[CaptainCrunch]

What in the blue Frack


https://trekmovie.com/2019/01/11/kur...pock-for-kirk/

Spoiler!

’m a huge sucker for a sibling story. It is one of my favorite kinds of story and it is so rarely told and it is such a unique and specific relationship. And you don’t necessarily have to be a blood sibling to have a distinct and unique connection. So, the idea that Spock and Burnham are playing out this dynamic of logic versus emotion and knew each other before Spock became the character we meet in TOS was so exciting to me. What got me so riled up about it is the idea that if we can take season two of Discovery and understand how his relationship with Michael informed how he became the Spock we meet in TOS and that without that relationship he would never have been prepared for Kirk, that is a new an interesting spin and something really worth talking about, because people haven’t seen that before.

By the time Spock and Kirk are together, which we see them being when you are airdropped into what became the first episode of TOS, Spock certainly works out logic versus emotion over the course of the series and movies, but he is more or less settled into his Vulcan character. And that was an interesting opporunity. Maybe he wasn’t always settled into that Vulcan character. Maybe he had to go through a whole journey of logic versus emotion to figure out what was neccessary ultimately was balance. And while Spock always represented the logic of the Enterprise, Kirk was the emotion of the Enterprise. And without his working through that self-exploration and self-discovery work – pun intended – he would never have become that character. So, that felt like a unique and interesting opportunity and a neccessary one.