Ramblings About Spuhura In AOS (this Got A Bit Long)

Ramblings about Spuhura in AOS (this got a bit long)

I thought I didn't really mind Spuhura in AOS, but I think it really messes up the characterisation of Spock. They just didn't have a plan where to take that relationship. I feel like the extent to their thinking was well Uhura is hot and people will be surprised to see repressed Spock in a relationship, but they didn't want to flesh out her character. And they (rightfully) made Kirk and Spock have the most important relationship in the movies, so Uhura is supposed to be important to Spock, but we rarely feel the weight of that.

So in the end Spock kind of looks like a bad boyfriend, because his most important emotional scenes, the moments he loses his control are all with Kirk. Which is great because it reinforces Spirk, but Uhura just stays an afterthought and they could have done so much more with her character. I saw this interview where Zoe Saldana seemed glad that Uhura and Spock had broken up in Beyond because he had been her teacher and maybe she had outgrown that relationship. I mean even the actor thought more about this than the filmmakers!

And how does it reflect on Spock that he chose a relationship with his student? I know me too hadn't happened in 2009, but in TOS in the 60s they managed to make Kirk a compelling character by making him not sleep with his subordinates. And showing this impossibility to find personal happiness at his job as a struggle for him. Which makes him likeable.

I think they didn't understand what the relationship between Kirk and Spock really symbolizes, how it outweighs every other connection. They just wanted to build on something that already existed and took it for granted.

And yes, this is an alternate universe, but if you reboot Kirk and Spock, it needs to be done right. And isn't the beauty of it all that Spock learns about emotions from Kirk, this open minded, kind hearted man, that does not judge him. And for that you need to have Spock start in a place of relative isolation. There are alternate universes and then there is misunderstanding characters to a point you are losing their essence.

Scotty: They got onto the transporter platform and just vanished!!

Spock: Ok, yes but are you dumb?

Kirk, to Spock’s Katra: That’s a beautiful Doctor you’re wearing.

Spock’s Katra, inside Bones: Thanks, it has pockets

Love that Spock is a passenger princess. Completely out of the question that he drive himself in A Piece of the Action. His job is holding two huge guns and bitching about Kirk's driving

spocktober day 17

im super tired loll but i think it turned out great! tried to make the pose by myself and i think it came out quite nicely:)

I know this is just based on one word „insanity“, but the way Kirk is so intrigued when Spock warns him of it - I just picture Sturgeon sitting there writing like „oh yes, Spock and Kirk, watch out for that strange insanity“

Later episodes like Obsession took inspiration from Moby Dick, so it exists as an influence on the show- maybe Sturgeon took from it earlier.

[And side note: the first chapters of Moby Dick have two guys sharing a bed BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY ONE BED LEFT]

Maybe this is reaching but anyone else think about THAT scene in Moby Dick, when Spock talks about his Pon Farr insanity in Amok Time

You know Moby Dick, the book famous for its queer subtext

Oh and I just found out Theodore Sturgeon was a sailor LOL pretty sure he read that book