You also have to take into account the fact T'Pol & her mother weren't exactly close, so it would be easier for T'Les to hide any Syrannite tendencies, I'd think. Given the name, it's logical to presume they can't have been around longer than Syran, and one would presume he wouldn't become important until he's at least in his 20s or 30s. So ... 100 years? Give or take a decade or two...
WarpGirl wrote:I said based on what we saw in the episodes (not just Home), there was evidence to HYPOTHESIZE, he is a good guy.
Uh, no, you didn't. You said flat out "canonically, he's a good guy." That's not a hypothesis. That's a statement of fact.
In Home she made a different choice. I think it was the right one.
I don't and, based on T'Les' actions later in the season, it seems like she didn't either. The real problem with blackmail is the same thing with bribes - the price invariably gets higher. Remove the Vulcan arc & the discovery of Surak's katra from continuity and examine the situation dispassionately. Koss & his family have power over T'Pol now. Want her to do something? Threaten her mom. We already know that T'Pol was willing to sell her future away to keep T'Les protected. What else would she be willing to do? See the problem? If Koss & Co. were Syrannites, it's one thing, but if they're not? Well, she just sold herself into slavery for a mother who she apparently didn't have much in common with.
Also I don't remember T'Pol acting in anyway that showed she thought Koss was evil. She might not have wanted him to touch her, but that was understandable because of the situation, not necessarily because of the man himself. When he released her she acknowleged he was under no legal or moral obligation to do so.
When T'Pol has evidence that her people have engaged in something legally (P'Jem) or morally (the stigma of pa'nar) wrong she has stood up for what is right. In this situation did she in any way indicate she thought Koss was morally wrong for doing what he did?
And once again, you seem stuck on the belief that I actually think Koss is a crazed maniac who kills people for sport when I have consistently said we have inadequate information about him to formulate more than a rudimentary take on him. At no time have I said that I really believe he is more than what he was shown to be on the show: a dull, unimaginative tool of his parents. Besides, T'Pol has also been repeatedly deceived by Vulcan(s) - they established during the Vulcan arc that she worked alongside Talok in the past (thus, she knew the guy
better than she knew Koss whom she had met only a few times), yet remained ignorant of the fact Talok was, in fact, a Romulan. She had no knowledge whatsoever that Soval was capable of melding. That moron in "The Seventh" was able to snow her fairly easily. Etc. Apparently, it isn't all that difficult to deceive T'Pol about important matters (look at how easily Trip was able to make her believe that he
wasn't in love with her.)
As to her acting in a way that indicated she thought Koss was wrong, I have to say yes, she kind of did to me. In "Home," she struck me as being (in a Vulcany way) repulsed at the threat of blackmail, but since she was basically taking one for the team (in this case, her mom), she swallowed her disgust and sold her future away. Hell, she didn't exactly seem pleased back in "Breaking the Ice" when the marriage was threatened. Throughout the course of the show, T'Pol struck me as someone more than willing to stand up for
other people, but seemed to take the hits against
her as something deserved (which makes me wonder about her self-image personally.)