WarpGirl wrote:So tell me how did you come up with this particular bond?
I thought of it as similar to a Warder's Bond from Robert Jordan's (RIP)
Wheel of Time series. Since, at this point, T'Pol has about as much of a clue regarding the bond (she's just operating on supposition and myth - I envision the Bond being seen as the equivalent of human 'love at first sight' or 'soulmates,' where kids might believe in it, but adults have become hardened by the realities of life and no longer have "faith," so to speak), she can't really come out and tell him what she thinks. Hell, she isn't even sure that it
is a bond - for all she knows, it could just be the aftermath of the meld that she might have screwed up. They're both floundering in the dark here.
Plus, I sort of envision it as not being a "complete" bond at this point since they haven't taken the final step and consummated it. But if you're expecting the telepathic telephone of most ficdom, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. I've always preferred approaching differently from that since the only time in canon we see them communicating thus is when she's meditating in the white room and he's zoning out at the same time.
Is Pater your "Tolaris" revenge character? What I mean is, did you write this jackass because they let the other jackass go, and Trip or T'Pol get to kill this jackass?
No. He's not as important as he (or you) might think. But, as Evelyn told Beni in "The Mummy"
You know, nasty little fellows such as yourself always get their comeuppance. So he'll probably get his.
How did you get the methods she has been using to train Trip? Were they apart of your military experience?
Hardly. Just making it up as I go. I have absolutely no idea what sort of training techniques would be utilized by Taskmaster T'Pol to turn Trip into a "Weaponised" version of himself, so I generally try to avoid going into too much detail to avoid sounding like an idiot. Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt, they say, and it appears to have worked.
Pitseleh wrote:To be honest, at first I was sort of disappointed about Trip not remembering what had happened because it meant that all his misconceptions about Archer and T'Pol were still in place.
That's not entirely accurate. He knows that something is different between them, is able to see the open affection T'Pol is sending his way, and has all of the appropriate memories, just without their proper context. So he's simply confused as all get-out. I used my own life here - when I was stationed in Germany back in '91, I had a bicycling accident (wasn't my fault - according to an eyewitness, I swerved to avoid hitting some people who shouldn't have been where they were and since I was on a very high hill, I went over the edge and was lucky to have survived at all) and my memory of the event in question remains a jumbled up mess to this day. It's mostly faded at this point, but at the time, I was able to remember bits and pieces, just not in order or in context. So like Trip in this case, I have a hole in my mind - I remember leaving the kaserne and I remember waking up in the krankenhaus, but everything in between is a mess.
I am really looking forward to this conversation though, so...
Which
will happen ... just not like you expected.
Is T'Pol ok? Was she captured? Is she hiding in the woods?
Is she? I'd say "I dunno" but since I'm a page into chapter 66, that would be a lie, wouldn't it?
panyasan wrote:Then I remembered T'Pol had been looking in Trips brain, not the other way around. Of course their minds have become one, but we don't what Trips mind has picked up/seen.
Plus, she wasn't mostly insensate with agonizing pain from a bear attack, so it stands to reason that her recollection of what took place is more coherent than his.
To be honest, I hope this will be cleared long before they return to Enterprise.
It will be. Of course, I have other ideas for that time period (whenever it is) which will lead to some interesting story-telling opportunities.
I almost not looking forward of them returning, because I like their interaction so much and I am afraid I am going miss them when they return (with everybody - Archer for example - taking up their time). Selfish, huh?
Let not your heart be troubled. I'd say more to appease your concerns, but A) that would be telling and B) I only have the vaguest idea what will be happening during that point in the story.
