T'Pau of Vulcan | |
![]() T'Pau in 2154 | |
Full name: | T'Pau |
Species: | Vulcan |
Gender: | Female |
Homeworld: | Vulcan |
Birthplace: | Vulcan |
Born: | 2122 |
Died: | 2155 |
Career | |
Office Held: | head of state of Vulcan mistress of Vulcan |
Home Member State: | Confederacy of Vulcan |
In the alternate mirror universe, T'Pau (2122-2155) was a female Vulcan who lived during the 22nd century. She was a minister at the Vulcan monastery on P'Jem sometime before becoming the head of state of Vulcan.
Biography[]
T'Pau, who had been a minor diplomatic official at the time of first contact, would eventually become Vulcan's head of state. It was through her actions and her ability to manipulate one Emperor after another that allowed Vulcan to be both a vassal world within the empire and yet maintain some of its autonomy. Initially T'Pau lured emperors into her bedchamber through her own charms, but then later used a cadre of seductresses in the Imperial Palace to sway and influence the empire's officials. Her agents were equally adept at wielding psionic powers and had access to a huge collection of ancient Vulcan poisons which alluded medical detection.
During the glory days of the Terran Empire, T'Pau, the reclusive mistress of Vulcan lived in a citadel on the Plain of Tai-La. Its roofs had gleaming liquid ludugial gold held into place by force fields. There were also musk-scented corridors, secret passageways, spy holes, a treasury and a torture chamber. Throughout the huge complex walked servants, many of whom had had their eyes or tongues cut out. Those who were blind moved about through clairvoyance.
In 2155, T'Pau gave T'Pol command of the starship Ni'Var , but eventually came to question her loyalties, and ordered fellow rebel Staal to murder her. T'Pol survived the attempt on her life, and instead killed T'Pau in the caverns underneath Aldus Prime.