Extinction

Extinction, aired 9/24/03

zealousgirl's Special Edition Report of Extinction has been posted.

Georgia peaches! Trip is such a gentleman.


Trip the Tempter: "Just one bite?"








T'Pol scolds Trip that the gift doesn't excuse the two missed sessions. Trip tells her he has been a little busy. T'Pol lights a candle - ah, establishing an intimate atmosphere!


Trip quickly tries to make up for the 2 missed sessions. T'Pol is appreciative.


Please remove your shoes.


My shoes?





I haven't had a shower since this morning. I don't want to offend your sensitive sense of smell.


T'Pol struggles to banish the image of bathing Commander Tucker first.


I'm very ticklish. T'Pol promises to be gentle.


T'Pol's hands are ice-cold. Hmm, is this evidence of her illness? Aren't Vulcans warm to the touch? Will Trip remember this later and wonder why her hands were cold?


Has this been tried on humans before?


Not to my knowledge, but the risk of paralysis is minimal.




Damn Archer! He calls T'Pol to a meeting at this hour? Doesn't he believe in giving his crew tme to themselves?


The crew tracks a Xindi ship to a planet.


Soon upon their arrival, T'Pol,...


...Malcolm,...


Archer, and Hoshi morph into some sort of alien species.


Where is my love?! Are you saying those alien biosigns may be our crew?


T'Pol experiences fear and expels a huge Vulcan sign of relief when Archer stops sniffing and poking her.


Trip arrives! He stuns Malcolm but is wacked by Archer with a branch. Archer runs off. T'Pol runs arms outstretched to Trip and grabs his shoulders.

I know I look beautiful when I'm morphing, but get Mr. Reed back to the ship while I save the others!

What can I say - T'Pol rocks!


Trip sobs to Phlox, "Malcolm didn't even recognize me!"

Whoops, wrong 'ship. Moving right along...


T'Pol still retains some of those excellent Vulcan genes. Her DNA could help crack the morph code.


Trip is working hard for a means of rescuing his love (and the other two) when two alien ships arrive and demand that Malcolm be handed over for termination.


Trip doesn't like to be boarded unless T'Pol is involved.


Showdown! Trip invites the alien over to chat about the situation.


In Sickbay, the alien explains the origins of the DNA-altering plague and the only known solution - annihilation of the individuals infected.


Whoops, T'Pol and the others have been discovered. The alien orders his crew to go to the planet and destroy the three.


Trip is stumped - how to get T'Pol and her remarkable DNA back on board?


Of course!










The peach! T'Pol took that one bite and now the peach is teeming with her active DNA!


The morphed crew discover the ruins of their civilization.


The aliens hunt down our brave trio. T'Pol protects her colleagues in an attempt to save them. You go T'Pol! Hmm, the alien tosses T'Pol out of the way like a rag doll. Where is that legendary Vulcan strength T'Pol is supposed to have?


Trip to the rescue! T'Pol reminds him he said he'd never use the transporter again. Hmm, teasing him about a vow he made and making reference to a conversation they had none of us heard. How cosy have these two become?


Trip gets everyone back on board and has Travis jump to warp. Once the aliens catch up, Trip stalls until we see Archer emerge from the lift, almost un-morphed.


Archer has Phlox put the vial of alien DNA on ice. Bad idea? An act by CompassionateArcher which may come back to haunt him or to save him?

T'Pol is taking the day off to recover. Perhaps Trip is giving her a bath and a rub down. A possible missing scene, folks! Go write it!

A whole mess of folks have made comments

Thank you for capturing the tight jaw...the boy really does need to relax. Beware of engineer's bearing gifts...I wish.

Got a kick out of how T'Pol saved his peaches (peace offering). She should have taken a bigger bite! Wonder how our Trip would have reacted if he'd seen the captain 'feeling up' his masseuse?

Heh, Trip, you smooth devil you. How about an episode titled "The last temptation of T'Pol". Dang Archer & his timing, I was sure Trip was going to fall asleep on that table & have T'Pol watch over him to make sure he gets a good nights sleep...

What I liked was T'Pol's look as she accepted the peaches. She looked at them and then at Trip and back a couple of times. It was fun!

Thanks for the lovely caps. Trip looked adorable laid there with his eyes closed!

*sigh* Thanks for the caps.....and so fast too! Looking forward to this one now.

I really like your pictures Look forward to seeing the show since it was prempted.Thanks for the great pictures .

