It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Why was Tuvok wearing lieutenant commander rank, and being referred to as lieutenant then suddenly becoming a lieutenant? Then later Tuvok is promoted to lieutenant commander and then is referred to as commander at that point.
In "Caretaker" and the first half of season one, Tuvok wore the rank insignia of lieutenant commander, but he was referred to as lieutenant. This costume gaffe was corrected as of "Cathexis".
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Learn more. Why was Tuvok's rank different from how he was addressed in the early seasons? Ask Question. Later that year, a transporter accident caused Tuvok to be combined with crewmate Neelix and a plant at a molecular level, forming a new individual, Tuvix. Tuvix possessed the memories of both men, and had a mixture of their personalities.
It took The Doctor over a month to find a method to restore Tuvok and Neelix to their original state. When Janeway and Chakotay were infected by an alien disease, they were forced to be left behind on an alien planet , leaving Tuvok in command of an uneasy crew.
At the insistence of the crew, who were uncomfortable with abandoning their captain and first officer, he sought a remedy from the Vidiian physician, Danara Pel , who had become romantically involved with The Doctor when Voyager treated her for a severe case of the phage. VOY : " Resolutions ". Tuvok helped the crew survive on a primitive planet where they were stranded after the Kazon captured Voyager.
In , Tuvok had a mental collapse due to a suppressed memory. In order to cure himself he had to perform a mind meld with Janeway. They discovered that an alien virus had invaded his brain and had lain dormant for years.
Tuvok was saved when The Doctor drove the virus out by bursts of radiation. When faced with the merger of a Starfleet and Maquis crew, Tuvok wrote a drill simulation called " Insurrection Alpha ", in the event of a Maquis mutiny on Voyager.
However, when he realized that the crews were getting along better than he expected, he deleted the program, fearing that it would spark off the very mutiny he wanted to prevent. During a routine maintenance of holodeck programs, B'Elanna Torres accidentally discovered this simulation, mistaking it for a holonovel. Many people on board the ship began using the program while playing out the various scenarios.
When Tuvok was encouraged to finish it, he and Tom Paris discovered that Seska , a traitor who had escaped almost a year previously, had altered the program to kill anyone who accessed the narrative parameters file. Fortunately, they were able to stay alive with the assistance of Captain Janeway from outside the holodeck. In a final confrontation with Seska, Tuvok reconfigured a phaser rifle to overload before handing it over to her.
By killing the holographic Seska, the program ended, and Paris and Tuvok were freed. Tuvok, disguised to hide his Vulcan characteristics in Los Angeles. Tuvok was part of an away team that returned to Earth in Voyager was trying to stop a temporal explosion that would obliterate Earth's solar system in the 29th century , caused by Henry Starling , who came upon a 29th-century starship that was thrown back in time.
Tuvok and Paris would contact Rain Robinson , an astronomer who picked up Voyager 's signal and worked for Starling. They saved her when Starling ordered her killed. They told her that they were spies. He also rescued Chakotay and Torres who were taken hostage by a paramilitary group. Tuvok and the crew were able to stop Starling and return the timeline. Tuvok attempted to rescue Kes who had her mind and body taken over by Tieran , an ancient warlord who used her to retake control of his planet.
Although the attempt failed, he was able to contact her with a mind meld and tell her to continue to fight. Tuvok led another rescue attempt that was successful. Kes was rescued with the use of a synaptic stimulator that removed Tieran's neural pattern. VOY : " Warlord ". In an alien encounter, he and Chakotay met the Sakari who believed Voyager would harm them. Their ancestors were driven underground by attacks from another alien race, who Tuvok and Chakotay discovered were the Borg.
VOY : " Blood Fever ". Later that year, he was able to persuade a lonely alien who appeared to him in the holodeck to let Voyager leave a nebula it was caught in.
She wanted him to stay with her, but he convinced her to request a transfer so she could go home and be around others again. He, along with Neelix, helped the Nezu fend off an attack by their enemies, and exposed a Nezu traitor. The incident also brought him and Neelix closer together. In , Tuvok was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander by Captain Janeway.
VOY : " Revulsion ". Also in , during a temporary alliance with the Borg, Tuvok accompanied Janeway aboard the Borg ship to help develop a weapon against Species The Borg tried to install temporary neuro-transceivers on them, but they insisted they be assigned a Borg representative to communicate with verbally instead. It was this incident that brought Seven of Nine aboard Voyager. Shortly after, Tuvok tried to help Kes stabilize her telepathic abilities with a mind meld.
