PERSONNEL FILE: FEDERATION

NAME: Tuvok
RANK: Lieutenant
BORN: 2264
PLACE OF BIRTH: Vulcan
ORIGIN: Vulcan
ASSIGNMENT: U.S.S. Voyager
LAST SHIP: Maquis (Undercover)
ACADEMY CLASS: 2293
BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: Security officer on the U.S.S. Voyager. Tuvok taught at the Starfleet Academy for 16 years. He was married in 2304 to T'Pel. Tuvok and T'Pel had four children, three sons and a daughter. At home on Vulcan, Tuvok was proficient at playing his Vulcan lute, a stringed musical instrument. He was skilled at horticulture, known for breeding prize Vulcan orchids. Tuvok entered Starfleet Academy in 2289 at his parents' insistence. In 2293, he was assigned to the U.S.S Excelsior as a junior science officer under the command of Captain Hikaru Sulu. Soon after, the crew of the Excelsior encountered a subspace shock wave resulting from the accidental destruction of the Klingons' chief energy-producing moon, Praxis. A short while later Klingon Chancellor Gorkon was assassinated and Captain James Kirk and Dr. McCoy were accused of the crime and were taken to the Klingon Homeworld to be tried. Against Starfleet orders, Captain Sulu decided to mount a rescue of Kirk and McCoy. Ensign Tuvok confronted Captain Sulu about the breach of orders but to no avail. To conceal their approach to Qo'noS, Sulu ordered the Excelsior through the Azure Nebula, and it was there that he encountered a Klingon Battle Cruiser commanded by Captain Kang. In the ensuing battle, junior science officer Dmitri Valtane was fatally injured. It was at this time that a memory engram virus left Valtane's brain and entered Tuvok's. The virus would remain in Tuvok until 2373. To evade Kang, Sulu ordered that the volatile sirillium in the nebula be ignited. After escaping the Klingons, Captain Sulu reconsidered the situation and aborted the rescue mission. Captain Sulu and the Excelsior later played a key role in the Khitomer Peace Conference of 2293 by assisting the U.S.S. Enterprise-A in its battle with General Chang's prototype Bird-of-Prey and by preventing the assassination of Klingon Chancellor Azetbur. Tuvok found it difficult to accept the multicultural environment of Starfleet, preferring the controlled discipline of his own Vulcan people. Tuvok even spoke out against Captain Spock's visionary proposal of an alliance between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Tuvok resigned from Starfleet shortly thereafter and returned to his homeworld to undergo the Kolinahr discipline. His studies were interrupted in 2304 when he underwent Pon farr and married T'Pel. After raising a family of his own, Tuvok appreciated his parents' motives for sending him to Starfleet. After a 51-year absence, Tuvok returned to Starfleet in 2349 and was assigned to the U.S.S. Wyoming. Tuvok was once stationed at the Jupiter Station some time prior to 2371. While there, he kept in contact with Kathryn Janeway by written letters. Tuvok taught archery science for several years at the Vulcan Institute of Defensive Arts. In 2371, Tuvok went undercover and infiltrated the Maquis, ending up on Chakotay's ship. The Maquis ship and later the Voyager were abruptly transported to the Delta Quadrant, and Tuvok returned to his regular Starfleet duties. Tuvok, who had been Kathryn Janeway's tactical officer for many years, would ordinarily have been assigned to replace Voyager's first officer, who died in the first encounter with the Caretaker. Janeway nevertheless elected to appoint Chakotay to that position in the interest of building trust with the new Maquis members of her crew. In 2371, a member of the Komar species took control of Tuvok in an attempt to lead Voyager into a dark-matter nebula so that the Komar could extract the crew's neural energy. The attempt was not successful, and the alien left Tuvok's body. In 2372, Tuvok performed a Vulcan mind-meld with confessed murderer Lon Suder. The meld caused a neurochemical imbalance in Tuvok's brain, leading to a temporary, violent loss of emotional self-control. In 2372, Tuvok and Neelix were involved in a transporter accident that merged them at the molecular level, forming a new living being who adopted the name Tuvix. Tuvok did not exist during the two weeks that Tuvix lived.
ACHIEVEMENTS, AWARDS: not on file
FAMILY: Wife, T'Pel, whereabouts not on file; Three sons, names and whereabouts not on file; One daughter, name and whereabouts not on file.