T'Pol's drug addiction...

[Joel_Kirk]

Was our sexy, stoic Vulcan ever cured of her drug addiction?

If I remember correctly, she was going through withdrawal; Dr. Phlox the only one on the ship who knew of her addiction, nothing said of it in later episodes...

 

[JiNX-01]

Correct. An disgraceful omission after everything that had been made of the addiction.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

Was our sexy, stoic Vulcan ever cured of her drug addiction?

If I remember correctly, she was going through withdrawal; Dr. Phlox the only one on the ship who knew of her addiction, nothing said of it in later episodes...

Yes, she got over her addiction, by toughing through withdrawal. She talked about it with old T'Pol in "E2," and made an oblique reference about it to Trip in "Countdown." There are times in those last episodes of Season 3 where she seems unusually emotional (a result of the damage done by the trellium), such as the Trip/T'Pol argument in "Countdown," or in "Zero Hour" when she objects to Trip's compliment about her looking like an old oil painting. And T'Les refers several times to T'Pol's lack of emotional control in "Home." T'Pol makes another oblique reference, telling Koss that she's been ill.

After "Home," I don't recall a big deal made of the addiction, but occasionally you do see T'Pol struggling with her emotions ("The Augments," "Kir'Shara," "Observer Effect"). That's a matter of interpretation, I think; another way of looking at it is that the matter is virtually dropped like a hot potato, just like the Pa'nar Syndrome was after "Stigma." I assume it was a decision made by the showrunner or writing staff, probably because they knew they were in their last season and they were focused on Big Guest Stars! Action! TOSness! and such. Even so, I liked seeing the little touches of emotional rockiness here and there.

It would have been interesting to see T'Pol deal more with the consequences of the addiction -- kind of an echo of Spock attempting to reconcile his human and Vulcan halves. But none of the main characters got a lot of character development in Season 4. To think what they could have done if they had 7 guaranteed seasons... *sigh*

 

[Tallis Rhul]

Yeah, I agree that is a real shame, things pick right up in Season 3. Who knows where they could have gone.

Is it just me or does T'Pol take as much of a mental beating as Archer does a physical beating over the course of the 4 seasons? She gets mind raped, psychotropically degraded, sent crazy, zombified, you name it...

 

[commodore64]

^ Yup, you're right. Archer is physically hurt, T'Pol is mentally hurt and Trip is hurt in the heart.

It would have been interesting to see T'Pol deal more with the consequences of the addiction -- kind of an echo of Spock attempting to reconcile his human and Vulcan halves. But none of the main characters got a lot of character development in Season 4. To think what they could have done if they had 7 guaranteed seasons... *sigh*

You know, I think they had plenty of time to resolve that piece. I just think they changed course in season 4 (I'll look for the quote from Coto where he said he thought it was best to ignore T'Pol's drug addiction). I think that's just ... lame.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

Was our sexy, stoic Vulcan ever cured of her drug addiction?

If I remember correctly, she was going through withdrawal; Dr. Phlox the only one on the ship who knew of her addiction, nothing said of it in later episodes...

Yes, she got over her addiction, by toughing through withdrawal. She talked about it with old T'Pol in "E2," and made an oblique reference about it to Trip in "Countdown." There are times in those last episodes of Season 3 where she seems unusually emotional (a result of the damage done by the trellium), such as the Trip/T'Pol argument in "Countdown," or in "Zero Hour" when she objects to Trip's compliment about her looking like an old oil painting. And T'Les refers several times to T'Pol's lack of emotional control in "Home." T'Pol makes another oblique reference, telling Koss that she's been ill.

After "Home," I don't recall a big deal made of the addiction, but occasionally you do see T'Pol struggling with her emotions ("The Augments," "Kir'Shara," "Observer Effect"). That's a matter of interpretation, I think; another way of looking at it is that the matter is virtually dropped like a hot potato, just like the Pa'nar Syndrome was after "Stigma." I assume it was a decision made by the showrunner or writing staff, probably because they knew they were in their last season and they were focused on Big Guest Stars! Action! TOSness! and such. Even so, I liked seeing the little touches of emotional rockiness here and there.

It would have been interesting to see T'Pol deal more with the consequences of the addiction -- kind of an echo of Spock attempting to reconcile his human and Vulcan halves. But none of the main characters got a lot of character development in Season 4. To think what they could have done if they had 7 guaranteed seasons... *sigh*

^ Yup, you're right. Archer is physically hurt, T'Pol is mentally hurt and Trip is hurt in the heart.

It would have been interesting to see T'Pol deal more with the consequences of the addiction -- kind of an echo of Spock attempting to reconcile his human and Vulcan halves. But none of the main characters got a lot of character development in Season 4. To think what they could have done if they had 7 guaranteed seasons... *sigh*

You know, I think they had plenty of time to resolve that piece. I just think they changed course in season 4 (I'll look for the quote from Coto where he said he thought it was best to ignore T'Pol's drug addiction). I think that's just ... lame.

I think they had a lot of time to develop and resolve T'Pol's addiction myself.

I guess that may be a plot point that may/could show up in a novel.