#my favorite vulcan

[isagrimorie]

You know…. for all of Neelix is the moral officer, and post-Kes he really did try. And I do actually like him if I forget a lot of the things in the earlier seasons.

But honestly, I think the heart of Voyager was Tuvok.

It’s not obvious because he’s very Vulcan about it but he is everyone’s closest friend.

Tuvok is Janeway’s oldest and closest friend, Neelix and Tuvok are friends and when he’s unguarded Tuvok has a fondness for Neelix. He is close to Seven of Nine, and he tries his best to be mentor to Kes even though he knows its not his wheelhouse. He even tries to be a counselor to B’Elenna even though he knows he isn’t trained for it.

Who else was gonna step up, really? Chakotay’s idea of mental health is the spiritual thing which Voyager tried to do less because they uncovered their subject matter expert was a scam artist. Also Chakotay’s other go-to is to subject B’Elenna to some tough love even though she wasn’t ready for it. It only worked because B’Elenna made it work.

He played Kal Toh with Harry and tolerated Harry’s impromptu musical concerts on the Bridge during Night.

About the only one he wasn’t close to was Chakotay because for the most part Tuvok was playing the “I’m her bestfriend.” rivalry thing with Chakotay. Eventually, they did come to respect and work together especially when Janeway seems to run headlong into another death wish scenario.

Tuvok was even great helping Sam Wildman during the time they were all trapped in a shuttlecraft.

And… Tom. In terms of working relationships Tuvok is Ron Swanson and Tom Paris is Tom Haverford. Or they’re the two guys from Mythbusters. They work well enough but they are not really close nor best friends. (I think this is mostly because Paris keeps encouraging him to get together with other women when he is very very clear how he is committed and loved his own wife. And I love Paris, but c’mon, dude, stop doing that. Wingman Chakotay, instead).

Anyway, tldr, Tuvok is the beating heart of Voyager. He is the one with meaningful friendships with most of the main cast.

[smoosie]

The 'We need to talk' scene

but I've made it into a wet cat short comic

(and it only gets worse for him...)

Bonus secret 5th panel :

(intrusive thoughts so strong they make his brain crash)

[theshadowrealmitself]

Vulcan: I have found that when Humans are anxious and they are not comforted by statistics showing they are not actually in danger, the best way to calm them down is to tell them a joke, even if they are aware of how the joke goes, observe

Vulcan: *walks over to a nervous looking Human they know*

Vulcan: Knock knock

Human, already starting to smile: Who’s there?

Vulcan: Interrupting cow

Human, grinning: Interrupting co-

Vulcan, in the flattest tone in existence: Moooo

Human: *losing it*

[littlebreadrolls]

a sneaky lil vulcan kiss

[cyantt-does-stuff]

[fauvester]

putting all my st fashion plates (so far!) together

newly inspired to keep going… perhaps bajorans next…

[benrybenrybenry-chr]

if I said that I think Amanda was a near equally horrible parent to Spock as Sarek was but just in a different way, would I get pelted with rocks or what

[bumblingbabooshka]

The worst trope in the universe is when someone accuses character A, who is part of a real or fantasy or coded minority, of doing something bad and everyone's like "That's just your prejudice against [real or fantasy minority]!" and it turns out character A actually did do that bad thing and everyone else was stupid for not believing they did that bad thing.

[tues-dayy]

I can't stop thinking about Prodigy s2; it is everything to me

[spirk-trek]

Spockanalia Fanzine | Vulcan Graffiti & Enterprise Graffiti, Sherna Comerford, 1967

[goofyjelly]

Fascinating ✨💙 💫

I lost focus and drew the space man. It will happen again.

[isagrimorie]

"There's fight in Voyager yet. It's still got temporal shields, six photon torpedoes. It'll hold together. Besides, you know the adage. Captain goes down with the ship, right?"

Star Trek Voyager 4x09 - Year of Hell, part 2

Favorite Year of Hell moments

[iguanadonis]

my amok time papercut inspired by Lois Ehlert 💖

[spirkme915]

one my favorite parts of watching voyager for the first time is how tuvok brings a whole new context to spock.

that tumblr post floating around where vulcans basically see spock as jvn with gritty? completely believable after watching voyager.

i mean, canon basically stayed away from vulcans in tng and ds9 (notable exceptions excluded of course), so it wasn't until voyager that there was something new on the vulcan front.

then suddenly there's tuvok with his wholly logical approach and his super emotional suppression techniques, and he's denying vulcans can have friends because the emotional connotation of the word cannot be fulfilled, and he's explaining to harry kim about how "to the trained vulcan intellect, intense romantic love is nothing more than a set of stereotypical behaviors" and humans who don't have vulcan discipline are swept along by the process, and you look back at spock and go...oh. oh.

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

Medical log, stardate 18935.15. Once more have I seen the tailor go out in his lizard fashion—

[vreenak]

STAR TREK: VOYAGER. ️ ️

↳ Ensign Vorik 🖖🔧😈 [6/?]