Reviews
Source: Star Trek Fans
Title: Enterprise Opens with "Broken Bow"
By: Julia Houston
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Archer's dislike for Vulcans is fairly apparent, and T'Pol does little at the beginning to endear herself to anyone. She's not just unemotional, she's a twit about it. The Vulcans in general, in fact, are a pain. They disapprove of everything.
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Source: Entertainment
Weekly
Title: Enterprise
By: Steve Daly
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Archer is a space cowboy who, more in the spirit of John Wayne or Gary Cooper than Shatner or Patrick Stewart, rankles at being reined in: In the year 2151, he's burned that the United States long ago decided to defer to the apparently superior knowledge and self-control of Vulcan ''ambassadors.'' One of them is played by Jolene Blalock as a slinky but chilly Vulcan subcommander named T'Pol, a ''science officer'' who is this series' designated sex symbol -- its Seven of Nine, with a look of ''X-Men'' superhero-sleekness to her body-hugging uniform. Unlike some performers who've applied the Vulcan makeup, Blalock doesn't just let her pointy ears do the acting: She has a slyness running beneath her Vulcan glare that will probably stand her in good stead aboard the ''Enterprise NX-01.''
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Source: TV
Guide
Title: Leap of faith
By: Matt Roush
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...the one scene everyone will be talking about tomorrow: a wildly
sensuous interlude in which two characters strip to their underwear and,
not quite able to hide evidence of their inadvertent arousal, rub a
gooey gel (of decontaminant, we're told) over each other's exposed
bodies. That the show's foxy but frosty Vulcan (Jolene Blalock) is
involved in this rubdown only adds to the, er, titillation factor.
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Source: TrekEnterprise.com
Title: Broken Bow Review
By: Kara Leigh
Excerpt:
Although Jolene Blalock has taken the Vulcan personality in a different direction, I think it fits quite well. Who's to say that all Vulcans should deliver their lines the way Leonard Nimoy did? Don't get me wrong. I love Spock. In fact, he's one of my favorite Trek characters, but it's unfair to judge Jolene's performance (or Tim Russ's for that matter) based on the way Nimoy chose to portray a Vulcan. I thought that Jolene played the character quite nicely, and should be commended..
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Cinescape
Title: Broken bow, fixed TREK
By: Mark A. Altman
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Word of mouth on Jolene Blalock was not good in previous months, but she acquits herself admirably. She may not be Meryl
Streep, but she gets the job done and it doesn’t hurt that she’s one of the most stunning actresses to grace the small screen since, well, Jeri Ryan.
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SciFi.com
Title: On Screen Enterprise
By: Kathie Huddleston
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Break-out star Blalock is more than a little reminiscent of Seven of Nine. However, she's not just a carbon copy. She is more than suited to the task of being the antagonist in the group.
That's not to say that Enterprise is perfect. There's only one strong female character (T'Pol), and she's wearing a skintight cat suit.
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The Nando Times
Title: Get on board this 'Enterprise'
By: Dave Mason
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The pilot episode features an angry yet intelligent conflict between Archer and his Vulcan science officer, Sub Commander T'Pol (the gorgeous Jolene Blalock). He even tells her what she can do with her Vulcan cynicism.
Fans of ex-Borg Seven of Nine on "Voyager" (Jeri Ryan) will see the same curves - physical and intellectual - in T'Pol.
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Variety.com
Title: Enterprise
By: Laura Fries
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Blalock, as the prickly T'Pol, has Spock's love of logic and Seven of Nine's form-fitting wardrobe from "Voyager." Her part is a blatant beacon to the young male audience, although the sexual tension and possibility of romantic adventures could be a ploy to attract female viewers as well.
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The Hollywood Reporter.com
Title: Enterprise
By: Michael R. Farkash
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In a reluctant compromise, Archer agrees to take along a Vulcan observer, the disdainful Subcommander T'Pol (Jolene Blalock). Her character is reminiscent of the coolly remote, intelligent and highly attractive Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) from "Star Trek: Voyager," and like Ryan's character, T'Pol is impatient with regular folks but nevertheless begins to bond with them.