He was unable to help and Kes transformed into energy and left the ship. Tuvok subsequently lit a candle in memory of his lost student. Tuvok would also rescue Chakotay from the Vori who had brainwashed him into serving in their army and participating in a war. Despite appearing as one of the enemy who Chakotay had been conditioned to hate, he was able to get through to his commander, reminding Chakotay that he was a scientist, not a soldier.
VOY : " Nemesis ". When Seven's nanoprobes reactivated and she tried to return to Borg space, Tuvok worked with Janeway to try to bring her back. After tracking her, Tuvok beamed over to her shuttle, but was overpowered by her. He accompanied her to a planet that contained the wreckage of the Raven , her parents' ship.
There he found the Borg machine that had activated her nanoprobes and he disabled them, ending the crisis. VOY : " The Raven ". He defended and proved Torres innocent of projecting violent thought on a planet of telepaths, simultaneously uncovering a 'black market' of violent thought. Tuvok and Seven of Nine were captured by the Hirogen. They were going to be skinned alive and their bones used as trophies. Voyager was able to beam them to safely after causing a black hole to destroy the Hirogen ships.
He also found proof that Kovin , an Entharan trader, had not assaulted Seven in order to harvest her nanoprobes like Seven believed.
A burst from Kovin's disrupter that was fired accidentally caused the nanoprobes to regenerate, and triggered a suppressed memory in Seven of assimilation. During the Hirogen takeover of Voyager , when they used the crew as part of a holodeck hunting game, Tuvok played a resistance fighter during a Nazi scenario. He was concerned that Seven was a Nazi spy and told Janeway that if so, they should kill her.
Tuvok later developed multiphasic shielding, which went into Voyager 's multi-spatial probe and was later adapted for use in designing the Delta Flyer. VOY : " Extreme Risk ". They were rescued just as their oxygen ran out, but in the process, Tuvok was able to console Wildman about her fears for her daughter, Naomi. His own young daughter had now been without him for over four years, and yet he was confident that she would be safe with his remaining family. On another away mission they again crashed on a planet were they met Noss , who helped them survive the hostile planet.
Noss became infatuated with Tuvok, who could not return the affection. By , Tuvok had received seventeen commendations for valor.
That year, while returning from a diplomatic mission, he was attacked by an invisible being, later found out to be a member of the Ba'Neth species. He suffered neuroleptic shock which caused brain damage. As he recovered from the shock, his brain functions were very simple and he showed great emotion. Neelix nursed him back to health and cared for him until The Doctor was able to reverse the effects of the shock. VOY : " Riddles ".
Tuvok accompanied Captain Janeway and Seven of Nine as they investigated lifesigns on a planet in the middle of a nuclear winter. There, they inadvertently awakened a Vaadwaur battalion in stasis, not knowing if they were hostile or not. After the rest of the battalion was awakened, Tuvok came with a plan to escape the planet in cooperation with the Vaadwaur. Unfortunately, the Vaadwaur turned on them, attempting to take Voyager. After making a temporary alliance with the Turei , Tuvok and Gedrin were able to give the Turei access to a satellite in orbit.
Thanks to this Tuvok and the crew of Voyager were able to escape both the Turei and the Vaadwaur. VOY : " Dragon's Teeth ". Tuvok and Seven were captured by an alien named Penk. He secured players for a violent fight game named Tsunkatse.
Seven at first refused to participate, but was forced to, because Tuvok was wounded and Penk refused to give him medical treatment unless she did so. They were eventually rescued by Voyager. He helped track down a gang of grifters who were posing as Janeway and him in order to steal goods. He confronted an elder Kes when she returned to try to destroy Voyager , blaming Janeway for her lost youth; his past self also had occasional 'flashes' to the future due to tachyon instability caused by Kes's future self traveling back in time, which allowed the past Janeway to realize what was happening.
When Torres and Kim were stranded on an L-class planet , Tuvok stayed awake for over two straight weeks during Voyager 's search for them.
Tom Paris took pleasure in waking Tuvok up when he started snoring in the captain's chair. VOY : " Muse ". The last year of Voyager 's trip home brought many adventures to Tuvok. Tuvok, Janeway , and Torres allowed themselves to be assimilated by the Borg, carrying a pathogen to help the Borg drones of Unimatrix Zero resist the Borg Queen.
