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Spock when you hear that name and you're over the age of 30 it conjures up an image of a man whose
ears are tapered up to a point and his eyebrows are raised high and severe his bowl cut trimmed
bangs perfectly frame a face right down to the futuristic pointed sideburns and that face belongs
to cultural icon Leonard Nimoy Nimoy's character became so famous some people thought he was even
a doctor who wrote books about babies and child care even though it was published 20 years before
Star Trek landed on TV sets sorry Dr Spock that's Notch that is exactly what I said the definitive
dose ranks him in the top 20 fictional characters of all time behind the likes of Superman Darth
Vader and Mickey Mouse just what the Dickens is going on here huh so what I'm trying to say here
is that Leonard Nimoy Spock is legendary iconic among fictional characters and you don't get to
be legendary because you were on a good show you have to capture the imaginations and hearts of
millions the original series Spock fascinated viewers we week after week with a peek inside
the inner workings of the alien Vulcan race that had the ability to suppress all emotion when would
Kirk or bones finally break through that hard Vulcan shell and reach the humanity of a friend
they care deeply about and the answer of course was never well that is if Spock had anything to
say about it fascinating what half Vulcan half human there were glimpses from time to time where
emotion was forced from him by some powerful being planetary Spore or ponfar and there were
moments of slippage a slight smile for Uhura while playing the Vulcan loot or a happy surprise when
he realizes he didn't in fact kill his captain and while we could usually sense the subtle emotion
Nimoy was giving us through Spock moments like these were far and few between you see Spock's
character was beyond reproach and not only did he earn but was eagerly given the respect of every
crew member on board the Enterprise when Spock said something everyone listened because even his
guesses were treated as near facts a guess this you Spock Nimoy Spock appeared in 81 Star Trek TV
episodes and eight movies he was supposed to be the sidekick to a brilliant Captain Kirk but as
matter-of-fact way of speaking an atypical heroic qualities of the time spoke to everyone he wasn't
quick to LEAP into action or have an eye for the ladies it was business first and what he lacked
in charm he made up with in mystery never one to hold back a fact he was quiet about his personal
life his closest friends didn't even know who his parents were until they were already on board the
ship the point is this is Spock Leonard Nimoy and the TOs writers created a badass character and all
the actors writers showrunners and directors should have done their homework before taking
that legendary character for a spin in any case where I to invoke logic logic clearly dictates
that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few and this brings us to Star Trek strange
new worlds and the point of this video they don't know Spock I would like the ship to go
now if you haven't already subscribed to our Channel please do so now and give us a thumbs up
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is in the description below man the t-shirt is everything he is 35 when the original series
begins and 30 this second season of strange new worlds so why does Ethan Peck Spock seem like a 20
year old college kid ordered directly out of a CW episode instead of being wise Beyond his years due
to a lifetime dedicated to being the best Vulcan as a result of him only being half of one he has
instead been turned into a neutered immature version of Nimoy's Spock where he still has a
lot to learn and everyone on the crew is prepared to teach it to him my what you think you know
everyone in the chair has their thing he is third in command of the ship right well I just assumed
that in una's absence forgive me Kevin I mean what should we expect I can't stop Ethan Peck Spock was
introduced in the second season's seventh episode of Star Trek Discovery titled light and shadows we
learned that Spock is actually the adopted brother of Michael Burnham and she finds him bearded and
struggling emotionally at a mental health facility thinking he's suffering from delusions we also
learned that Spock suffered from a childhood mental disability and that Michael Burnham is
actually responsible for the Bedrock Foundation of Spock's logic I'm sorry are you for real yeah
that really happened but after watching all of season one and more than half of season two of
strange new worlds it shocks me to say this but Spock was more like Nimoy Spock during
Discovery season 2 that at any time in his own series and the difference is tone I like science
for all of discovery's faults the story was serious and so a Spock in the first episode of the
first season of strange new worlds we see a Spock locked into his logic and behaving as we would
expect but as the show is attempted to lighten the tone and have more fun Spock has gone from saying
things like better Minds than yours have tried and failed too must I have a thing do you have
a thing make the ship go now Spock seems to be getting Dumber tapping further into his emotions
and becoming less like the Spock we know with each season four years before the events of Discovery
season 2 we have the events of the cage the pilot for Star Trek the Original Series in that episode
Leonard Nimoy would be the only person to reprise their character when the show was launched in the
cage he was the science officer and played an integral role in the events of the episode he
