Guessing everyone has seen the Lower Decks finale, so hopefully not a spoiler to talk about T'Pol.
Glad she didn't appear on any other (cough cough "Trek") shows of the past few years...
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So how did the series snag franchise icon Jolene Blalock to return as T'Pol, and why was she only credited by her first name?
I wrote her a letter explaining how important her work on Enterprise was to me not only as a fan, but also as a writer of Star Trek and how I defined Vulcans and that T’Lyn is like kind of a love letter to her work [as T’Pol] among others. I sent her the script, and she read it, and she watched the show, and I guess she had turned down other Star Trek to be on because I think she didn't wanna be. sort of like window dressing, you know what I mean? I didn't expect to get her because we had heard she had said no before.
Mike McMahan has talked in the past to CinemaBlend about how T'Lyn is based on T'Pol, so it's no surprise to me that he and the staff were able to write her lines and craft her moments with the perfect tone.
She said, ‘Would it be ok if I just went by Jolene?’ and we were like, ‘Jolene, it is whatever you want to be.’ I think a lot of times in this industry you are told what you're allowed to do. And I really wanted to make sure that she felt like she was in charge of defining stuff because we were so appreciative of her coming back. She didn't tell me why, but she was like, ‘I would prefer just to be Jolene in this,’ and we were happy to do it.
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