Vanishing Point

Aired November 27, 2002

Sorry, everyone. Try as we might, we couldn't come up with one Trip/T'Pol shippy moment. Any suggestions?

Instead, we will provide screencaps of the episode. Lots of Trip! Some of these are based on the list created by pookha.

Trip the photographer.


Trip the linguist - "Mr. Tall and Popular."


A storm is coming.


The storm.


Trip, the gallant commander who tries to get Hoshi to go first.


The transporting Trip.


Hoshi arrives. Yes, we know this isn't a picture of Hoshi arriving.

Trip the bud with his buddies telling ghost stories.
Hmm, did Trip pull a practical joke on T'Pol? Is that what the conversation was about when Hoshi arrived at the table?


Trip the counselor


Trip and T'Pol, sleuths extraordinaire!


Trip, the defeated sleuth.


Grieving T'Pol.


Grieving Trip.


It was only 8 seconds although it felt like a lifetime to Hoshi. Yes, we know this isn't a picture of Hoshi.


Happy, smudged Trip, calming Hoshi down. That is the back of Hoshi's head.

A whole mess of folks have made comments

Y'all have to find one with his nipples.

Must. Have. Nipples.

I did like Counselor Trip the best, followed closely by Grieving Trip, with Calming Trip coming in third.

an episode about hoshi but also featuring the many faces of chief trip.

well it is hard finding shippy moments in some one else's bad transporter trip.

though you wonder about hoshi's odd relationship with t'pol in here.

i almost wonder if at one time hoshi had some hmm feeling toward our man trip but just thought forget it after witnessing all of those looks the dynamic duo give each other while on the bridge.

our maybe t'pol with all of her authority is just overwhelming though.

but i was a little suprised that hoshi seems to still have issues with t'pol after things seemed to be worked out in vox sola.

what is interesting is the overwhelming sense of isolation that comes from hoshi before she really starts to disappear.
that she already feels invisible.
for instance the buddy sequence at the table.
they seem so caught up in the story they are joking about (yeah i think it sounds like trip tried to pull something over on t'pol.. there is a line about how the vulcan would see right through that.. hmm_)
that they at first dont acknowledge her but once she sits down they do include her in their converation but with a new topic.

but you are right not much shippy stuff here..
we dont even get to see trip and t'pol together till after hoshi disappears (when she has the discourtesy to stand in between them ;)

i kept on thinking to bad t'pol wasnt there to check out trip in the trainer.

i am sure she would have a far better comment when trip says you are upside down ensign.

sigh..

well next week is the repeat of one of the all time great flirt sessions at dinner carbon creek.

watch trip ask t'pol for a story and ask her for the 80th time her age. see the classic look t'pol gives him.
see t'pol tell trip a story (oh yeah archer is there but our gal is mostly looking at our guy) only to be almost driven off by trip's flip comment.
watch trip have to beg t'pol to continue with one of the best begging puppy dog looks he has ever given (all of this is nicely captured on the carbon creek immage gallery thanks guys for all your hard work in collecting and posting these)

what may also make carbon creek worth another look see is to check how much new stuff gets added in rerun.

they added on extra trip/t'pol footage onto the bridge scene in shockwave pt 2.

but i cant wait till two weeks from now where it looks like we will get tempted trip crash landing with padma down on a mud planet.

hmm
maybe we will even see the return of prancing prissy jealous pony t'pol.
;)

Okay...am I the only one who thinks that Connor's spending a wee bit too much time in the gym? I mean, the ratio of biceps to face size is starting to get a bit awry. Muscled is good. Musclebound...too much of a good thing.

Or am I the only holder of that opinion?

Overall, I liked the episode. Folks who weren't so concerned with similarities to other stories in other genres got a good character-insight picture of Hoshi.

Thanks for the great screen caps,it's nice to see what we are missing in the UK!
I agree with Laughing Muse about Connor, I thought from your screen caps his shoulders looked bigger(wasn't sure if it was the lighting at first!)

