Despite his famously logical exterior, Spock has had several serious romantic relationships across the world. Star Trek canon. In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck) has a short-lived romance with nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush) and Spock's tense engagement and divorce with T'Pring (Gia Sandhu). In Star Trek: The Original SeriesCommander Spock (Leonard Nimoy) rejects Nurse Chapel's (Majel Barrett-Roddenberry) persistent romantic proposals and is abandoned by T'Pring (Arlene Martel).
Through Strange new worldsaudiences get the chance to see Spock's relationship with T'Pring and Nurse Chapel at its most wholesome, even if the canon established by Star Trek: The Original Series it means they can only end badly. And indeed, Spock's two breakups are complicated. In truth, It is undoubtedly the pain that Spock experiences after these breakups that leads him to never marry after T'Pring. After all, other logical Vulcans, like Spock's father Sarek, marry multiple times. Spock, on the other hand, is a permanent bachelor by the time of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Nurse Chapel broke Spock's heart in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds musical episode
Their romance was always doomed by the original series
In Star Trek: The original series, Commander Spock and Nurse Chapel's relationship is portrayed as largely one-sided. For the most part, Nurse Chapel pines for Spock, which at best suggests in "Amok Time" that they could have had something together under other circumstances. In Strange new worldshowever, Spock and Nurse Chapel have a strong, supportive friendship that turns, over time, into romance. The emerging romantic feelings that Nurse Chapel experiences in “Spock Amok” allow a softer aspect of Spock’s character to take center stage.
Spock and Chapel's relationship falls apart in Strange New Worldmusical episode, "Subspace Rhapsody". Nurse Chapel ends her relationship with Spock on her own terms. Considering that in Star Trek: The original series Spock rejects Nurse Chapel, in Strange New Worlds, Nurse Chapel takes the reins. Lieutenant Spock is clearly hurt by this rejection, and that pain may go a long way toward explaining why, at the time of Terms of Service, he is practically closed to the possibility of romance.
Unfortunately for Lieutenant Spock, Nurse Chapel's rejections will keep coming. The timeline of Strange new worlds continues to approach Star Trek: The Original Series and Nurse Chapel's involvement with Dr. Roger Korby (Michael Strong). As such, any lingering romantic feelings Spock may have for Nurse Chapel are doomed Star Trek canon. After all, by the end of Strange new worlds Season 2 Nurse Chapel is on her way to a fellowship with Dr. Nurse Chapel and Dr. Korby's engagement could serve as the final rejection that closes Spock to human romance.
Star Trek: TOS's “Amok Time” Made Spock Decide to Remain Permanently Single
T'Pring's rejection is the ultimate rejection for Spock
Both in Strange new worlds and in Star Trek: The original seriesSpock's main romantic interest is not Nurse Chapel, but T'Pring. Spock and T'Pring bonded in childhood, and by the time they were both Strange new worlds and Terms of Service, they are engaged. In Strange new worldsthe couple's relationship starts out healthy, but evolves quickly. Central to their conflict is the fact that Spock feels that he is not "Vulcan Enough" for T'Pring, while T'Pring feels that Spock does not trust her. As with Nurse Chapel, T'Pring rejects Spock in Strange new worlds Season 2, Episode 5, "Charades", suggesting they should break up.
Spock feels that he is not "Vulcan enough" for T'Pring, while T'Pring feels that Spock does not trust her.
Star Trek Canon suggests that Spock and T'Pring will reconcile at some point after the end of Strange new worlds season 2. At the beginning of Star Trek: The Original Series, the couple is still engaged. Even so, Spock and T'Pring end their engagement in "Amok Time" when T'Pring chooses Stonn (Lawrence Montaign) as his mate. Once again, Spock is rejected by the woman he loved. If the pain of Nurse Chapel's rejection in Strange new worlds closed Spock off from the possibility of romantic love with humans, T'Pring's rejection of Terms of Service was the end of Spock's serious romantic activities in Star Trek fully.