First, I will list the scummy things that happened to T'Pol. Tolaris forceably continued a mind meld when T'Pol asked him to stop. Tolaris gave T'Pol a disease because he did not administer the mind meld properly. It is not clear whether Tolaris knew about the existence of the disease or not.
Here is the scummy thing T'Pol does. She lies about being coerced into a mind meld absolving herself from any responsibility and making the already bad Tolaris look worse. She agreed to the mind meld. The whole reason the vulcans let T'Pol remain with Enterprise is because they thought she was forced into it. T'Pol doesn't want to hurt the perception of the minority vulcans, but she does just that by lying about being forced into the mind meld by one of the members.
If the goal was to make T'Pol look deceitful and illogical then the writers achieved their goal. One of two things has to be true.
(1) T'Pol is deceitful and most of the audience don't see it that way. (2) Berman/Braga retconned the mind meld assault to get the desired plot result.
The Denobulan wife visit side story was hilarious. I always love the Phlox stuff.
Here is the scummy thing T'Pol does. She lies about being coerced into a mind meld absolving herself from any responsibility and making the already bad Tolaris look worse. She agreed to the mind meld. The whole reason the vulcans let T'Pol remain with Enterprise is because they thought she was forced into it. T'Pol doesn't want to hurt the perception of the minority vulcans, but she does just that by lying about being forced into the mind meld by one of the members.
If the goal was to make T'Pol look deceitful and illogical then the writers achieved their goal. One of two things has to be true.
(1) T'Pol is deceitful and most of the audience don't see it that way. (2) Berman/Braga retconned the mind meld assault to get the desired plot result.
The Denobulan wife visit side story was hilarious. I always love the Phlox stuff.