7 Ups & 1 Down From Star Trek: Lower Decks 5.1 — Dos Cerritos
2. UP — You've B'n T'Lyn'd
T'Lyn, or T'Lyns (plural), didn't have a great deal of dialogue by comparison in Dos Cerritos, but then she/they didn't need it to be the quintessence of a badass Vulcan (i.e. "… as a motherf**ker"). More stoic than her colleagues on the Sh'vhal would give her credit, the only way to tell the two T'Lyns apart — aside from the hue of the uniforms — was the decidedly brilliant 'fascinating'/'remarkable' split.
Mariner — our Mariner — fell foul of not being able to distinguish between duplicates when she ran into a T'Lyn on the bridge, "talking trash" with all the familiarity as if to someone from her dimension. Hearing T'Lyn (even her alternate) — and Gabrielle Ruiz — deliver colloquialisms with such poise is a delight that will simply never get old!
"I have fooled you," the Cerritos' resident Vulcan says, rather remarkably, at the end of the episode — less 'You've been punked,' more 'You've been T'Lyn'd'. Was that a bit of Vulcan humour to go with Tuvok's "eat the Sunday/aes," or is there more switcheroo madness to come? Whatever the case may be, we can't wait to see more from either and/or both of them!