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LoglineA shuttle accident leads to Spock’s Vulcan DNA being removed by aliens, making him fully human and completely unprepared to face T’Pring’s family during an important ceremonial dinner.

Written by Kathryn Lyn & Henry Alonso Myers

Directed by Jordan Canning

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Let's answer the real questions here.

What should we call this relationship? Chock? Spapel?

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[–] G59 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nooo I want T'Pring to be happy :(

[–] mlekar 8 points 2 years ago

I always wondered how she ended up so sour and scheming in Amok Time … well here we go. Another 10 years or so of this will do that. Props to the writers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I surely got some nods to Bender becoming human in Futurma season 4. The bacon eating scene, surely a Matt Groening reference to Homer's love for pork, and Bender went wild on nachos and hot dogs.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

LOL Vulcan food and air must do wonders for human biology.

[–] eva_sieve 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kinda sad we didn't get James Frain back as Sarek for this episode. I could kinda see him bumping into Chapel and reminiscing about how the Vulcan Science Academy was absolutely awful to his 1.5 human kids.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Remember that Sarek is not speaking to Spock for another like 18 years or so

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

It's insane how a series can be so good

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (5 children)

So I'm not really the biggest fan of the episode. Felt a bit too obviously like mid-season filler or something. Though I didn't hate it.

But what I actually really appreciated about it, reflecting on it just now, is that I don't think it was predictable, like at all. You couldn't quite tell if the episode was going to go full comedy, or romantic drama or some whacky sci-fi stuff with the wormhole aliens.

And I think that might be one of SNW's strengths (?) A sort of comfortable and maybe confident fluidity around the tone and style it's going for in any episode and at any point in time.

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[–] Weerdo 9 points 2 years ago

So, that whole section for Spock on being a Vulcan, That's the video clip they're going to give new actors for Vulcans isn't it? Right down to the prosthetics.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was not a fan of the spock chapel love story but this episode was def a banger

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I really don't understand why they have to do this whole Chapel/Spock thing. :( I like T'Pring more.

[–] Hypersapien 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because it's been a thing since the '60s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

@Hypersapien @lwaxana_katana

To be fair, TOS didn't really go hard on Spock+Chapel, but even being a doofus kid, I shipped it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Didn't Naked Time have Chapel literally profess her love for Spock?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

This episode was really fun

[–] deweydecibel 6 points 2 years ago

I can't be the only one that felt Ethan Peck's human Spock was very similar in tone to Ezra Miller's Barry Allen...

Not in a bad way, either.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

All the jokes aside, the music right before Spock and Chapel kiss was beautiful.

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