pdsldl wrote:Kotik wrote:pdsldl wrote:There's no space jail so would he be sentenced to Enterprises' brig or would his shipmates be responsible for his incarceration?
There's always airlock 7...
I can see the airlock solution as seeming viable but I can't see T'Pol going along with that even though he assaulted her. She seemed fine with the let him go scenario but if punishment were given I would think she would be more for sending him to the priests, as incidents from all the Trek series seem to show that Vulcans treated most deviant behavior by training/retraining or manipulating the mind in some way. As far as him presenting the unleashing of a great evil, hopefully Archer did tell the captain of the Vosh Katur why they were being asked to leave suddenly. I know they were already leaving but Archer did give the impression that their departure was hastened because of Tolaris' actions. A Vulcan with deviant behavior and anger control issues poses a threat to his crew; as well as; others so I would hope the incidents weren't kept secret from Tolaris' crew. To me not informing/warning them would be criminal. For a group that was experimenting with control issues etc... you'd think they'd want to know that one of them was possibly ill or experiencing issues.
What T'Pol wants, and what I want (and by extension, what my proxies among the human crew want) are two different things. I don't know whether it's in canon but I've read many times that the boomer response would be to space the guilty person. Don't ask me to push the button in real life, but from behind the screen - hell yeah. And in fact this is the only way I can rationalise Archer's behaviour - a need to see Tolaris violently attack somebody just to confirm beyond doubt that he's capable of what T'Pol accused him of. That done, in my little pocket universe, the only decision is whether justice will be served within starfleet regulations, or outside them. And evidently, as it turns out, the answer is not to deal with this via starfleet regs. Can you imagine Archer, OR Trip, OR Reed, just turning the other cheek after somebody has violently assaulted a female member of the crew in this way? The more I think about it the more certain I am that Tolaris is due to leave the ship by the wrong airlock.