Spoilers for “Subspace Rhapsody” (Strange New Worlds season 2 episode 9)
This question is 100% hypothetical. Would the episode have the same plot if Spock at completed kolinahr at this point in his life?
Spoilers for “Subspace Rhapsody” (Strange New Worlds season 2 episode 9)
This question is 100% hypothetical. Would the episode have the same plot if Spock at completed kolinahr at this point in his life?
If Kolinahr works like it says on the tin (purging all emotion), it seems doubtful that the season would have the same plot. Spock probably wouldn’t have been in whatever weird mood compelled him to “steal” the Enterprise and charge off to Cajitar. It’s unclear how he would have been affected if he were again abruptly turned fully human, or if Chapel could have convinced the aliens to change him back, it seems especially unlikely that the two of them would have wound up in a relationship at all. So the emotional cause for his Subspace Rhapsody solo is gone.
As for the more technical side:
If Uhura’s theorizing was correct, an emotionless Spock would have probably been involved in the ensemble songs the same as always, but would by definition be incapable of experiencing “emotions […] so heightened that words won’t suffice”. So it is unlikely that he would have found himself belting out a solo about anything.