What was up w/ T'Pol and Tucker?

[Captain X]

...high school angst of T'Pol constantly telling Trip to "come here/go away", so for them it actually would be a good book.

But, if you'd read the book, you'd see that there isn't any "high school angst" present.

From the discussion I had with my friend, who did read it, as well as the excerpts he shared with me, it sure looked like it to me. Just because you don't see T'Pol telling Trip to go away again for another random reason and Trip getting fed up about it again as high school angst doesn't mean that no one else does.

 

[pookha]

i normally hate a lot of the angst stuff but in the end while the personal issues between the two were present in trips decison to leave there were far more important greater reasons present why he went through with it.
he has moments were he almost changes his mind but in the end..

Spoiler: what drove trip

in tne end what pushed him through was the image of earth sufferring through an attack by the romulans and the chance to stop them. the authors also did a nice job of setting up why he was the ideal canidate for this mission. he is one of the leading experts in warp drives remember in the expanse he had to rewrite theory on the fly. add in his prior experience also being on a romulan ship .

 

[Hoshi's sis]

This idea of using drugs to make her less of a typical Vulcan to promote any romance smacks of bad writing and lack of creativity.

Reading this, I immediately thought of Spock and This Side of Paradise, which I thought was well-told and poignant storytelling. But IMHO, I don't think the goal in either case was to promote romance; I think it was to force each Vulcan's suppressed emotions to the surface and explore the ramifications of that, and romance was one of the consequences.

I always had Sarek and Amanda in the back of my mind when I watched Trip and T'Pol. Something had to ignite that relationship too...some spark that got Sarek to thinking that this young, illogical, wildly emotional human was (of all things!) bondmate material. Just as with Trip and T'Pol, there may have been initial friction, even dislike; personality clashes; miscommunication, though Sarek's ambassadorial training may have lessened that possibility ; awkward signals of affection from one to the other, out of sync, as each struggled with the other's cultural differences.

But how did Sarek come to develop affection for her? Somehow I don't think it was simply "the logical thing to do," as he joked in that episode. Maybe it was pon farr, maybe it was some lowering of his emotional barriers in private with her because he sensed a kindred soul and wanted to explore the possibilities. As T'Les said, Vulcans are sensitive to emotions, even if they may not express them.

Nicely put HR. That's one of the main things I saw in T/T as well.

 

[Reanok]

Nicely put Hopeful Romantic I agree about what you said about Trip & T'Pol.And Sarek and Amanda definitely agree with you.

 

[Lady Conqueror]

She wasn't stringing him along--she had to figure out some things about herself before she could commit to someone else. I thought that the writers did an excellent job having T'pol deal with the fallout of all she'd been through in season 3. They also did an excellent job of having Trip deal with that.

From my perspective it was stringing him along. Everytime he tried to keep his distance she told him off for it and then when he was trying to be friends she kept telling him to back off - make up your damn mind woman

I had no problem with her desire to figure things out about herself and explore what she went through in the Expanse, but there was a way to do it that didn't treat Trip like he was her doormat.

But hey too each their own - I'm glad it worked for some people.