Alelou wrote:Besides, we do see T'Pol grieving in her own Vulcan way, for someone who they were pitching as a former lover and someone she'd already said she would miss. (Again, I ain't going to defend THAT development.)
We also saw T'Pol grieve twice before (Azati Prime and the death of her mother). Both time tears were involved (Azati Prime doesn't count though, because she was stoned at the time). She sheds a tear for her enstranged mother, but is all calm and collected, when her mate croaks? At the very least it is very inconsistent.
That is all academic though, because taking *the_abomination* seriously is like sweeping the chimney before Christmas so that Santa won't dirty his coat
I think most of us agree that the events depicted on the holo-deck cannot be accurate, because a dose of common sense removes any shred of credibility:
Not a single crewman had been promoted after 10 years, which included 5 years of atrocious war against the Romulans. Nobody was wounded, traumatized, transfered off the ship or just plain ol' dead. So either TGTMD is true and all that actually happened in 2155 or it just didn't happen at all. Who ever did that holo-program obviously ignored the Earth-Romulan war.
Then there's the fact that Obese!Riker inserts himself into the story at various points. By definition he therefore alters events, making the holo-simulation divert from what it was supposed to depict. When the shuttle goes down to Rigel X (the 'will you miss me' scene) Riker sits in it with a MACO uniform, so he has taken the place of an actual MACO, who should have been part of the team. What if that MACO was supposed to shoot the Criminal!Aliens? The whole boarding stuff wouldn't have happened.
Then this exchange happens:
SHRAN: You're certain it won't be a problem?
ARCHER: I'll feel more comfortable getting you away from your friends at warp four.
SHRAN: My shuttle may be slow, but their ships can barely make warp two.
Yet those slowpokes catch up to and board Enterprise
First of all. If a ship comes near to Enterprise, the crew would have known it and security measures would have been tightened. Insead the Aliens just walk in and no MACO and no security man is in sight, so while Trip and Archer managed to run to the scene from his ready room, not a single MACO or other crewmember managed. Yeah, I'm the shizzle fo'shiggedy.
I'm not even trying to make any sense of Trip uselessly blowing himself up. I think the sheer uselessness of the holo-simulation has sufficiently been proven.