Likes and Dislikes:
She drinks Terran green
tea.
"Breaking the Ice" [ENT]
and also drinks Mint tea, and on occasion, Camomile
tea.
"Fusion" [ENT]
Like all Vulcan females, she has a heightened
sense of smell and is bothered by the stench of the
humans (and Archer's dog) aboard Enterprise.
"Broken Bow" [ENT], "Fallen Hero" [ENT]
She regularly uses a nasal numbing agent to combat
the smell.
"The Andorian Incident" [ENT]
Skills:
Proficiency in the Suus Mahna, a Vulcan martial art
which takes years to master
"Marauders" [ENT]
She has a background in higher mathematics
"Vox Sola" [ENT]
and an interest in
geology
"Carbon Creek" [ENT]
History:
ca. 2089: Date of Birth.
T'Pol finally told Tucker on Feb 14, 2154 (She got the date wrong
in her
acting-Captain's star
log, saying it was 2152): "I am *not* old! I'll be 66 on my next
birthday."
"Zero Hour" [ENT]
She has no
siblings.
"The Xindi" [ENT]
2093: T'Pol "participated in the
kahswan ritual". She told Archer that she "was taken to the
desert and
left to survive for ten
days." (It is assumed that 7 yrs. old is the age at which Vulcans
are made
to go through the
Kahswan.)
"The Catwalk" [ENT]
T'Pol was betrothed to
Koss as a child. (assuming T'Pol was 7 yrs. old when her marriage was
arranged as per Vulcan
custom.)
"Breaking the Ice" [ENT]
2101: During her early schooling
(50 years ago), T'Pol traveled a great distance to Vulcana Regar in
order to meet Ambassador
V'Lar, who was participating in the Second Ka'Tann Conference there.
T'Pol impressed the
ambassador with her "blunt" questions and, in turn, she was inspired to
choose
a "life-course", leading her
eventually to the Science Council.
"Fallen Heroes" [ENT]
2128: T'Pol gets her teeth sealed
with a triflorinate compound to prevent tooth decay. However,
23 years later, she will get
a cavity anyway. Dr. Phlox attributed it to wear and tear.
"Dear Doctor" [ENT]
before 2135: Prior to T'Pol
joining the Vulcan "Science Directorate", she worked at the "Ministry
of Security", and was
trained in reconnaisance, investigation, and retrieval.
"The Seventh" [ENT]
It is possible that this is
where she acquired training in the Suus Manah, a Vulcan martial art
which
takes several years to
master. "Marauders" [ENT]
T'Pol had (informal?)
contacts with several members of the Klingon government.
"Judgment" [ENT]
2135: T'Pol was one of the
retrieval agents assigned by The Ministry of Security to apprehend 19
agents which did not return
from a mission to the planet Agaron in 2122. In that mission, 109
Vulcan
agents were surgically
altered and sent undercover to overthrow Agaron's very corrupt and
criminal
factions. T'Pol was
assigned to apprehend 7 of the 19 rogue Vulcans. She was able to
catch 5 of the 7
which had been assigned to
her, but the fugatives Menos and Jossen were able to escape.
Later, T'Pol
was able to track Menos
through a Tellarite transport captain who took him to Risa. She
managed
to catch up with him and
Jossen there on Risa and chased them through the Risan jungle.
During
the pursuit, in
self-defense, she was forced to kill Jossen when she believed he
was reaching for a
weapon. This upset her
greatly. Upon her return, she sought guidance from the Elders at
the
Sanctuary of P'Jem.
Under their direction she underwent the Fullara, an obsolete Vulcan
ritual used
to repress the memory and
emotions of an event. They resigned her position in the Ministry
of Security.
(17 years before the
episode) In 2152 she eventually did apprehend Menos.
"The Seventh" [ENT]
ca. 2147: T'Pol served aboard the
Seleya for over a year, as Deputy science officer under Cpt.Voris.
It was her last assignment
before joining the consulate on Earth.
"Impulse" [ENT]
2149: She was assigned as a science
advisor to Ambassador Soval at the Vulcan Compound in Sausalito
on Earth and spent two years
there. During her stay on Earth, T'Pol broke protocol and left
the
compound because of her
curiosity about humans. She remembers wandering the night streets
and
the steam vents. She
wore a hood to conceal her ears. Upon hearing some jazz music,
she entered a
nightclub where she briefly
"felt" emotions.
"Fusion" [ENT]
She once had to visit a
Terran hospital in San Francisco.
