Losing a child, plus talking about having another baby, which indicates they are staying together. THAT is a major complaint. Amid soooo many others. But that one hurt the most. I remember watching that horrible, stilted scene of Trip and T'Pol inside the shuttlepod, both acting completely out of character, and being just slack-jawed in shock. All the potential and promise and hope set up in Terra Prime, tossed out like trash. For no reason. Awful.
Yes Tatv is a lousy show it doesn't get any better the number of times you watch it. It was stupid Trip and T'Pol were no longer a couple .Like Hopeful romantic said it stinks.
1000% this. Terra Prime sets it up beautifully and it's left aside. And T'Pol dismisses it and I'm like..."Ok, why?" I rarely ask this with Star Trek but I had a Guy moment: "Did you even watch the show?" Specifically, the episode right before the one you're making?
Well, T'Pol is Vulcan, and vulcans are infamous for their lack of emotions even in the harshest situations. But, to be fair, did Spock or Tuvok ever endure something like this (the death of their children) onscreen?
T’Pol was rather infamous for having more than one source of damage to her emotional control. At least one of which we were specifically told would be irreparable to some degree. Adding that to such a devastating loss, it remains extremely puzzling why TPTB chose to handle (or rather not handle) it the way they did.