but also as a writer of Star Trek and how I defined Vulcans and that T’Lyn is like kind of a love letter to her work [as T’Pol] among others. I sent her the script, and she read it ...
This was standard practice two centuries earlier in the "Star Trek: Enterprise" era, though we don't recall Archer, T'Pol, and Tucker enjoying the application of the goo quite as much as Ransom.