I have asked before what would you change in the Enterprise series to make it better. And a few who responded seemed to agree with me that this relationship was not handled well. Now, one option is to cut it out entirely and it is a perfectly valid thing to do. However, I think it is the easiest path to take. But, if you were to take the harder, more challenging path and actually try to make this work, to be an interesting depiction of how a human man/Vulcan woman relationship could go, how would you do it? Assuming these two have the same personalities as canon as the start of the series,and the series starts on a similar premise (but it doesn’t have to be exactly the same premise).
How would you fix Trip and T’Pol relationship?
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Relationships in Star Trek are usually contrived nonsense, starting all the way back with Scotty and Mira Romaine in TOS. So yeah, my first choice would have been to not go down that road with Trip & T'Pol. And honestly, does anyone think that they would have made Trip & T’Pol a thing if Jolene Blalock was just an average looking woman and not a smoking hot model in a catsuit? That was total Braga juvenility there.
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Connor Trinneer was also smoking hot.
At least Connor got to also exercise his considerable acting talents.
Jolene had a harder time, thanks to that "total Braga juvenility." Kinda like that quote about Ginger Rogers: She had to do everything Fred Astaire did, backwards and in high heels.
Jolene really did grow into the role and offered quite a few fine performances. But those were despite the producers.
I think the relationship could have been made to work, with a happy ending. Quite a few amateur writers have done so, via FanFic.
Sadly, the producers of the series lacked the motivation - or imagination - to make that happen.
I'm glad we have the 97 episodes to rewatch (the "finale" does. not. count.) and the fanfics still online.
I haven't watched the series in a long time, but I recall feeling as though Trip was being rather aggressive in pursuing things with T'Pol even when she was insisting there wasn't anything there.
I would have liked something that made him feel a bit less like someone who refused to take the hint.
I would have liked something that made him feel a bit less like someone who refused to take the hint.
I would.
Unfortunately, you weren’t the producer.
My point it, her looks ar not the primary reason I find this relationship fascinating. I would lie if I said they don't help, but they're not the primary reason.
And I would prefer if she wore a normal uniform. She didn't even have an excuse for this the way Seven did!
And I would prefer if she wore a normal uniform. She didn't even have an excuse for this the way Seven did!
Honestly, Jeri Ryan has never looked better in Star Trek than she did in Picard season 1.
The relationship needed more joy and happiness to it. The show always either had them in an antagonistic conflict, or had T’Pol endure family trauma, in an effort to shoehorn drama.
Trip asking T’Pol out to movie night, and T’Pol teasing Trip over being pregnant, both of which occurred in the first half of ENT before they got together, were a lot more positive depictions of where the relationship could have gone.
Trip asking T’Pol out to movie night, and T’Pol teasing Trip over being pregnant, both of which occurred in the first half of ENT before they got together, were a lot more positive depictions of where the relationship could have gone.
He's entirely the reason I first realised I liked guys.Connor Trinneer was also smoking hot.
I think all of Star Trek needs that.
I have gotten into Season 3 of Enterprise off my local channel doing reruns, and the biggest thing I think was needed was for the impetus for them spending lots more time together to be shifted from "a reason to get the actors in night clothes and touching each other" to "T'Pol helps Tucker develop mindfulness to deal with his trauma."
It puts me off so much that Tucker gets massages to cope with his nightmares.
To be clear, you should not date your therapist or teacher in real life.
It puts me off so much that Tucker gets massages to cope with his nightmares.
To be clear, you should not date your therapist or teacher in real life.
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