How old is commander tuvok

He later spent several months in isolation studying with a Vulcan master , where he learned to subdue his emotions. VOY : " Gravity ". He had to survive in the Vulcan desert for four months with a ritual blade as his only possession, as part of the tal'oth ritual.

VOY : " Displaced ". Tuvok entered Starfleet Academy in , at the age of twenty-five, but found it difficult to fit in. He found the egocentric nature of Humans difficult to deal with but endured it because it was the wish of his parents to enter Starfleet and he felt obligated to fulfill their expectations.

VOY : " Flashback ". After Tuvok graduated from Starfleet Academy in , he was assigned to the sciences division as a junior science officer aboard the USS Excelsior under the command of Captain Hikaru Sulu.

He worked during the gamma shift , and shared common quarters on Deck 7 with Dimitri Valtane and two other officers on the same shift. Two months later, Tuvok was present during the Excelsior 's attempt to rescue James T.

This was despite a direct order from Starfleet that no rescue attempt must be tried. Tuvok protested to Captain Sulu about his breach of orders, but to no avail. Decades later, however, an older and wiser Tuvok determined that he had not necessarily been right either. In the subsequent battle in the Azure Nebula with a K't'inga -class battle cruiser , Valtane nearly died in Tuvok's arms. An alien virus that Valtane was carrying transferred itself to Tuvok, and then disguised itself as a repressed memory engram.

This virus later manifested itself in , when Tuvok served aboard the Voyager , before being destroyed by The Doctor. Tuvok was also among those who spoke out against Spock 's proposed alliance between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. VOY : " Alliances ". After the Excelsior 's three-year mission in the Beta Quadrant ended, Tuvok resigned his commission on account of his dealings with Humans. His experiences on the Excelsior were not pleasant. Humans, in Tuvok's view, believed that everyone in the galaxy should be like them; that all should share their sense of humor and their Human values.

His perceptions of Humanity, and of Starfleet, were undoubtedly colored by the fact that he did not want to be there in the first place. Tuvok returned to Vulcan, where he taught archery science for several years at the Vulcan Institute for Defensive Arts. VOY : " Basics, Part II " He then spent several years in seclusion by immersing himself in the kolinahr ; this was interrupted six years later by the onset of pon farr.

After his marriage to T'Pel in , and the birth of their four children, Tuvok decided to return to Starfleet following a fifty-year absence. Raising his own children made Tuvok realize what his parents had gone through and that he had not always made the right decisions when he was young. Recognizing that there was much he could learn from other races such as Humans, Tuvok entered Starfleet again in , and served as an ensign on the USS Wyoming.

His service record reflected this as his first posting instead of his time on the Excelsior. Tuvok eventually served as an instructor for thousands of cadets during a sixteen year tenure at Starfleet Academy, a role he resumed aboard Voyager in order to instruct former Maquis crewmen in Starfleet protocols. Tuvok first met Kathryn Janeway in Tuvok dressed Janeway down in front of three Starfleet admirals for failing to observe proper tactical procedures during her first command.

Although this encounter bruised Janeway's "Human ego", Tuvok was nevertheless right, and from onward, Janeway came to rely on Tuvok's "insightful and unfailingly logical advice".

VOY : " Fury ", " Revulsion ". During the mid- s , Tuvok was temporarily assigned to Jupiter Station where he often wrote to Captain Janeway. VOY : " Tuvix ". Tuvok's security override code was Tuvok-pi-alpha. VOY : " Repression ". Lieutenant Tuvok was serving as Captain Kathryn Janeway 's security officer when, in , he was ordered to infiltrate the crew of the Maquis raider Val Jean commanded by a former Starfleet officer, Chakotay.

At one point of time during his undercover mission, Tuvok was doing reconnaissance on a colony near the Badlands , where he met a Vedek named Teero Anaydis at the Bajoran temple there. Teero was in fact a fanatic Maquis tasked with counterintelligence who was aware of Tuvok's true identity but kept this to himself. Without retaining any conscious memory of it, Teero captured, restrained, and mentally manipulated Tuvok so he could trigger a Maquis resurgence program by conveying the word " Pagh t'em far, B'tanay " at a later point of time which would turn out to be six years later.

VOY : " Caretaker ", " Repression ". Tuvok was still undercover on the Val Jean sometime later, when, while hiding from a Cardassian ship in the Badlands, the raider was hit by an energy wave which transported it over 70, light years to the other side of the galaxy , in the Delta Quadrant. While looking for the missing raider, Voyager itself was hit by the energy wave and transported to the Delta Quadrant, reuniting Tuvok with his ship and Captain — much to Chakotay's dismay who had to face the fact that Tuvok had been a Federation spy all along.

When their situation required that the crews of both the Val Jean and Voyager merge for their long journey back home , he became Captain Janeway's security- and second officer.

VOY : " Caretaker ". Tuvok proved Tom Paris innocent of murdering a Banean scientist whose wife Paris was caught with, despite the fact that the scientist's memories showed Paris committing the murder. Tuvok was able to prove that the Banean doctor, who was an agent of the Banean's enemies, had perpetrated the crime, thanks to his mind-meld with Paris showing that the murderer was actually shorter than Paris.

While visiting the Sikarians , it was learned that they possessed the means to fold space and travel great distances in a short time. However, they could not give the technology to Voyager due to their equivalent of Starfleet's non-interference order, or prime directive. Defying the orders of Captain Janeway, Tuvok attempted to obtain the technology in a trade.

