• StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website
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    11 hours ago

    I’m rather interested to see where they go with Korby.

    It’s important for Christine Chapel’s character that the backstory they are developing for the TOS relationship is credible.

    It was really rather sad and mortifying for Chapel in TOS to be shown as a intelligent and successful scientist, who took a Starfleet starship posting as a nurse to track down a missing fiance only to have him revealed as a dark mastermind turning people into androids.

    Having what appeared to be a one sided, unrequited longing for Spock as well, made Chapel come across as pathetic, and very much shifted it to misogyny. Or, at least a complete failure of a Bechtel-type test where a female character exists for more than her interest in male characters.

    (Even Majel Barrett’s Number One in ‘The Cage’ was put in an unrequited attraction situation with Pike.)