[mountn man]

The problem is the new Spock doesn't pull off the sexual chemistry with Uhura well.

IMHO the new Spock doesn't pull much of anything off well. Either his acting is horrible, or the writing is bad, or its a combination.

[Hawk1976]

Part of it is because Zachary Quinto seems to have a narrow range of acting ability. The other part is probably that Zoe isn’t a guy and Zachary just isn’t into it.