#mirror!trip/mirror!t'pol

[anretc]

Fic: Locked Inside Your Heart-Shaped Box

Locked Inside Your Heart-Shaped Box (1008 words) by anr Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Mirror T'Pol/Mirror Charles "Trip" Tucker III, T'Pol/Charles "Trip" Tucker III Characters: Mirror T'Pol (Star Trek), Mirror Charles "Trip" Tucker III, Charles "Trip" Tucker III, T'Pol (Star Trek) Additional Tags: Alternate Reality, Mirror Universe, Sex, Kissing Summary: She needs to put an end to this -- them -- now, before it goes any further. (It should probably bother her to know that she won't.)

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Star Trek Enterprise "In a Mirror, Darkly Pt. 2"

[wrinkleintime]

enterprise text posts: featuring the mirror universe

[phloxsmenagerie]

Thanks for the inspiration @affixjoy ✨

[defconprime]

Reflections

[redhatmeg]

Okay, but this episode is kinda about how AUs can be fascinating and intersting.

With multiverse craze you can see when the people make mutliverse story out of love and when they do it just because it seems the big fad now. For example, I find Arrowverse's Crisis on Infinite Earths the multiverse story made out of love, because there is a lot of love for DC TV and movies in this crossover, but what I've heard from people who watched The Flash with Ezra Miller, the cameos from various versions of Superman and Supergirl felt forced at best and disrespectful the worst.

But why do we like reading and watching AUs? The AU operates on at least rudimentary knowledge of the characters and setting the alternative reality of we see. We have to understand, on some level, who these people are and how they operate, and the Alternative Reality has factors that influence them and that's why they may be different. That's the most interesting thing about AUs: how characters XYZ would be like in reality that such and such happened or if they were put in setting such as steampunk, high school, coffe shop etc."

In William Boimler's crew we can observe it. We can see Curzon Dax who never mentored Jadzia and never gave symbiote to her, and now being very reckless; Elim Garak who chose to become a doctor and not a spy and found love with EMH!Bahir who was made, probably because OG!Bashir's genetic enhancements were never discovered by Lewis Zimmerman; we get T'Pol who got to have a happy marriage with Trip Tucker because he didn't die in the ENT finale, and we got whole bunch of Harrys Kims, one of them actually promoted. They're technically similar to their counterparts in main timeline, but there are also changes in their attitude made by their life choices.

And the talk with Lily Sloane also highlights certain problem that arises with how Star Trek deals with multiverse, in my opinion. Mainly, that up to this point Star Trek seemed to explore mostly the dark or tragic timelines (Mirrorverse, of course, but also Yesterday's Enterprise or that bad future in S2 of Star Trek: Picard), but not the ones where humanity was in better shape. That's why Lily Sloane talks about how mulitidimensial travels made her understand herself and humanity better: she didn't see dark timelines of humanity but our great potential. Moreover, she even pointed out that there are relationships that transcend time and space, and we saw it with Boimler and Mariner but also with OG!Chakotay and Mirror!Janaway in Prodigy, or OG!Spock with Kelvin!Kirk.

Really, Fissure Quest is great in that regard. It reminds us why AUs can be great as a plot device and character study.

[itsmyfandomandilikeit]

What exactly is the deal with T'Lyn?

So now that T'Lyn is a recurring character in Lower Decks, we're getting a lot more of her character, motivations, and personality. But from the getgo, the show has introduced her as being a nonstandard Vulcan.

Spoilers for Lower Decks 4x03 and all of Star Trek Enterprise below the cut.

T'Lyn has been kicked out of the Vulcan Science Directorate for being too much of a wild card, and she wants to get back in. This is her stated motivation for this season.

However, she is still steadfastly attached to her individuality. She refuses to stop using phrases like "I believe" when justifying her scientific claims, and she wears a headband, which no other Vulcan wears. On the Cerritos, she openly displays empathy, even if in her own way, and serves as a pivotal motivator for Boimler in this week's episode. She does so by easily and immediately understanding his perspective and responding to his current state of mind.

