Enterprise's Writers Over T'Pol's Look

Portraying Vulcan stoicism may have been a test for Jolene Blalock, but she soon started to have the opposite problem. The writers and producers started having T'Pol display the one thing Vulcans are prone to shun: emotion. Writers began to show T'Pol not just showing emotion but eagerly exploring it, even giving her an arc where she becomes addicted to a chemical that allowed her to do so. Prior to the cancellation of "Enterprise," T'Pol's father was going to be revealed in Season 5 as a Romulan, a race whose own emotionality would have ostensibly explained these characteristics (via Heavy.com). Add it to the slew of plotlines that went unresolved after the series' cancellation.

Blalock was dissatisfied enough with these decisions, and is quoted in a short FanSided piece as saying, "You might as well clip the ears." But her dissatisfaction didn't stop there. Blalock was irked by how frequently the show would diverge from basic realism –- or, for a sci-fi show, basic believability. For example, her hair never moved, even when T'Pol was in a physical fight. And if her hair did happen to move, the scene would need to be reshot.

Then there was the sudden change in T'Pol's wardrobe in Season 3. Though her new plunging neckline was explained as a result of T'Pol having resigned the Vulcan High Command, Blalock called it out as a blatant attempt to boost ratings by showing a bit more skin. "You can't substitute t*** and a** for good storytelling," said Blalock. "You can have both, but you can't substitute one for the other, because the audience is not stupid."