The thing about Spock is that HE'S ALLOWED TO FALL IN LOVE WITH WOMEN!!!
Strange New Worlds has in NO WAY turned Spock into a womanizer and I can't believe I had to read that with my own two eyeballs.
First of all, Spock has had two love interests. TWO. And neither of them have been flings or one night stands or meaningless. For Surak's sake, that hardly makes him a womanizer.
Second of all, bisexuality and pansexuality are things. This is a prequel. He is still going to love Kirk (and Bones) eventually. His relationships with T'Pring or Chapel do not take away from that.
Let's start with T'Pring. If you want to be mad that they totally changed their relationship from what it was in Amok Time then I get that. They absolutely went against canon with them. Totally fair to be annoyed by that. For me, Trek contradicts itself all the time. I just kind of roll with it unless it's something very important and to me, T'Pring and Spock's relationship is not very important. They keep giving him secret siblings so I can live with his relationship with T'Pring being different.
I think exploring Spock's relationship with a fellow Vulcan who loves him enough to propose to him is interesting. More interesting than an arranged wife he's had since childhood and hasn't seen since.
It's just another way to explore his human vs. vulcan side. He could easily stay on Vulcan, work for the Science Academy, marry T'Pring and have little Vulcans. She loves him and she goes out of her way to try and understand his human side and meet him halfway. It would be easy for him. But, he feels the pull of something else. His life is with Starfleet. He can't let go of that. As much as he chooses to embrace his Vulcan half and wants to be the most Vulcan he can be, he can't. And he struggles with that and often considers it a failing.
I think he cares for her and perhaps thought he was in love with her but it wasn't until he began letting himself feel his emotions that he's realized that he's not.
Now, onto Chapel. I already made a post about how I don't think having them be canon necessarily goes against their dynamic in TOS so I won't get into that.
The show took the time and the steps to build this relationship up. Maybe not as much time as they could have but with 10 episodes a season, what could they do unless they made the show all Spapel all the time.
She flirted with him right away and he didn't even register it until Uhura pointed it out. Chapel reached out to him as a friend, giving him relationship advice. Advice which he followed and even though that went sideways, he felt comfortable enough to seek her out again for the same thing.
Their first kiss was a ruse but they both felt something. Still, it wasn't until Spock let his emotions loose in episode 9 that he really started to fall for her. She helped him through that. She told him he wasn't weak for feeling. She held him through his storm of emotions.
And after Broken Circle, he tried to suppress them again. In Charades, when he became fully human, those emotions were going to come free again. And then he decided to try. He wanted to feel and try embracing his human side. He wanted to give into his feelings for Chapel and be with her.
And he was enjoying it until he was promptly dumped, lol. I don't know what happens to him and his relationships from here (well, in the long run I do but not in the time frame of SNW) but I would imagine he tries to put his feelings away again and screw embracing his human side because trying that ended up hurting him. At least in terms of romance.
Anyway, Spock was never canonically gay. He can be interpreted that way, sure. But, it's not against canon or 'forcing Spock to be straight' to have him love a woman.
Again, it's two. Two whole woman who he has complicated feelings for. He's not a womanizer. The show is just exploring a new side to him.
And one note on AOS, because that's been argued to death for over a decade now. I'll just say that Spirk didn't suck in AOS because Spock was with Uhura. It sucked because the filmmakers decided to give them an antagonistic relationship. At least until Beyond where they spent most of the movie apart.
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