Episode Report Card Keckler: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Home on the Rage
By Keckler | Season 4 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.21.2004
Vulcan. Trip primps in his Vulcan mirror as someone knocks at the door. T'Ma enters as Trip straightens...something on his tie-less charcoal suit with a Nehru collar. She says that Frank Lloyd Vulcan and family are waiting. Not for him, I assume, right? Because it would be really weird for a Vulcan wedding party to put the ceremony on hold for a human paramour. Trip spins around for her sartorial approval and asks if she knows any good tailors. T'Ma walks over to Trip and adjusts his Nehru collar. "These clothes," she says, RUNNING HER HANDS OVER HIS SHOULDERS AND DOWN HIS ARMS, "belonged to my husband." Did you hear that -- she's DRESSING HIM UP IN DEAD T'PA'S CLOTHES! "They fit you well," she says, LOOKING DEEP INTO HIS EYES AND SORT OF TOUCHING HIS HANDS! Trip wonders if she's bothered by the fact that T'Pol doesn't even care for Frank Lloyd Vulcan. "She's fulfilling her family obligation," T'Ma says, thinking exactly what Trip could fulfill for her. Ew, EW! But come on -- it's all there! I'm not making this shit up! T'Ma says she met T'Pa only once before they were married but in time they formed a deep connection. Trip thinks T'Pol might rather make a connection with someone else. T'Ma wonders if Trip has told T'Pol that he's in love with her. Trip, all surprised: "Buh?" "Vulcans may not express their emotions but we are sensitive to them," T'Ma says, her eyes inviting him to feel her sensitive parts. Trip admits that it didn't hit him that he loved T'Pol until she told him she was going to marry Frank Lloyd Vulcan. Isn't that always the way, though? You only realize how much you care about someone when it finally sinks in that they are going to mate with the person they've been promised to since birth. Trip says he wanted to tell her right then and there but it was so dry out there on the fiery planes that the words stuck in his throat. Give the man a glass of water, though, and you never know what will come out. T'Ma considers this briefly before telling Trip that there's still time for him to tell T'Pol. Trip doesn't quite get what angle T'Ma's working. T'Ma just thinks it's important for T'Pol to have all the facts. "If I say anything, T'Pol might call off the wedding. Or worse, not call it off," Trip says. He admits that she's got enough pressure on her as it is, and he doesn't want to make it worse. T'Ma gazes tearfully (TEARFULLY!) at Trip, and I swear to god she was looking at his lips, wondering what they would taste like! She leaves without kissing him, knowing there will be time enough for phallic vegetables later.