was respected as a subject matter expert and though he smiled while touching some moving
plants he is mostly the Spock we would come to love brains three times the size of ours whatever
was happening between the events of the cage in Discovery season 2. Spock is still the serious
capable Starfleet officer we know albeit he's now saddled with an unsavory backstory as strange
new worlds continued it seemed the writers have locked onto that smile spot gave during the cage
and they've decided they are going to make story after Story fleshing out his inability to control
his emotions or impulses like a prepubescent team fire Photon torpedoes and since he's apparently
a youngin with no learning everyone else needs to teach him the way no that's stupid in just
the first two episodes of season two of strange new worlds Commander Pelion teaches Spock how to
steal the Enterprise that's stupid and dangerous and benga teaches him about a Vulcan instrument he
would have been playing his whole life oh that's stupid Ortegas teaches him what the thing is even
though he's been on Pike's Bridge listening to Pike say hit it for at least six years I don't
know that's and in future episodes Pike will teach him how to cook Chapel will teach him how to love
all of the women on the Enterprise will teach him how to speak like a Vulcan for real it's coming
okay that's just stupid Spock is literally crying multiple times during the first episode because
he got angry fighting the Gorn in season one why don't you go cry about it are you for real Spock
has such limited control on his emotions that he can't put it back together wait until later in the
season when Spock says what the f I mean it will be 26 years before Spock says double dumbass to
you without really understanding it on the Streets of San Francisco but he has a firm understanding
of the f word way back in the past no I that's stupid this Spock speaks too quickly and in Rapid
bursts like a machine gun as if he were in need of ADHD medicine it's the drugs talking he doesn't
call his captain when he gets a distress call from LA on and you can bet damn well sure that
Pike wouldn't have said hey like Spock cool you took the Enterprise out for a spin and almost got
people killed and didn't let me know ah no worries man what are we cooking for dinner I'm just
getting Todd dealing with stuck up precious little princesses that's not the strange new worlds we
signed up for more that direction Spock should be the coolest guy in the room but strange new worlds
has turned him into a joke it's like the writers only remember the light humorous quipping at the
end of TOS episodes and have decided this is what Spock is you know those moments when Kirk or bones
chided him about not understanding something or having emotions except if you were paying
attention Spock gives it back as much as he gets it in the TOs second season episode journey to
Babel Spock's mother tells Dr McCoy that Spock did have a fat teddy bear and just as bones is
giving Spock a hard time the Vulcan tells him unvalking the teddy bears are alive and they
have six inch fangs two shade doctor in Strange New World Spock never gets the better of anyone
else he gets teased like on the bridge with Uhura and Ortegas but he doesn't come out on top he just
looks like the butt of the joke Spock wouldn't say make the ship go now he would sit back in
command of his faculties in complete control of the situation and whatever he said would be the
coolest thing ever said in Star Trek I have a feeling Spock with great comp would say go not
that Star Trek needs a damn catchphrase anyway but the most egregious thing that they are doing with
Spock is taking the things he will struggle with during the original series and having him address
them here on this show which is a slap in the face to the character a future episode this season will
have Spock deal with and come to terms with his Humanity in a unique way that makes him look more
like Drax from the Guardians of the Galaxy than the cool cucumber who figured out they had to
believe the bullets wouldn't kill them inspector of the gun will kill the clantons at the OK Corral
oh hijinks will ensue and it plays out more like a Three's Company episode than a Star Trek science
fiction story I'm not sure why they were worried about the tone of lower decks for the crossover
when several episodes of strange new worlds share the same tone as that cartoon anti-grav boy when
Ethan Peck told Will Wheaton on the ready room that Spock is supposedly to be without emotion
computational and robotic so I really enjoyed playing into his emotions this way what wait
what so they know Spock isn't supposed to be this way but screw it because it's just easier to make
him emotional and that will give us more to work with it's more fun for Spock to be emotional Canon
doesn't matter it matters to me Spock's mother will tell him six years from now that after all
these years among humans and you still haven't learned to smile for five minutes she also tells
him she could never reach him that he purged every Vestige of Being Human and yet in this
season of strange new worlds they will completely retcon everything she says in TOS Spock fails to
understand why his father married his mother when marrying her was not logical yet he would
never have said that after this season of strange new worlds just wait and see now he's moving into
a relationship with nurse Chapel the one thing Spock isn't is a hypocrite the actions of Spock
and strange new worlds would humiliate Nimoy Spock but you'd never know it because he wouldn't show
