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Completely agreed about Spock's emotional journey. It's also important to note that Spock's relationship with the crew of the Enterprise is far more familial and personal at this time than it is TOS. Look at how Ortegas and Uhura tease him mercilessly on the bridge, and he indulges them with an air of bemusement. I think that by the time he becomes Jim Kirk's first officer, years from now, he will have seen this close-knit group of officers move on one by one... and as friends come and go, he'll adopt a more distanced, some might say more professional attitude, one that he considers befitting of an executive officer.
I can see this, also as he is promoted - I imagine a Lieutenant might still be able to be "one of the guys" in a way that the XO just can't be (for newer people) - but I also have trouble seeing how you wouldn't remain friends with the people you did know before, i.e. Uhura. Maybe just "You have to act professionally when other people are around", which also could be a discussion that happens just after she was flirting with him on the bridge (and would make that whole thing in TOS make more sense in line with the other romantic instances for Spock - they never were romantic actually, it just was the last time she was teasing him on the bridge, and she happened to do it that way that time).