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Star Trek: Voyager's Tuvok has a long Starfleet career, from Captain Sulu's USS Excelsior, to the USS Voyager under Captain Janeway, and beyond.

• Tuvok started in Starfleet before Voyager, serving on the USS Excelsior in the TOS era with Captain Sulu.
• Tuvok took a 50-year hiatus from Starfleet to focus on family and kohlinar before returning to his career.
• After serving on the USS Voyager for 7 years in the Delta Quadrant, Tuvok was promoted to Commander and finally Captain.

Tuvok (Tim Russ), the Vulcan security officer in Star Trek: Voyager , has had a long and illustrious career in Starfleet. The expansive Vulcan lifespan means Tuvok's Starfleet career spans three centuries , beginning in the 23rd-century era of the Star Trek: The Original Series films. In the 24th century, Tuvok served aboard the USS Voyager during its unplanned 7-year tour of Delta Quadrant. After Voyager's return, Tuvok's career continued through the early 25th century in Star Trek: Picard . Tuvok served under some of the best Starfleet captains , including Captain Hikaru Sulu (George Takei) and Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), and proved himself an exemplary officer time and again.

Before earning the role of Tuvok, Tim Russ played other Star Trek characters . Russ previously auditioned for the role of Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987, and appeared as Devor, a human mercenary in TNG season 6, episode 18, "Starship Mine". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine also featured Russ in a guest role, as a Klingon named T'Kar, in DS9 season 2, episode 4, "Invasive Procedures". Russ' third Star Trek appearance is in the film Star Trek Generations , playing an unnamed human lieutenant on the USS Enterprise-B. Of course, Russ is best known as Tuvok , the first Black Vulcan to appear in Star Trek .

Tuvok's Voyager & Star Trek History Explained

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Tuvok's Starfleet career began in the era of the Star Trek: The Original Series feature films, as shown in scenes from Star Trek: Voyager season 3, episode 2, "Flashback", that took place during the events of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Fresh out of Starfleet Academy, Ensign Tuvok served on the USS Excelsior under Captain Hikaru Sulu . When Captain Sulu took the Excelsior to the Klingon prison camp Rura Penthe to rescue Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForrest Kelley), Tuvok openly dissented from Sulu's decision to ignore direct orders from Starfleet.

Tuvok was a reluctant Starfleet officer in his younger years. At 25 years old, Tuvok only enrolled at Starfleet Academy to please his parents , and fulfill their high hopes for Tuvok's potential in Starfleet, instead of out of any personal desire to serve. The attitude created a self-fulfilling prophecy, in which Tuvok was more likely to disagree with Starfleet's prerogatives, such as when Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) suggested allying with the Klingon Empire. Tuvok's distaste for Starfleet only grew as he found himself unable to get along with humans' emotionally-driven leadership and apparent desire to make others more like themselves.

Tuvok Left Starfleet For Decades

Tuvok took a 50-year break to focus on his family..

At the height of Tuvok's dissatisfaction with Starfleet, Tuvok resigned his commission and began teaching at the Vulcan Institute for Defensive Arts. Working with highly emotional humans had proven challenging for Tuvok, so he elected to begin kohlinar , the Vulcan ritual intended to purge all emotion and leave only logic in its purest form. Tuvok's study of kohlinar was left incomplete, however, due to the onset of pon farr, and Tuvok set aside kohlinar to focus on his family : Tuvok's wife, T'Pel (Marva Hicks, Kimber Lee Renay), their three sons, and one daughter.

Fatherhood changed Tuvok's perspective on his own life, because Tuvok was able to reconsider his own parents' expectations of him after becoming a parent in his own right. Fifty years after initially resigning, Tuvok decided to give Starfleet another chance . Tuvok's return to Starfleet saw him posted to the USS Wyoming before teaching at Starfleet Academy for 16 years, then taking a temporary assignment on Jupiter Station. It was during this second phase of Tuvok's Starfleet career that Tuvok met Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) , who would come to be one of Tuvok's closest friends.

6 Times Tuvok Was Star Trek: Voyager's Vulcan Villain

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Captain Kathryn Janeway asked Lt. Tuvok to join the USS Voyager's crew due to the years of friendship that had forged a deep trust between Tuvok and Janeway. Tuvok was undercover among the Maquis when both the Maquis raider and USS Voyager were unexpectedly flung into the Delta Quadrant. When the Maquis and Federation crews banded together to survive, Tuvok revealed his true allegiance as Voyager's Chief Tactical Officer. Despite 70,000 light years and daunting challenges ahead, Tuvok remained a poised voice of reason and advisor.

During Voyager's unprecedented journey through the Delta Quadrant, Tuvok proved himself exceedingly capable in many areas. Besides primary duties in security and third-in-command of the USS Voyager , Tuvok's unbiased dedication to seeking the truth made Tuvok Voyager's de facto investigator and legal advisor. Tuvok trained Voyager's new Maquis crewmembers in Starfleet protocol, and Tuvok's Vulcan telepathy made Tuvok the logical tutor for Kes' (Jennifer Lien) Ocampa telepathy. Tuvok's technical expertise was extremely valuable when Starfleet resources were scarce.

Exemplary service on the USS Voyager earned Tuvok a promotion to Lt. Commander in 2374, and seventeen commendations for valor.

Tuvok Became Commander & Captain In Star Trek: Lower Decks & Picard

Tuvok remained with starfleet security before transferring to starfleet command..

After the USS Voyager's return to the Alpha Quadrant, Tuvok remained with Starfleet security, and was promoted to full Commander. In Star Trek: Lower Decks, Commander Tuvok was an instrumental part of the team investigating the alleged crimes of Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis). Tuvok's mind meld with an informant produced sufficient evidence to exonerate Freeman.

By 2401, Captain Tuvok was an important member of Starfleet security forces . In Star Trek: Picard season 3, Captain Tuvok was captured and replaced by a Changeling. After Tuvok's Changeling impostor was dealt with, the true Captain Tuvok met with Commander Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) to officially promote Seven to Captain. This poignant full-circle moment for both Star Trek: Voyager alumni was a fitting cap on Tuvok's Starfleet career.

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“Live long and prosper.” -Traditional Vulcan Salutation

Commanders, today marks the birthday of Leonard Nimoy, a pivotal figure whose legacy continues to illuminate the cosmos. Although Nimoy’s physical presence is no longer among us, since 2018, March 26th has been celebrated in his honor as Live Long and Prosper (LLAP) Day. In the spirit of LLAP Day, we extend our wishes of peace and long life to all of you.

LLAP Day doesn’t prescribe a singular mode of celebration; rather, it encourages us to embody the ideals of Star Trek and foster behaviors that nurture longevity and prosperity. Whether through exercise, indulging in a healthy meal, or taking a mental health pause to decompress from life’s pressures, the essence of today is self-care and mindfulness. After all, logic dictates the importance of self-preservation.

The iconic Vulcan salute, paired with the phrase “live long and prosper,” debuted in the original series episode “Amok Time,” centering around Spock and his homeworld, Vulcan. Leonard Nimoy, deeply involved in crafting his character’s identity, introduced the salute—a gesture enriched by his childhood memories of Jewish religious ceremonies. During these rituals, a Rabbi would extend this hand formation while bestowing blessings of longevity and prosperity upon the congregation. Nimoy found it amusing that many of his colleagues struggled to naturally adopt the salute.

In an amusing anecdote from the episode “Amok Time,” Celia Lovsky, portraying the Vulcan T’Pau, had to have her fingers taped together to properly execute the salute in response to Nimoy’s. A similar predicament befell William Shatner in “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.” Commanders, are you able to perform the salute without assistance?

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Rear Admiral Tuvok is a Vulcan Starfleet officer. He is best known for his tenure as the U.S.S. Voyager 's Tactical Officer while the ship was lost in the Delta Quadrant from 2371 to 2378.

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History [ | ]

During the Praxis crisis in 2293 , Ensign Tuvok serves on the U.S.S. Excelsior under Captain Hikaru Sulu .

From 2371 to 2378 Lieutenant Commander Tuvok serving as Chief Tactical Officer, is lost in the Delta Quadrant with the U.S.S. Voyager under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway . During these seven years, Tuvok encountered numerous species, including the Borg , the Voth , and the Undine .

By 2401 , Tuvok has retired from Starfleet, and attempts to convince the Federation Council to reconsider its position on the Klingon-Gorn War in the light of new evidence supporting the presence of Undine infiltrators in the Alpha Quadrant.

By 2409 , Tuvok has returned to Starfleet and since been promoted to Rear Admiral. In the same year he commands Voyager .

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Tuvok as he appeared in “Fluid Dynamics” , prior to Season 9.5

Commanding U.S.S. Voyager .

Tuvok in his 2370's uniform, as seen in “Mindscape” .

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Tim Russ recording lines for Star Trek Online at Cryptic Studios in 2013

• Tuvok was added to Star Trek Online with the mission “A Step Between Stars” as part of the game's 4 Year Anniversary Event on January 30, 2014. He is voiced by actor Tim Russ , the same actor who played him in Star Trek: Voyager .
• With 14 missions featuring the character, but only 13 including unique voiceovers by Tim Russ, Tuvok (tied with Martok ) is the second most featured canon character (after Daniels ) voiced by his\her original actor in Star Trek Online .
• In the mission "Fluid Dynamics" before Season 9.5, Tuvok was seen wearing the command variant of the uniform he wore when serving on Voyager during her time in the Delta Quadrant in the 2370's instead of the more modern Starfleet veteran uniform he wears from "A Step Between Stars" and onward. His appearance changed upon release of Season 9.5 when most, if not all Starfleet NPCs were converted to wearing Odyssey attire, though during the opening cutscene of “Surface Tension” , Tuvok is shown wearing the Vice Admiral Coat instead of his Odyssey uniform, presumably a leftover. He can be seen wearing the Operations variant of the 2371-era uniform during the mind meld in the mission “Mindscape” .

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• Tuvok at Memory Beta , the non-canon Star Trek Wiki.
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Summary [ ]

In the USS Voyager 's mess hall , Neelix is trying to tempt a reluctant Lieutenant Tuvok into sampling a new juice blend that Neelix has concocted. Eventually, Tuvok gingerly samples the beverage and, to Neelix's delight, he finds the drink to be "impressive." After heading into the kitchen with the intention of serving seasoned Porakan eggs for Tuvok's breakfast , Neelix begins explaining the method of the food preparation, a Talaxian mealtime tradition, but the Vulcan is unwilling to hear about the effort put into preparing the eggs , and an unexpected fire suddenly ruins them. Neelix quickly extinguishes the blaze, which Tuvok suggests may have been caused by a thermal surge due to Engineering making adjustments to the plasma conduits , in order to accommodate a new energy source. An audio call from Captain Janeway summons the pair to the bridge .

Neelix and the bridge officers lengthily and with some enthusiasm discuss how they will store and use the sirillium after they have gathered it. Once the ship arrives at its temporary destination, the anomaly (which Kim describes as a class 17 nebula ) is displayed on the viewscreen but, as the crew discuss the anomaly, Tuvok seems disoriented and his hand quivers. Even though an unaware Janeway issues him an order related to the nebula , Tuvok does not respond. The bridge officers subsequently notice his behavior. He confusedly admits that he is feeling dizzy and disoriented, and his request to report to sickbay is granted. En route, Tuvok experiences a flashback of himself as a child; the boy holds the hand of a terrified girl hanging from a cliff but he is unable to hold on to her, so she plummets to her death. In a state of extreme distress, Tuvok stumbles into Voyager 's sickbay, where Kes is on duty, and collapses on the floor.

Act One [ ]

Tuvok, now conscious, relates his vision of the girl hanging from the cliff. Though the episode seemed real, he does not recall it having actually happened. The Doctor offers several possible explanations, including a hallucination or repressed memory of some sort. The Doctor releases Tuvok, but first gives him a neurocortical monitor to record his brain patterns and to alert sickbay in case the symptoms recur. Tuvok approves of this "wise precaution".