you and that's the point they have forgot gotten that Spock had to be the best Vulcan to make up
for being half human he was supposed to follow his father at the Vulcan Science Academy Spock is
brilliant so why is this happening besides Never Letting Canon get in the way of a good emotional
Story the truth of the matter is that strange new worlds is young adult Star Trek it feels like
it's aimed at teenagers there's a lot of sexual tension trouble with identity and emotions instead
of writing an intellectual allegorical science fiction Adventure that examines issues Through
The Eyes of the 23rd Century they are making a show that is palatable for modern audiences
none of this criticism is to say that if you like strange new worlds that you shouldn't keep liking
it or to say that the production crew or the actors didn't work their asses off trying to
make the best show they possibly could of course they absolutely did the problem is
that Ethan Peck's Spock and really all of strange new worlds is as our friend Robert Meyer Burnett
would say drive through fast food Star Trek Grinnell Master with the knives and be like
One Step Up from Riverdale Star Trek or Nancy Drew Star Trek oh okay the actors are fine they
are talented and doing exactly what they are being asked to do Ethan Peck is giving us the
absolute best Spock he can with the material he's given just go back to Discovery take a
look analytical calculating intense I can tell you Ethan didn't say yeah I don't want to play
that Spock this is the way the writers wrote him Ethan Peck could play him either way he could be
the Spock we want him to be the Spock that he should be and the reason they've done this is
either because it's what they were told to do or they just don't understand how to write an
original science fiction story strange new worlds is just a variation of themes we've
already seen in Star Trek before where are the strange new worlds Star Trek used to represent
intellectual exploration it gave us something to think about now it's only about reconnecting
it to other things that have already happened in other Star Trek shows and the only episode
in season 2 that we've seen that Embrace strange new worlds and what looked like like a unique idea
was actually taken from a 1997 Marvel comic book about Captain Pike there's just nothing original
here these characters and these actors can make good Star Trek Ethan Anson Rebecca Celia Christina
Jess and Babs they all have what it takes they're dedicated to their craft and they love making this
show the showrunners need to demand more and the riders need to provide it do this before watching
another episode of strange new worlds go and watch the TOs episode City on the edge of forever the
devil in the dark a taste of Armageddon and journey to Babel watch those and look at what
incredible science fiction writing looks like delivered with the note of dramatic seriousness
and wonder it deserves and ask yourself if strange new worlds and Spock specifically is giving us the
intelligent science fiction we deserve or is it Star Trek Vampire Diaries Star Trek should be the
standard of great science fiction other shows should be saying wow look at what strange new
worlds is doing and Spock should be leading the way as the icon iconic legendary character he
is as the show moves into season three now only four years removed from the original series this
is what they should do to get back on track first drop the romance with Spock and Chapel Spock can
do more for fans solving Intergalactic Mysteries at the side of his captain you can drop the long
romantic story arcs Star Trek is going to beat 80 guys and 20 girls because that's just the
way science fiction is you'll do better to Pander less to the fairer sex and start exploring alien
Landscapes with us sweaty nerds that's what we want get back to Cutting Edge science fiction
brainstorm ideas in your writer's room of things and ideas we may have never seen let go of all the
Star Trek tropes we don't need to visit them again try something new drop everyone on a planet that's
300 degrees on one side and minus 300 degrees on the other The Landing party is stranded and
the Enterprise can't beam them up and a shuttle can't reach them find some really cool scientific
way to save them while the away team discovers A New Life Source that unexpectedly saves them
from being charred or frozen to death you can do better than what you're giving us you only have 10
episodes go find your inner DC Fontana and give us 10 amazing episodes with the characters behaving
as we would expect them to the writers during the Roddenberry Berman Star Trek Eris always said it
was difficult to write for Star Trek because there were limitations on how much drama and
strife you could have with your characters but that's what makes Star Trek great you don't have
to lean on Standard TV Tropes to get through your episodes they didn't they made it work and it was
awesome Star Trek is not comedy it's serious with a little lightness from time to time showrunners
let your Riders create 52-minute movies steeped in the Star Trek tradition of science exploration
and respect and honor the TOs characters you are bringing into this world they have a history that
we are all familiar with and because it's in their future the pieces really need to connect properly
you can't simply do whatever you want despite everything we've said there is still hope for
the show drop the Gorn bring back hemmer get Pike out of the kitchen and give us our unemotional
but highly capable Vulcan back and I don't understand is why I didn't think of it earlier
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