Another place we boldly go where no "man" has gone before is a sensual decontamination scene in which Trip and T'Pol must rub each other down with cleansing goop. Blalock and Trinneer show plenty of skin, and the camera lingers pointedly on Blalock's shapely body. (This could be one reason for the TV-PG rating.)
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Deseret News
Title: A new 'Enterprise'
By: Scott D. Pierce
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The crew includes a perpetually annoyed Vulcan female (Jolene Blalock); a weird doctor (John Billingsley), a difficult engineer (Connor
Trinneer), a linguist (Linda Park) and a couple of junior officers (Anthony Montgomery and Dominic Keating).
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RevolutionSF
Title: Tonight's the Night (It's Gonna Be All Right)
By: Shane Ivey
Excerpt:
Maxim model Jolene Blalock dons the requisite skintight jumpsuit as the Vulcan science officer T'Pol, channeling a little of Spock's monotone sarcasm. (As for the
catsuit, she's the only one, Vulcan or human, who wears such a contraption, but the male half of the audience won't object too much - especially when she so completely takes it off halfway through the episode.)
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RevolutionSF
Title: Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
By: Kevin Pezzano
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The entire sequence where an erect-nippled T'Pol, clad in tanktop and shorts, gets all greased-up with the cracker chief engineer of the Enterprise redefined
"gratuitious".
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RevolutionSF
Title: Reason to Believe
By: Joe Crowe
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...believe it or not, the Hot Vulcan Chick actually acts. I'm not going to say she's not there just to look at, because in one very notable scene, that's exactly what she's there for. But when she's not in a tank-top, her character is stern and serious and authoritative, and the actress pulls it off. The character traits, not the tank-top.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Title: Back in time on 'Trek'
By: Phil Rosenthal
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When the ridiculously curvy Vulcan T'Pol (Jolene Blalock), who will become Archer's
subcommander, warns of human's volatility, he does little to prove her wrong. "Volatile?" he growls. "You have no idea how much I'm restraining myself from knocking you on your ass!"
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Ain't It
Cool News
Title: Herc Reviews Enterprise!!
By: Hercules
Excerpt:
Blalock steals the show! The tiny actress brings unexpected authority
and gravity to the expedition, and is especially good at disparaging her
shipmates’ occasional lack of grace under pressure. Like Spock,
she’s perfectly fearless, and never less than amusing as she endeavors
to dial down her disdain for too-human crewmates.
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azcentral.com
Title: 'Quantum Leap' to 'Enterprise'
By: Ed Bark
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Assisting him, more or less, is a voluptuous Vulcan named T'Pol (Jolene Blalock). She's a Spock with an appreciably more imperious attitude. So much so that Archer finally blows his stack. "Take your Vulcan cynicism and bury it along with your repressed emotions!" he bellows. This pretty much goes in and out her pointy ears.
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Denver Post
Title: Go back to the future with new 'Star Trek' prequel, 'Enterprise'
By: Joanne Ostrow
Excerpt:
... with an uncooperative Klingon on board and a snippy Vulcan Sub Commander (Jolene Blalock) stealing scenes, it's time for
takeoff.
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washingtonpost.com
Title: Creaky 'Enterprise': Set Your Phasers on Stun
By: David Segal
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T'pol is pouty and patronizing, and she and Archer spend a lot of time engaging in inter-species flirtations. "I'm not interested in what you think about this mission, so take your Vulcan cynicism and bury it along with your repressed emotions," Archer says. "Your reaction to this situation is a perfect example of why your species should remain in its own star system," T'pol replies.
Well, touche, young lady. Blalock spends a lot of the show in tightfitting frocks, and in one bogglingly gratuitous scene she and the Enterprise's second-in-command rub oil on each other's half-naked bodies for a reason that is never made clear. (Is there sunblock in space?) The producers of this show are clearly betting that viewers will tune in to see if T'Pol ever finds an emotion -- namely lust -- and beds somebody.