Loved the pix of "Trip the defeated sleuth"!!!
Keep 'em coming!!!

no i just think the shoulders looked defined here.
i have seen too much muscle ie muscle bound at the y and that doesnt seem to be the case here.

LOL, Laughing Muse. I think Trip is deliberately flexing here in Pic 12. Note he's even doing the classic Men's Health pose, complete with cheesy grin. So he might not be musclebound so much as the beneficiary of a generous camera angle.

Great pics as usual, Myst. I love this piece of editorialising: "Yes, we know this isn't a picture of Hoshi." :-D

...generous camera angle...

*snorrkkkk*

Lo Pan, you owe me a new keyboard!!!

(Was that phrase, mayhap, a souvenir of your L.A. sojourn?)

the one possible shippy moment in really what is hoshi's nightmare..

in the mess hall she is approaching a table with trip, malcolm and travis.
they are all luaghing and having a good time.
most of the laughter seems to be a trip's expense though he is laughing almost as hard as the rest.

you dont hear the beginning of the comments that started everything off but you hear snatches of conversation mixed in with the laughter.

they sound like..
"there is no use pretending commander"
and something from trip that sounded like ..
that the vulcan would see right through that.

Laughing Muse, how did you guess? ;-) My question is, when ppl say that the camera adds ten pounds, does the extra weight all go to the face, or does it get distributed evenly? For that matter, can it all go to a person's biceps and bypass the face altogether? These are the *deep* philosophical questions that I ponder on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

(Btw, sorry about the keyboard!)

Lo Pan, We just call the scenes as we see them. We know Hoshi was in this episode somewhere, but we just couldn't find her. No editorializing going on here.

Laughing Muse, I have to agree with Miss Thang - Trip + arms = good. I'm sure that is sound Vulcan logic.

I will leave the two of you to debate pounds added by the camera. And I don't EVEN want to know about the keyboard (was it a vanilla latte?).

I enjoyed the comments already posted as much as I did the show itself! That gravity trainer thingee - made me queasy, but he looked great using it! And for the record, all of Trip looked mighty nice to me! Is it just me, or does Dr. Phlox always seem to pooh-pooh ailments when someone goes to Sickbay? First in the show when Trip lost his hand..."Oh, it will be all right". Then last week with Mayweather...well, he WAS affected by radiation in that show. Now last night, poor Hoshi.....ok, so that wasn't EXACTLY him either. lol

When are the Trip shows coming up? Precious Cargo in 2 weeks, right? *warming up VCR and hoping it doesn't fail me*

^ Chortles. Don't you know, Carol Ann, it's all "Optimism!" for Dr. Phlox.

What's the deal with all the invisibility/ visibility gags this season? So far, we've had cloaked Suliban ships, decloaking Romulan ones, rematerialising appendages, and vanishing Hoshis (winks at Myst)... I suppose you could argue that Trip/T'Pol scenes have vanished recently, too. :-( But I'm sure they'll decloak soon enough. They have to. The People have spoken.

Btw, not to be a spoilsport, but it's worth keeping in mind that the ep was called Vanishing Point, not Expanding Bicep. ;-)

I have no problem with biceps... a Stripped Trip is a good Trip I say.

ahhh dredel..
that is the problem why we cant decide whether it was the camera angle or what..
he should have at at least a tank top and not a tshirt.
of course topless would be better but they have such fussy rooms in gyms..
all i know is that he looked mighty fine and i prefer him this way to part of last season when he started looking a little thin.

and it was really nice to see the return of counselor trip. now we just need to see trip the engineer and of course eventually trip the guy for t'pol.

