Shhh! Don't tell anyone!
Pitseleh wrote:The explanation does make a lot of sense, especially considering that this is the Trek universe. My brain has a hard time adapting to this sort of "super engineering" because of my training as an architect. While you are expected to have a notion about how everything works, from the outer design to the inner structure, the actual individual aspects are handled by the expert in each area, thus you have structural engineers and electric engineers and so on and so forth... So, while I am willing to accept that Trip is not only very intelligent (the guy must have at least a doctorate to handle his job) and his brain functions have improved given his Vulcan training and even the bond, I sometimes balk at the idea of him fixing and building everything, from the warp engine to the grav plating.
Yeah ... the super engineer thing does get a little "huh?" at times, but I generally just nod and go with it. Just like how Sam Carter or Rodney McKay over on Stargate carry around a bottle of liquid
deux ex machina in their tool bag, ya know?
Kotik wrote:even though every week someone drops by and whacks T'Pol over the head or shoots Trip in the 'nads.
Well that's a bit of an exaggeration, yeah? Let's see, the last time either of them were in any
real danger was Trip's one-man assault to rescue T'Pol (ch 57), which was 295 days (258 Earth days) after the crash landing. The most recent chapter is 415 days (363 Earth days) after the crash landing, which is 120 days (68 Earth days) later. Not quite every week, eh? Just look at it as them being almost on a separate adventure show as the rest of the crew - they have weekly adventures that would invariably lead to permanent injuries but don't, just like the other Main Characters on ENT do.
Your TnT act very mature. We don't have any silly-ass high-as-a-kite Trellium junk that bends T'Pol's mind out of shape
Sadly, that really
does make them stand out from the canon characters, doesn't it? sigh
T'Pol sees and uses Trip's advantages. When she realizes that Trip has superior night-vision, she admits and accepts it without bending over backwards to avoid having to admit it.
With that, I just wanted to approach the entire thing from a
logical point of view. Yeah, she doesn't like that he's better at night than she is, but it wouldn't be logical to whine and moan about it. For survival purposes, it's smarter to just accept it, use it, and move on. Trip's the same way - he hides it just as well, but I see him as still being slightly intimidated by the sheer breadth of T'Pol's knowledge and training. Mostly though, I wanted them to mesh into a smooth unit and, at some point down the road, I'm very much planning on having the ENT crew observe firsthand just
how smooth they are. Hell, I doubt they even realize just how well they work together right now because it's become subconscious and second nature.
Your Soval really is the S#it
I love it how you developed him (the "Maywheather Fook" any one?
)
I'm having a lot of fun playing with Soval. A
lot of fun.
Also? I really like Gary Graham.
Trip had to kill a lot of people, including that coup de grâce for that young girl (which wrenched my guts for sure). Maybe he 'dealt' with that a little too quickly.
Spoiler: he hasn't dealt with it at all. He's just suppressed it and moved on. But overall, yeah, he has hardened quite a bit, but that's intentional. If you look at the pics I chose @ my site for each chapter installment, you should notice how I went from a smiling Trip to a stone-faced one. Again, my madness has a reason.
Hoshi seems a tad underused.
She's
very underused, and it bothers me a lot. Phlox is even worse off and I keep trying to work the two back in somehow (fortunately, I've got a Hoshi chapter coming up that doesn't suck so that mitigates her underuse slightly.) Mostly, I blame my general inability to get into their heads.
I'm still intrigued by that mysterious family they were with for a while. Somehow that whole thing is still dangling somewhat unresolved. Since you're usually not the guy to left any plot-strings dangling unresolved, I've got the feeling that the Brady-bunch will make a comeback at one point.
No comment.