She doesn't appear to know of a reason why she's different from other Vulcans, at least in a significant way. She believes that her dismissal was unjust and she should be allowed back into the VSD.

For one, I think it's obvious that T'Lyn's arc will result in her giving up on returning to the Vulcan Science Directorate. She has to accept herself as an individual separate from the collective and realize that her personal value is illogically squashed if she can't use her unique judgment in the line of duty.

But, secondly, I believe it will be revealed that T'Lyn is the great granddaughter of T'pol and Trip Tucker.

Mike McMahon (McMahan?) has stated that he'd love to write for T'pol. There has been enormous interest from the fandom and creatorship as a whole in revisiting the character, both for the sake of her popularity and to canonize the post-Enterprise books which retcon the main series' pointlessly depressing ending. However, Jolene Blalock has retired from acting, and it doesn't look at all trivial to talk her into coming back. The idea has been floated to ask her to record a few lines for Lower Decks rather than fly her out to dress her up to be in Strange New Worlds, if an appearance can be made at all.

I think T'Lyn is a way around this whole problem. We've got a new, cool Vulcan character. She's smart as a whip, cool under pressure, and she's incredibly empathetic in a way that confronts people's feelings with gentle logic.

Her arc about breaking away from the Vulcan Science Directorate mirrors T'pol's arc far more than, say, Spock, who is a human-Vulcan hybrid but whose arc explores completely different themes.

T'Lyn is obviously a capable science officer, but what sets her apart is her empathy and her steadfast belief in her own feelings. I think, in the absence of another explanation such as a nonstandard upbringing (which I don't think has been hinted) this can be explained by her being 1/8 human. Hell, 1/8 made up of an incredibly kind and caring human who was so kind and caring he ended up in a situation where this is a plausible outcome.

Finally, one of ENT's most beloved episodes is Carbon Creek, which takes place 200 years earlier and is about T'pol's great grandmother. I think it would be sweet if T'Lyn's arc is mirroring that situation, 200 years later.

Whether or not I'm right, I'm loving T'Lyn and I'm loving the fact that she's here so much more this season. I'm excited to see where this goes.

[mylittleredgirl]

Star Trek: Enterprise Mirror T'Pol/Mirror Charles "Trip" Tucker III Rating: E [7500 words] Additional Tags: Mirror Universe, Pon Farr, Episodes: In A Mirror Darkly, Carbon Creek Content warnings: blood and guns both appear in a sexual context, canon-typical racism, and the mirror universe's... whole deal. Summary: T'Pol has always been attracted to things that hurt.

My smut4smut fic has been revealed! With great thanks to @anretc for giving me a reason to think way, way too much about mirror universe Trip/T'Pol. It was very fun to take a walk on the dark side of the mirror.

[marshmallow--shark]

malcolm reed. break his ass down

How I feel about this character

My love who I wish to see cry and break over and over.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Not counting crackships... Trip, Hayes, Archer, Sato, T'Pol, Phlox, Shran, Mayweather, Mirror Reed, D'Jamat, Damrus, Ulis, Grat, Daniels, Dolim & Harris.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

I don't ship non romantically.

My unpopular opinion about this character

I actually liked the T'Polcolm romance they were setting were up and would have liked them to get together, at least once.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Malcolm and Hayes should have started making out and had angry sex during their fight scene. Their furious sexual tension was the best part of 3.15.

[whovianwatchingstartrek]

A Whovian Watches Star Trek for the First Time: Part 093 - "Life is Change"

Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 4 Episode 21 - Terra Prime

Enterprise tries to block out Terra Prime's Signal, but nothing works. The Signal is too wide, and destroying the ship will blow up a colony on Mars. Terra Prime then start fearmongering about the baby. Later in the episode she gets named Elizabeth, and calling her that feels less clinical than just calling her "the baby". They also start to threaten to destroy Star Fleet command unless all aliens leave earth.

