T'Pau (Star Trek)
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 T'Pau (Celia Lovsky) in the original Star Trek series |
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| Species | Vulcan |
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| Gender | Female |
| Home planet | Vulcan |
| Affiliation | Syrranites Vulcan High Command |
| Portrayed by | Kara Zediker (young) Celia Lovsky (older) |
T'Pau is a Vulcan who appears in the original Star Trek and Star Trek: Enterprise. Celia Lovsky played the character in the 1967 Star Trek episode "Amok Time", while Kara Zediker portrayed T'Pau in the 2004 Enterprise episodes "Awakening" and "Kir'Shara". The character also appears in Star Trek novels and comics.
T'Pau is also the name of a starship in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The English pop group T'Pau was named after the character.[1]
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[edit] Development
An early concept in Enterprise's development was for T'Pau to serve aboard the titular starship; instead, the producers created T'Pol.[citation needed]
[edit] Depiction
The Enterprise episodes "Awakening" and "Kir'Shara" show T'Pau as the leader of the Syrranite movement rebelling against the Vulcan High Council and supporting the wider acceptance of the philosopher Surak's teachings. In these episodes, T'Pau encounters T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) and Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) from the Earth Starfleet ship Enterprise. In "Kir'Shara", T'Pau administers a therapeutic mind-meld to T'Pol, curing the Enterprise officer of the Pa'nar Syndrome neurological condition.
In "Amok Time", T'Pau presides over Spock's (Leonard Nimoy) koon-oot kal-i-fee ceremony, during which Spock is forced to fight Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) when Spock is rejected by his bride-to-be, T'Pring (Arlene Martel). Kirk and Doctor Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley) express surprise at T'Pau officiating at Spock's wedding ceremony, having not been aware that Spock's family is so highly placed. Kirk also states that T'Pau is the only person to have refused a seat on United Federation of Planets council.
[edit] References
- ^ All Music Guide entry for T'Pau (band)
[edit] External links
- T'Pau biography at StarTrek.com
- T'Pau article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