Daniels. I punch the hate-button instinctively as soon as that numbnut shows up, because many stories with him end in a big honking reset-button resolve. Relying on you that this won't happen. If he were to reverse the events (ie preventing/reversing the crash) it would destroy a brilliant story. O loved how you used him to convice Soval to help pilfer the Enterprise
Daniels
is the reason the crash happened in the first place so he's not going to reverse that. I
loath reset buttons with the passion of a billion suns so you can put your mind at ease there. To be honest, I don't know when or even if he's going to show back up so that might help too.
panyasan wrote:The reason I like this story so much is because it's a so build relationship that comes across very realistic.
Yeah, I definitely wanted to take the slow burn (heh - didja get it?) approach with them. Start out as friends, then slowly evolve beyond that. Are the misunderstandings gone? Nope. Trip wouldn't be human if he didn't wonder whether T'Pol would be doing the same thing she's doing with
any guy she happened to be trapped here on (and the author grudgingly admits that such an alternate pairing
could happen, but would take a whole lot longer for reasons that I don't need to really go into.) Plus, there are some more upcoming reveals that will affect their relationship - nothing especially crazy, just some neat ideas I wanted to play with - so their travails are far from over.
I really liked Trips speech to T'Pol; I think it's the best speech any guy could give in his own way declaring his love.
Thank you kindly.
I do see that Trip has changed: he has become harder. It's something T'Pol noticed in the story and regrets.
And its something she will
continue to regret. Ironically, I see both of these two as blaming themselves for how much their partner has changed - Trip feels a little guilty that T'Pol is becoming more openly emotional due to his influence, for example, while she fears that she's turned him into a weapon (which, frankly, she has, but it was essential for survival) - so there
will be some angst, just not the "I love you, I hate you, come here, go away, its just an experiment, I want you back, OMG I'm stoned out of my mind" kind of angst. I'm going for a more realistic take (or as realistic as one can be in Trek, eh?)
BTW, one of the things I liked about the last chapter is that Trip is finally beard free!
If you think
you're happy, imagine how pleased he is. Or T'Pol. Actually, it's a toss-up which one is happier...
He found a shaver in the Vulcan ship. Very interesting - I hardly have seen a Vulcan with a beard of any facial "decoration" - shaving must be a daily routine after meditation for the Vulcan male.
Well, we had MU Spock with the goatee, Sybok from that movie that was sort of de-canonized, and Soval had a goatee in the MU also so they can obviously grow a beard ...
Transwarp wrote:In your notes at the end of chapter 66, you write:
[i]"And if you're expecting an NC-17 chapter to fill in the blanks, sorry to disappoint. I don't write those. YOUR imagination will do a better job of describing the hot Vulcan lovin' than I could."
I for one much prefer the fade-to-black approach, and not because I'm offended by graphic sex, but for the very reason you mention. In my experience, most (not all, but most) of the graphic sex scenes I've read tend to become tedious and boring. That's why I rarely make it down to the decon chamber.
I generally agree, although I freely admit I've read a couple of NC-17 fics that I've really liked. For the most part, though, I just prefer to let the audience imagine it as they will. Plus? I haven't given a lot of thought to female Vulcan genitalia apart from knowing T'Pol shouldn't be identical to a human woman, and I don't want to venture into that territory without doing some extensive research. So ... anybody know of a stranded, uber-hawt Vulcan babe on this planet I could ... "research" with?
I think my initial point was that I just gloss over these inaccuracies and they don't distract from my enjoyment of the story (Although I clearly still NOTICE them--I can't help that; it's how I'm wired!)
I'm wired like that too. I hate watching television or movies anymore, 'cause I automatically start picking it apart ...
aadarshinah wrote:Playing devil's advocate here (and knowing nothing at all about eidetic memories), wouldn't this do absolutley no good? I mean, yes, he has the memory now, but what good does that do him in remembering things he's already forgotten?
Normally, yeah, but this is Trek science and low-level telepathy on T'Pol's end does come into play. Believe it or not, I
have thought about that, but ultimately decided to hand-wave it away by simply blaming it on Vulcan training. Plus, I always kind of envisioned Trip as having a nearly eidetic (or photographic as you may know it) memory anyway, so T'Pol's just enhancing what's already there.