The assimilation was supposed to have been only of the body; The Doctor had administered an inoculation to the three of them to prevent their minds from being assimilated, and thus keep them from becoming drones. However, Tuvok's inoculation wore off prematurely, and though he kept trying to retain his individuality by recalling his family and past memories, he eventually succumbed to the Borg's influence and his mind was fully assimilated.
Thus he became an actual drone, designated Three of Twelve. However, the mission still succeeded and the drone was taken back to Voyager with Janeway and Torres. The implants were removed and the drone once again became Tuvok.
It took him some time to fully recover from the experience. Tuvok attempted to salvage a cortical node to replace Seven's node that was malfunctioning. The Doctor had forwarded a text of the novel to Starfleet when communications became possible between them and Voyager , but he was subsequently forbidden from making changes. Although the trial did not result in The Doctor gaining full legal rights as a sentient being, he was accorded the status of 'artist', due in no small part to Tuvok pointing out that The Doctor had created an original work, something that a purely artificial being could not do.
In , Tuvok had received a message from his son Sek over a datastream aboard Voyager regarding his studies of music. Unbeknownst to either of them, Bajoran radical Teero Anaydis had intercepted the communication and hid a subliminal message set to Vulcan brainwaves.
It forced Tuvok to recall Teero's mental conditioning, which he became victim of six years ago while still serving undercover as one of Chakotay's Maquis crew, and which was aimed at triggering a Maquis resurrection should it be necessary. Tuvok began attacking the Maquis crewmembers and gave them subconscious instructions from Teero through a mind-meld.
The Maquis eventually took control of Voyager and nearly stranded its Starfleet crew on a planet in the Delta Quadrant. However, Tuvok was able to regain mental control and use another mind-meld to remove Teero's influence from the Maquis crew. Tuvok gave Paris tips on being a father when Torres became pregnant. During the capture of the crew by the Quarrens who used them as laborers and had wiped out their memories of Voyager , Tuvok began to have flashbacks of his previous existence.
Tuvok served the workforce as an expert in thermionic conversion , but was replaced by Chakotay after he was taken by Quarren guards. He had to be given additional treatments of mind control. Tuvok was then part of a rescue operation when Neelix, Lts. Paris and Carey were taken as hostages by the planet's leader Verin. After Carey was killed by Verin, Tuvok and The Doctor , posing as natives , were able to infiltrate, stun Verin and his guards, and rescue Neelix and Paris.
VOY : " Friendship One ". Tuvok was a prize-winning orchid breeder. Tuvok was a proficient Vulcan lute player. He would often play his lute while reciting " Falor's Journey " to his youngest son. Tuvok's main pastime was the Vulcan game kal-toh , which he frequently played with Ensign Harry Kim. VOY : " Endgame ". Tuvok also spent his spare time meditating , using the stars as a focal point, and instructed various members of the crew in this pursuit over the years.
VOY : " Alter Ego ", " Juggernaut " Besides his background in the sciences, he was an avid student and observer of many Alpha Quadrant martial arts , including Earth sumo wrestling. Although he had no interest in writing, when he created the " Insurrection Alpha " program as a tactical training tool, Tuvok, following the Vulcan Dictates of Poetics as a guideline, was complimented on the compelling nature of the story he had created, depicting a Maquis mutiny on Voyager , and expressed some understanding on the literary angles of the plot.
His closest friend aboard Voyager was Captain Janeway herself, who trusted him completely, and whom he considered the closest thing to family aboard Voyager. Tuvok and Janeway first met each other in VOY : " Fury " Tuvok had once dressed down Janeway in front of three Starfleet admirals , which gave her ego a bruise.
VOY : " Phage ". Tuvok and Janeway, shortly after their arrival in the Delta Quadrant. In , Janeway took her newly commissioned Intrepid -class Federation starship USS Voyager into the Badlands to look for him after he went missing infiltrating a Maquis cell.
Tuvok and the Maquis crew were discovered on the Caretaker's array deep in the Delta Quadrant. Later, the crews were brought back to their ships by the Caretaker. Alone together in Janeway's ready room , the captain admitted that she missed his counsel and he replied that he was gratified she came after him so he could offer it again.