It certainly was an interesting scene. Trip knows he's been avoiding her so he brings a peace offering. Sweet Georgia peaches! A taste of home, his home. So he's actually given her something meaningul to him and not just something he "picked up in the gift shop" so to speak.

She accepts food from him (wonder if this will bring an update on the essay on this site on Trip/T'Pol and how they relate to food...) though she's planning to set it aside for later consumption. Even though guilt has prompted the gift (and T'pol knows it ;) , he's still eager for her to taste his fruit (<--read that statement as you like) and cajoles her to take a bite. Which she does after not much prompting. I thought she'd put up a bigger fight, sort of "I just flossed my teeth", etc. and I thought Vulcan's didn't eat with their hands (or is that something from fanfic)? So that does signal a change in their relationship.

It's funny that Trip is still a bit awkward about disrobing in front of her, and to top it off is more concerned about being shoeless than being topless in front of her. Why? because he's ticklish, more than a little. So his feet are a bit of a vulnerability with him. Interesting. T'Pol takes it in stride and sardonically replies she'll stop if it seems to be hurting him.

Gotta say, even though it seems like T'Pol has to do all the work in providing this release and assistance to Trip, Trip actually has to put a lot in on his part to overcome his concerns and awkwardness and a bit of distrust to be there with her.

So for such a small scene, we have T'Pol accepting food from him and Trip taking his shoes off for her.

*sigh* She had barely found "the spot" on his back when Archer steps in. Drat, does the man have ESP and know when his two officers and spending time together?! Does he think she has nothing better to do with her free time. What he called her up to her was not really that earth shattering, IMHO.

It certainly left me wondering if she promptly shooed Trip out, told the captain she'd be there in 15 minutes or told him to stick around that she'd return as soon as she could?

Thanks for the pictures,
-Del

I find it interesting that she is willing to eat the fruit with her hands. . .

Can't wait to see the whole episode on Sunday. Thanks for the pics myst. I'll have my 'Special Edition' available Sunday night (the episode here was pre-empted for 'The Bachelor' (Ewww!))

my favourite pix were the ones where t'pol looked like she was ready to kill jon after she answered his call! and the one down on the planet where she clutches him before running after jon, the only thing that ruined it for me was when he yelled sub-commander instead of t'pol! missing a few of the good shots but the posting speed is great! keep up the awesome work!

Awesome pictures as usual! I loved that you captured the pic where T'Pol grabs Trip's arms. A person at the TrekBBS made a big deal about T'Pol grabbing Archer's arm to stop him in "Catwalk". She said it meant T'Pol had feelings for Archer 'cause Vulcans don't touch. Well boy howdy! Wonder what she's says now! T'Pol can't keep her hands off our engineering boy! :-)

oooohh! off camera conversations! oh the places us shippers could go with that one! dude, all I want are the runnin pix! and just how the hell does trip get into her quarters so fast when she hardly ever visits his? must watch the episode again and ponder.....LATER!!

"Trip sobs to Phlox, "Malcolm didn't even recognize me!"

Whoops, wrong 'ship. Moving right along..."

myst! I absolutely loooved this! ;)

The screencaps are wonderful as usual.

artemis moonshine, If my computer decides to cooperate with me, I'll add the "Trip Dashing to T'Pol's Quarters" pictures this weekend.

Yes, this is the second time Trip walks into T'Pol's quarters so easily. We saw this in Catwalk as well.

--myst123

I love all the pictures, but my favorite is the one of Trip smiling as he watches T'Pol bite into the peach. There's a wonderful sense of anticipation and delight in his expression. Very Nice! Might I add, for all the talk about T'Pol being coerced into assisting Trip, its so obvious that she's genuinely interested in helping him. I was especially surprised that she would ask him to remove his shoes.

Thanks, everyone, for your kind words!

Delirium, I like your ideas about T'Pol accepting food from Trip and Trip taking his shoes off - small gestures but very meaningful.

This episode should be titled " Archer Goes Ape!" Great pictures, the best of Trip & T'Pol. This was a very good episode for Trip, he even got to be Captain!
Love your work, Thanks Again!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the great screen caps!! You've also picked my favorite scenes!!

Lovely caps Myst :-)

Cold hands... warm heart!? ;-)

ohhh trip runninjg..... (wipes up drool) anyway, love the added pix and now i'm off to read some fix and watch smallville, (gulp)

Aren't they just lovely together? *_*

Too bad we can't bribe B/B to speed this up in the script, oh wells they'll just torture us for ahiwle longer,
Great screen caps, I always wonder how you do it, keep it up