In engineering, Ensign Harry Kim explains that his sensor sweeps haven't turned up anything that would affect Tuvok or Voyager . Tuvok suggests to Lt. B'Elanna Torres that, due to being close to Klingon space, Voyager conduct a tachyon sweep of the nebula to reveal any cloaked ships that could be responsible for the symptoms. But, of course, Voyager is in the Delta Quadrant , nowhere near Klingon space, so his remark puzzles Janeway and the other officers present. As he stares at the sensor display of the nebula, Tuvok experiences another flashback, and once again the little girl slips from his youthful grasp and falls to her death from the cliff.

" Damage report! "

In sickbay, The Doctor suggests that a mind meld between the patient and a family member to bring Tuvok's repressed memory to the conscious mind may fix the problem. Being the closest thing Tuvok has to family on Voyager , Captain Janeway agrees to a mind meld with Tuvok. However, instead of accessing the memory of the girl and the cliff, Janeway and Tuvok find themselves on the USS Excelsior eighty years in the past . The Excelsior is engaged in battle with a Klingon vessel. Captain Hikaru Sulu suddenly steps out of the dense smoke.

Act Two [ ]

As Sulu barks orders to his crew and Commander Janice Rand reads a damage report, Janeway and Tuvok (who is crouched over the body of Lieutenant Dimitri Valtane ) are confused why they're suddenly on the Excelsior rather than the precipice with the little girl. Tuvok reports that the ship is in a battle with the Klingons, and that the battle was precipitated by an incident that occurred three days earlier…

Going back in time to the common quarters he shares with Valtane and two other officers on Deck 7, now Ensign Tuvok finishes preparing a blend of Vulcan tea for Captain Sulu, of whom he's noticed that he likes to have a cup of tea in the morning. The others are getting ready to go on duty as part of the gamma shift . Having entered and asked about the tea, Commander Rand jokingly accuses him of trying to get a quick promotion, which Tuvok denies. She then gives him a message from his father serving on the USS Yorktown and leaves to report to the bridge. After she's gone, Janeway remarks to Tuvok " You've never brought me tea. "

" Outstanding! I may have to give you a promotion. "

Later, Tuvok serves the tea to Captain Sulu, who declares it to be outstanding and also jokes about Tuvok trying to get a promotion. When Tuvok denies this, Sulu tells his junior officer that he's got to learn how to appreciate a joke, and says he knows that Vulcans do have a sense of humor. As she follows Tuvok across the bridge to his post, Janeway remarks that Sulu doesn't look anything like his portrait at Starfleet Headquarters ; Tuvok explains that 23rd century holographic imagers had a less accurate resolution than the technology that would be developed in the 24th century. Janeway notices that Tuvok's post is a science station. Tuvok confirms that he served on the ship as one of several junior science officers, causing Janeway to ask why his service record doesn't mention his service on the Excelsior . Tuvok isn't keen to talk about it, but confirms this was his first deep-space assignment after graduating Starfleet Academy at the age of 29. Janeway asks if they're about to battle the Klingons, but Tuvok tells her that the Klingon moon Praxis (which had served as a major source of energy for the Klingon home world) is about to explode. Janeway remembers that the destruction of Praxis had a lasting effect on the Alpha Quadrant , including leading to the first-ever Federation-Klingon Peace Treaty .

Just then, the ship starts to shake as the subspace shock wave from Praxis approaches the ship. Captain Sulu orders shields up, but Excelsior still shudders through the wave, sending the crew flying. Helmsman Lieutenant Commander Lojur tries to maneuver the ship, but the helm won't respond; Sulu orders him to use the starboard thrusters to turn the ship into the wave. Once it passes, Sulu starts to investigate while Tuvok tells Janeway that they were warned off by the Klingons and continued their survey mission. However two days later, two Starfleet officers were arrested for the assassination of the Klingon Chancellor . Captain Sulu felt an intense loyalty to both officers having served with them for many years. The two then go forward to the point where Captain Sulu (against orders) begins to plan a rescue of James Kirk and Leonard McCoy .

As currently illustrated in his memory, Tuvok tells Janeway that while the rest of the crew were happy to follow the captain in his defiance of Starfleet's orders, he wasn't. He then argues with Sulu that as Starfleet officers, they are under obligation to follow any and all orders. Sulu finds Tuvok's declaration to be rather bold for someone who has had an entire two months of space duty. Rand, having served with Sulu, Kirk, and McCoy on USS Enterprise as a yeoman , is aghast at Tuvok's behavior and chides him for questioning the captain's decision. She attempts to relieve him of duty while apologizing to the captain, but Sulu motions to her that it's okay. Sulu tells Tuvok that while he's technically right, he also couldn't be more wrong. He explains that when you serve with people for long enough, a strong bond and a sense of family can form. Having served with Kirk and McCoy for so many years and owing his life to them a dozen times over, regardless of Starfleet's orders he's going to help his friends, " let the regulations be damned. " Tuvok believes this to be a most illogical line of reasoning; Sulu tells Tuvok he " better believe it, " and orders Excelsior to warp speed. Janeway tells Tuvok that he did the right thing, but Tuvok now feels that he may have been wrong to question Captain Sulu's orders.

Sulu decides to take Excelsior through the Azure Nebula to conceal their entry into Klingon space. When it appears on the viewscreen , Janeway notices that it appears almost identical to the nebula encountered on Voyager . Suddenly Tuvok starts to have a panic attack as the memory resurfaces, this time with Janeway seeing the incident with the girl on the cliff, and the meld is broken as The Doctor scrambles to help him.

Act Three [ ]

Tuvok lies unconscious in sickbay. The Doctor warns him that if the repressed memory keeps resurfacing, he could experience brain death from synaptic pathway degradation. As Tuvok needs to be left to rest, Janeway decides to conduct her own research.

Later, Ensign Kim brings Janeway a comparison between the Azure Nebula and the one Voyager has just encountered in her ready room . Although both contain sirillium and are visually similar, the two are actually quite different; the Azure Nebula is a class 11 nebula while the one Voyager has encountered is a class 17. Having talked with The Doctor, Kim suggests that Tuvok's memories of the Excelsior were just triggered by how similar the two nebulas look, but this still brings up the question of where the memory of the little girl fits in, as it is so far removed from Tuvok's service with Captain Sulu. Janeway had decided to check Sulu's logs for some clues about the nebula but has come up with nothing, as Sulu omitted the trip through the nebula in his logs, except for a brief, cryptic remark about the Excelsior suffering damage from a gaseous anomaly and requiring repairs. Kim is surprised to hear about this clear breach of protocol, but Janeway reminds him of the differences between starships from Sulu's era and their own, and most importantly, how it was a different breed of Starfleet officers who served on them. The technology wasn't as advanced, the Federation constantly on the verge of war with the Klingons, the Romulans ' covert activities, and their ships were only half as fast. Despite all this, and noting that the officers of the time would have been very quickly booted out of the Starfleet of the present, Janeway expresses a desire to have served even once with officers like Kirk and Sulu.

The Doctor revives Tuvok, who completes the story of the interrupted mind meld. The Excelsior was ambushed by Klingons and forced to abort the rescue mission, but this still has no connection to the repressed memory. Tuvok attempts another mind meld with Janeway, but once again they find themselves on the Excelsior over Valtane's body. Now convinced that this isn't a coincidence but something that happened on the Excelsior is causing Tuvok's illness, Janeway and Tuvok go back to when the ship was in the nebula.

Having estimated that their path through the nebula would take five hours, Sulu decided that gamma shift needed to get some rest. However back in their crew quarters, Lieutenant Valtane, Tuvok's bunkmate, wants to talk about the situation. While Valtane admires Sulu, Tuvok doesn't and makes no secret of the fact that he dislikes Humans and their flippancy with emotions. The Vulcan explains that he only joined Starfleet under pressure from his parents, and that he planned to resign his Starfleet commission once the ship's survey mission is over. As Valtane goes to sleep, Janeway asks Tuvok if he really meant what he said. Tuvok says that he did at this point in his life, admitting that his opinions on Humans and Starfleet were biased due to the fact he hadn't voluntarily chosen to join the service. After resigning, he returned to Vulcan and started to study kolinahr to purge his emotions. However, six years into his studies he underwent pon farr and took T'Pel as a mate and began raising children, whereupon he understood his parents' decision to send him to Starfleet Academy, and that there was actually a lot he could learn if he allowed himself to do so. Tuvok therefore rejoined Starfleet in order to expand his knowledge of the galaxy , and to learn from Humans and other species. Suddenly, the ship trembles and Sulu calls for a red alert . As he and the other officers quickly get up to return to their stations, Tuvok explains to Janeway that a Klingon ship had decloaked in the nebula and began firing concussive charges across their bow.

Act Four [ ]

The Excelsior and Kang's K't'inga -class cruiser

On the bridge of the Excelsior , Sulu finds the captain of the battle cruiser is none other than Kang , who congratulates Sulu for his well-deserved captaincy, and in a thinly-veiled threat advises Sulu to "not let it end prematurely". Sulu, of course, lies about his rescue mission, claiming they got lost inside the nebula while surveying it due to a navigational system malfunction. Kang insists on escorting the Excelsior back to Federation space, so Sulu plays along while looking for a way to lose him.

With Kang's forward disruptors trained on them, Sulu asks Tuvok about the nebula's composition. On the mention of sirillium gas, Tuvok confirms that it's highly combustible and when asked on how they can ignite it, suggests modulating a positron beam to a subspace frequency, which would cause a thermochemical reaction. " Like tossing a match into a pool of gasoline , " enthuses Sulu, but not wanting to destroy them, asks if Kang's shields would withstand the blast. Tuvok says they would, but their sensors and weapon systems would be disrupted for several seconds. This is enough for Sulu, who has his solution. He instructs Tuvok to prepare the beam and when they exit the nebula first, to fire on Sulu's command.

As they clear the nebula, the "match" is ignited, disabling Kang's ship with the resulting explosion, and the Excelsior quickly resumes its course at maximum warp to Qo'noS . However, three Klingon battle cruisers intercept the Excelsior and begin firing torpedoes at it. Tuvok gets an alert and warns Valtane that his console is about to explode due to a plasma conduit rupture behind it, but Valtane tarries and doesn't leave his station in time; he takes the full force of the blast. Calling in the medical emergency to sickbay, Tuvok kneels next to Voltane, who calls Tuvok's name with his dying breath. Suddenly, the "memory" of the girl on the cliff resurfaces.

In Voyager 's sickbay, Tuvok's memory engrams are destabilizing and The Doctor attempts to terminate the mind meld, but is unable to. Tuvok's brain damage is accelerating and he will be brain-dead within twenty minutes if the mind meld continues.

" Who the hell are you?! "

Janeway tells Tuvok that the death of Valtane is connected to the repressed memory, however Tuvok winces as he realizes that something has gone wrong with the mind meld. Sulu is looking around, but when he turns in their direction, he can actually see Janeway on his bridge.

Act Five [ ]

The young Kathryn Janeway in the flashback

Sulu calls for an intruder alert as Tuvok offers to break the mind meld, warning Janeway that if his brain is fatally damaged that she will suffer brain damage as well. Janeway declines, as she feels that they are very close to the truth. Excelsior 's security officers arrive and arrest the two, as they realize that Janeway's presence will stop the memory from following its proper course so she will need to appear inconspicuous among the crew of the Excelsior .

Going back in time to the moment Tuvok was preparing Sulu's Vulcan tea, Tuvok performs a nerve pinch on Rand and the two help themselves to her uniform, so that Janeway will more likely escape notice of Sulu and his officers.

Meanwhile, The Doctor fits a cortical stimulator on Tuvok to bring him out of the meld with bursts of thoron radiation . This exposes a virus masquerading as one of Tuvok's memory engrams, and The Doctor increases the amount of radiation to kill the virus.

