#commander tuvok

[itberice]

Star Trek: Voyager I 2.10 Cold Fire

[booart5]

Some little voyager guys bc I love them

[star-trek-likes-vs-dislikes]

Tumblr's top 10 most strongly liked Star Trek characters (final)

10. Lieutenant Commander Tuvok

With a "Strongly Like" percentage of 75.8%

9. Alfa 177 Canine

With a "Strongly Like" percentage of 78.4%

8. Captain Benjamin L. Sisko

With a "Strongly Like" percentage of 79.3%

7. George & Gracie

With a "Strongly Like" percentage of 80.6%

6. Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax

With a "Strongly Like" percentage of 80.8%

5. Major Kira Nerys

With a "Strongly Like" percentage of 81.6%

4. Spock (TOS)

With a "Strongly Like" percentage of 82.4%

3. Lieutenant Commander Data

With a "Strongly Like" percentage of 84.9%

2. Lieutenant Nyota Uhura (TOS)

With a "Strongly Like" percentage of 85.6%

1. Spot

With a "Strongly Like" percentage of 88.4%

[pippinstook]

just realized i hadnt drawn tuvok before now.....

plain one cause idk what this comp rlly is...

[kot-na-morzu]

Tuvok!

[risingchaos]

There’s a certain point on Voyager where everyone is just used to being bored. They’re just bored, most of the time. Most people pick up a hobby or two or nine, romantic escapades get complicated and messy, drama and gossip run amok, but that’s not what everyone wants. Not even what most people want. Most people just want some basic entertainment, something stimulating and interesting.

Eventually, while doing research into the ship’s database, Neelix comes upon his saving grace. Something that’s generally considered fun. An old Earth game, one that was often done over a breakfast meal, or sometimes even turned into a competition on how quickly you get could it done.

Neelix starts adding crosswords to his broadcasts.

It explodes. He’s just pulling old puzzles from whatever he could find, but people love it. They give a lot of folks a sense of home, and especially because he can access some Federation ones, they have alien answers in there too. It gives everyone something to do, and soon enough, he’s having physical PADDs out at mealtimes with the daily crossword.

Tom ends up setting up a ranking system. People can submit their times and scores and keep track of who dominates at the crosswords. It’s all voluntary, the names aren’t auto submitted, but it’s fun. People are entertained. Janeway allows the friendly competition and smiles into her coffee every morning as she does her own.

As he does more research, though, Neelix realizes crosswords tended to have cultural relevance, and often went up in difficulty as the week went on. Monday through Sunday, each day would get progressively harder. He tried to make some himself, of course, but puzzle making was hard, and he just didn’t have the structural ability for it.

Only natural for him to approach the one man he knows to be good at puzzles. With Janeway’s help, of course.

Begrudgingly, Tuvok agrees to attempt to make crossword puzzles for the crew, as long as he is not connected to them. He doesn’t submit his own name for the scoreboard, so there’s no risk of him being found out like that, but he’d rather not be approached and asked about answers. Neelix swears a vow of secrecy, Janeway teases him some, but they promise to not tell.

The relevant crossword puzzles become slowly introduced as Tuvok gets his bearings, and eventually, they stop relying on old puzzles altogether. The crew adores them. The Sunday puzzles eventually become partial scavenger hunts, looking through that week’s reports, trying to recall what sorts of play on words that means, looking at languages not spoken on board, even having to scrounge around for old literature at times. The feedback given is what keeps the ante ramping, and it just makes everyone more excited.

It gives people something to look forward to.

Despite begging, Neelix does keep his secret. Zips his lips with a coy smile every time someone asks who made the puzzle, and that becomes gossip in it of itself. Who makes these? Is someone on board secretly a puzzle whiz? Some people even approach Neelix asking to try their hand at making the crosswords, but most of them aren’t skilled enough yet. It would be best to collaborate.

It takes time. A lot of time, actually. A ridiculous amount of time. But, eventually, with the combined force of nature that Neelix is and pressure from an old friend, Tuvok takes credit for his work.

He takes on a couple apprentices, and teaches them how to make the crosswords. Gradually, him and two or so other members on board make the daily puzzles. Tuvok still does almost every Sunday, purely for the sheer level of brain power needed, but they help. They collaborate. They work together.

When Neelix leaves the ship, they continue their crosswords. The Sunday after he left, he was a clue on the board.

Across. Six letters. “A good person; a dear friend.”

[toboddly]

kind of related to my last post - I honestly think janeway chakotay and tuvok are the best command trio we get in trek. you put any of the two of them together and you get an incredible dynamic, and then all three is just. chef's kiss. janeway and chakotay have so much going on between them that I can't even begin to get into it all here, but most importantly chakotay is the one who talks her down from her most reckless and self-sacrificial plans whenever he can. he grounds her. he steadies her when she needs it, and she trusts him to do so, to worry about the little things whilst she focuses on the big picture.

tuvok can read janeway like a book. they're absolute best friends, so close they're family in all but blood - tuvok literally mind melds with her - but he provides a different sort of support than chakotay as part of her command team. he's strangely a lot more reckless, doing things like going behind her back and breaking the prime directive to acquire technology or (eventually) contacting the vidiians against her express orders to save her and chakotay. in dreadnought when janeway sets the ship to self destruct it is chakotay who grabs her arm in panic and desire to stop her from going down with the ship. and it is tuvok who remains on board, simply standing alongside her. they are partners in crime.

and chakotay and tuvok? maquis captain and the starfleet officer who infiltrated his crew and deceived him for weeks at least? two men who clearly are very different and have almost no desire to become closer. except they are now the first and second officer of the ship, and they now have two major things in common: janeway and voyager. they both care deeply about her in their own way, and they both clearly realise that they will sometimes have to work together for the sake of voyager and its captain. night exemplifies this best, and I wish there was more of that dynamic in the show, because honestly I just love the three of them so much and I think the way their interpersonal relationships play off each other is just brilliant

[citrusaias]

a couple tuvoks for the road