T'Pol's Trellium Addiction
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2018 1:12 am
Does anyone know if there was ever any indication that Trip or Captain Archer knew about T'Pol's Trellium addiction?
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CoffeeCat wrote:How do you think Trip would react?
I think he'd be a little angry and question if their relationship was based on a drug induced delusion.
I think Archer would be pissed at her for putting the mission in jeopardy.
73Bruin wrote:Given that she was impaired and the number of crew that died, one could argue that a court martial was in order for dereliction of duty (regardless of what any simulations might of shown)
T'Pol was not 'high' at Azti Prime in the sense she was drunk or inebriated. The Tri-D released her emotions, it did not impair her judgement. In my opinion, she was on solid ground when she refused to take the Enterprise in, with guns blazing, on a suicide mission to take out the Xindi weapon (which is what Trip wanted to do). Her plan to take a shuttle and negotiate was much more likely to succeed. (She had a valid point that, as a Vulcan, they might give her words more weight than those of a human.) And, in the event she failed, the gun-blazing suicide option was still available, so why NOT try to negotiate?
As for the battle, I must agree with WarpGirl (and it has nothing to do with the fact we both have 'warp' in our screen names). The outcome was a foregone conclusion, and had nothing to do with any impairment on her part. Horatio Nelson himself would have done no better.
Transwarp wrote:I actually make the opposite argument (and even use it as a plot point in my story 'Convicted'). I posted my viewpoint of T'Pol's trellium use at Azati Prime way back in 9 Oct 2009 in a thread titled Could T'Pol really be first officer?