Was the actress cast to play T'Pau too young

[eyeresist]

Can we please just let this die?

 

[locutus101]

And as my edit shows, he's called by name in the episode. By himself, no less.

Later by Number One as well

And Tyler

I see. So it really was "Mister Spock" not just "Spock", like "Keyrock" that every one kept calling "Mister Keyrock" in spite of his protestations.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

Uh... T'Pau? Enterprise? Hello?

 

[T'Nara]

Uh... T'Pau? Enterprise? Hello?

Yes, young T'Pau in ENT episodes The Forge, Awakening and Kir'shara

 

[locutus101]

We don't really know how old was T'Pau in Amok Time so we can't really answer that question.

 

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

In my "head canon" T'Pau at one point after ENT went to Gol to undergo the kolinahr. That environment took its toll regarding her appearance, and reading all those old scrolls and talking to her fellow "Golists" is what changed her accent.

 

[locutus101]

In my "head canon" T'Pau at one point after ENT went to Gol to undergo the kolinahr. That environment took its toll regarding her appearance, and reading all those old scrolls and talking to her fellow "Golists" is what changed her accent.

IMO, she must have spent some time on one of those planets that were emulating Nazi Germany back then. There seemed to be quite a few in this case.

 

[2takesfrakes]

Can we please just let this die?

>>SNORT!!!<<

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It used to be that Vulcans could not lie, now they lie all the time. Next thing we know Vulcans are the real authors of the rules of acquisitions.

If a Vulcan says they can't lie, that always makes sense. Either it's true (and they really can't lie), or not true (they can lie, and thus they are putting this into practice by saying they can't lie when they actually can).

 

[locutus101]

If a Vulcan says they can't lie, that always makes sense. Either it's true (and they really can't lie), or not true (they can lie, and thus they are putting this into practice by saying they can't lie when they actually can).

But when a Vulcan says: "I am lying." that's when the whole thing falls apart.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Norman, coordinate!

 

[locutus101]

Norman, coordinate!

35.2226° N, 97.4395° W

 

[Yanks]

I think she did a good job.

I think she was perfectly cast for the role. I've seen Jolene in Slow Burn etc., she isn't the greatest actress, but she can play the hell out of a Vulcan.

Space madness is just a jokey term for what happens when some sci-fi phenomenon makes characters misbehave. It has happened to pretty much all Trek characters at some point. In T'Pol's case: repressed memories in The Seventh, pon farr in Bounty, trellium D in Impulse. In TOS, Spock was also afflicted several times.

True. Don't forget Tuvok. I.E. Meld, etc.

Of all the "things" they did to T'Pol, the one that really ticked me off was the Trellium D thing. So un-Vulcan.

 

[locutus101]

I think she was perfectly cast for the role. I've seen Jolene in Slow Burn etc., she isn't the greatest actress, but she can play the hell out of a Vulcan....

I wouldn't go that far. Let's just say that she wasn't a horrible choice.

 

[T'Arwen]

I don't deny that ENT's portrayal is canon. But Duane's version is in my "head canon" for TOS, and I personally reconcile this by choosing to believe that the power structure that we saw on Vulcan in Enterprise was the result of various changes made by time shenanigans: the temporal cold war, but also, the knowledge of the Borg that Cochrane shared with them and that they possibly gained some of for themselves scanning the places the Borg Sphere's weapons hit once they were on Earth. In my mind, ENT is not in the past of TOS - VOY. It is in the past of nuTrek.

By power structure on Vulcan, do you mean High Command or T'Pau's government? And what about it was so bad for continuity?

 

[bookworm8571]

Just finished Enterprise's 4th season Vulcan arc. And something occurred to me. The woman who plays T'Pau 110yrs later in TOS, looks too old to be the same woman shown in this arc. Considering how little Sarak appears to age between TVH and NG and what we know about how long lived Vulcans are, I think they should have cast a middle aged woman.

I think she was miscast, but it wasn't her age that bothered me. She wasn't regal enough to be the real T'Pau.

 

[locutus101]

I think she was miscast, but it wasn't her age that bothered me. She wasn't regal enough to be the real T'Pau.

She didn't look mean enough for the role.

 

[2takesfrakes]

It takes a hard-lovin' Man to love a hard-lookin' woman.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It takes a hard-lovin' Man to love a hard-lookin' woman.

It's harsh out on the Forge.

 

[2takesfrakes]

... It sure seems that way.