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USA Today
Title: Beam up to Bakula's 'Enterprise'
By: Robert Bianco
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The Vulcans don't think humans are civilized enough for space, which annoys Archer and company to no end. They even attach one of their own to the crew — science officer T'Pol, slyly played by Jolene Blalock in a skintight Seven-of-Nine suit — just to make sure we don't cause more problems than we solve.
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SyFy Portal
Title: Can't Be Afraid Of The Wind
By: Michael Hinman
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Jolene Blalock gave a good performance as Sub-Cmdr. T'Pol, but I believe she still needs to do some serious work on her non-emotional state. There were some points that it seemed her scenes were forced, and part of that might be from some of the last-minute reshoots they did on the pilot to change her hairstyle. I believe some of those scenes were by herself, where she had to pretend she was interacting with different characters on screen.
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OrlandoSentinel.com
Title: It's steamy in outer space
By: Hal Boedeker
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But Mr. Spock has been turned into a female, the logical but exotic T'Pol (Jolene Blalock). She cuts her breadsticks with silverware because Vulcans don't touch their food. When Tucker rubs her down with a prescribed lotion, it's clear that the show is trying some ill-advised stunts.
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SF Gate
Title: A new 'Enterprise' zone
Latest 'Star Trek' show an action-filled prequel to original series
By: John Carman
Excerpt:
The two-hour series premiere turns heavenly in due course, about the time Jolene Blalock makes her form-fitting entrance.
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Calendar Live
Title: 'Enterprise' Visits Familiar Territory
By: Howard Rosenberg
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Although some of his crew lacks flair, he does have with him the jovial Dr. Phlox (John Billingsley), airsick linguist Hoshi Sato (Linda Park) and most significantly his own sensual Spockbabe in Vulcan science officer T'Pol (Jolene Blalock). Her various endowments are as admirable as her logic.
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Thestar.com
Title: Free enterprise & alien babes
By: Rob Salem
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And then there's the jaw-droppingly steamy sequence where Jolene Blalock's sexy Vulcan science officer (think Leonard Nimoy meets Jeri Ryan) and Connor Trinneer's cowboy engineer (a younger Tom Skerritt or Tommy Lee Jones) strip down to their skivvies to grease each other up with some some decontamination goo ... suffice it to say Blalock's pointed ears pretty much set the tone of the scene.
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National Post Online
Title: Less touchy-feely, more to touch, feel
By: Scott Feschuk
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The show's only conspicuous similarity to its predecessor is the presence of a female Vulcan whose proportions might well prompt gentlemen of the heterosexual persuasion to reminisce fondly of Voyager's Seven of Nine. The Vulcan answers to the name T'Pol, though she might more accurately have been assigned the designation 36 of 24 of 36, if you catch my anatomical drift.
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NYPOST.com
Title: 'Trekkie' is so tricky
By: Linda Stasi
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Anyway, you'll be happy to know that there is aboard the ship where no man has gone before, a female space babe, Sub Commander Commander T'Pol, (Jolene Blalock), who is Vulcan.
And while I'd really like to say that this is one space babe who's all Vulcan, she's not. For one thing, she has huge space boobs, which somehow don't float away in zero gravity. For another, and I hate to be critical, she has a serious attitude problem.
Given the fact that Vulcans are emotionless, I find T'Pol's superior sneering a bit jarring.
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Source: Detroit Free Press
Title: Newest 'Trek' franchise is a promising prequel
By: Mike Duffy
Excerpt:
...the rest of the crew is kind of cool, too, particularly Jolene Blalock (NBC's "Jason and the Argonauts") as haughty Vulcan Subcommander T'Pol. Like all those snooty
Vulcans, including Spock, she's pretty smugly self-assured about her intellectual superiority to humans. That makes for some nice outer space banter between Bakula and Blalock.
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