Rigil Kent wrote:WarpGirl wrote:Oh no not that again... Where is the evidence of that?
Are you talking about the notion that TnT were having sex post-Alien Nazis, pre-Home? If so, I'd point simply to Trip's question of her about what she'd told her mother about him. That seems very much like a boyfriend kind of question that it simply makes it seem like they were being intimate. Just their general interactions up to Trip meeting T'Les implied a deeper relationship - otherwise, what was the point of her taking him home to me the T'Mom? (Especially given her chiding remarks way back when during "Unexpected.") Not to mention, they were technically violating regs (her being the first officer and his de facto senior officer, no matter what people may think about whether she should have had the job or not), so advertising it would be a good way to get court martialed or just transferred.
Trip's question could just as good originate to get an answer to this for himself + the phrase, that wasn't vocalized in this scene doesn't have to be 'my boyfriend' but 'my potential mate/boyfriend' with stress on potential.
And there are also other aspects, which don't make sense, if they had a real relationship between Storm Front I and Home.
For example, Trip's admission towards T'Les about being in love with T'Pol: "I don't think I knew it until we were standing over that lava field [...] I wanted to tell her right there but...I couldn't."
Please, what was the state of a relationship between Storm Front I and Home when he wasn't aware of loving her? Being f*** buddies? A Vulcan?

I think we can settle on the huge label "Maybe" for this timeperiode - both want to/consider it, but don't know how to start it yet. Or once again the writers got themself simply caught in inconsistencies.
Rigil Kent wrote:I'm pretty sure that there was a substantial amount of time that passed between dealing with the alien Nazis and the beginning of "Home," so it seems entirely believable that they've resumed their sexual relationship by that point.
Unlikely, not impossible but unlikely: We know that scene after the destruction of the weapon and the spheres in 'Zero Hour' was at Feb. 14th and the next date in 'Borderland' is May 17th, when they already had crossed into the Borderland, but you have to count in the journey back to Earth for Enterprise, the most likely long debriefing, the exercises on Earth after saving Earth, the media obligations like giving interviews, the last organizing for the refit, the travel to Vulcan, the few days Trip was there until the wedding, T'Pol's two weeks on Mount Seleya, her travel back to Earth, the preperations to go into the Borderland, the time to get there plus a few days in between these points...
Alelou wrote:I agree. If not, that whole trip to Vulcan seems really weird. (Well, weirder.)
Away from the ship + some time alone: Good opportunity to find out, how they could start things. Not so weird from my point of view.
But I can respect it, if somebody else thinks different. For example, I liked it in Alelou's "Commander Tucker" series, because you picked it up in other scenes again. It doesn't eliminate the other aspects which don't fit into the picture, but it's still great fanfiction.
Transwarp wrote:I have never been a member of the 'sex equals bond' camp. And if a bond IS formed by the act of sex, at least make it take more than ONE time. (Which is why I can't buy the theory that TnT's bond originated that one night in 'Harbinger'.)
I always thought you need both: intimacy with affection/conditioning the participants to each other + sex
Something like: "Harbringer" was the trigger/final step but not the mere cause.
But I'm fine with Rigil's approach in "Divergent Paths", since the human way of feeling things and not surpressing it might mess up the whole equation. Or touch contact during the time sleeping next to each other over months without any telepathic restrain from T'Pol's side (since she didn't think she had to shield it from him or couldn't because of the Pa'Nar) could be as good as mating.