Enterprise tries to make a tactical retreat to Earth, and the Conference on Earth starts to be disrupted by several protests outside the various embassies. Archer's plan is to send in a stealth team. He sends Malcolm to meet Harris to find a way past the array's sensor grid. Apparently, within 10 meters of the planet's surface is a blind spot in the sensors. The plan is use a comet due to get reflected by the array to get onto the planets surface, then use this blind spot to travel from the Pole to the Array.

Meanwhile in the Colony, Trip and T'Pol finally get to see their daughter, and we find out that Terra Prime got Trip and T'Pol's DNA from a traitor on Enterprise, but who is this traitor? Trip is also coerced into improving the accuracy of the comet deflection array.

As I said last episode, I really like how Terra Prime and it's rhetoric parallels that of real world right wing populists. Both modern populists in their recruitment speeches, and older 1950's rhetoric around mixed race children when Paxton is talking about Elizabeth, and also just the fact that Terra Prime is Latin for "Earth First", which mirrors the names of a few real world nationalist groups. It's a brave choice for the episode to tackle this topic so directly!

We got a nice scene with Trip trying to deconstruct Terra Prime's rhetoric, and when that doesn't work we get to see him do the good old strategy of punching a space nazi, love to see it!

While Trip is doing good, Travis, Archer, Malcolm and Phlox start enacting their plan, and have a rough ride down onto mars. They have a rough landing, but they survive the entry into the Atmosphere, and the ride to the Array works.

I loved T'Pol just trying her best to be a mother and just talking to Elizabeth about how she needs a name in full Logic mode. Trio gets put in a prison cell, and I love seeing this guy at work, engineering a lockpick out of random scraps.

Earlier in the episode, T'Pol does a scan on Paxton, and apparently, Paxton is surviving through alien medicine. That kind of Hypocrisy is common in the type of person the episode is criticising and I love it here. When T'Pol got the scan, I was kinda worried that the episode would just have Paxton straight up be an alien, which I don't think would have worked as well, but just having that little bit of "rules for thee but not for me" hypocrisy goes a long way in characterising Paxton as a villain. T'Pol tries to use this information as Blackmail to get her, Trip and Elizabeth out of mars, but it doesn't work.

We get a brief scene of Hoshi in command, and she's actually a great leader, and I love seeing her stand up to the Governor who's pushing for the radical option of kabooming the array along with the colony.

As this is going on, the ground party encounter Trip, and they reach the control room, as Hoshi is in position to destroy the array. A firefight breaks out, and the room starts to depressurise. The struggle with Archer and Paxton fighting and switching the weapon on and off was great. Unfortunately, in the end the weapon fires. Thanks to trip though, the shot misses, and Earth is saved.

At the end of the Episode, we get a final scene with Trip and T'Pol naming the baby, as I mentioned Earlier, Elizabeth, naming her after Trip's sister. Unfortunately, because of Elizabeth's Unique nature, she has a genetic disorder and is dying. Phlox is trying his best, but he's unable to do anything. Elizabeth sadly passes away, and the scene really made me cry. Trip and T'Pol's grief is really well performed. However, they are given the hopeful note that it was a fault of the process, not of the specific combination of Vulcan and Human genes, even if it's less hopeful and more bittersweet for Trip and T'Pol specifically.

Meanwhile, Malcolm and Travis find that the shuttlepod had been tampered with, in a way that could have killed the ground crew is Travis wasn't such a skilled Pilot. They trace the Tampering through Kelby down to an Ensign Called Masaro, who would appear to be our Terra Prime Spy. Archer catches him, but Masaro takes his own life.

Finally at the end of the episode, we see Archer give a speech that finally kickstarts the alliance that I'm assuming leads to the Federation that Daniels kept going on about. While I wish there more seasons, it is still a really fitting note to leave off on, the galaxy coming together for the future, and it ties off all the themes of the series really beautifully.

