#tarik ergin

[captaincrusher]

I just remembered that Satan's Robot is played by Tarik Ergin, the guy that plays Ayala. That always cracks me up.

[breezybree]

Ayala Appreciation Post. 

[mylittleredgirl]

thank you @nhawk-1​ for enabling a follow-up to that ayala post where i saw that he is uncredited for 119 episodes on imdb. know where else tarik ergin is uncredited?

!!!

new ayala headcanon just dropped:

dude served on the enterprise, transferred to security i guess or was just randomly doing a rotation in sickbay when uncredited above, then joined the maquis. i imagine family ties were a factor, but the enterprise’s presence around the creation of the dmz and ro’s public defection could also have been part of his maquis origin story.

what we get: a solid reason why ayala is given the rank of lieutenant! which i’ve been wondering about!! all the other maquis officers are crewmen or ensigns -- except chakotay, who held his rank in starfleet before, and b’elanna, who needs the rank to be the senior officer in engineering.

and chakotay gets a former starfleet maquis bud who Gets It, and by “It” i mean the discomfort of putting the uniform back on but also the comfort of it. someone who can look at him and say “that looks good on you” and it’s not condescending like it would be from a starfleet officer or accusatory like it would be from another maquis, but from someone who also dreamed and planned and underwent the enormous effort of graduating from the academy in order to spend a life in starfleet. they were trained for this, they wanted this, and you know it was not an easy thing to throw away.

[marcygoomen]

Minor Character Appreciation Post:            Lieutenant Ayala

Images from X

[breezybree]

[breezybree]

I wanted to give everyone a head’s up that Larry Nemecek’s Portal 47 will be interviewing Tarik Ergin next week!

I have been a member of Portal 47 going on two years now and I am having an ABSOLUTE blast interacting with Larry, the other Portal members and the folks that have been interviewed. The personal stories these Trek folks have shared with us really have been top notch.

Anyways, just wanted to let all the Ayala fans out there know that Tarik will be on the Portal July 26, 2017  - 7pm PT/ 10pm ET

You still have time to sign up for “The Portal” to be able to listen (& sometimes they use video) to this 60 minute+ live interview AND then you also will get a audio/video file to keep of the interview (which is great for the folks in really different time zones)

[breezybree]

That time when Ayala spoke.

[captaincrusher]

Spot Ayala - A fun game for people of all ages.