Welcome back to Character Insight! This week, we review the Vulcan architect Koss, a recurring character from Enterprise.
Koss is introduced in the season 1 episode Breaking The Ice, and we find out that he was betrothed to T'Pol when they were children. However, the marriage has not occurred yet when she chooses to join the crew of Enterprise. This puts the wedding on hold once again, but it comes back up again in a few years.
More specifically, it comes up when T'Pol returns home to Vulcan following the Xindi war. Her mother T'Les and Koss himself urge T'Pol to complete the marriage, with Koss offering his influence from his father on the Vulcan High Command to help T'Pol get her mother back on the Vulcan Science Academy staff. Koss and T'Pol do end up tieing the knot before she returns to Enterprise in the episode Home.
From this same episode, we learn that Koss is about the same age as T'Pol, and we also see that there is no pretension in this particular Vulcan. He knows what he wants, and he gets it, albeit temporarily as we later find out.
More specifically, it comes up when T'Pol returns home to Vulcan following the Xindi war. Her mother T'Les and Koss himself urge T'Pol to complete the marriage, with Koss offering his influence from his father on the Vulcan High Command to help T'Pol get her mother back on the Vulcan Science Academy staff. Koss and T'Pol do end up tieing the knot before she returns to Enterprise in the episode Home.
From this same episode, we learn that Koss is about the same age as T'Pol, and we also see that there is no pretension in this particular Vulcan. He knows what he wants, and he gets it, albeit temporarily as we later find out.
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Koss later provides assistance in a number of ways to the Enterprise crew. He helps Captain Archer and T'Pol by providing transporter codes that enable them to reach the Vulcan High Command. He also provides an Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations necklace to T'Pol which ends up containing a hidden map of Vulcan's Forge, which comes in handy. Unfortunately, he decides to end his marriage with T'Pol after her mother dies, and we find out that the marriage is officially dissolved before the end of the series.
If nothing else, the character of Koss provides expository background for T'Pol's character, and further bits of Vulcan culture like the practices of betrothal and marriage dissolution. In this regard, the Vulcans are not entirely unlike humans, despite their often-used disdain for the future Federation allies in this series.
Koss was played by Michael Reilly Burke. Burke played a Borg in one TNG episode and a Cardassian in a DS9 episode before taking on this recurring role of Koss, and he also had small roles in many television shows and movies. One of his career highlights is as the title character Ted Bundy in that biographical thriller. He continues to act today, while he also raises two children with his wife of 10 years.
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