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So sturdy is the shadow forged by Ilia that when Lt. T’Veen was spied on the bridge of the brand new USS Titan in Star Trek: Picard, her bald head instantly dropped at thoughts the Deltans, regardless of her clearly Vulcan options. T’Veen’s actor Stephanie Czajkowski instructed Cinemablend that the similarity isn’t any accident. In reality, Czajkowski envisioned her science officer as a Vulcan who additionally had a Deltan lineage.
Starting from the place {that a} bald Vulcan can be fascinating, Czajkowski questioned, “What occurs if she has a little bit Deltan in her? What does that do when it comes to scientific acuity?” Where logic drives Vulcans, Deltans embrace sensuality (which is why they swear a vow of celibacy when becoming a member of Starfleet, to keep away from distracting others). The mixture makes T’Veen an fascinating character. “[I]f you throw a little bit Deltan spice [into a Vulcan], their senses are actually on excessive alert throughout,” defined Czajkowski. “But additionally, they’ll course of info a lot quicker than a human can. So I believe, for all of these causes, she was very, very, a lot wished.”
As far as showrunner Terry Matalas, the distinctive backstory Czajkowski shaped for her character completely works. Says Czajkowski, “I used to be like, ‘Hey, I’ve a sense when this comes out and other people see this head it’s going to be hanging. What’s the story? I believe it’s this, are you cool with that?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, dude, yeah, I’m positive.’ So we stated she’s 1 / 4 Deltan. Her grandma’s Deltan.”
T’Veen isn’t the primary Deltan (or partial Deltan) we’ve seen since 1979. Members of the race have served as crewmen on Federation ships in a number of of the films, and season two of Picard started with Soji and Jurarti assembly with Deltans. But they’ve been largely underutilized, maybe as a result of deliberate storylines for Ilia’s character in Star Trek: Phase II got to Deanna Troi, with Betazoids taking the place of Deltans.