;)

precious cargo looks to be "real " interesting.
and possibly one of my favorite things to watch.
the return of the prancing prissy jealous t'pol pony really last seen in oasis.

the only thing i would like better then that would be for a real trip and t'pol love scene.
and really if it does happen i think we are still a couple of years from it.
so watching t'pol get jealous which lets us know she is still thinking about our guy isnt too bad.
spoilers upcoming plots..
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trip has another big role coming up in an episode called "dawn" and then there is another where he has to rescue not only has to rescue t'pol and archer which as martha say is a good thing but also everyone's fav vulcan ambassador soval.
oh yeah and he has to cope not only with a vulcan commander but also with shran.
that could be fun.

i have a couple of questions that i want to throw out..

first for the astute observers here..
does anyone else think her quaters have changed since breaking the ice.
they looked far smaller there then one seen in shockwave and singularity.

just wondering..
maybe once they saw she was going to stay say afer shadows of pjem they gave her larger quaters.

the other is about the pillow she is clutching when she comes back from being tortured by the suliban.
it really stands out because it is very ornate looking more so then the other pillows.

did any one notice from an earlier episode say fusion or breaking the ice.
i am trying to get a feel for how long she had had it.

thanks

Topless Trip......Yeah baby!....that gets my vote. That scene in Desert Crossing when the shirt and glasses come off when they play that game (Geskana-sp?) where he hurts his ribs.....Yummmmm....

Precious Cargo and Dawn too? *does backflips* Yippee...more Trip!

I missed some of the first season's shows....did they ever show Trip's quarters? Maybe a snippet in the opening ep this year when they were all confined to their quarters. I know Archer's, T'Pol's, and now Hoshi's (nice shower too)....don't remember much about Trip's at all.

Ahh....back to optimistic Dr. Phlox and feeding his leeches....lol!!!!! Did I hear in one of the shows the dude has 3 wives???

Okay...is it just me or does Trip look like he's channeling James T. Kirk in that 'transporting Trip' shot? :p

Laughing Muse, as far as the arms go I think it's just that particular angle...I hadn't noticed his arms being that substantially larger in any other eps(like Marauders, when he had on the short-sleeved native garb). Though I had noticed that Dominic Keating's arms look bigger this season too...maybe he and CT are trying to compete with Anthony Montgomery? ;)

you actually see trip's quaters several times in shockwave..
first he is in them when he contacts mal and later it is his quaters were they drag the suliban into with hoshi standing guard over them.

what i noticed in the transporting shots was in the one right before the shirt is zipped all the way to the top..
partly unzipped when he transported and again unzipped afterward..

is this some previously unknown effect of the transporter
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;)

interesting comment t'dax..
you almost could see trip and mal having a little friendly competition in the gym..

phlox does have three wives.,. but they also have other husbands and he also has grown children..
i like phlox. i like how he told archer he wouldnt like the answer if archer told t'pol about his feelings toward her.
something to think about last season we saw both trip and t'pol talking to the good doctor a lot.
he may know more about how each other feels then anyone else including themselves.

as for leeches .. well even know we use specially grown sterile ones in hospitals..

a link to the shockwave photos on the site..
well they dont show much here but there is some shots in the episode that do show more..

oh and another observation about t'pols quaters.
they show a shot of her shelf and it has a drinking horn on it... man i wonder about that.

http://triptpolers.houseoftucker.com/gallery/shockwave_part_2.shtml

Before i got to watch the ep (yes, i missed it Wed. and had to wait for Sun.) the pics helped me to want to SEE the ep (with all the HORRIBLE reviews on this one even I didn't really wanna see it) but now that i've seen it, the pics are sinmply humourous as always "Yes, we know this isn't a picture of Hoshi arriving." lol... i'm easily amused maybe.... hmmm....

I know this is really, really late, but I just have to say that I love the pictures of Hoshi arriving on the transporter-and I must say, I'm so glad that those aren't pictures of Hoshi. Thanks, myst, for indulging us Trip/Reed 'shippers a bit. ;)

I think this site needs more pics of the ultra hot workout scene. hahaha *thud*