Trip & T'Pol: The Summers family of the Star Trek universe?Trip and T'Pol of Star Trek: Enterprise are Summerses, and I intend to prove it! Although when it comes to them, T'Pol would have to be the Scott equivalent, while Trip gets Jean Grey.
Let's start with Commander T'Pol, whose last (lineal) name is mysteriously unknown, or nonexistent (though I doubt it - Spock had an "unpronounceable" lineal name, and he's Vulcan). So could her last name be... Summers? And is she hiding it for being unpronounceable for humans, or simply for being ashamed of it? I don't know how common the last name "Summers" is on other planets, but I'm sure it could be traced back to Corsair and Katherine-Ann's abduction... they DO have a son (AKA the "Third Summers Brother", AKA another lame Marvel Universe eye-roller cliche Summers/Grey plot device) who bears the codename "Vulcan". Also, as a Vulcan, T'Pol is very uptight and "by the book"... Just like Scott!
And now, Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker III (Charles?!), who has the "honor" (?) of being this week's Jean Grey. No, he's not red, but pretty much everything else lines up...
First of all, like every good Jean Grey, he was cloned. The clone Sim was created as Trip's neural tissue donor in order to save Trip's life. He lived his short, accelerated lifespan until he was compatible with Trip, and, like every good Jean Grey clone, died (on the operating table). And just like Scott and Maddy, T'Pol fell for the clone (if he had lived long enough, they could have had an alternate kid too!). Sim didn't turn evil though... well, he almost ran off on them and left Trip to die, but in the end he did the right thing. Does this count?
Like Jean, Trip died, and more than once! The first time, he was infected with a deadly virus and died, but was resurrected by the Organians. The second time he "died", he blew himself up to kill intruders. Though, the second death was so arbitrary, poorly written, and completely out of character for him, so I (among millions of other logical Trekkies) choose to believe it never actually happened. Did I also mention it wasn't actually Trip, but a holographic recreation of him (as in the Phoenix case - the clone, which at the time was believed to be Jean, died, but not the real Jean)? So there! He also died twice in alternate timelines that were reset eventually (Twilight and E2).
Just like Jean, Trip lost his sister in an alien attack on Earth. Only that in Jean's case, it was the Phalanx, and in Trip's case, it was the Xindi.
Trip's body was taken over by noncorporeal aliens - three times (well, twice of them by the Organians in the same episode, even when he was dead!). The Phoenix Force? The Organians healed Trip's dead body just like the Phoenix healed radiation-poisoned Jean (while conveniently using her cloned body). Except that Trip recovered instantly instead of being left at the bottom of a river for years... there are no rivers in outer space anyway.
And, as typical to Summerses in general and Scott and Jean in particular, every female (aliens included) falls for Trip, while the males want T'Pol... as if there aren't any other crewmembers on the ship! I mean, come on! Except for that guy on Risa who fell for Hoshi, but that's because T'Pol wasn't there. Duh!
Trip and T'Pol also share a telepathic bond, because that's how Vulcan relationships work - same as Scott and Jean's mindlink.
And where would a Summers family be without... alternate kids! Scott and Jean must have every possible version of them - one from the lab (Nate), one who popped from an alternate future (Rachel), and one from a clone (Cable). Trip and T'Pol lack the lattest, probably because Sim didn't live long enough to have kids. Poor Sim. Anyway, on to the offspring parade...
First there's Lorian, who will be dubbed "Rachel" for this matter. He was born in a Future Past (ha!), or a past future (it's confusing), as in his alternate timeline, the Enterprise was thrown back in time 117 years going through an unstable corridor. Lorian was over a hundred years old when the future past Enterprise met the "real" universe Enterprise in an attempt to prevent them from being thrown back in time (thus changing the future and preventing it from happening in the past...). Which had a weird Cable vibe when Trip met a son who was almost 3 times his age... The Future Past Enterprise's mission was successful, but Lorian's fate is unknown - his ship never emerged from the other side of the corridor. It could have been destroyed by the hostile aliens they were fighting, or erased from history (future?) because the timeline had changed. Or, thrown back in time another 117 years... ouch.
Then there's baby Elizabeth (named after Trip's dead sister), who will be dubbed "Nate". She was created by a bad guy in a lab from Trip and T'Pol's DNA, without their knowledge. Though, Paxton's scientists couldn't even get their cloning equipment right, and as a result, Elizabeth's genetic makeup was flawed -- oh yeah, so is Nate's -- and there was nothing anyone could do to save her. She died on the Enterprise. Poor thing
So, are Trip and T'Pol the Summers family of the Star Trek universe?
I'd say.
In fact, if you look far enough up their lineage, I bet you could find some Nathans.
you give her the character who can't stay alive for more than 5 minutes at a time and is so weak that in the 5 minutes she's actually alive, she can't even stay AWAKE for over 2 seconds because everything makes her faint?? 
I did this little "article" thingy for a friend's X-Men site like a hundred years ago... like about how TnT are the Summers family of the Star Trek universe 
(Baby Elizabeth as Nate, that's fantastic.) 
