There's definitely an element of catering to the modern ideals of masculinity in nuTrek...
It's curious that when picking and choosing what aspects of TOS!Kirk they wanted to keep or change, they decided to keep the womanizing reputation and cowboy irreverence, and tossed his intellectual history (TOS!Kirk was canonically a picked-on nerd while at Startfleet Academy) and the whole diplomacy part of his "cowboy diplomacy".
With Spock, I'm half convinced they stuck him with the Uhura pairing just as a preemptive strike at the K/S slashers and any possible hint that there could be a homosexual relationship there. (Like any canon het pairing has ever stopped slashers. Really...)
Also, it's been 3 films and we're at 0/3 for exploring strange new worlds and making contact with new lifeforms. *squints* Ok maybe half a tick for Beyond, before the ship was shot down out of the sky.
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It's curious that when picking and choosing what aspects of TOS!Kirk they wanted to keep or change, they decided to keep the womanizing reputation and cowboy irreverence, and tossed his intellectual history (TOS!Kirk was canonically a picked-on nerd while at Startfleet Academy) and the whole diplomacy part of his "cowboy diplomacy".
With Spock, I'm half convinced they stuck him with the Uhura pairing just as a preemptive strike at the K/S slashers and any possible hint that there could be a homosexual relationship there. (Like any canon het pairing has ever stopped slashers. Really...)
Also, it's been 3 films and we're at 0/3 for exploring strange new worlds and making contact with new lifeforms. *squints* Ok maybe half a tick for Beyond, before the ship was shot down out of the sky.