"Two Days and Two Nights" [ENT]
While on Earth, she took
a five day leave, visiting Yellowstone Park, the Carlsbad Caverns and
Carbon Creek,
Pennsylvania "Carbon Creek" [ENT]
Soval thought she was one
of the most promising members of his staff and later told her that had
she stayed in San Francisco,
she would be an assistant consul or might even have had a diplomatic
posting of her own by
mid-2152. "Cease Fire" [ENT]
2151, April: When Enterprise was launched
early to return Klaang to Kronos, T'Pol was assigned as
a Vulcan "advisor" to
monitor the mission in exchange for Vulcan starcharts and
databases. During
the mission Capt. Archer was
injured and T'Pol assumed command. She surprised everyone, by
continuing the mission that
Archer had set out to accomplish rather than simply returning to earth.
After the mission was
successfully completed, T'Pol chose to remain aboard the ship.
"Broken Bow" [ENT]
Her assignment to Enterprise
was only supposed to last 8 days; she was there as both an observer
and to "represent the
interests of the Vulcan people".
"Shadows of P'Jem" [ENT]
She wasn't the first Vulcan
to be posted aboard a human ship, but none of her predecessors had
lasted very long; The
prior record for a Vulcan on a human ship was 10 days.
"Carbon Creek" [ENT]
Like all Vulcans
(particularly the females), she has a heightened sense of smell and is
bothered by
the stench of the humans
(and Archer's dog) aboard Enterprise.
"Broken Bow" [ENT], "Fallen Hero" [ENT]
She regularly uses a nasal
numbing agent to combat the smell.
"The Andorian Incident" [ENT]
She postponed her wedding
to Koss in order to continue aboard Enterprise, but continued to
receive covert
communications about this issue through nearby Vulcan ships. A
few months later,
Koss's parents issued an
ultimatum regarding the postponed marriage, as Commander Tucker
discovered when he found
T'Pol's secret transmissions. After reluctantly confiding in
Tucker,
T'Pol chose to break with
tradition and not return to Vulcan for the wedding. Typically
T'Pol
would have tried to maintain
Vulcan traditional behavior. Her conflicts with Koss have lead
her
to slowly begin
experimenting with human ideas.
She has received special
permission for lighted meditation candles in her quarters.
"Breaking the Ice" [ENT]
T'Pol has been on
36 Minshara-Class planets. She claims that she can survive
without water
"for several days"; She uses
the Vulcan nerve pinch on Mayweather. when Captain Archer
decided to take an away team
to a newly-discovered, uninhabited Minshara-class planet against
T'Pol's precautionary
warnings, she ended up being the only crew member on the planet not
experiencing hallucinations
caused by indigenous pollen in the air. In danger of being assaulted or
killed by the affected crew
members, she was able to role-play in order to coax a peaceful
resolution, something most
Vulcans would never do.
"Strange New World" [ENT]
Similarly, she also
role-played when a mysterious group of large-eared aliens took over
Enterprise,
tricking them and gaining
the upper hand.
"Acquisition" [ENT]
She is not familiar with
early Earth space expeditions.
"Terra Nova" [ENT]
Phlox detected tooth
decay (in an anterior tricuspid) in T'pol, who protests it's
impossible; since
23 years earlier, her teeth
were sealed with a trifluorinate compound. Phlox guesses normal
wear-
and-tear. (I think
it was the Pecan Pie we saw in "Breaking the Ice").
"Dear Doctor" [ENT]
T'Pol was confronted with
an awkward situation when one of her role models, the Vulcan Ambassador
V'Lar, came aboard during a
tense situation with the Mazarites, and it became clear that V'Lar had
committed a criminal act on
Mazar. She was relieved (by Vulcan standards, anyway) when V'Lar
was cleared of suspicion and
it was learned that she was actually on a covert mission for Vulcan.
"Fallen Hero" [ENT]
In customary Vulcan
fashion, T'Pol passed on the chance for some rest and relaxation when
Enterprise
visited Risa. Instead,
she opted to stay onboard and take command while Archer and other crew
members vacationed on the
planet below. She presented Archer with a book called "The
Teachings
of Surak" to read while on
vacation. "Two Days and Two Nights" [ENT]
She was ordered by the
Vulcan High Command to leave Enterprise, but before the scheduled
rendezvous with a Vulcan
ship, she and Archer were kidnapped by Coridan rebels.
During
rescue attempts made by an
Andorian/Human team and a Vulcan team, Sopek, the captain of the
ship sent to retrieve her,
and leader of the Vulcan team, was nearly killed by a rebel. T'Pol
selflessly
put herself in harm's way to
save him, resulting in an injury that nearly took her life. This act
forced Sopek to take up her
cause with the Vulcan High Command, allowing her to remain on
Enterprise.