On the Excelsior bridge, Rand's absence is noticed but before Sulu can investigate further, the Klingons attack and Valtane once again dies after his console explodes. Janeway asks Tuvok to concentrate, to bring them to the precipice with the girl. Meanwhile, the virus in Tuvok's brain migrates to the captain's, and accordingly, Janeway experiences her version of Tuvok's flashback, seeing herself as a child in Tuvok's place. The Doctor fits a stimulator on Janeway and irradiates her brain, causing the virus to move again, and now Tuvok's flashback recurs. As the virus begins to die, The Doctor once again increases the amount of radiation to eighty kilodynes . The flashback recurs now with a young Valtane hanging on to the girl, and then again and again with other children – presumably the other hosts the virus has infected in its lifetime.

It turns out that the virus feeds on neural peptides and bypasses the immune system of its host by disguising itself as a memory engram – the false memory of the girl falling from the cliff, so traumatic that the mind would repress it, thus ensuring that it would not be detected living in the brain of the host. Tuvok concludes that Valtane, as he lay dying, infected him with the virus, the same way the virus infected the captain as Tuvok's mind began to degrade. Kes wonders whether the girl ever really existed, and in response The Doctor surmises that the memory has been passed on so many times, that there is no way of knowing the true history behind the memory of the fall or if the girl even ever existed.

Leaving sickbay, Janeway asks if Excelsior managed to rescue Kirk and McCoy. Tuvok tells her that the ship was forced to abandon the rescue mission. However, like many times previously in their careers, Kirk and McCoy provided their own means of escape, and both the Excelsior and Captain Sulu and the starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk himself, ended up playing a pivotal role in the following events at Khitomer . Janeway notes that Tuvok sounds almost nostalgic about those days. Tuvok reminds her he doesn't feel nostalgia, however as he remembers those events and meeting Kirk, McCoy, and Spock , he is glad that he was a part of them. Janeway remarks that, in a funny way, she feels like she was a part of it as well. Tuvok responds that perhaps, she can be nostalgic for both of them.

Memorable quotes [ ]

" I am not Human. " " No kidding. "

" Structure. Logic. Function. Control. The structure cannot stand without a foundation. Logic is the foundation of function. Function is the essence of control. I am in control. I am in control. "

" Mr. Tuvok, if you're going to remain on my ship, you're going to have learn how to appreciate a joke. And don't tell me Vulcans don't have a sense of humor; because I know better . "

" Ensign, do you know this woman? "

" You'll find that more happens on the bridge of a starship than just carrying out orders and observing regulations. There is a sense of loyalty to the men and women you serve with. A sense of family. Those two men on trial… I served with them for a long time. I owe them my life a dozen times over. And right now they're in trouble and I'm going to help them; let the regulations be damned. " " Sir, that is a most illogical line of reasoning. " " You better believe it. Helm, engage! "

" Mr. Neelix, I would prefer not to hear the life history of my breakfast. "

" Mr. Sulu, I see they have finally given you the captaincy you deserve. " " Thank you, Kang. " " Do not let it end prematurely. "

" Nice to see you again, Kang. " " Grr… "

" As a Starfleet officer, it is my duty to formally protest. " " Tuvok! "

" I don't know what happened to you, but there can be any number of explanations – hallucination, telepathic communication from another race, repressed memory, momentary contact with a parallel reality… take your pick. The universe is such a strange place. "

" All right, Gamma Shift. Time to defend the Federation against gaseous anomalies. "

" Seal that conduit! "

" Who knows what goes on in a Vulcan's mind. "

" I've observed that Captain Sulu drinks a cup of tea each morning. I thought he might enjoy a Vulcan blend. " " Oh, I see. Trying to make lieutenant in your first month? I wish I'd have thought of that when I was your age. Took me three years just to make ensign. " " I assure you I have no ulterior motive. " " Whatever you say, ensign. See you on the bridge. " " You've never brought me tea. "

" It would seem that Captain Sulu decided not to enter that journey into his official log. The day's entry makes some cryptic remark about the ship being damaged in a gaseous anomaly and needing repairs, but… nothing else. " " You mean, he falsified his logs? " " It was a very different time, Mister Kim. Captain Sulu, Captain Kirk, Doctor McCoy. They all belonged to a different breed of Starfleet officers. Imagine the era they lived in: the Alpha Quadrant still largely unexplored… Humanity on the verge of war with the Klingons, Romulans hiding behind every nebula. Even the technology we take for granted was still in its early stages: no plasma weapons, no multi-phasic shields… Their ships were half as fast. " " No replicators. No holodecks. You know, ever since I took Starfleet history at the Academy, I've always wondered what it would be like to live in those days. " " Space must have seemed a whole lot bigger back then. It's not surprising they had to bend the rules a little. They were a little slower to invoke the Prime Directive, and a little quicker to pull their phasers. Of course, the whole bunch of them would be booted out of Starfleet today. But I have to admit: I would have loved to ride shotgun at least once with a group of officers like that. "

" Whew… Vulcans! You guys need to relax. "

" Who the hell are you? "

" We could have just asked her. " " Asking female officers for their clothing could lead to misunderstanding. "

" Memory is a tricky thing. "

" I'm curious: did the Excelsior ever save Kirk and McCoy? " " Not directly. We were forced to retreat back to Federation space – as usual, Captain Kirk provided his own means of escape… But we did play an important role at the subsequent battle at Khitomer. " " Mr. Tuvok, if I didn't know you better, I'd say you miss those days on the Excelsior . "

" But there are times when I think back to those days of meeting Kirk, Spock and the others, and I am pleased that I was part of it. " " In a funny way, I feel like I was a part of it, too. " " Then perhaps you can be nostalgic for both of us. "

" Tuvok! Please, Tuvok! Don't let me fall! "

Background information [ ]

Introductory details [ ].

• "Flashback" was Star Trek: Voyager 's tribute both to the films starring the cast of Star Trek: The Original Series and to Star Trek 's 30th anniversary , recreating many scenes from the feature film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country .
• This episode was written and produced after UPN declared that, as they had done with the first and second seasons of Star Trek: Voyager , they would air four episodes produced at the end of the series' second season as part of its third season . ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 15 ) This episode was, in production order, the third of the four that were written and produced during the second season of Star Trek: Voyager but intentionally included in the third season, the other episodes being " Sacred Ground ", " False Profits ", and " Basics, Part II ".

Story and script [ ]

• With the date of Star Trek 's 30th anniversary located early in Voyager 's third season, the studio executives at Paramount Pictures requested a Voyager episode that would tie into and serve as an homage to Star Trek: The Original Series , thereby fitting the occasion. ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 15 ) " We already had on hand the story premise of a memory problem for Tuvok that Janeway saves him from, " writer and supervising producer Brannon Braga recalled, " and when the request came down from the studio for a 30th anniversary show, that seemed like a natural to get us back into that era without yet another time travel plot. " ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 ) Braga also stated, " We thought, [the event was] a perfect opportunity to use the sci-fi gimmick, mind melding, and go to save Tuvok from a psychic trauma. And back [in] time, that was what we were going to do [originally]. We were going to see Janeway's first commission. It was going to be more about Janeway and that relationship. We just used that story as a departure and it worked very nicely. But the gag was always the same, to do a time travel story without doing time travel, by doing a meld. " It was after deciding on this plot device that the writers chose to go back to the Excelsior , posting Tuvok aboard that ship. The memory virus was another part of the original story idea. Laughing, Braga noted, " It [was] always in there. It's always the idea that repressed memories could possibly be the result of alien inhibition. " ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 87)
• In an uncredited capacity, Juliann Medina had some input into this episode's story. ( Beyond the Final Frontier , p. 296, et al.)
• The episode's first draft script was issued on 15 March 1996 . The teleplay's final draft was submitted on 26 of that month.
• Brannon Braga originally wrote a scene in which Nyota Uhura , via viewscreen, provided some necessary plot points from the bridge of the USS Enterprise -A . Actress Nichelle Nichols declined her invitation to appear in the episode, however, due to the limitedness of her part. ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 18 ) Sulu actor George Takei referred to Uhura's part of the installment as "a nice little scene" and clarified, " She would have communicated with me, as Uhura to Tuvok, over the viewscreen. I pleaded with her on the phone to do it because it would have been wonderful to have her back as well. She felt the part did not do her justice, so she passed on doing it. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 9 ) Brannon Braga remarked, " I would have liked to have had Uhura, but we had to write […] her out. We couldn't make a deal with her. " ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 88) Partly due to the scene's deletion, the episode ended up being approximately five minutes too short, so two additional scenes were written to fill up the rest of the episode's duration: an extension of Tuvok's breakfast with Neelix, and the Keethera scene between Tuvok and Kes. ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 ) The removal of the Uhura scene was done after 26 March, as evidenced by the cast list in the episode's final draft script, which includes Uhura among the episode's characters.
• The episode was originally to have started with the log entry that, in the episode's final version, immediately follows the breakfast scene.
• According to George Takei, Tuvok actor Tim Russ made some changes to the script, immediately eliciting the writers to correct some discrepancies. ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 9 ) Takei explained, " He made script changes that made Tuvok's behavior consistent with Vulcan culture where the writers had been derelict. For example, the script suggested that Tuvok had an affair with a non-Vulcan before his pon farr . He made sure that was corrected. " ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 22 ) Additionally, Russ inadvertently drove Brannon Braga to include more about Tuvok's backstory in the episode than had originally been scripted, being particularly instrumental in the writing of what Tuvok says to Janeway while in his bunk aboard the Excelsior . " Initially that whole speech wasn't in there, a page and a half of dialogue, " Russ revealed. " She asked me, 'What made you come back to Starfleet?' and [Braga] had written some line which really wasn't consistent with Vulcan character. I said, 'Brannon, the line itself doesn't work.' So I said, 'Give him a real reason why he came back to Starfleet.' I expected a paragraph, and I ended up getting a page and a half of dialogue. Things like that do make a difference. " ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 100)

Cast and characters [ ]

• Cast members were generally impressed by the script. George Takei described the episode's bridging of the generations as "a very imaginative" and "clever" concept, and further enthused, " I thought […] they did an absolutely wonderful job of bridging the generations, of making Captain Sulu, Tuvok and Janeway all organic parts of the same episode. " ( Flashback to "Flashback" , VOY Season 3 DVD special features; Cinefantastique , Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 89; The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 9 ) Likewise, Tuvok actor Tim Russ commented, " I thought it was a blast when I first heard about it, really a great idea. How do you tie in to the old series when you're in the Delta Quadrant? So, it was just a kick to find out. " ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 ) He also remarked, " I thought it was a piece of genius, story-wise […] [It] is a coup d'etat , story-wise, because nobody would see it coming. " ( Flashback to "Flashback" , VOY Season 3 DVD special features) Russ also liked how the episode's depiction of the Excelsior differed from Star Trek VI , saying, " I really appreciated the clever aspect of the storyline being placed inside a part of the ship from a certain angle that we never saw in the original film. Being able to play that out and being tied to that story so directly was great. " ( Star Trek: Voyager Companion  (p. ? )) Russ elaborated, " It was a brilliant story to tie into the bridge of the USS Excelsior in that film, having not seen that part of the ship and having me on it […] It was fabulous. " ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 25 , p. 12) Janice Rand actress Grace Lee Whitney offered, " It was just a great episode. " [1]
• George Takei originally learned of his forthcoming appearance in this episode via a phone call in January 1996, from a male fan who was also a friend of the actor. The friendly fan congratulated Takei for the fact he was about to make a guest appearance on Star Trek: Voyager , news that the fan had learned on the Internet but which Takei was not yet aware of. He dismissed the information as an untrue rumor but, after he ended his call with the curious fan, Takei called his agent, who also knew nothing about the upcoming episode. About a fortnight afterwards, Takei was guest-starring on the Nickelodeon TV series Space Cases , on location in Montreal, when (one day, after shooting) his agent called him back with confirmation of the claim. Takei's agent continued by detailing the offer to him. ( Flashback to "Flashback" , VOY Season 3 DVD special features; Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 ; The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 9 )
• Writing on the episode began only after George Takei accepted the invitation to appear. Brannon Braga recalled, " When George Takei was contacted and agreed to do it the writing took off. " ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 )
• George Takei initially hoped that his guest spot on the series would allow him to work with the entire cast of Star Trek: Voyager , particularly with Kim actor Garrett Wang . " When my agent confirmed for me that I was doing a guest shot on Voyager , " Takei remembered, " I was looking forward to working with the entire cast, because I've been watching the series and the only one I knew was Garrett Wang […] My only disappointment was that it was working with just Kate [Mulgrew] and Tim. " ( Flashback to "Flashback" , VOY Season 3 DVD special features)
• However, another regret for George Takei was that, due to Star Trek VI having been produced five years earlier (i.e., in 1991 ), the actors from that movie had changed so much that the original shots of them from the film could not be utilized and, generally, recreated scenes instead had to be filmed anew. ( Flashback to "Flashback" , VOY Season 3 DVD special features)