Since the list I'm following says to skip episode 22 until much later, that's me finished enterprise now. I've grown really attached to this crew since I started this 93 days ago, and well, it's been a long road, getting from there to here.

[anretc]

Help! I'm currently languishing as a pinch hit in Space Swap and would love it if someone wanted to write some PILOTS! (Kara/Lee), robot!SG1 (Sam/Jack), Dinbo (Din/Bo-Katan), or Star Trek (AOS McCoy/Chapel), and take me off THE LIST. Details here!

I'm also a pinch hit for PILOTS! (Kara/Lee), Dinbo (Din/Bo-Katan), or Star Trek (AOS McCoy/Chapel or mirror!verse Trip/T'Pol) at the Hurt/Comfort exchange. Details for that exchange here!

Please. 🙏🫶

(Note to self: next exchange -- new pairings.)

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[seekingdiscorp]

SEEKING WRITING PARTNERS

hello, i am seeking writing partners for discord threads. i am also open to writing on here or other platforms, but i prefer to focus on the writing and skip the fancy formatting, icons, and all of that.

about me

name: d or dani pronouns: she/her/hers age: 25+ experience: 7 years of roleplaying, with recently taking a break for a few years. i also write professionally. timezone: PST (western us)

about you

age: 21+ experience: some would be preferred but i won't exclude someone for experience level. timezone: my schedule changes, so if you from a different country/continent, you may only get a daily IC reply or one a few times a week.

about the roleplay

length: i very much mirror my partners, so 1 - several paragraphs would be optimal. i just need something to build on and for it to be more than 1-2 sentences. type: I'm flexible with tropes, canon compliant, canon divergent, AUs, one shots, ideas on a whim, etc.! frequency: i am thinking i will be around daily/few times a week to reply at the least, but since i haven't done this in a year or two, we will see! just let me know how often you anticipate being able to write. ships: bradford/chen (the rookie) kiara/jj (outer banks) tracy/gordo (for all mankind) kate/mallory (cruel summer) bellamy/clarke (the 100) morgan/park (the good doctor) kit/elora (willow) wanda/vision (marvel) gert/chase (runaways/marvel) nancy/ace (nancy drew) trip/t'pol, kirk/spock (star trek) robin/nancy (stranger things)

if you want to write one of these pairings, please send me a message or DM with your basic information, interested pairings, and any plot ideas you may have! i usually can be flexible on the character I'm playing, but certain ships i may have a preference.

[jennawynn]

Enterprise Season 4 18-finale

Episode 18

So this is the episode they were filming when they found out they were cancelled? It's almost strange to think about it now in the era of streaming when the show gets filmed in entirety before it gets released and then two weeks later, you learn it's done. I wonder how you have the motivation to still do your best when you know you're getting fired.

The intro is interesting, but doesn't hold a candle to the real one. The effects are obvious, but it does its job in showing us what the people of this earth value- might over exploration.

Travis's little earring :joy:

I know Jolene Blalock was a model but do they always have to be putting her in low-rise pants if not skintight catsuits?

They even replaced the pics of Enterprise ships in Archer's quarters with weapons.

Guess you can't have hyper-masculine military shit without degrading women.

Bakula's still not very good at being convincing.

Episode 19

You know... this two-episode chunk has apparently been a fan favorite... but I'm guessing it's mostly nostalgia and seeing this crew in the uniforms of TOS(?). I'm not enjoying it at all. It is kinda funny seeing how colorful these sets are though.

Nice touch that it has the blaring alarm and name 'Battle Stations".

I guess they were planning to have more of these mirror-verse episodes in future seasons, though I can't believe they continued shooting and airing these episodes after hearing they were cancelled. It was complete whiplash and I didn't find that universe interesting at all. There isn't even an explanation about how or why we're returning to normal Enterprise between episodes.