"Shadows of P'Jem" [ENT]
2152:
The Vulcan High Command sent
the D'kyr to pick up T'Pol after the destruction of the Paraagan
colony. The situation
was successfully resolved and she did not have to leave at this time.
"Shockwave" [ENT]
The renegade agent that
escaped, Menos, was located, and T'Pol was sent to apprehend him. She
asked Archer to come along
with her on the mission. T'Pol was successful in capturing Menos,
but he reminded her of her
long-buried memories... and she was forced to come to terms with the
fact that she once killed a
man. Luckily, Archer was there to help her overcome her feelings
of
self-doubt, and the incident
solidified the trust between them.
"The Seventh" [ENT]
2152, Aug 14:
T'Pol discovers the first
black hole that's part of a trinary star system. But as they
approach
the singularity in order to
get a closer look, the crew seem to be acting strangely -- obsessing
over
particular tasks, and T'Pol
can't help but notice. When T’Pol went to sickbay to report the
crew's
odd behavior to Dr. Phlox,
she finds that he's been affected as well, and is ready to perform a
lobotomy on ensign
Mayweather. She quickly renders him unconscious via a neck pinch.
Noticing the correlations
between the scans of Mayweather’s brain and the radiation emanating
from the singularity they
are investigating, T'Pol determined that if they are exposed to the
radiation
much longer, they may not
survive. In order to escape, T'Pol charted a course between the stars
which meant passing
dangerously close to the black hole and a considerable amount of debris
—
as a consequence she would
not be able to pilot the ship alone. Since he was the only one
barely
conscious, she got Archer to
help her pilot the ship to safety.
"Singularity" [ENT]
Dr. Phlox diagnosed T'Pol
with Pa'nar Syndrome, an incurable degenerative Vulcan disease that
could eventually kill her,
which she contracted from Tolaris during a mind-meld. (T'Pol kept her
condition secret to avoid
associations with mind melders, the Vulcan minority suffering from the
disease; the disease has
become stigmatized because of the way it is contracted, but T'Pol is
not a
member of the Vulcan
minority.) When it became necessary she receive supplemental treatment,
Phlox tried to obtain
research from Vulcan physicians participating in an Interspecies
Medical
Exchange in 2152 without
revealing T'Pol's secret, as their prejudices would prompt them to
remove her from service if
they found out.
"Stigma" [ENT]
2153:
T'Pol was infected by a
stray microbe while exploring a desert planet which triggered the pon
farr.
Initially she exhibited a
slight fever and elevated dopamine levels which affected her limbic
system
but as symptoms developed,
she had increasing difficulty suppressing her emotions and elevated
endorphin and hormonal
levels. She told Phlox that this wasn't her first pon farr and that if
she
didn't mate with a male, she
would die. Phlox determined that death would be the result of her
limbic
system collapsing but he was
successful in creating a serum to counter the effects of the "premature
mating
cycle".
"Bounty" [ENT]
T'Pol is forced to resign
her post with the Vulcan High Command when her superiors reassigned
her to the Ministry of
Information on Vulcan, after refusing to let her enter the Delphic
Expanse
aboard Enterprise in
Starfleet's pursuit of the Xindi (after their probe attacks Earth and
kills over
7
million).
"The Expanse" [ENT]
Since the rescue mission to the Seleya [ENT "Impulse"] where she was
exposed to Trellium-D, T'Pol has been injecting herself with minute
amounts
of trellium in order to "access her emotions", which she finds
addictive.
Phlox persuades her to stop and begin the slow process of withdrawal.
[ENT
"Damage"]
The trellium has caused "significant damage to her neural
pathways" during the three months she used it and, after the initial
withdrawal symptoms, T'Pol discovers that her usual techniques for
suppressing her emotions have grown ineffective and her new emotions
are
likely t be with her for the rest of her life. [ENT "The Forgotten",
"E2",
"The Council"]
She mentioned that if they were successful in destroying the
Xindi weapon, she was considering "formalizing her relationship with
Starfleet". [ENT "Countdown"]
In an future/alternate timeline the Enterprise is
accidentally sent 117
years into the past when it enters a subspace corridor and becomes a
generational ship. Phlox will find a way to combine human and Vulcan
genomes and she and Tucker will have a son, Lorian, who becomes the
second
captain of the Enterprise. The "future" Enterprise remains in the
Expanse
and, eventually, the two ships rendezvous in 2152 and "present" T'Pol
and
"future" T'Pol meet. (Is "Lorian" a Vulcan name, perhaps from T'Pol's
family?) [ENT "E2"]
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