Shipwreck with You
red rooster dawn
Pairing: Tucker and T'Pol
Disclaimer : All the characters are the property of Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek. They are use purely for entertainment value only.
Summary: Tucker and T'Pol crash on an alien planet on the way back to the Enterprise, many light years away.
Day 1
Trip and T'Pol were on their way back from the planet Orion Major. They had spent the last month there observing the native culture of the planet. The people of Orion Major were very human like except for some strange markings that weren't readily visible.
Trip was surprised to be on this away mission, but Star Fleet Command and the Vulcan High Council thought it would be advantageous for him to get more experience dealing with new cultures. Trip had the tendency to over react whenever he saw something he thought was wrong, but was considered quite normal for that culture.
The Vulcans thought that having T'Pol along to work with him and train him would do both of them good. T'Pol had a lot of experience observing new cultures, but lack the experience as a mentor. They thought that if she could mentor the highly volatile Commander Charles Tucker the third, then she could mentor anyone.
The mission had been quite successful. T'Pol had Trip take notes and prepare a report on what he observed each day. She would do the same. Later they would sit down and compare notes at the end of the week and discuss them.
They found themselves in close agreement about most of what they observed of the culture. Trip had even gotten T'Pol to loosen up a bit. He told her she needed to fit in better.
When they left that morning T'Pol had contacted the Enterprise to let them know that she and Commander Tucker were on their way. They anticipated it would take six days for them to reach the rendezvous point.
They were looking forward to returning to the Enterprise and resuming their normal duties. T'Pol also was looking forward to getting out of the clothing she was wearing. It resembled earth clothing of 1890's Earth, long skirts and puffy blouses.
She also was tired of maintaining the additional hair she had during this time. The Doctor had given her an injection that had caused her hair to grow out to two feet in length before slowing down to what was normal. She didn't know how anyone could deal with hair of this length all the time.
Forty eight hours into their return flight the shuttle pod began to vibrate severely. He was losing control.
"T'Pol, I need your help." yelled Trip.
"What is it Charles?" asked T'Pol.
She had gotten in the habit of calling him Charles during their stay on the planet. She couldn't very well call him Commander and she wasn't going to call him a name one would call a dog.
"There's something wrong with the engines. I don't think they're going to last more than another hour. I need you to find me a planet to land on." informed Trip. If there was anyone who could find a planet out here in this vastness of space, it would be T'Pol.
"Come to heading 240 degrees mark four. There is an habitual M class planet thirty minutes away." responded T'Pol.
Trip took the shuttle pod in the direction T'Pol gave him. As they hit the planet's atmosphere he reduced the power. Trip had only enough power to slow them down, but not to prevent them from crashing. They came down in a thick jungle.
They both were knocked out upon crashing. An hour later they were both slow to wake up. "T'Pol are you alright? Did you get off a distress beacon?" asked Trip.
"I seem to be alright Charles. I'm a little sore from landing on something when I fell out of the chair. I did send out a distress call. I don't know if the Enterprise heard it though." replied T'Pol.
"That something you landed on was me." replied Trip as he rubbed his back where T'pol landed on him.