Hey guys, um. Can we talk abt the TAS episode where everyone gets a dose of love potion and Kirk and Spock are suddenly really affectionate??? And Kirk is implied to be jealous of Christine??
Star trek TOS gives us the hope that everything in the medical industry will be shiny and glittery as fuck in the future. Knowing this I can sleep well tonight.
What if Bones is introduced to SNW in an episode where he's just entirely working with Chapel and he's super charming and they get along really well--and that's why Spock is so pissy with him from the beginning and Bones can't understand it because he wasn't there for the big musical number where Spock got dumped
Spock (seeing Bones and Chapel bonding over some weird medical thing): Doctor, Nurse Chapel is strictly off-limits
Bones: ...of course I would never date one of my nurses, or someone I worked with closely? What a stupid illogical unethical idea
Spock:
Bones: Jim, I don't understand, why is that Vulcan mad at me, I said I wouldn't date that nurse
Jim: (trying desperately to suppress memories of the musical episode) No clue, Bones, sorry
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Meta: SNW's Chapel doesn't fix her character in TOS, it makes it worse.
I see people blaming any and all criticism of the writing and development for Christine Chapel on misogyny. But if anything, I feel like a full defense of her characterization is worse.
If SNW's interpretation is truly who Christine is, TOS tells us her wings are clipped. She becomes desperate, pines for years for a man who no longer returns her affections, loses her self-confidence and power. Retconning Nurse Chapel into this fiery, war-time, fighting badass with flirtatious energy and commitment issues makes her look utterly regressed in TOS, a mere shell of her former self that never returns.
She is nervous, quiet, keeps to herself, no longer fights, doesn't go after what she wants. Confined to sickbay, forever lonely. Is her development on SNW supposed to be some kind of win? Because to me it looks like they changed who she is into someone she's not, and damaged her more in the process, underscoring all the mistakes TOS made with her rather than railing against them. They could have given us Christine Chapel who was quietly competent, intelligent, kind, gentle, all the traits she still had in TOS but with real development, but they just had to make her into someone whose personality seems utterly destroyed by TOS. I find no enjoyment in that. I'm not going to celebrate that when they could have given us a new, original character to be that badass fighter.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cast behind the scenes as their episode 1x08 “The Elysian Kingdom” storybook counterparts
Christopher Pike as Sir Amand Rauth, the King's Chamberlain
Spock as Pollux the Dark Wizard
Christine Chapel as Lady Audrey
Nyota Uhura as Queen Neve
Erica Ortegas as Sir Adya the Knight
Jenna Mitchell as The Crimson Guard
Una Chin-Riley ("Number One") as Z'ymira the Huntress
Hemmer as Caster the Wizard
Joseph M'Benga as King Ridley
La'an Noonien-Singh as Princess Thalia (with Runa the Dog)