David Livingston and George Takei on the Excelsior Bridge set of this episode

• Both Brannon Braga and director David Livingston were very pleased that George Takei decided to participate in the episode. " It's very exciting, " Livingston said, midway through filming, " to have someone from Classic Star Trek to come in and do the show. George is wonderful–with his energy and enthusiasm, I feel like an old man around him! He's incredible, and his spirit infuses everything! He's wonderful as the captain. He's got this power that's terrific, and that wonderful voice of his! " ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 ) For his part, Braga enthused, " George was great. He is Sulu. He's got that great booming voice, and bombastic demeanor. I liked him. " ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 88)
• Tuvok actor Tim Russ also immensely enjoyed the opportunity to work with George Takei. Russ later commented, " Working with George on the bridge, as Sulu's character, and having him aboard as a guest was wonderful, not only from a nostalgic standpoint but also because he's a very good actor, a very wonderful personality, very warm, very giving, very easy to work with, and we had a good time, and some good laughs. " ( Flashback to "Flashback" , VOY Season 3 DVD special features) Russ also stated that he found working with Takei was "a rush," "a great honor and fun," "a thrill," and "extraordinary." ( Star Trek: Voyager Companion  (p. ? ); ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 25 , p. 12; Star Trek Monthly  issue 41 , p. 28)
• Tim Russ found that this episode's production period was very tiring. " That was one hell of a show to shoot – it was absolutely exhausting, " declared Russ. ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 41 , p. 28) On the other hand, he also enjoyed the making of the episode, particularly shooting the back-and-forth scenes of the outing (with Tuvok dividing his attention between interacting with Janeway in the present and with his own memories of life aboard the Excelsior ), which he found to be "fascinating". ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 25 , p. 12) He also said, " It was very interesting and a lot of fun to do that episode. " ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 88)
• A specific aspect of this production that thrilled Tim Russ was how closely it related to TOS, he having been a fan of that series for many years. He noted, " To be able to get so close again to the original series after having enjoyed it so much when I was younger was just fantastic. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 9 ) In fact, George Takei was very impressed by how aware Russ was of the Star Trek canon , as the latter actor repeatedly reminded Takei of things he had done in TOS that he had forgotten about. " It was kind of an eerie feeling, " related Takei. " He's very Vulcan in that respect. " ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 101) Indeed, Takei was especially impressed by how knowledgeable Russ was about Vulcans, commenting, " I was impressed by how Tim has totally, completely and organically absorbed in his Vulcan heritage – the culture, the persona, the physiognomy, and the psyche of a Vulcan […] I was very impressed by him, as an actor who makes a full and total commitment. " ( Flashback to "Flashback" , VOY Season 3 DVD special features) In summation, Takei noted, " I enjoyed working with Tim. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 9 )
• George Takei actually enjoyed working not only with Tim Russ but also with Kate Mulgrew. Regarding the pair of Voyager actors, Takei enthused, " It was really great working with the two of them, because they are very, very professional. " ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 88) About Mulgrew particularly, Takei declared, " Kate was wonderful […] She was very pleased that we were doing the episode and she made me feel very welcome on the set […] [She] played her part with great gravity and also, in her moments with Tuvok, great tenderness. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 9 )
• George Takei's belief that Kate Mulgrew enjoyed this episode was true to life. Mulgrew cited this as one of her favorite eight installments from Star Trek: Voyager 's third season, describing it as "quite good." Similarly, Takei's positive impression of their relationship was mutual. Mulgrew remarked, " George Takei was a pleasure. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 14 , p. 32) The actress also commented, " I was so impressed with George. He was fabulous to work with, very, very erudite and gentlemanly. He was full of anecdotes about the original show and full of lessons for me as an actor on a Star Trek show. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 9 )
• Having previously worked together on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , this episode reunited George Takei with Grace Lee Whitney (Janice Rand), Jeremy Roberts ( Dimitri Valtane ), Boris Krutonog ( Excelsior helmsman Lojur ), and even some extras. David Livingston stated, " We brought back the actors that we could from Star Trek VI […] It was kind of surrealistic in a way because the actors were sort of picking up where they left off several years ago in a feature film and now they're doing a TV show. So that was fun, and great to work with George Takei and Grace Whitney and Boris Krutonog and whoever else we got from the original cast. " ( Flashback to "Flashback" , VOY Season 3 DVD special features)
• George Takei was amazed by the attention to detail involved in recreating the scenes from Star Trek VI , particularly the use of the other performers. ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 88) He reminisced, " The Voyager behind-the-scenes people did an outstanding job of recreating those sequences from Star Trek VI […] [Rehiring some of the same performers] really lent to the verisimilitude of those scenes, which were based on scenes we had shot five years earlier. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 9 ) Citing one particular scene, Takei noted, " The recreation of the first explosion scene, the Praxis scene from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ; movement for movement, throw for throw, and all of the principal actors in that scene. Some had left the industry – one came back from Portland, Oregon, or some place like that, he told me, that he was no longer pursuing a career, but Paramount came after him. So, their integrity and the tremendous research they did in finding all the actors was very impressive. " ( Flashback to "Flashback" , VOY Season 3 DVD special features)
• As with George Takei, news that Grace Lee Whitney would be appearing in this episode was made available on the Internet before she even knew about the upcoming episode herself. At one point, Whitney met with Brannon Braga in his office and he advised her of some rewrites and script changes. ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 16 ) Whitney appreciated the largeness of her role in this episode. " This is really great for me because I really have dialogue, " she said, " I have had an attitude, a purpose. I'm a lieutenant commander and I tell the ensign what to do! " ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 ) Prior to filming on the set, Whitney was introduced to Voyager 's cast and crew. She was excited to meet them and vice versa. ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 16 ) Whitney was also pleased to be working with George Takei again. Likening the episode to their work on Star Trek VI , Whitney stated, " To be back on the bridge with George, it's just deja vu. When you watch the monitor of us working, you can hardly tell the difference. " ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 )
• During production, Grace Lee Whitney's eldest of two sons, Scott Dweck , was proud to visit the set. ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 19 ) He himself had, in common with his mother, made previous appearances in Star Trek .
• Having worked with Grace Lee Whitney not only on Star Trek VI but also on the original Star Trek series decades beforehand, George Takei experienced a sense of nostalgia while working on a bridge set with her again for this episode. Midway through production, Takei enthused, " It's a glorious, glorious feeling to be in that circular configuration with Gracie there. And it's a funny thing–it doesn't feel like it's been 30 years when you're in that setting. It feels like it was just yesterday. Thomas Wolfe was wrong: you can indeed go home again, and it is so sweet! " ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 ) Throughout the filming of this particular episode, Whitney's enthusiasm was evident to Takei. " Grace Lee was on cloud nine the whole time, " he offered. " She's normally effervescent, and she was like an agitated champagne bottle on the set, spilling and bubbling all over the place. She had some wonderful things to do in the episode, and I was happy to have her beside me. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 9 )
• Kate Mulgrew, David Livingston, and Brannon Braga also enjoyed working with Grace Lee Whitney. Comparing her to George Takei, Mulgrew noted, " I didn't have quite as much dialogue with Grace Lee, but I was quite impressed with her as well. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 9 ) " Grace was great, " Livingston said, " a den mother but still with that Starfleet control and attitude. " ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 ) Similarly, Braga noted, " It was delightful having Grace. She added a nice Star Trek touch. " ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 88)
• For her part, Grace Lee Whitney enjoyed guest-starring alongside regulars Tim Russ and Kate Mulgrew. Whitney reminisced, " Kate (Mulgrew) was amazing and Tim (Russ) told me that he'd just loved me as a kid, and here we were working together. It was great. " [2]
• Jeremy Roberts was thrilled to be invited to reprise his role of Valtane in this episode. The actor explained, " I was very surprised to get the call. After Star Trek VI I figured that was it, I was lucky to be in one. Of course, now I'm not too thrilled about dying in this one! In 1991 I was sitting there looking at George Takei and thinking, 'I'm part of it! All right !' And when it's over, that's it; I got pictures, that was enough for me. Then they call and say, 'You want to do it again?' I'm there ! " ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 )
• Despite hobbling due to having recently pulled an Achilles tendon while playing basketball (a five-week old injury whose cast was effectively covered, during filming on the episode, with a black stocking), Boris Krutonog found that, as the Excelsior helmsman, he was able to appreciate appearing in Star Trek more in this case than he had done during production on Star Trek VI . He explained, " I was born in Russia , and there was no Star Trek in Russia […] So I started to realize the importance of Star Trek after Star Trek VI. Back then it was just another movie, but this–this is fun! And a piece of history! " ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 )
• As of this episode, Michael Ansara ( Kang ) has played the same character on three different live-action Star Trek series. The only other actors to do so are Jonathan Frakes ( Commander William T. Riker ), Marina Sirtis ( Counselor Deanna Troi ), Armin Shimerman ( Quark ), John de Lancie ( Q ), Richard Poe ( Gul Evek ), Patrick Stewart ( Captain Jean-Luc Picard ), Michael Dorn ( Worf ) and LeVar Burton ( Geordi La Forge ).
• Michael Ansara previously played Kang in both the TOS : third season episode " Day of the Dove " and the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine second season episode " Blood Oath ". The scripted scene description for when Kang first appears in this episode reads, " A Klingon named Kang appears (as seen in the Deep Space Nine episode "Blood Oath," but he should look younger here). " Besides his appearances as Kang, Ansara also played Jeyal in the DS9 episode " The Muse ".

