ship_manifesto

Title: Star Crossed
Author: speshulduck
E-mail: a.keller1@gmail.com
Fandom: Star Trek: Enterprise
Pairing: Trip Tucker/T'Pol
Spoilers: As of this publication date the entire series has aired in the U.S., so it's safe to say all four seasons will be spoiled for you.
Notes: Thanks to everyone at similitude for sharing their obsession, pain, and fic recs with me. As a general note I'm somewhat of a critic of the flaws in Enterprise, but I tried to keep that out of the manifesto. There are certain things that I ignored when it came to writing it -- like nearly all of the second season -- but I did my best to keep any criticism of the writers and producers out of it. This disclaimer does NOT apply to the finale however, as I'll be making the (very easy) argument to not consider it canon. This is over 6,000 words, so all apologies!

The irritation, the dislike, the rudeness, the differences, the hot and mostly naked-and-covered-in-gel decon scene. It was apparent from the very first episode of Star Trek's fifth live action incarnation Enterprise that we had one hefty interspecies 'ship bearing down on us. Over the four years that Enterprise has been on the air we've watched her characters grow and shape themselves around each other, the most obvious of which has been a good Southern boy and a logical Vulcan.

After four seasons and 98 episodes, Enterprise has taken its cancelled place in the sky. Zip up those uniforms and charge your phase pistols for humanity's first wild ride into deep space.

( 'C'mon, it's not like we would have made the ideal couple. A Vulcan and a human? Romeo and Juliet stood a better chance.' )