Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Flashback (1996)

Tim Russ: Lt. Tuvok

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Quotes 

• [Tuvok protests against Sulu's decision to rescue his comrades] 

  Captain Sulu : Ensign, you're absolutely right, but you're also absolutely wrong. You'll find that more happens on the bridge of a starship than just carrying out orders and observing regulations. There's 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 gonna help them. Let the regulations be damned.

  Tuvok : Sir, that is a most illogical line of reasoning.

  Captain Sulu : You better believe it.

• [Tuvok has used the Vulcan neck pinch on Commander Rand to obtain her clothes] 

  Captain Janeway : We could have just asked her.

  Tuvok : Asking female officers for their clothing could lead to misunderstanding.

• Lt. Dimitri Valtane : [on the plan to rescue Captain Sulu's friends from the Klingons]  Oh, come on, Tuvok. I mean, isn't it more fun than charting gaseous anomalies?

  Tuvok : The human fascination with "fun" has led to many tragedies in your short but violent history. One wonders how your race has survived having so much "fun."

• [last lines] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Mr. Tuvok, if I didn't know you better, I'd say you miss those days on the Excelsior.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : On the contrary. I do not experience feelings of nostalgia, 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.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : In a funny way... I feel like I was a part of it, too.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : Then perhaps you can be nostalgic for both of us.

• [Captain Sulu tastes some of Tuvok's Vulcan tea] 

  Captain Sulu : Outstanding! I may have to give you a promotion.

  Tuvok : That was not my motivation, Captain. I am not attempting to curry favor with you in any way.

  Captain Sulu : [laughing]  Mr. Tuvok, if you're gonna remain on my ship, you're gonna have to learn how to appreciate a joke - and don't tell me Vulcans don't have a sense of humor, because I know better.

  Tuvok : I will... work on it, sir.

• [first lines] 

  [Neelix has made Tuvok a glass of juice] 

  Neelix : Enthraxic citrus peel, orange juice with just a hint of papalla seed extract. An experimental blend.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : The success rate of your culinary experiments has not been high.

  Neelix : Ensign Golwat tried some yesterday, and she thought it was delicious. In fact, she had a second glass, and she never has seconds.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : Ensign Golwat is Bolian. Her tongue has a cartilaginous lining. It would protect her against even the most corrosive acid.

• Lieutenant Tuvok : Mr. Neelix, I would prefer not to hear the life history of my breakfast.

• Lieutenant Tuvok : [meditating]  Structure. Logic. Function. Control. A 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.

• The Doctor : If you were human, I'd say you had a severe panic attack.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : I am not human.

  The Doctor : No kidding.

• Tuvok : I've observed that Captain Sulu drinks a cup of tea each morning. I thought he might enjoy a Vulcan blend.

  Commander Janice Rand : 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.

  Tuvok : I assure you, I have no ulterior motive.

  Commander Janice Rand : Whatever you say, Ensign. See you on the bridge.

  [leaves] 

  Captain Janeway : You've never brought ME tea.

• Tuvok : Ever since I entered the Academy, I've had to endure the egocentric nature of humanity. You believe that everyone in the galaxy should be like you, that we should all share YOUR sense of humor and YOUR sense of values.

• Tuvok : I spent fourteen hours last night in deep meditation trying to determine the source of my aberrant behavior. I could not.

  Cmdr. Chakotay : Maybe you should try to forget about it for a while. I've found that when you don't think about a problem, sometimes the solution comes to you.

  Tuvok : It is difficult to forget when you're wearing a neurocortical monitor on your parietal bone.

  Cmdr. Chakotay : Good point.