During production, an adjustment is made to the ceiling of the Excelsior bridge set

• This episode required that the Excelsior bridge, in the same configuration from Star Trek VI , be recreated. However, rebuilding the set was initially hampered by difficulties. Production designer Richard James recalled, " I said, 'This is a really neat script but, you know when you have a bridge, you usually have three months to build it and half a million dollars, and I've got to recreate something that's already been seen by millions of people.' " ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 25 , p. 30) David Livingston further explained, " Richard James, our production designer, showed me the original plans of the bridge and I said, 'Build it!' and he said 'I don't know if they're going to let me!'–not enough money and not enough time. So they asked if I could shoot with just half of it. Well, no, there's three shooting days, explosions, people moving all around… how do you shoot on half a set? " ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 )
• Although the Excelsior bridge had taken the film crew of Star Trek VI twelve weeks to build from scratch, Richard James and the rest of the art department, as well as the construction and production departments, were tasked with reconstructing the same bridge set in less than two weeks. James proudly recalled, " We scurried in a mad dash and were able to recreate that set. Everybody was amazed when they came in […] We were able to recreate that bridge and probably did it in less than 10 days. And we did a three hundred and 60 degree set. It was not like on the [episode] " Relics ", where we just created a few walls and used blue screen to accomplish the total look. This was a full set. My carpenters and prop makers just did a tremendous job. " ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 25 , p. 30) David Livingston enthused, " It was wonderful how fast they were able to put that bridge together […] I don't know how they did it, but the art department, construction department and the production department all got together and found the money to do it. They had to work a couple of weekends, but they pulled it together and it's amazing. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 10 )
• Due to the severe time crunch, however, some elements of the set were necessarily made simpler. Scenic art supervisor Michael Okuda (yet another production staffer who worked on Star Trek VI ) acknowledged, " Some things had to be simplified, but I think everyone's got a lot to be proud of. " ( Flashback to "Flashback" , VOY Season 3 DVD special features) Similarly, Richard James stated, " We eliminated a few details that were subtle, and I don't think anybody missed them. " ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 25 , p. 30)
• Only a tiny portion of the original Excelsior bridge set survived in storage, having been cannibalized for DS9 (notably, for use on the SS Xhosa ) or Star Trek Generations , or else simply destroyed. However, the main viewscreen, the ops and conn consoles, as well as the aft bridge alcove and the consoles on either side of it had all been kept in storage. ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 ) Richard James remembered, " What we did was we tried to find if any of [the original Excelsior bridge set] existed from old feature stock. There were a couple of walls that were still in existence that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had modified into a Klingon set wall. They let me use those. I thought it was a help, but actually, as it turned out, we could have just built it from scratch. Anyway, we did incorporate those walls. " ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 25 , p. 30)
• The Excelsior bridge's graphics that were available from storage included virtually all the upper-level graphics and half the mid-level displays. Scenic artists Wendy Drapanas and Jim Magdaleno digitized much of Michael Okuda's art from Star Trek VI , producing it much quicker than it had originally been done. Okuda stated, " Wendy Drapanas and Jim Magdaleno again recreated all the backlits, because – even though the set existed – there was a great deal of work to be done. " ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 )
• All the tape loops of sensor images used in Star Trek VI were found, fairly intact, in storage. These loops were then displayed on twenty-five video "computer monitors" on the reconstructed Excelsior bridge set. Monitors were loaned from both DS9 and Star Trek: First Contact , in a concerted effort to help produce this anniversary installment of Voyager . Finally, the positions and exact timings of the loops were intricately matched with footage from Star Trek VI . Video supervisor Denise Okuda recalled, " Michael and I sat in front of our laserdisk ST:VI at home and tried frame by frame to match it. There were inconsistencies in the film due to editing, but we tried to match as much as possible the location and position of the monitors. The only downside is that our taped displays today are around 5-10 minutes long to give the video operators a break, but the tapes from ST:VI are a maximum of 12 minutes. " ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 ; Star Trek Monthly  issue 22 ) For his part, Michael Okuda stated, " Our video operator, Ben Betts, put in an amazing number of hours along with Denise [Okuda], to recreate as much as possible all the video monitors we had on the set. " ( Flashback to "Flashback" , VOY Season 3 DVD special features)
• The bridge of Kang's battle cruiser was an oft-reused generic Klingon bridge set, which went on to serve as the bridge of the IKS Rotarran on DS9. ( Delta Quadrant , p. 132)
• George Takei was impressed by the sets of this episode. He remarked, " The sets looked great. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 9 ) Of the Excelsior bridge specifically, Takei recalled, " The set was new. Once we got into it, it felt like we had been working yesterday on the film version. " ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 88)

Wardrobe [ ]

• Shortly after he started to become involved with this episode, George Takei found that his captain's costume from Star Trek VI no longer fit him. " It was funny, but they dragged out a costume that, they told me, was the same one I wore as Captain Sulu in the movie, " Takei recalled. " I tried to put it on and I was very shocked at the cheap material that they had used. The fabric had somehow shrunk. The pants didn't fit! " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 9 )
• Remarking on how his own 23rd century uniform felt, Tim Russ stated, " Like a rug: thick and heavy, all wool. The shirt underneath is Lycra, but they're generally much harder to get in and out of. " ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 )
• Grace Lee Whitney had her costume fitting for the episode on Wednesday, 27 March, 1996. ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 )

Production [ ]

• Filming on this episode started on 27 March 1996 . ( Information from Larry Nemecek ) It was also Grace Lee Whitney's first day of working on the episode, she having been informed of the episode perhaps only a week and a half before the start date. ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 16 ) Following a meeting with the producers to collect a script on Thursday 28 March and attending the long-planned Novacon IV convention (at which Robert Picardo also guested) in Tysons Corner, Virginia during the upcoming weekend, Whitney returned to the Paramount lot on her birthday of Monday, 1 April, for a 4:15 am makeup call. ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 ; Star Trek Monthly  issue 16 )
• Although the Excelsior scenes in Star Trek VI had taken less than a week to film, the equivalent scenes of this episode required three days of filming on the ship's bridge (i.e., George Takei attended filming on three days), and another two days for the scenes set in the officers' bunkroom. ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 )
• While most of the scenes aboard the Excelsior had to be filmed anew, David Livingston found that filming scenes that were "sort of continuations of the feature film […] was a real challenge and really fun to do." ( Flashback to "Flashback" , VOY Season 3 DVD special features) In fact, Livingston recreated some of the same camera angles that director Nicholas Meyer had used in Star Trek VI . " We couldn't recreate some of them, " Livingston admitted, " because we didn't have enough time and the wherewithal to do so, but we did match some of the same angles. Some I did differently because by necessity it had to fit into the story we were telling, but I thought it would be fun for the fans to see some of the same camera angles. So the people who know Star Trek VI should get a big kick out of it. I am. " Furthermore, several visual effects shots, together with the shot of Sulu's teacup shattering, were reused directly from the film. ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 ) Despite these reused camera angles and footage, the episode does not credit Nicholas Meyer.
• David Livingston employed, in this episode, a filming technique whereby a continual shot moves all the way around a character. The episode's first scene in which this camera move is incorporated involves Tuvok in a turbolift , en route to sickbay during the teaser, in which the technique is used only once, with the camera revolving on a horizontal axis. The second time the technique is used is in the scene wherein Tuvok collapses in engineering, in which the camera rotates on a vertical axis while hovering on a close-up of Tuvok. Livingston commented, " We did 360s stuff […] If you want to, you can sort of do that on Star Trek . Sometimes, they look at you askance. But, God, if you can't do it on a science fiction show with people wearing screwy make-up, where else are you going to do it? So, to me, it's play and you might as well go for it because, if you don't, you're going to regret it later. Try not to be boring, that's the main thing, try not to be boring. So, making 360s around a character who's going nuts? That makes sense to me. That's not boring, I hope. " ( Flashback to "Flashback" , VOY Season 3 DVD special features)
• One of two reasons (the other being a scene deletion) why this episode was, at one point, not long enough was that David Livingston employed a characteristically fast-paced style in creating the episode's action. " We were just over 5 minutes short, " he noted, before saying in reference to the producers, " I had warned them, but I guess they wanted to wait and see how much. " Of the two scenes that were duly added to the episode, Livingston remarked, " The Neelix scene has a good drive, but the Kes scene is very slowly paced to milk it for every frame we could get out of it! " ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 ) In order to film the latter scene, it took "about six takes" for Tim Russ to balance the Keethera while keeping his eyes closed. [3] (X)
• In the episode's first view of Sulu, the character emerges from smoke and assumes an heroic stance. David Livingston recalled, " I wanted to, for the audience's delight and hopefully surprise, I wanted to do a really cool reveal of Sulu, because we didn't really know where we were initially. So what we did was – the ship was in distress, so that's always a justification for me to have liquid nitrogen pouring out of somewhere – so what we did was, on the ship, we created this big wall of liquid nitrogen, put the camera really low, and then had George walk through it in this very heroic pose and it was a great reveal of him. It surprised the audience and made him look really, really cool, so that was fun. " ( Flashback to "Flashback", VOY Season 3 DVD special features)
• The last day of this episode's production period was 4 April 1996 . ( Information from Larry Nemecek )

Effects [ ]

• The visual effects shots that had originally been created for Star Trek VI and were reused in this episode were exterior shots of the Excelsior and the shock wave from the explosion of Praxis. The exterior views that are not taken from Star Trek VI , however, show a slightly different ship; the Excelsior 's warp nacelles have the typical blue glow in the new footage but not in the original.
• The model used for Kang's battle cruiser was the last reuse of the K't'inga -class model , which had been used in Star Trek VI to represent Kronos One .

A temporary composite of the elements in the Klingon-explosion scene

• The shot of the Excelsior emerging from the nebula and causing an explosion that disables the pursuing Klingon ship was created by filming the motion-control studio models, detonations that were shot with a Photo-Sonics camera – pointing straight up and running at 360 frames per second, rather than the typical 24 – and an element to show clouds billowing apart. Of the explosions, visual effects producer Dan Curry explained, " If you have a small explosion happen in real time, it may occur like pfft! and it's over. But if you take a special camera that runs film at very high speed, […] it stretches time. So, an explosion that in real life may take a split-second can be stretched out into several seconds, so it looks vast. And by shooting it straight up, it gives the illusion that it's happening in space without gravity, because all the parts of the explosion fall equally around the lens, so there's no apparent arc from gravity, so that we will accept that it happens in space. " Of the cloud-like element, Dan Curry said, " What that was was a four-inch deep, four-by-four-foot vat, lined with black velvet and filled up with vapors of liquid nitrogen, which stay in the vat because they're heavier than air because they're so cold. Then, [visual effects supervisor] Ron Moore took a piece of cardboard, or sometimes he used a Dust-Off can, and just [put] a little puff of air down, which would push the liquid nitrogen apart, and then it would billow back in. And because it's so cold and the way the vapors move, it moves very slowly so it looks huge, even though it's a very tiny thing. " ( Flashback to "Flashback" , VOY Season 3 DVD special features)

Reception [ ]

