T'Pol's Un-Vulcan Like Behavior

[Silverbullet]

We finished with Harbinger and the Morning after?

How about that Shower scene in Damage?

What was with the Zombie bit at the end of that?

Was t-Pol thinking that is she allowed their realationship to become more intimate that she would harm him because of her TD addiction..Or was she thinking that Addition lead her to kill Trip?

The Zombie certainly attcked Trip before she woke up.

[WarpGirl]

BOTH!

[Silverbullet]

In other words the Addiction would lead her to do violence to Trip.

If she dreamed that they she must have thought it too.

why did she then go into Cargo Bay 2 to get more of the stuff to inject into her bloodstream and then tell Phlox about it and ask for his help.

If she cared about Trip a great deal you would think that she would not want to harm him or even kill hiim so she would try to get help from Phlox to prevent such a thng from hapening
and not go into Cargo Bay 2.

[WarpGirl]

You've obviously never been addicted to anything. I have, not my fault, I needed the valium to keep my hip healing after a operation, and the doctors were controling me. But an additction is a terrible, powerful force. You'll give up ANYTHING for an addiction, love doesn't matter, people don't matter, hell you don't matter. All that matters is the need you have. See why I hate this whole thing.

[Silverbullet]

Warpgirl, I guess I have a non-addictive personality.

I gave up cigarettes from one day to next and never wanted one since I gave them up that day.

Same with Beer. I could bathe in it but when my six year old Daughter told me that she was afraid of me when I had a few beers because I became loud I stopped drinnking that afternoon.

I have been on Darvocet for 20 years but could stop them tomorrow if I had to.

I will not go near any of that other poison. I cannnot see how and why people do that. Snorting a line of coke or smoking crack. Or injecting Heroiin or morphine is so stupid that it is appaling. I get the idea that Jolene did that when she was younger.

The ones who really get me ar the ones who do if for no good reason at all but just because it is the done thing among the "Hip" people.

NOt sure if I could handle those things and am not eager to find out.

[WarpGirl]

You are a strong person. Like I said I became addicted because of an operation they had to give me valium to keep my spasmatic muscles still to keep the screws from pulling. They brought me off the valium in rehab. It was bad, I became like a Trellium D Vulcan. But thankfully I only threw a few things at nurses.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Obviously Manny Coto and the writers in season 4 didn't want to deal with a junkie T'Pol, who, if treated correctly, would've been booted off the Enterprise (and the show), to say nothing about ever getting a Starfleet commission. So they basically ignored her previous Trell-D addiction and acted like it had no, or at least very few, lasting effects. And they cured the pa'nar like an afterthought with the help of T'Pau.

I can't say I blame them. I never cared for either syndromes and wouldn't have liked to see a future T'Pol always dealing with that nonsense.

[Asso]

I think - I hope - many things would have found their right place.
But there did be no time.

[WarpGirl]

I didn't mind the pa'nar although it was handled atrociously, the concept could have been interesting. But the rest I shudder.

[Silverbullet]

I just wish that neither had been brought up at all. could have done without Fusion.

The TD The writers could have come up with something else to the Vulcan ship and the Crew turning into zombies. Then they could have dumped the whole TD thing.

I believe that in an Interview that Jolene said she had no idea why they made
her a junkie. She didn't believe it helped the story line or her character.

[WarpGirl]

Yeah I think it kind of got her in the ST doghouse with the producers. NOBODY bashes any part of ST while they're on the air. That's what happened to the girl who played Kes. She didn't like her character being sweet and innocent. Boy did she get in trouble.

[Silverbullet]

Girl who played Kes sure did get into trouble. she got kicked off the series.

Guess Jolene was too popular and too important to the series so she was safe enoough but probably got a little butt chewing.

[WarpGirl]

Indeed!

[Silverbullet]

You know that Jolene shot her mouth off a couple of times.

when she said that she couldn't see how any female could go for a Catfish eating Redneck hick like Trip.

Believe that got her a talking to.

also when she said that Bakkula had an amazing body for a man his age.

That too might have got her in a tad of trouble because it ws a backhanded compliment. If she had just said he has an Amazing body no harm. but to add "for a man his age" that puts a diferent spin on it.


Jolene adctually should have had someone near her at all times to make sure she didn't spout off.

I know that in some inteviews she was a tad to candid about her past.

[WarpGirl]

In her defense it was she didn't see how any VULCAN female would go for Trip. And that annoyed me.