Postby Elessar » Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:58 am
In reply to some comments on my story:
The story was meant to be non-linear and jump around chronologically, which I know was confusing, but it was part of my perspective of the chaos in a person's mind.
The scenes up until the moment when T'Pol reaches into Trip's mind was not meant to be random hallucinations as brought on my injuries - though that is an intriguing idea that I hadn't considered. That's one of the things I love about fanfic is how people interpret things all different ways.
I don't know if this makes it more boring but it was actually meant to be your typical "life flashing before the eyes" thing. All the scenes were therefore supposed to have happened... My little way of depicting some of the key events we know must have taken place in the E2 Universe.... The one 'first kiss' being back on Harbinger, the conception/attempts being Phlox's difficulty producing a viable hybrid technique, and of course Trip's E2 death. The confusing scene was the one I just made up... the Natalie scene. In my opinion, Trip and Natalie's fledgling relationship (inasmuch as we have made it up to be upon the evidence of the one line between he and Archer) could very well have been one of those painful on-again-off-again things that set him against a relationship to begin with. I mean, it's not hard to argue that before Trip met T'Pol he may've been suffering some commitment issues, like Kirk.
So that was my idea of one of the early instances of Natalie "showing her true colors", by standing him up at senior prom.