He was one of her most trusted advisers. She discussed all command decisions with him. When he disobeyed her orders concerning the Sikarian technology that could fold space by trying to trade for it on the black market, she felt betrayed by his disobedience. He explained that logic dictated his actions. In , Janeway came to Tuvok for advice in possibly making an uneasy alliance with the Kazon-Nistrim.
When she believed that making an alliance with the Kazon went against everything she had been taught, Tuvok showed her his Vulcan favinit plant , created by a hybrid of a South American plant and the favinit plant itself. Tuvok remarked that at first, the plant was sickly but when grafted together, the plants adapted to their new condition and became stronger than they had been alone. This demonstration convinced Janeway to seek an alliance with the Kazon. Later in , Tuvok was merged with Neelix in a transporter accident and became an entirely new person; Tuvix.
This individual later became a valued member of the crew, taking on personality traits of both Tuvok and Neelix, as well as doing their jobs more efficiently.
However, a solution was later discovered by The Doctor and Harry Kim to separate them. Although Tuvix did not want to "die", Janeway was determined to get Tuvok, her friend, back despite the ethical complications. She performed the separation procedure herself and got Tuvok back. In , Tuvok was discovered to have a deadly memory virus. He had Janeway act as his pyllora , his guide, to discover what was causing it. He told the captain of his deep trust of her and the familial feeling he had toward her.
The two recalled a memory of his service aboard the USS Excelsior under Captain Sulu together and were able to solve the problem of the memory virus so The Doctor could destroy it with thoron radiation. In , Janeway developed a cooperation with a Borg resistance movement called " Unimatrix Zero ". She, Tuvok, and B'Elanna Torres went aboard a Borg tactical cube to upload a virus in the Borg Collective to allow the resistance to gain an advantage over the collective.
However, this required Janeway, Torres, and Tuvok to be assimilated , although The Doctor was able to inject them with a neural suppressant so they could retain their individuality. However, the suppressant wore off on Tuvok quickly and Janeway ordered him to " stay focused, stay Tuvok.
That's an order. This fortunately was only temporary and he was later able to return to duty fully Vulcan. Later in , the Maquis took control of Voyager when a telepathic command sent through a message from Tuvok's son Sek by Teero Anaydis affected the tactical officer 's mind.
After mind melding with the Maquis contingent on Voyager , a brainwashed Chakotay ordered Tuvok to kill Janeway as a test of his loyalty to the Maquis. Critiqued Kathryn Janeway on tactical procedures she employed on her first command; later served with Janeway aboard U. Security chief and second officer, U. Voyager under Capt. Kathryn Janeway; stranded in Delta Quadrant with Voyager. Security chief and tactical officer under Captain Kathryn Janeway who had gone undercover to infiltrate the Maqui as part of Chakotay's crew when both ships disappeared in the Badlands of the Demilitarized Zone, presumably destroyed by plasma storms; the smaller craft disappeared a week before the Voyager was last heard from on SD Earlier in his career, Tuvok served on the U.
Wyoming and was a teacher and cadet trainer at Starfleet Academy for 16 years before joining Janeway's crew on her ship prior to the U. Voyager ; for a brief time he was on leave with a temporary assignment at Jupiter Station. In his youth, he was an opponent of the Federation-Klingon treaties but later came to see the wisdom of fellow Vulcan Spock's drive for alliance. In his personal life, Tuvok is a devoted parent and husband — his wife was in labor for 96 hours with their third child — and engages his interest in the traditional Vulcan lute, playing it for his children when they could not fall asleep at bedtime.
His youngest son was especially fond of "Falor's Journey," a verse epic ode. Tuvok is also an expert botanist with growing orchids a specialty he continues in his own quarters, practices the Keethara meditation routine, and began his interest in the Vulcan game kal-toh with master studies at age 5.
Prior to his stint on the Wyoming , he taught archery science at the Vulcan Institute for Defensive Arts, and has maintained a scholarly interest in the study of violence for over a century.
Hikaru Sulu on the U. He resigned in to pursue his people's kohlinar regimen of true non-emotion after becoming disillusioned with non-Vulcans in the service, but went into pon farr six years later and began a family. His return to Starfleet was marked by a maturity and a reconsideration of the benefits service provided. Kathryn Janeway, U. Tuvok's physical, investigative and tactical skills are an inspiration to this crew, while his Vulcan equanimity and calm demeanor make him a valued peacekeeper aboard the ship.
With his combination of wisdom, experience and vitality, Tuvok is one of the most respected members of the crew, even among the former Maquis.
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