Star Trek Strange New Worlds, what did you think?

[Arilyn]

I like Chapel in this series. I never liked her in TOS and always felt bad that Majel Barret went from playing Number One to Chapel. Yuck. Years ago Majel did an interview saying that she never liked Chapel because all she did was moon over Spock. I would add she also got occasionally bullied by McCoy too. Yay! The new Chapel is nothing like the old one and I don't care that they are not even remotely alike.

 

[Ryujin]

I like Chapel in this series. I never liked her in TOS and always felt bad that Majel Barret went from playing Number One to Chapel. Yuck. Years ago Majel did an interview saying that she never liked Chapel because all she did was moon over Spock. I would add she also got occasionally bullied by McCoy too. Yay! The new Chapel is nothing like the old one and I don't care that they are not even remotely alike.

The network execs simply wouldn't accept a woman as second in command, at the time, because they thought that America wouldn't accept it. Too far ahead of the curve.

 

[Arilyn]

The network execs simply wouldn't accept a woman as second in command, at the time, because they thought that America wouldn't accept it. Too far ahead of the curve.

I know. Number One in the pilot elicited outraged responses from women, mind you, saying "Who does she think she is?!"

 

[Ryujin]

I know. Number One in the pilot elicited outraged responses from women, mind you, saying "Who does she think she is?!"

And those would be women who were in focus groups, because the original pilot never saw air until it was chopped up for Spock's trial.

 

[MGibster]

The network execs simply wouldn't accept a woman as second in command, at the time, because they thought that America wouldn't accept it. Too far ahead of the curve.

While sexism was an issue, another problem was the network didn't want Star Trek to be a vehicle for one of Gene's mistresses.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

I like Chapel in this series. I never liked her in TOS and always felt bad that Majel Barret went from playing Number One to Chapel. Yuck. Years ago Majel did an interview saying that she never liked Chapel because all she did was moon over Spock. I would add she also got occasionally bullied by McCoy too. Yay! The new Chapel is nothing like the old one and I don't care that they are not even remotely alike.

I like her much better as a character in this, but my one objection is that there seems to be little reason to have her character be Chapel other than to work as many legacy characters in as possible. Maybe that's good enough reason, it just seems like the people who care enough about that to think "cool Chapel's back" are exactly the people who are going to be bothered by her having a completely different personality.

But whatever, I think having that character be Chapel was just one of those decisions that probably made more sense when they had the idea then by the final phases of production or else that they have a theory of legacy characters that I don't really understand. I'd have rather they just have this series regular character be an original one, and then have Chapel appear as a quick cameo at some point if the felt the need (extra points if she was played by Rebecca Romijn with different hair).

 

[J.Quondam]

(extra points if she was played by Rebecca Romijn with different hair)

Holy mackerel, that would have been brilliant!

 

[Morrus]

I like her much better as a character in this, but my one objection is that there seems to be little reason to have her character be Chapel other than to work as many legacy characters in as possible.

Staffing the Enterprise with a handful of Enterprise crew seems fairly reasonable to me. It’s not like Scott, Chekhov, Suku, McCoy, or Kirk are there too. It’s only a few years until Kirk takes command.

 

[Ryujin]

Staffing the Enterprise with a handful of Enterprise crew seems fairly reasonable to me. It’s not like Scott, Chekhov, Suku, McCoy, or Kirk are there too. It’s only a few years until Kirk takes command.

It is odd, however, to have Chapel be a civilian contractor.

 

[JarooAshstaff]

Staffing the Enterprise with a handful of Enterprise crew seems fairly reasonable to me.

I thought that was brilliant, can't wait to see who arrives when.