Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Tuvok
From Tuvok to Tim Russ, his Vulcan logic was worth his weight in gold.
Tuvok's age is as mysterious as anything about this Vulcan but one needn't look further in their search for loyalty and logic. As Voyager's Security Chief, he was fair, if a little rigid at first. As an ensign aboard the Excelsior, he made a mean cup of tea.
Tim Russ almost appeared as another famous, gold-clad character before donning the ears. One can hardly imagine a universe without the wry wit of the man from Vulcanis (Lunar Colony) so, odd as it sounds, we're delighted he wasn't cast in that earlier part.
With his reappearance in Star Trek: Picard, Russ and Tuvok have been with Trek for more than thirty years, calmly reminding the audience that for every crisis, cool heads will prevail. He's the man. He's the myth. He's the Kal-Toh supreme.
He's also rather good at making sundaes.
10. The Age Of Logic
Just how old does a Vulcan have to be before they get any damn respect around here anyway?
Tuvok was born in 2264, which puts him a little above the average age of the crew on Voyager. His Starfleet career began decades before even his oldest colleague attended Starfleet Academy, though a quick fifty-year sabbatical delayed his progress through the ranks.
His age remained a matter of debate while he served aboard Voyager, as he preferred to keep his private life, well, private. Paris and Kim attempted to figure out how old he was, though neither were particularly close.
Captain Janeway came the closest, correctly identifying his date of birth - although somewhere along the way, records must have scrambled, as the year of birth seemed up for debate. She congratulated him on nearing 'the big three digits' in 2376 - despite the man having already achieved said milestone twelve years prior.
This is particularly egregious when one considers Tuvok and Janeway's shared experience, via a mind-meld, that deposited them on the Excelsior in 2293 - during which experience Tuvok explicitly states he was 29 years old.
Still, what's a little temporal drift between friends?