• The writing of this episode prevented an idea similar to the installment's premise from being included in Marvel Comics ' run of Star Trek: Voyager comics . Shortly thereafter, writer Laurie S. Sutton remarked, " The only challenge [of writing Marvel's Voyager comics] is to write a story to get [ Voyager 's crew] home and then bring them back without it being disappointing like, 'They've got to get back and–aw, darn, they're back in the Delta Quadrant. Well, better luck next time!' As a matter of fact, I have some ideas for those kind of stories […] Apparently, Paramount has already beaten me to it […] because I wanted to do a story where Voyager gets literally thrown back into the Alpha Quadrant, but back in time where they meet Captain Sulu. Well, they're doing a Sulu story, so I went, 'Aw, phooey!' " A similar incident had occurred with " Basics, Part I ". ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 9 )
• According to Grace Lee Whitney, when Brannon Braga advised her of script revisions, her first concern was how much she could tell the fans of Star Trek . Although Whitney believed that the episode could not have been possible without fan support, Braga's reply was for her to tell the fans nothing. ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 16 )
• Even before she began performing in the episode, Whitney had a chance to gauge audience reaction to it during the Novacon IV convention, held in the weekend prior to production. " I lifted up the script at the convention, " she recalled, " and the fans just went crazy. " Remarking on the episode itself, she said, " It's wonderful for the show; it keeps the fans interested, and it's a great tie-in for the anniversary […] George has a wonderful speech about the family of the Enterprise sticking together, which Tuvok just can't understand. The fans will love it! " ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 )
• Although Nichelle Nichols declined to appear in this installment, two of George Takei's compatriots from the original Star Trek series – namely, James Doohan and Walter Koenig – were very happy for Takei to appear on Voyager . He revealed, " Jimmy and Walter were both delighted for me. " ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 88)
• George Takei, who had fought long and hard for a Captain Sulu series to be greenlighted, hoped that the success of this episode might finally grant him that wish. " This could be the first early warning sign! " Takei remarked. " Sometimes they use episodes as a pilot before they commit to a series, so – knock on wood! " ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 22 ) Indeed, Internet rumor suggested that this episode would serve as the pilot for a new Captain Sulu spin-off series, entitled Star Trek: The Adventures of Captain Sulu . " It was right about 'Flashback' happening, so who knows? " Takei remarked, laughing. ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 9 ) According to Grace Lee Whitney, the possibility of this episode leading to a Captain Sulu miniseries was not fantastical. She said of the installment, " They told us it was a (backdoor) pilot for (an Excelsior) mini-series. " [4]
• The date on which this episode first aired was three days after Star Trek 's 30th anniversary. The episode achieved a Nielsen rating of 5.2 million homes, and an 8% share. [5] (X)
• Although no new Star Trek series with Sulu in command was ultimately commissioned (due to a lack of popularity for the idea), executive producer Rick Berman described this episode as "absolutely delightful." ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 109 , p. 14) He also commented that this installment (in common with " Trials and Tribble-ations ", Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 's own 30th anniversary offering) was "a lot of fun and […] did very well in the ratings." ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 24 )
• On the other hand, Brannon Braga ultimately believed this episode was of lesser quality than "Trials and Tribble-ations". Of this episode in particular, he said, " It was a nice little tribute, not as good as 'Trials and Tribble-ations' from Deep Space Nine . It was OK. I just think they came up with a better idea. " ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 88)
• This episode's successful viewer response made sense to Tim Russ. After praising the installment as "a killer episode," he added, " It was so right, in terms of the 30th anniversary of Star Trek . " Contrasting the experience of watching this episode with the enjoyment he got from appearing in it, Russ declared, " I think fans of the original series watching 'Flashback' get a different but similar kind of thrill. " ( The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine  issue 9 )
• Cinefantastique rated this episode 2 and a half out of 4 stars. ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 87)
• Star Trek Magazine scored this episode 2 out of 5 stars, defined as "Impulse Power only". Additionally, Lou Anders , a writer of the magazine, wrote a review of the installment, commenting, " 'Flashback' contains many interesting elements, such as the revelation that Tuvok has had two Starfleet careers. The performances are good, and it is a genuine pleasure to see George Takei, as superb as always, reprise his role as the popular original series character […] One wishes that he was given more to do in the episode. Unfortunately, the plot is slow, and Sulu's impromptu rescue attempt seems too poorly thought out and too uncharacteristically reckless to be believable. " ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 23 , pp. 58 & 59)
• The unauthorized reference book Delta Quadrant (p. 135) gives this installment a rating of 8 out of 10.
• The book Star Trek 101 (p. 175), by Terry J. Erdmann and Paula M. Block , lists this episode as one of "Ten Essential Episodes" from Star Trek: Voyager .
• In a 1998 interview, George Takei expressed an interest in making a return appearance on Voyager . " [I] would love to do the show again, " he reckoned. " Maybe I could work with the entire cast the second time around. " ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 42 , p. 41)

Continuity [ ]

• In this episode, Tuvok states that two days after the explosion of Praxis, two Federation officers were arrested for the assassination of Gorkon. However, in Star Trek VI , Spock says that a Federation starship monitored an explosion on Praxis two months ago. He makes that statement before Enterprise is sent to rendezvous with Kronos One , so at least two months elapse between the explosion and Gorkon's death.
• Prior to this episode, a Captain Sulu is mentioned by Chakotay in the Season 2 episode " Tattoo " and, in the later second season episode " Alliances ", Tuvok references Spock 's initially controversial recommendation for an alliance between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, as depicted in Star Trek VI . In the latter episode, Tuvok mentions that he himself "spoke out against such a coalition," placing him at the time when the film is set, as this episode continues to do.
• Tim Russ thought the way in which this story places Tuvok on the bridge of the Excelsior was foolproof, in regard to continuity. " Nobody could question it, " he said. " The timeline was consistent so nobody could say, 'Hey, he couldn't possibly, blah-blah,' or, 'No, we didn't see that, blah-de-blah' – they couldn't say it; it worked perfectly. So, I thought that was the coolest thing, because they make sure the fans don't catch anything. That's always a neat trick. " ( Flashback to "Flashback" , VOY Season 3 DVD special features)
• Tim Russ also liked how this episode provided much continuity for Tuvok that the actor could later draw on. Russ commented, " The whole story becoming a back-story for Tuvok… I thought was great. It tightens the relationship between he and the captain, and it exposes to the people of the audience what this character is all about, where he comes from. Because before that, we didn't have a history for him. And after that, we had a history for him. Now he's got a back-story, now he becomes a little bit more complete , as a person. Now, if he does something three episodes down the line, ah well, that's because so-and-so was established way-back-when. And that's always beneficial when you're playing the character as you have something to grab onto. So, 'I can use this, because we learned this.' We know where he came from, we understand what happened and now, you can use that as a motivational factor down the line. So it's always good to have that. " ( Flashback to "Flashback" , VOY Season 3 DVD special features) Russ also enthused, " It was a great back story for Tuvok, about why he joined Starfleet, when he got married, why and how, and why he left and then came back to Starfleet. All that information is valuable, just to create more layers of history for this character. " ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 25 , p. 12)
• Momentarily confused of when he is, Tuvok suggests a tachyon sweep for cloaked Klingon ships, at the time being adversaries of the Federation. Voyager 's crew didn't know that by sheer coincidence, the Federation and the Klingon Empire were currently engaged in another war , soon to be ended by a cease fire .
• At the end of the third season, Tim Russ cited this episode as one of four or five installments (in the first three seasons) in which Tuvok's "defenses have been breached" and "his control has been taken away or lost", other such episodes being " Cathexis " and " Meld ". ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 100) Following the production of Voyager 's fourth season, Russ similarly observed that – in common with "Meld" – this installment "really pushed the envelope with how outside forces affect Tuvok's character and what happens." ( Star Trek Monthly  issue 41 , p. 28)
• At one point before or during production, Brannon Braga cryptically told Grace Lee Whitney that her character of Janice Rand might later be brought back to the series. The actress fondly recalled, " Brannon Braga was very cute with his remark: We're not killing you off, Grace, so we can bring you back! " ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 108 ) This Voyager episode is, however, the only one in which Rand appears.
• Neither Sulu nor Janice Rand appear in "Trials and Tribble-ations". In fact, George Takei is the only regular cast member from Star Trek: The Original Series who does not feature in that episode of DS9. This is due to Takei having not appeared in the original " The Trouble with Tribbles " (during which the DS9 episode is set), and Whitney had left the series the previous season. Thus, their appearances in Flashback allowed all the main Original Series cast members to appear in a 30th anniversary episode.
• Tuvok mentions having thought about talking to "one of the other Vulcans on the ship", establishing that the Voyager crew comprises at least three Vulcans. One of these Vulcans, Vorik , later appeared in " Fair Trade ".

Apocrypha [ ]

• The novelization of Flashback (written by Diane Carey ) includes several additional elements, the most prominent subplot being Kes succumbing to Tuvok's hallucinations as his own telepathic barriers begin to collapse, causing Tuvok to unintentionally assault Kes and cause her to take on the role of the girl in his hallucination. This continues to such an extent that Kes attempts to attack Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres as they conduct a survey of the nebula in a shuttle, motivated by Tuvok's 'transferred' memory of the attack on Excelsior , until the repressed memory is treated and the virus is removed.
• At one point, Sulu tells Tuvok that he knows Vulcans have a sense of humor. He could be referring to a brief exchange that took place on the bridge in TOS : " The Corbomite Maneuver "; a young officer, Lieutenant Dave Bailey , defends raising his voice in excitement as the natural result of having "a Human thing called an adrenaline gland". In response, Spock dryly observes that such an organ could prove inconvenient, and wonders whether the lieutenant should consider having it removed. Sulu then advised Bailey that an attempt to "cross brains" with Spock, a Vulcan, was doomed to failure: "he'll cut you to pieces every time".
• The episode implies that Starfleet crew members sleep in their uniforms, as observed during a scene where both Tuvok and his bunk mate Dimitri Valtane lay down to sleep in their bunks fully dressed including the outer red jacket tunics and still wearing boots. In the film Star Trek VI , crew members are contradictorily seen sleeping in night clothes, perhaps implying that Tuvok's memory is faulty in this regard.

Video and DVD releases [ ]

• UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video ): Volume 3.1, 13 January 1997
• As part of the VOY Season 3 DVD collection
• As part of the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Captain's Log collection

Links and references [ ]

Starring [ ].

• Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway

Also starring [ ]

• Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay
• Roxann Biggs-Dawson as Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres
• Jennifer Lien as Kes
• Robert Duncan McNeill as Lieutenant Tom Paris
• Ethan Phillips as Neelix
• Robert Picardo as The Doctor
• Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok
• Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim

Guest Stars [ ]

• Grace Lee Whitney as Janice Rand
• Jeremy Roberts as Dimitri Valtane
• Boris Krutonog as Lojur
• Michael Ansara as " Kang "
• George Takei as "Captain Sulu "

Uncredited co-stars [ ]

• Michael Beebe as Murphy
• John Copage as sciences officer
• Daniel Ebuehi as boy during mind meld
• Tarik Ergin as Ayala
• Sara Hart as Excelsior security officer
• Jon Horback as Excelsior navigator
• Kerry Hoyt as Fitzpatrick
• Kavon Karami as Excelsior security officer
• Demetris Lawson as young Tuvok
• Susan Lewis as operations officer
• Louis Ortiz as Excelsior alien crewman
• Shepard Ross as Murphy
• Larry Stachowiak as Tuvok's roommate
• John Tampoya as Kashimuro Nozawa
• Talon Tears as Excelsior crewman
• Five children during mind meld
• Eight Excelsior bridge crewmembers
• Young Dimitri Valtane
• Young Kathryn Janeway

Stunt doubles [ ]

• Tom Morga as stunt double for Jeremy Roberts
• Unknown stunt performer as stunt double for George Takei

References [ ]

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Hisotry [ ]

A Vulcan male, he was born in the mid 23rd century. As a young man his parents felt he needed exposure to the galaxy outside of Vulcan and enrolled him in the Federation Starfleet without his consent, he decided not to disobey them and attended the Academy.

Following graduation he was posted to the USS Excelsior under Captain Hikaru Sulu . It was during Tuvok's service that the Klingon moon Praxis exploded and the initial peace overture ended in disaster when Chancellor Gorkon was assassinated. Tuvok took part in the unsuccessful rescue attempt of Captain James T. Kirk and Doctor Leonard McCoy . The pair were later freed by the crew of the Enterprise . Following the Battle at Khitomer and the prevention of the assassination of President Ra-ghoratreii Tuvok met Spock , who had encouraged him to remain in Starfleet. During his time on the Excelsior he became friends with future Starfleet C-in-C Leonard James Akaar.

Tuvok still decided to leave the fleet in 2298, and returned to Vulcan. Once there he began his study of the Kolinahr disciplines, hoping to purge himself of emotion. Six years later he experienced pon-farr for the first time. Returning home, he took T'Pel as his wife and the two began raising a family together. They would have sons Sek, Varith, and Elieth as well as a daughter named Asil.

In the 2340s Tuvok began to reconsider his earlier decision to leave Starfleet, feeling that it was time to give something back to the galaxy that had given him so much. He rejoined Starfleet and was posted to the Wyoming at the behest of first officer Akaar. Akaar was promoted to Captain after the death of the previous Captain. During a mission the two had a falling out when Tuvok prevented Akaar from committing suicide, which Akaar had decided to perform in order to save Tuvok's life.

Tuvok met Kathryn Janeway in the early 2360s and served with her for several years. She asked for Tuvok when she was named Captain of USS Voyager . After his posting as security chief Tuvok was sent on an undercover mission to infiltrate the Maquis in 2370. He was swept into the Delta Quadrant along with the other members of Chakotay 's cell. Voyager was also pulled into the Delta Quadrant when they went looking for him.

