T'Pol - Family

Family

Little is revealed of T'Pol's family until the episode Awakening, in which she was identified as an orphan. Her father (who has yet to be identified by name) is deceased. T'Pol's mother, T'Les, who resigned from the Vulcan Science Academy in 2154, died in her daughter's arms during an attack on a Syrranite encampment in the desert region known as The Forge that same year. T'Pol grieved upon her mother's death; following the death of Trip in 2161, she confessed to Archer that she missed her mother more as time went by. Her father is mentioned only briefly, in the episode Home.

T'Pol has no siblings, and the only other known "family member" is a pet sehlat she had as a child.

T'Pol was engaged to marry a Vulcan named Koss prior to the start of the Enterprise's mission, with the marriage scheduled for 2151 (about a week after the events of Breaking the Ice to be precise) but elected to delay her marriage indefinitely. The fourth season episode Home saw T'Pol having to deal with the consequences of her decision, when she chooses to marry Koss in order to save the reputation of her mother. She appears to be unaware that Trip has fallen in love with her (although in The Augments it is clear that she is beginning to realize his feelings). Prior to her marriage, she negotiated with Koss' family to defer the one-year Vulcan residence obligation required of newly-wed Vulcan females, in order to join Starfleet as a commissioned officer and stay aboard the Enterprise. Only a couple of months after their marriage, Koss released T'Pol from their marriage arrangement (effectively granting her a divorce) following the death of her mother. The marriage was officially annulled some weeks later (as per the episode Babel One).

In the episode Carbon Creek, set in the 1950s on Earth, T'Mir (T'Pol's great grandmother) was involved in an unplanned first contact mission in 1957 when her spacecraft crash landed on Earth. She and two crew members were forced to live among humans for several months, hiding their Vulcan identity. During her stay, T'Mir provided a patent office with a revolutionary method of adhering things -- Velcro, in order to raise college tuition money for a human teenager she had befriended. Although she admits to "telling a story," the episode ends with T'Pol privately producing an apparently cherished artifact of her great-grandmother: the purse into which T'Mir had placed her cash upon emerging from the patent office.

In the alternate time line seen in E², T'Pol marries Trip and they have a son, Lorian, who becomes the captain of the Enterprise upon the death of Captain Archer. The fate of Lorian following the restoration of the time line is not known (the writers having left a door open for a later return by the popular character). In this same episode, T'Pol met an older version of herself (of age approximately 180 years). The fate of "Old T'Pol" is also unknown.

The fourth season episode Demons revealed that T'Pol had a six-month old daughter, the father being Trip. It was later learned that a terrorist group called Terra Prime had created the child by cloning a sample T'Pol and Trip's DNA, which had been stolen from the Enterprise. The cloning procedure, however, was improperly done, and the child — whom T'Pol named Elizabeth in honor of Trip's deceased sister — died soon after being rescued from the Mars facility where she was being held.

The existence of a psychic bond between T'Pol and Trip is revealed during the fourth season; no such psychic bond is indicated between T'Pol and Koss. The final episode, These Are the Voyages..., mentioned that T'Pol and Trip ended their relationship within a year of the events of Terra Prime. However, subsequent novels based on the series have retconned this, saying that the two are still involved with each other. The book The Romulan War: To Brave the Storm states that T'Pol has two children- a daughter T'Mir and a son Lorian most likely by Trip.