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Telaka, who wrote Goodnight Enterprise an incredible read, references a fight between Archer and Trip. This is it!
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One week had passed since the declaration of his self-imposed punishment, and Archer spent a lot that time reading. He’d been able to catch up on a few books he’d brought with him – including a couple of classics.
He’d also had a lot of time to think – really piece everything together. Everything equaled: the fight, his guilt, his anger and his feelings of emptiness now. The answer had been staring him in the face twenty-four hours a day (despite the distraction of books) since his confinement. And it took him by surprise in its simplicity and pain. He loved T’Pol.
It should’ve been plain when he’d threatened Tolaris after the Vulcan forced himself on her or the time he’d supported T’Pol and ambassador V’Lar when there wasn’t any reason. He should’ve been clued in when he’d worried over her (at that time fatal) Pa’nar Syndrome as he practically begged (at least in his mind) to keep the Vulcan on Enterprise. It also should’ve...
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Telaka, who wrote Goodnight Enterprise an incredible read, references a fight between Archer and Trip. This is it!
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Her cabin was lit like a cathedral – yellow light flickered onto the darkened walls and ceiling, semi-illuminating the room. Less than romantic, it set the room afire with solemnity and occasion. The odor of the room was chamomile and burned wax, smells Trip equated with meditation or neuropressure. The woman in front of him was perfection: the purple catsuit she wore clung to her figure hugging every curve he’d ever appreciated … and luckily got to see in the flesh. It made his lips slope up, despite the fact it hurt his puffed mouth to do so.
As he sat down and she’d Vulcanly fretted over the food in her quarters, the chitchat – which somehow on Enterprise she’d learned to do – concentrated on trivial matters until she brought up the captain. The two were lost in the moment, poking at their food as if they’d lost their appetite.
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Telaka, who wrote Goodnight Enterprise an incredible read, references a fight between Archer and Trip. This is it!
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Archer lay on his bed. His hot, sweaty body stuck to the sheets and Porthos didn’t assume his customary position on his stomach or curled into his side. Instead the dog settled in his bed, afraid to move closer to his master.
That wasn’t the only reason Archer wasn’t able to sleep. Staring at the ceiling in the dark of the room, the events of the day plagued his mind.
She could toss him in the brig as he awaited – for eons – a court-martial. He’d get busted back to Commander (if not worse) or tossed out of Starfleet and lose any respect he had … even as the “hero of the Expanse.” The moniker wasn’t important, but the dishonor he’d bring to his surname -- his father’s name -- was.
She could end their friendship; and there wasn’t right now any reason to maintain it. In all likelihood, she was furious with him – of course in her own Vulcan way. Things between the two would be strenuous for a while; maybe the damage would be...
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