For the next seven years Tuvok served on Voyager as it made its way home from the Delta Quadrant. During his time in the Delta Quadrant Tuvok was promoted to Lieutenant Commander. He additionally became a grandfather when his son Sek and his wife had a daughter that they named T'Meni.

Shortly before Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant, Tuvok was diagnosed with a degenerative neurological disease. While the disease could be easily cured by a mind meld with a compatible Vulcan, being stranded in the Delta Quadrant left Tuvok without access to the cure as none of the other Vulcans on Voyager were compatible with Tuvok.

After Voyager returned to Earth Tuvok received the mind meld from a compatible Vulcan to cure him of his disease. Tuvok continued his Starfleet career over the next two decades, and by 2401 had reached the rank of Captain. Sometime around 2401 Tuvok had been captured by the rogue Changelings who sought revenge on the Federation for how Section 31 treated them when they were POWs. One of these Changelings took on Tuvok's appearance in order to infiltrate Starfleet. After the rogue Changelings and their Borg allies were defeated Tuvok was rescued by Starfleet. Meeting with Seven of Nine, he informed her that he would not accept her resignation from Starfleet for her actions saving the Federation, but instead promoted her to be the Captain of the USS Enterprise -G.

First Splinter Timeline [ ]

When Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant Tuvok's son Sek was one of the first civilians allowed access to Voyager in order to initiate a mind meld with his father, which cured Tuvok of his disease.

Following the return of Voyager to Earth, Tuvok assigned to bring Spock home from Romulus to confer with newly elected President Nanietta Bacco . He then accepted a position on the USS Titan , under the command of William Riker . Riker allowed T'Pel to accompany Tuvok so that they would not have another long separation. During his time on Titan Admiral Akaar finally apologized to Tuvok for his behavior and the years of lost friendship.

By 2410 Tuvok was a Read Admiral and was Voyager's commanding officer.

Alternate Timelines [ ]

In a timeline where it took Voyager 23 years to return home, the progression of the neurological disease disabled Tuvok. Tuvok was unable to continue on active duty, and had to live in a mental institution full time.

• In the first three seasons, Tuvok is a Lieutenant, but by season four onward, he is promoted from Lieutenant to Lt. Commander.

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Biography [ ]

Early life [ ].

Tuvok was born in 2264 on the Vulcanis Lunar Colony on T'Rukhemai to Sunak and T'Meni . ( VOY episodes : " Flashback ", " Unimatrix Zero ", " Hunters "; VOY novel : Pathways ) Tuvok was betrothed at a very young age to T'Pel , in an arrangement made by his parents. ( VOY novel : Pathways )

In 2273 , shortly after the death of his pet sehlat Wari , the grief-stricken Tuvok fled into the desert of the Plains of Gol for four months, embarking on the ritual of tal'oth , in which he purged the emotions that came with attachment and pride. ( TLE novel : The Sundered )

In 2280 , he became infatuated with a visiting Terellian girl named Jara . Tuvok again journeyed across the desert and studied for several months under the tutelage of a Vulcan master in another attempt to purge his emotions. ( VOY episode : " Gravity ")

In 2289 , Tuvok was preparing for a life of study, logic, and the Kolinahr discipline, when his parents, believing that his galaxy-view was too narrow, enrolled him in Starfleet Academy . Reluctant to disobey his parents' wishes, Tuvok pursued a Starfleet career. ( VOY episode & novelization : Flashback )

Starfleet Academy [ ]

During his time at the Academy, Tuvok was left constantly puzzled by human behaviour and found himself the victim of several practical jokes laid by his roommate Cadet Scott Hutchinson . He found himself fascinated by a fellow cadet named Sophie Timmons who had developed an interest in the Vulcan way of life and did not show her emotions. After spending some time together, Sophie broke down and admitted she had developed romantic feelings toward Tuvok, but of course, Tuvok did not reciprocate. He chose to end their friendship, and was left more disdainful of humans than ever.

As a freshman at the Academy, Tuvok beat an athlete from UCLA in the four hundred meter hurdles competition. ( VOY novel : Pathways )

As part of his Academy training, Tuvok was temporarily assigned to the USS Excelsior during Hikaru Sulu 's first assignment as the ship's captain. ( TOS - The Captain's Table novel : War Dragons )

First Starfleet career [ ]

Upon graduating from the Academy, Tuvok was assigned to the science division of the USS Excelsior under Captain Hikaru Sulu . ( VOY episode & novelization : Flashback ) While serving on the Excelsior , Tuvok befriended Lieutenant Leonard James Akaar and Lieutenant Lojur . ( TLE novel : The Sundered )

In 2293 , Tuvok helped conduct a global medical survey of the planet Mestiko , filling in for Doctor Leonard McCoy while the doctor investigated a medical mystery elsewhere on the planet. ( TOS - Mere Anarchy eBook : Its Hour Come Round )

In 2298 , after six years aboard the Excelsior , Tuvok resigned from Starfleet and returned home to continue his study of the kolinahr discipline. ( TLE novel : The Sundered )

While pursuing his studies, Tuvok was struck by the pon farr mating instinct, and performed the Vulcan marriage ritual with T'Pel in 2304 . Rather than return to his studies on Mount Seleya , Tuvok chose to live the life of a married man, siring and raising four children with T'Pel -- sons Sek , Varith , and Elieth , and daughter Asil . ( ST website  : StarTrek.com , VOY novel : Pathways )

In the 2340s , Tuvok decided the time had come to make a pilgrimage to Mt. Seleya, however instead of taking a transport as many did he fulfilled a life-long ambition by heading there on foot across Vulcan's Forge . The journey took him several months. During the journey, Tuvok came to the conclusion that it was time for him to give something back to the universe that had given him so much and that the best way to do that was to re-join Starfleet. ( VOY novel : Pathways )

Second Starfleet career [ ]

The wyoming [ ].

Tuvok re-entered Starfleet as an Ensign , and by the year 2349 he was serving aboard the USS Wyoming under Captain Karl Broadnax . Broadnax had accepted Tuvok on the recommendation of his first officer and Tuvok's old Excelsior crew-mate, Leonard James Akaar. ( TTN novel : The Red King ; VOY episode & novelization : Flashback )

The First Virtue .

Tuvok was briefly assigned to the USS Stargazer under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard when an unstable situation developed in the Kellasian Sector , and Tuvok was deemed to be the officer with the most experience in that sector. ( TNG - Double Helix novel : The First Virtue )

Soon after Tuvok's return to the Wyoming , Captain Broadnax suddenly and unexpectedly died, and command of the Wyoming was given to Akaar.

In October of 2349, Tuvok and Akaar were marooned on a barren, barely habitable rock known as Planetoid 437 for nearly two weeks. Akaar felt the honorable thing to do was to perform the w'lash'nogot , a Capellan suicide ritual, so that the dwindling supplies would be enough for Tuvok to survive. Tuvok refused to let his old friend and Captain die, and saved Akaar's life.

Despite the Wyoming rescuing the pair two days later, Akaar saw the disruption of the ancient ceremony as a betrayal by his old friend, and quickly arranged for Tuvok's transfer. ( TTN novel : The Red King )

Tuvok spent the next twenty years with various assignments, including several years teaching at Starfleet Academy. In 2360 , Tuvok was part of a covert team sent behind the borders of the Romulan Star Empire by Admiral Uhura to gain intelligence on the Romulan plague known as the gnawing . ( TLE novel : Catalyst of Sorrows ) At some point early in his Starfleet career, Tuvok served for two years as a security officer on Deep Space 4 , during which time his wife, T'Pel , was able to live with him. ( VOY novel : Violations )

Kathryn Janeway [ ]

Shortly after the undercover mission to Romulan space, Tuvok was assigned to Starfleet Command reviewing the tactical and procedural records of starship captains. One such record was for Admiral Owen Paris 's protégée, Captain Kathryn Janeway of the USS Bonestell . Tuvok was appalled at Janeway's lack of attention to tactical and security matters in deference to scientific research. Admiral McGeorge Finnegan felt that Tuvok would be well-suited serving under Janeway on her next assignment, the USS Billings , where Tuvok could advise Janeway on tactical and security matters. Although Janeway was initially exasperated to be lumbered with the same officer who had given her a dressing down, she soon came to rely on his logic and expertise.

In 2371 , Janeway requested that Tuvok join her as tactical / Security chief on her new command, the Intrepid -class USS Voyager . Tuvok was surprised by Janeway's regard for his advice, as she frequently ignored it. Realizing that he had come to admire and respect Janeway as well, Tuvok accepted the assignment. ( VOY novel : Pathways )

Voyager and the Maquis [ ]

While on Voyager' s shakedown cruise near the Badlands a few weeks later, Tuvok's sensors detected the energy signature of one of the Malkus Artifacts , and believed it to be in the hands of the Maquis . Tuvok and the ship's first officer, Aaron Cavit , devised a plan in which Tuvok would infiltrate the Maquis and gather intelligence after Voyager was on active duty. The discovery of the Malkus Artifact required that the plan be accelerated.

With the help of the USS Hood and Captain Robert DeSoto , Tuvok infiltrated the Maquis cell run by former Starfleet officer Cal Hudson . Soon after, Hudson's vessel rendezvoused with the Geronimo , commanded by another former Starfleet officer named Chakotay , which had been catastrophically damaged by an Andorian named Tharia ch'Ren , who had found the Malkus Artifact. The Maquis cell followed Tharia to the planet Slaybis IV , where Tuvok was among those that confronted Tharia, and witnessed his death. Tuvok acted to make certain Starfleet obtained possession of the artifact, and continued his undercover assignment, joining Chakotay's cell. ( VOY - The Brave and the Bold, Book Two novella : The Third Artifact )

In the month that followed, Tuvok, at the age of 107 ( ST reference : The Visual Dictionary ) served in Chakotay's cell and continued to gather intelligence for Starfleet. When the planet Helena in the Demilitarized Zone was infected with a variation of the deadly Double Helix virus, his cell was pulled into events. On the surface of the planet, Tuvok was contacted by a Ferengi named Shep , who gave Tuvok valuable information in the investigation and eventual resolution of the outbreak. ( TNG - Double Helix novel : Quarantine )

Soon after, Chakotay, Tuvok and the rest of their cell were retreating into the Badlands after successfully destroying the Cardassian space station Opek Nor . Their vessel had eluded pursuit from Gul Aman Evek , when a massive displacement wave generated by the Nacene Caretaker transported the Maquis vessel 70,000 light years away into the distant reaches of the Delta Quadrant . ( VOY novel : The Badlands, Part III , VOY episode : " Caretaker ")

The Delta Quadrant [ ]

Captain Janeway soon came looking for her tactical officer , and Voyager was soon caught up in the same Nacene displacement wave and brought to the Delta Quadrant, 70,000 light-years from home. As both Janeway and Chakotay's crews were stranded and missing personnel, the two captains decided to pool their resources. ( VOY episode : " Caretaker ")

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Tuvok, reinstated as Voyager 's chief of security , was initially distrustful of Chakotay and the Maquis crew, and even revoked Chakotay's command codes early in Voyager 's journey when Captain Janeway was rendered comatose. ( VOY short story : " Command Code ")

In early 2375 , Tuvok came under the influence of the song of the Monorhan spirits on the array known as Gremadia . Tuvok was grievously injured and almost killed while trying to join with them. ( VOY - String Theory novel : Fusion )

"Hazardous" idea [ ]

Convinced that the dangers of the vastly unexplored Delta Quadrant required a special tactical approach, Tuvok created a team of elite tactical officers in 2376 . Known as the Hazard Team , these officers would respond to the ship's most dangerous situations, be they away missions or hazards onboard the ship. Hazard Team immediately proved useful, helping to drive Scavenging pirates and the Borg off the ship, as well as helping Voyager escape a dampening field which held the ship in a desolate wasteland known as the Forge . Captain Janeway told Tuvok that upon the return of the ship to the Alpha Quadrant, she would recommend that Hazard Teams be deployed throughout Starfleet. ( VOY comic : " Elite Force ", VOY video game : Elite Force )

Return home [ ]

In 2377 , Tuvok was diagnosed with a degenerative neurological disease that would eventually eat away at his self-control. The cure was a relatively simple one, but required a mind meld from a compatible Vulcan, usually a blood relative. Fortunately for Tuvok, Captain Janeway managed to ride Voyager through a Borg transwarp hub all of the way back to the Alpha Quadrant , where Tuvok could be cured. ( VOY episode & novelization : Endgame )

The ship's escape was largely due to the heroism of the Hazard Team, proving that Tuvok's idea can truly make a difference aboard a starship. ( ST video game : Elite Force II )

Commanding Voyager [ ]

Rear Admiral Tuvok in 2410 .

