the delphic expanse

I guess it's my turn to start. I thought the scene in "sleeping dogs" where T'Pol teaches Hoshi to calm her emotions was potentially slashy. At the very least it showed the can interact well together, which is a good springboard for either a romantic relationship or platonic one. I. Chose to use slash goggles for it.

T'Pol and Hoshi had some nice scenes together in Vox Sola. There was a lot of tension between them when Hoshi felt like T'Pol didn't think she could do the job. Then they worked together translating the goo creatures language.

In the end, T'Pol gave Hoshi that great validation speech. That seemed to be something of a turning point for them.

Yes, I did think in Vox Sola that T'Pol wasn't trying to be critical of Hoshi from the but she still wasn't really adapted to human ways of interaction, so interacting with Hoshi as if she was a fellow Vulcan. IYSWIM?

There really weren't that many, right? Whereas TNG made Crusher and Troi friends and DS9 had the Kyra/Jadzia Dax friendship, Enterprise rarely had T'Pol and Hoshi interact after the first season, even though they would have probably worked together regularly.

I think Sleeping Dogs and Vox Sola were the best episodes to explore them learning to get along.

Oh, I agree about Vox Sola. She didn't seem to be trying to be insult her, in fact I saw friendly Vulcan behavior from her. I wish there were more non MU moments with the two. If you want to do slash with them you have to assume a lot is happening behind the scenes. Same with simple frienship unfortunately. I write Hoshi/T'Pol femslash, and it's a bit difficult unless you infer things aren't happening on set.

Lillith, have you read Mistress Euclid's story about them in the EU? If I remember correctly, it was a Christmas fic for Bluetiger: Shakaik

Just did, and it was extremely good. So intimate.

I wondered why my ears were burning. Thank you so much.

Mistress Euclid wrote:I wondered why my ears were burning. Thank you so much.

You're very welcome! It really was an awesome story.