However, it was found that the technology was incompatible with Voyager , and Tuvok was reprimanded by Janeway. VOY : " Prime Factors ". Tuvok set a trap for the crewmember who was giving the Kazon Voyager technology. The guilty party turned out to be Seska , a Cardassian who had served on Chakotay 's ship and had been altered through cosmetic surgery to look Bajoran.

She escaped before Tuvok could arrest her. VOY : " State of Flux ". Later that year, Tuvok attempted a rescue of Harry Kim who had disappeared in a " Beowulf " holoprogram. An energy being had been trapped in the program and had turned Kim into pure energy. The same fate befell Tuvok, but both were released by the being after the crew freed it from the holodeck.

VOY : " Heroes and Demons ". An alien entity known as the Komar assaulted the shuttlecraft manned by Tuvok and Chakotay, leaving Tuvok injured and Chakotay apparently brain-dead. The alien had the ability to enter into the minds of others and control them. It seized control of Tuvok, who took over command of the ship and ordered it into the nebula. The crew was able to drive the lifeform from Tuvok's body and leave the nebula.

VOY : " Cathexis ". He also tried to train the former Maquis crewmembers to Starfleet standards. The four former Maquis had a great disdain for Tuvok, and he was very strict with them. They found a new respect for each other after they banded together to save each other after a systems failure.

VOY : " Learning Curve ". During contact with the Botha , Tuvok saw visions of his wife, T'Pel. He was arrested by Mokra Order soldiers while seeking tellerium , along with Torres, and was tortured for 'information' about the Alsaurian resistance movement , despite the fact that Voyager was in contact with third magistrate Augris.

He was subsequently rescued by Janeway. Tuvok after destroying his quarters in a violent outburst in When a crewman was found dead, and Lon Suder , a former Maquis was revealed as the murderer, Tuvok tried a mind meld on Suder in order to understand his motives. The meld had a reverse effect, and Tuvok exhibited violent tendencies inherited from Suder.

After a period of rehabilitation, Tuvok was able to control these tendencies, and sought to help Suder.

After Suder redeemed himself during a Kazon attack and was killed, Tuvok offered a Vulcan prayer for him, hoping that, in death, Suder found the peace that had eluded him in life. On stardate This was a role he would reprise to defend The Doctor's rights as a sentient being when it was discovered that he officially had no legal rights.

While Janeway was making first contact with the Drayan , a shuttle piloted by Tuvok crashed on a Drayan moon. Tuvok found three frightened children who told Tuvok that the Drayans sent them to the moon to die, and asked him to help them hide. The next day Tuvok discovered that two of the children had vanished. In a nearby cave, he found their clothes, but not the children. When the Drayans landed on the planet, Tuvok tried to protect the last child, named Tressa.

The Drayans explained that Tressa was 96 years old. The Drayan aging process is reversed, and Tressa wasn't brought there to be killed, but to die a natural death.

Tuvok stayed with Tressa to comfort her in her final moments. VOY : " Innocence ". 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. Tuvok graduates from Starfleet Academy.

SD McCoy who have been unjustly imprisoned as the murders of the Klingon chancellor Gorkon, however, he refuses to violate Starfleet protocols and speaks against the views of his captain. Finally, this mission only increases his reservations against Starfleet and humans. Ensign Tuvok resigns from Starfleet because of his unsolvable problems with the multicultural surroundings and the unpredictable emotionality of most humans.

He subsequently undergoes the Kohlinar on Vulcan. Tuvok interrupts his studies to take a mate, T'Pel, in the course of his Pon Farr. In the next decades, he will become the father of four children: three sons named Sek, Elieth and Varieth and one daughter named Asil. Having become more wise and experienced with his fatherhood, Tuvok re-enters Starfleet and initially only has the rank of an ensign. He is transferred to the USS Wyoming. However, Tuvok leaves the Wymong shortly afterwards since he perfers theoretical studies over the practice in deep space.

He accepts a post at Starfleet Academy, teaching there as an instructor for 16 years. Being an experienced instructor and tactician, Tuvok is comissioned to work out an tactical analysis on Captain Janeway's first mission as commanding officer of a starship. His report to the investigative comission criticizes the execution of military trainings and inspections, altogether 43 violations of tactical regulations of Starfleet.

Despite initial differences, a mutual close friendship develops in the next years. Together with Captain Janeway, Tuvok is on Vulcan when he obtains a Vulcan meditation lamp, an important accessory for every Vulcan, from a Vulcan master. Despite our earlier problems on this mission, I have come to cherish my decision to retain Tuvok as second officer, and feel such experiences as his captaincy during my and Chakotay's medical quarantine will benefit him in the long run. I know it weighed heavily on him to recant my orders against Vidiian involvement, but I cannot fault the growth he showed in considering the pleas of the entire ship.

Reversing his accidental and unprecedented transporter merging with Neelix into an all-new third being was in turn a tough choice for this commander, but one in which, as the Vulcans say, I had to place the needs of the many above the needs of the one. As for the incredible incident prompted by his viral parasite disguised as a submerged memory from his Excelsior days, I thank my friend for a look at living history — Starfleet's and his own.

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Excelsior , junior science officer ? Wyoming ? Billings ? Kathryn Janeway; stranded in Delta Quadrant with Voyager ? Promoted to Lieutenant Commander by Captain Janeway ? Returned to Alpha Quadrant with Voyager after 7 years in Delta Quadrant Profile: Report of Starfleet Security 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 Voyager 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.

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