I still miss the Chapel-Spock aspect. The whole Uhura-Spock thing just doesn’t really work.
Rand has appeared in the comic series but has yet to appear in the films. They could always reintroduce M’Ress and shift her to duties to navigation. =P
Or also bring in Mr. Arex who filled in for Chekov in TAS? 😉
As Uhura flirted with Spock in The Man Trap, it’s not like they pulled that out of a hat. Some tension with Chapel would have been interesting though.
I did like the all too brief glimpses of shipboard romances going good and sour in Beyond.