Alelou wrote:All I know is that I've seen grown men on this forum swear that they would never have anything to do with T'Pol again after what she said that morning.
And I'm one of those grown men. And that's not even taking into account the other crap she pulled later on down the road. The notion that its immature (if I'm reading WarpGirl's comment correctly) to get the hell away from the train wreck that was romantic involvement T'Pol doesn't really make sense to me; if anything, I see it as one of those types of relationships where, as long as you're not actually involved with it (e.g., it's a friend getting involved with a nutjob), you can clearly tell that its a Very Bad Idea and will not end well (which, honestly, if you go by all the angst and general pain of season 4, it didn't end well, especially if the canonical ending of the relationship as hinted at by the fraknale is taken into account.) So yeah, I'd have gotten as far away from her as I possibly could after "Harbinger."
But then, I'm not a fictional character like Trip.
I've actually toyed with the idea that Archer had a flirtation with Terra Prime back in the day, but it just doesn't work for me because he wants to be an explorer and what's the point of exploring if you're a xenophobe? No, his issues with Vulcans seems to be only limited to Vulcans and, truthfully, I never really bought that he totally got over those issues entirely. Sure, he seemed to like T'Pol, but she was pretty far from a "normal" Vulcan (what with all the emotional outbursts that he witnessed firsthand), and he appeared to tolerate Soval in season 4, but even during the Vulcan arc, I personally perceived a bit of scorn directed toward them. Might just be me.
Of course, those issues are initially what I kind of liked about the character because they made him different from the usual cookie cutter Trek template and I was looking forward to seeing him evolve past them. Unfortunately, the development of his character wasn't as effective as it could have been...