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Starfleet Personnel Record.
Starfleet Career Summary (partial)
2293 – Graduated Starfleet Academy
2293 – VOYAGER ANNOTATION: Served on U.S.S. Excelsior, junior science
officer
2298 – VOYAGER ANNOTATION: Resigned Starfleet from Excelsior
2343 – Returned to Starfleet, assigned to U.S.S. Wyoming
2365 – Critiqued Kathryn Janeway on tactical procedures she employed on her first command; later served with Janeway aboard U.S.S. Billings
2371 – Security chief and second officer, U.S.S. Voyager under Capt.
Kathryn Janeway; stranded in Delta Quadrant with Voyager
2372 – Assumed command for six weeks during quarantine of Voyager CO
and XO
2374 – Promoted to Lieutenant Commander by Captain Janeway
2378 – Returned to Alpha Quadrant with Voyager after 7 years in Delta Quadrant
Profile: Report of Starfleet Security
Security chief and tactical officer under Captain Kathryn Janeway who
had gone undercover to infiltrate the Maqui as part of Chakotay's crew
when both ships disappeared in the Badlands of the Demilitarized Zone,
presumably destroyed by plasma storms; the smaller craft disappeared a
week before the Voyager was last heard from on SD 48307.5.
Earlier in his career, Tuvok served on the U.S.S. Wyoming and was a
teacher and cadet trainer at Starfleet Academy for 16 years before
joining Janeway's crew on her ship prior to the U.S.S. Voyager; for a
brief time he was on leave with a temporary assignment at Jupiter
Station. In his youth, he was an opponent of the Federation-Klingon
treaties but later came to see the wisdom of fellow Vulcan Spock's drive
for alliance.
In his personal life, Tuvok is a devoted parent and husband — his wife
was in labor for 96 hours with their third child — and engages his
interest in the traditional Vulcan lute, playing it for his children
when they could not fall asleep at bedtime. His youngest son was
especially fond of "Falor's Journey," a 347-verse epic ode. Tuvok is also
an expert botanist with growing orchids a specialty he continues in
his own quarters, practices the Keethara meditation routine, and began
his interest in the Vulcan game kal-toh with master studies at age 5.
Prior to his stint on the Wyoming, he taught archery science at the
Vulcan Institute for Defensive Arts, and has maintained a scholarly
interest in the study of violence for over a century.
****CLASSIFIED to Level 1 security at Subject request, AD 2349
With the best of Vulcan rationality, Tuvok was pressured by his parents
into following them into Starfleet and graduated the Academy at the age
of 29 in 2293, originally posted to Capt. Hikaru Sulu on the U.S.S.
Excelsior. He resigned in 2398 to pursue his people's kohlinar regimen
of true non-emotion after becoming disillusioned with non-Vulcans in the
service, but went into pon farr six years later and began a family. His
return to Starfleet was marked by a maturity and a reconsideration of
the benefits service provided.
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File Update: Delta Quadrant Addendum
Report by Capt. Kathryn Janeway, U.S.S. Voyager
Tuvok's physical, investigative and tactical skills are an inspiration
to this crew, while his Vulcan equanimity and calm demeanor make him a
valued peacekeeper aboard the ship. With his combination of wisdom,
experience and vitality, Tuvok is one of the most respected members of
the crew, even among the former Maquis. And he is certainly
my most trusted confidant aboard this far-flung vessel, although I
regret to put him on report for his formal insubordination regarding my
orders banning black-market bartering for a possible shortcut home with
the Sikarians.
Tuvok has recently demonstrated to me the good and bad of the mystique
of the unique Vulcan mental abilities. While he has helped Kes develop
her latent Ocampan abilities, he nearly made himself criminally insane
despite his Vulcan self-disciplines after a mind-meld while attempting
to aid psychopathic murderer and former Maquis Lon Suder, a Betazoid,
after the murder of a fellow crewman.
UPDATE SD 50530: K. Janeway, addendum
Re: Crewman Suder: I underestimated Tuvok's patience and Suder's heart.
The crewman had made substantial progress toward a healthy outlook
before giving his life to retake this ship from Kazon-Nistrim raiders,
ca. SD 49000.
Despite our earlier problems on this mission, I have come to cherish my
decision to retain Tuvok as second officer, and feel such experiences as
his captaincy during my and Chakotay's medical quarantine will benefit
him in the long run. I know it weighed heavily on him to recant my
orders against Vidiian involvement, but I cannot fault the growth he
showed in considering the pleas of the entire ship. Reversing his
accidental and unprecedented transporter merging with Neelix into an
all-new third being was in turn a tough choice for this commander, but
one in which, as the Vulcans say, I had to place the needs of the many
above the needs of the one.
As for the incredible incident prompted by his viral parasite disguised
as a submerged memory from his Excelsior days, I thank my friend for a
look at living history — Starfleet's and his own.
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