The USS Voyager remains in service under the command of now Rear Admiral Tuvok at the turn of the 2410s decade . He commands the vessel as part of a task force composed of Federation, Klingon Empire , and Romulan Republic vessels that enters Fluidic Space to halt an invasion by the Borg Collective . Tuvok later was part of a team sent to a facility close to the central star of the Solanae Dyson Sphere to neutralize it's ability to travel across space. During the operation, an Iconian Gateway is opened, and Tuvok and the other surviving team members pursue a Voth Citadel class vessel through it only to find themselves in the Jenolan Dyson Sphere . After repelling an attack on the sphere by Species 8472 (also known as the Undine), Tuvok manages to prevent a second altercation when members of the Romulan/Federation/Klingon alliance begin arguing over ownership of the Jenolan sphere. A year later in 2410 , Tuvok hosts a summit at the Jenolan sphere to discuss ownership of the sphere as well as to address the threat of Species 8472. The talks are interrupted when the Undine use the Iconian gateway in the sphere to launch a massive attack on earth Spacedock . After repelling the attack, Tuvok is subjected to a psychic attack by an Undine posing as Eric Cooper . Tuvok then takes advantage of the attack to discover the Undine's true target; the Klingon homeworld. Tuvok then takes Voyager to Qo'noS and assists in stopping the Undine from destroying the planet, leading to an end to hostilities between the Federation and the Empire. ( STO missions : " Fluid Dynamics ", " A Step Between Stars ", " Surface Tension ")

When the decision was made to initiate Operation Delta Rising , Tuvok was able to recruit his old crewmates Harry Kim, Seven of Nine and the Doctor to aid him in their return trip to the Delta Quadrant. However, not everything was so easy; Eric Cooper was busy pounding away at Tuvok's mental defenses, forcing Tuvok to recruit the captain who had aided him earlier. Through this action, they were able to drive out Cooper from Tuvok's mind and locate him within Fluidic Space, using a powerful new bioship. The two were able to enter the ship and make its way to the bridge, where Tuvok was able to mind meld with the ship and convince it and the Undine that their continued assaults again the Alpha Quadrant powers would only make them weaker. When Cooper protested, the ship determined that it was Cooper who was weak and destroyed him. ( STO mission : " Mindscape ")

Soon after, Tuvok went to meet up with Neelix, who was set to take the Talaxians at the asteroid base to their new home on New Talax when Kazon raiders struck. The raiders were driven away and Tuvok and the starship captain went to meet Neelix and prepare the Talaxians for their trip. ( STO mission : " Reunion ")

Alternate realities [ ]

First splinter timeline [ ].

In 2377 , Tuvok's degenerative neurological disease was cured after a brief mind-meld with his son, Sek after Captain Janeway managed to ride Voyager through a Borg transwarp hub all of the way back to the Alpha Quadrant . ( VOY episode & novelization : Endgame ; VOY novel : Homecoming )

Upon his return to the Alpha Quadrant and reunion with T'Pel, Tuvok accepted a position as an instructor at Starfleet Academy and a promotion to Commander . He was briefly reunited with his Voyager shipmates when a Borg virus infected Earth , and the Voyager crew was suspected of carrying it to the Federation. ( VOY novel : The Farther Shore )

In late 2379 , Commander Tuvok was sent undercover to Romulus , to recall the legendary Ambassador Spock from his quest for re-unification back to the Federation to confer with the new Federation President Nanietta Bacco .

Tuvok was on Romulus when the Reman renegade Shinzon mounted his coup d'état and assassinated Praetor Hiren and the Imperial Senate . In the chaos and upheavals that followed, Tuvok was captured and imprisoned for several weeks by one of the factions. He was later rescued by Spock, and the two of them were retrieved from Romulus with the arrival of the USS Titan , under the command of Captain William T. Riker . Tuvok assisted on the bridge when Titan' s tactical officer, Lieutenant Commander Ranul Keru was injured and rendered comatose. ( TTN novel : Taking Wing )

The Red King

Tuvok was onboard the Titan when she was transported to the satellite galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud , home of the human offshoot known as the Neyel , whom Tuvok had encountered while serving on the Excelsior . Also onboard the Titan was Tuvok's old friend from the Excelsior and the Wyoming , Leonard James Akaar, now an Admiral.

After the evacuation of as many of the Neyel people as the Titan could carry from the growth of the proto-galaxy known to the Titan crew as the Red King, Akaar apologized to Tuvok for the way he treated him all of those years ago and for the years of friendship lost.

Captain Riker was impressed with Tuvok's performance during the crisis, and offered him a permanent position onboard the Titan as tactical officer. Not willing to be separated from his wife for another extended period, Tuvok only agreed after Riker approved of T'Pel's moving onto the ship with her husband. ( TTN novel : The Red King )

In early 2380 , he was briefly attached to the USS Enterprise -E in order to help integrate the Hazard Team into the ships operations, and was subsequently involved in the ship's battle against the Exomorphs . He also served as the ship's Chief of Security and Tactical officer while Worf was on leave, and assisted in the heroic defense of the ship from Idryll invaders. ( ST video game : Elite Force II )

In early- 2380 , shortly after Titan began her mission of exploration of the Gum Nebula , Tuvok came under the control of the cosmozoan species known as the Star-jellies . While under the Star-jellies influence, Tuvok assaulted shipmate Melora Pazlar and transmitted classified data to the Star-jellies. No charges were brought up against Tuvok as it was determined that he was not acting of his own accord. After the incident, Lieutenant Pazlar asked Tuvok to instruct her in various means of self-defense. ( TTN novel : Orion's Hounds )

After the unfortunate incident between Tuvok and Pazlar, he worked with her to develop a suitable self-defense routine, mostly utilizing methods of avoidance and escape rather than return force. Tuvok continued to serve as the Titan' s CTO and second officer into 2381 when the Borg began their invasion of Federation and surrounding space. Although the Titan was too far away to be of assistance, Tuvok analyzed the dispatches from Starfleet Command , attempting to identify any potential aid he could render. When the ship discovered a hidden planetary system, Tuvok was part of the away team that took a shuttlecraft down to the surface, where he later recognized and identified Captain Erika Hernandez , missing commanding officer of the NX Columbia , who had been living with the Caeliar on Erigol and now New Erigol . ( ST - Destiny novel : Gods of Night )

After Erika Hernandez issued the declaration that the away team were permanent residents of New Erigol, Turvok scouted the city of Axion with first officer Christine Vale . They observed Caeliar movements until security officers Dennisar and Sortollo joined them, revealing the constant surveillance by their captors. Tuvok expressed the opinion that they could not trust Erika Hernandez, considering her compromised. Tuvok later initiated separate mind-melds with Christine Vale and Ranul Keru to formulate an escape plan; Tuvok found her mind to be driven by intense personal conflicts, but his was extremely disciplined. Tuvok provided the diversion by creating a harmonic pulse to shatter a crystal tower which allowed Keru to beam aboard the shuttlecraft Mance , but the Caeliar Inyx stopped Keru from lifting off the surface. Following the failure, at the full away team debriefing, Tuvok telepathically picked up on Deanna Troi 's distress and questioned Vale about it, but was told to remain silent on the issue. ( ST - Destiny novel : Mere Mortals )

When Captain Riker was forced to abandon the away team, the situation seemed hopeless; however, the Caeliar eventually decided to release their prisoners, allowing them to return to Titan for the final confrontation with the Borg. Tuvok soon learned that one of his sons, Elieth, had been killed in the Borg attack on Deneva. In the wake of the Borg's dissolution at the hands of the Caeliar, he visited the ravaged planet with his wife, but struggled to cope with the emotional toll that the loss of his son had. ( ST - Destiny novel : Lost Souls )

Tuvok onboard the Titan .

Tuvok served aboard the Titan during Starfleet's brief alliance with the Borg during the Voldranaii crisis. ( TNG comic : " Hive, Issue 3 ")

In 2382 , Tuvok and a Titan away team boarded the ancient terraforming device known as Brahma-Shiva on a mission to download the artificial intelligence (believed to be the Great Egg Bringer S'Yahazah herself) of the device and then destroy the platform before the Gorn could use it. Following the disabling of a data module and SecondGen White-Blue by the consciousness, Tuvok decided to Mind meld with the lifeform in order to download its knowledge into his own consciousness and to disable the device before it could terraform the planet Hranrar . Tuvok's mission was successful; however, he remained unconscious for several days following his mission. When he awoke the terraforming knowledge of Brahma-Shiva had been downloaded into his memory; but he was uncertain if that was a gift or a curse. ( ST - Typhon Pact novel : Seize the Fire )

Tuvok temporarily assumes command.

At an unspecified date, Tuvok worked with assistant Chief engineer Wesley Crusher to decipher a data stream. During their efforts, Titan was attacked by a Klingon ship, and Tuvok took command to defend the ship. He decided not to retreat, but rather to allow the Klingons to defeat themselves, by utilizing the data stream. ( TTN movie : Star Trek: The Tour )

While the Federation was reeling from the assassination of President Nanietta Bacco during the re-opening of Deep Space Nine , Tuvok was re-assigned to a Starfleet Intelligence black ops team known as Action Four, along with Nog and Thomas Riker , to apparently investigate the assassination. However, they soon learn that their team was actually set up to be killed as part of a plan to frame the Typhon Pact for the assassination, while eliminating the true perpetrators of the Cardassian organization the True Way. ( ST - The Fall novel : Revelation and Dust )

When the Project Full Circle fleet discovered an alternate version of Janeway acting as the leader of a protracted conflict on an alien world, Tuvok temporarily transferred back to Voyager to talk with this alternate Janeway, in the hope that his long experience with the 'prime' Janeway would make a better impression on her than her counterpart had. Learning that this Janeway had a child who apparently died in birth, Tuvok was forced to face his own grief and rage over his son's death during the Borg invasion. ( VOY novel : A Pocket Full of Lies )

Other alternate realities [ ]

In an alternate timeline in which the Cardassian Union did not withdraw from Bajor in 2369 , Tuvok was the security chief and tactical officer of a version of Voyager which was not stranded in the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker in 2371 .

While Voyager and a taskforce consisting of eight other ships were investigating recent suspicious activities being carried out by the Cardassians on the Federation border in 2373 , the ships were fired upon by Galor -class warships armed with phased polaron beam weapons. Unbeknownst to the Federation at this time, these weapons had been provided by the Cardassians' newfound Gamma Quadrant allies, the Dominion . The Cardassians had made contact with the Dominion several years earlier via the wormhole which they discovered in the Bajoran sector , the existence of which they kept secret from the other major Alpha Quadrant powers.

In the midst of the battle, Voyager was able to gather detailed sensor readings. Moments before the ship was destroyed with all hands, Tuvok transmitted these sensor readings to Starfleet Command , enabling the Federation to develop countermeasures against the phased polaron beam weapons. ( TNG - Myriad Universes novel : A Gutted World )

In another alternate timeline, Tuvok was killed in January 2374 when he was crushed against his console during an attack on Voyager by Species 8472 which led to the ship's starboard nacelle being severed and colliding with the bridge . ( VOY - Infinity's Prism novel : Places of Exile )

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