Episode 20

Sometimes I think these fascist/xenophobic plotlines are too on the nose and then I remember they're from 20 years ago and then I remember that we've always had to deal with bullshit like this. Even a hundred or two hundred years ago. The only difference is which side the heroes are on and how sympathetic the villains are in the story.

I just realized every person in engineering is apparently an officer. In fact the only time I've ever heard anyone referred to by an enlisted rank was in the mirror universe? I mean... Enterprise is (supposedly) exploratory but Starfleet has some military aspect to it. Maybe it's the former-enlisted in me but how does anything get done if it's all officers? lmao

Episode 21

ok I actually laughed when Trip did the delayed punch on the guard. "Go ahead." "Ok."

of course the xenophobic leader is a hypocrite who uses alien dna. it's kinda lazy tbh.

They sure do like taking huge risks with tons of lives, don't they? Good drama, bad tactics.

Archer's speech here feels like what the whole series has been building to. I'm surprised that it wasn't the finale.

Oh... I was expecting the show to go to 24. I thought we were still a couple eps from the finale. I didn't realize this effectively IS the finale.

Vulcans 150 years from now have French tips, huh? lmao

Episode 22 (These Are The Voyages...)

It is pretty silly that they've been supposedly doing this 10 years without any change in personnel or even a promotion. Talk about no upward mobility.

Why would they mothball Enterprise after ten years of operation? The carrier Enterprise was like 50 when it was decommissioned and it basically running on duct tape and paint.

I'm wondering if I should've watched this along with TNG instead of Enterprise.

The first time we see Chef and it's Riker. lmao Fun fact: My cousin's named Ryker after him.

....why'd he kiss T'Pol's cheek? Gross.

ok, I thought this holoprogram was actually historical- that he was inhabiting chef while it was on and just seeing himself do the things, but repeating what was actually said. but then he slipped up and said 'Picard' instead of 'Archer' and Travis was like 'who?' which means that was RIKER asking Hoshi if she was ever attracted to Trip. Why? WTF? Is Riker a skeeze?

Ah, they have a warp 7 now. Guess that's why mothball. "To the Next Generation."

Only because it's the last episode and only because Troi (sp?) said something about it being sad he doesn't know he doesn't make it do I think they might actually take Trip out. That and the weird questions Riker's been asking about him like he's trying to figure out who Trip really was.

I don't like the 'formal' uniform variant. It looks like the flight suit with a white collar.

Really? They make a big deal out of the speech and then don't even let him-- oh, I guess they're saying that the thing Picard always said was part of Archer's speech?

I don't think I understand all the vitriol about the episode, but I do think it was an inappropriate sendoff. For one, you go the whole damn series without killing anyone just to kill Tucker and then you don't even actually memorialize him. For the other, it feels more like an episode of another show (TNG) than it does about Enterprise. Not knowing the story in TNG means that this is even more apparent to me- it's not nostalgia to me, it's just someone using the show I've been watching like a voyeur.

[kari-izumi]

I'm actually glad for the wait in retrospect because I watched Prick Berman snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with their Trip & T'Pol relationship on Enterprise and honestly think he might have done some fuckery™ that could've poison pilled J/C for a good portion of its audience.

I was just happy enough that Seven of Nine was a queer woman in Picard but man, I never expected expected that we'd actually get THIS MUCH out of Prodigy between the two of them. I mean, the compact mirror? Their MU counterparts who are making it work in a universe where distrust is the status quo? hello 👀

everyone wants to write a mulder/scully dynamic into their tv show but nobody wants to write a man and a woman who like and respect each other and who want to be together forever and ever above all else but who are each so mentally unwell in their own unique ways that they’re convinced they mustn’t ever let things get romantic between them or else the universe will implode. also i’m sorry but no duo will ever be as interesting to look at onscreen as gillian anderson and david duchovny. so stop trying‼️

[wellsbering]

enterprise + @veggiefact tweets