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When playing the Vulcan Soval, Gary Graham<\/strong> took suggestions and had some of his own to offer regarding his role as the Vulcan Ambassador to Earth.<\/p>\n “I asked Rick Berman<\/strong> who the Vulcans are,” said Graham. “I had gotten the role, so I had an inkling.\u00a0 But Rick told me — they aren’t beings without emotion; on the contrary, they are so passionate, they realized they needed to learn how to suppress those emotions for their society to survive.\u00a0 That was my key to understanding Vulcans.”<\/p>\n “Also,” said Graham, “for my key to playing the Ambassador, I took a cue from Archer’s line in the pilot, when I react emotionally to his words: ‘Raising your voice to make your point? Ambassador, you have been on Earth too long.'”<\/p>\n Graham had an idea of his own for Soval’s backstory. “I came up with the notion that T’Pol is my long-lost daughter (just based on the fact that she is a spitting image of my younger sister when she was very young, who everyone told me looked like me).\u00a0 I thought it was a slam dunk when I suggested it, but it was never picked up.”<\/p>\n Working on the set of Star Trek: Enterprise<\/em> was rather different for Graham than working on the set of Star Trek: Voyager<\/em>, where he had a guest star role as the Ocampan Tanis in Cold Fire<\/em>. “Though I enjoyed most of the cast members on Voyager<\/em>, the tone on the set was tense,” said Graham. “It wasn’t like the very relaxed and joyously creative set I’d grown used to on Alien Nation<\/em>.\u00a0 The Enterprise<\/em> set was also a very relaxed set. The people all got along; the DP played rock music while they were changing lights, the mood was light and playful and Scott Bakula<\/strong> was extremely welcoming and made the experience fun and wonderful.\u00a0 Scott’s a very hard worker, but also kept the mood light and fun.”<\/p>\n Graham is currently appearing with his rock band, The Gary Graham band, and his latest movie, Dust of War<\/em>, will be out this spring or summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When playing the Vulcan Soval, Gary Graham took suggestions and had some of his own…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2437],"tags":[2587,4201],"class_list":["post-15856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-ent","tag-graham","tag-soval"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a> Star Trek: ENT<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: ENT","comment_count":"8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15862,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15856\/revisions\/15862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}