episodic nature with overarching storylines is the right direction for Star Trek, but really wish they had used this cast to make a show with a new crew in a new ship set post-DS9.

That episode is forever known as the "Enterprise Bingo" episode. I absolutely loved the sub-plot with Una and La'an. It's one of my favorite episodes of Season 1.

Probably a smart and distinctly SNW move to use all the Vulcan stuff for comedy.

So we might be in for more hijinks?

Trek Culture referenced in their last video that Spock has become the comic relief, this series.

I was not a fan of introducing legacy characters like Spock, Kirk - and even lesser-explored characters like Pike, Chapel, Number One and M'Benga to an extent - in DIS/SNW. Introduce new characters I say, that aren't hamstrung by what's already been established - something that I think is even more important in a show that's set in the "past".

That said, if we were to have a pre-TOS Spock, I wanted to see a Spock who would credibly grin at a plant or exclaim "The women!". I think SNW has given us that.

However, you're absolutely right. The destination for the character in SNW is for him to choose his Vulcan half over his human half. Hopefully the writers have planned this out. There's potential for a poignant story arc here, not just for Spock but also Chapel and T'Pring.

This episode seems like it's going to be light-hearted. Faces was, uh... not.

Wow! I had completely forgotten about that

Strange New Worlds is pretty light hearted, this is a perfectly reasonable possibility for them

It's great. Apart from Picard S3, this is the best Star Trek we've had since the 90s.

My partner describes it as like TNG with the weak episodes taken out. They're great, good, or neutral.

@snowyday @AdmiralShat I struggled to get properly into any post-TNG Trek and I am completely hooked on Strange New Worlds. Like TNG, there’s a whole complete story in every episode, with some over-arching threads. Try S1E1 - if you at all like that, you’re going to love the whole thing. There are a few weird/difficult episodes (as TNG had) but the stand-out episodes are so good they easily carry the whole show. The final episode of season 1, in particular, is superb.