Tuvok

Vulcan Starfleet officer Commander Tuvok served in Starfleet at two different points in his life. He served with distiction on the USS Excelsior, the USS Wyoming, the USS Bonestal as well as teaching for fifteen years at Starfleet Academy. Tuvok is perhaps best known, however, for his stints serving on the USS Voyager (NCC-74656) and the the USS Titan.

Early Life
Tuvok was born in the year 2264 on the Vulcanis Lunar Colony to his parents Sunak and T'Meni.

In the year 2289, Tuvok was preparing for a life of study, logic, and the Kohlinar discipline when his parents, believing that his galaxy-view was too narrow, enrolled him in Starfleet Academy in order to broaden his horizons.

During his time at the Academy, Tuvok befriended Cadets Scott Hutchinson and Sophie Timmons, the latter of which developed romantic feelings toward Tuvok, but of course, Tuvok did not reciprocate.

As a freshman at the Academy, Tuvok beat an athlete from UCLA in the four hundred meter hurdles competition. (Star Trek: Voyager novel Pathways)

First Starfleet Career
Upon graduating from the Academy, Tuvok was assigned to the science division of the USS Excelsior under Captain Hikaru Sulu.

While serving on the Excelsior, Tuvok befriended Lieutenant Leonard James Akaar and Lieutenant Lojur.

Tuvok was never comfortable serving with humans, but was reluctant to disobey his parents wishes. However, in the year 2298, after six years serving aboard the Excelsior, Tuvok resigned from Starfleet and returned home to continue his study of the Kohlinar discipline. (Star Trek: The Lost Era novel The Sundered)

T'Pel
Tuvok returned to Vulcan and continued his study of logic and discipine when he was struck by Pon Farr, the mating instinct. Like many young Vulcans, Tuvok was betrothed at a very young age in an arrangement made by his parents.

Soon after, he performed the Vulcan marriage ritual with T'Pel. Tuvok chose to live the life of a married man rather than return to Mt. Seleya and the study of logic. In the years that followed, Tuvok and T'Pel had 3 sons, Sek, Varith, and Elieth and a daughter, Asil.

In the 2340's, Tuvok fulfilled a life-long ambition by pilgimaging to Mt. Seleya on foot across Vulcan's Forge. The journey took him several months. During the journey, Tuvok came to the conclusion that it was time for him to give something back to then universe that had given him so much and that the best way to do that was to re-join Starfleet.

The Wyoming
In 2349 Tuvok re-entered Starfleet as an Ensign and served aboard the USS Wyoming under Captain Karl Broadnax. Broadnax had accepted Tuvok on the recommedation of his first officer, Tuvok's old Excelsior crew-mate, Leonard James Akaar. Tuvok was briefly attacked to the USS Stargazer under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard an ustable situation developed in the Kellasian Sector, and Tuvok was deemed the officer with the most experience in that sector. (Star Trek: The Next Generation novel Double Helix: The First Virtue)

Soon after Tuvok's return to the Wyoming, Captain Broadnax suddenly and unexpectedly died, and command of the Wyoming  was given to Akaar.

In October of 2349 Tuvok and Akaar were marooned on a barren, barely habitable rock known as planetoid 437 for nearly two weeks. Akaar felt the honorable thing to do was to perform the w'lash'nogot, a Capellan suicide ritual, so that the dwindling supplies would be enough for Tuvok to survive. Tuvok refused to let his old friend and Captain die, and saved Akaar's life.

Despite the Wyoming rescuing the pair two days later, Akaar saw the disruption of the ancient ceremony as a betrayal by his old friend, and quickly arranged for Tuvok's transfer. (Star Trek: Titan novel The Red King)

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