>>(Is it weird that, on the couple of occasions when they put T'Pol in a
>>regular blue boiler suit like everyone else's in order to show that
>>Things Are Xtra Srs Right Now, I liked her better that way?)
>
>Absolutely not. I believe the correct term was 'Yum'. When she quit
>the Vulcan Science Council at the end of season 2, I was hoping she'd
>wear the normal uniform. Sadly, I was disappointed.

I was extremely skeptical of Subcommander T'Pol when the show started, if only because they were so freakin' blatant about her being the show's Emma Peel ('cause hey, it worked on Voyager), but... in a curious parallel to the way it goes down on screen, she grows on you, preposterous costumes notwithstanding. :)

I can even identify the moment at which I realized that I possessed a great and shameless wuv for her. There's a bit in... I forget, one or the other of the season 1-season 2 bridge two-parter, where the Time-Traveling Bad Guys have whacked her up on some 22nd-century alien equivalent of sodium pentothal and are trying to get her to tell them where in time Captain Archer has gone, which she can't tell them because a) she doesn't know and b) she thinks time travel is horseshit. So all she keeps saying, in an increasingly spacy tone of voice, is, "The Vulcan Science Directorate has determined that time travel is impossible."

Later, after they've given up and cut her loose, she staggers back to her room and falls into bed like someone who's just been tortured for information she doesn't possess, and a hologram of Archer appears like the ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi and starts calling her name, to which she responds miserably,

"... Science Vulcan Directorate [sic] has determined... that time travel is... not fair."

If you do not want to give her a hug and tell her everything's going to be OK at that moment, you have a heart of stone. :)

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