Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Meld (1996)

Tim Russ: Lt. Tuvok

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• Lieutenant Tuvok : Do you know what a mind meld is?

  Crewman Lon Suder : It's that... Vulcan thing where you grab someone's head.

• Lieutenant Tuvok : Sitting here attempting to meditate, I have counted the number of ways I know of killing someone, using just a finger, a hand, a foot. I had reached ninety-four when you entered.

• The Doctor : Do you see the DNA strands on the lower border?

  Lieutenant Tuvok : Yes.

  The Doctor : They were retrieved from inside the head wound by nanites that I designed to recognize unusual DNA patterns. This DNA was isolated because it didn't belong to the victim.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : Have you matched it to a member of the crew?

  [the Doctor hands Tuvok a pad. He reads it] 

  Lieutenant Tuvok : Are you certain?

  The Doctor : DNA doesn't know how to lie, Lieutenant.

• Crewman Lon Suder : It's attractive, isn't it?

  Lieutenant Tuvok : Attractive?

  Crewman Lon Suder : Violence.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : On the contrary. I find it disturbing.

  Crewman Lon Suder : You're right, it is disturbing - never knowing when that impulse may come, or whether or not you can control it when it does. You live on the edge of every moment. And yet, in its own way, violence is attractive too. Maybe because it doesn't require logic. Perhaps that's why it is so liberating.

• Neelix : I don't suppose you've ever heard of the Vulcan Rumarie?

  Lieutenant Tuvok : The Rumarie is an ancient pagan festival.

  Neelix : Full of barely clothed Vulcan men and women, covered in slippery Rillan grease, chasing one another.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : That has not been observed for a millennium.

  Neelix : Well, it's time to bring it back!

• Lieutenant Tuvok : Morale is irrelevant to a Vulcan.

  Neelix : Oh, please, there's no one on this ship requires my services more than you do. I will not rest until I see you smile.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : Then you will not rest.

• [Crewman Suder has been identified as the murderer of Crewman Darwin] 

  The Doctor : You don't seem satisfied, Lieutenant.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : No.

  The Doctor : You have a confession and the murder weapon.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : And no established motive.

  The Doctor : Does it matter?

  Lieutenant Tuvok : A crime must have a logical purpose.

  The Doctor : Ah, yes, I see. How to close the case without understanding the logic of the crime. For a Vulcan, that would be a dilemma, wouldn't it?

• [Tuvok is suffering from complications after his mind meld with Suder] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Tuvok - do you know where you are?

  Lieutenant Tuvok : [laughs awkwardly]  Of course I know where I am, Captain. I'm just not sure I know... who I am.

• Lieutenant Tuvok : [referring to his treatment]  You must be asking yourself, "What if this doesn't work? What do we do then?" I have an idea. I'll just stay in my quarters for the rest of the trip. I'll just relax, and read. Eat the ship's food. Use the ship's energy, all in the comforts of my own room. Why, even Mr. Suder and I could get together for a few hands of Cardassian Pinochle once or twice a week. That is how we treat violent offenders on this ship, isn't it?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : You are not a violent offender, Tuvok.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : I could be. Just like Suder.

• Lieutenant Tuvok : [to Janeway]  You disgust me. All you humans do.

• Crewman Lon Suder : [talking to Suder, who's in the Brig for killing Crewman Darwin]  I already told you why I killed him, Lieutenant.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : You didn't like the way he looked at you?

  Crewman Lon Suder : Right.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : Just how did he look at you?

  Crewman Lon Suder : Like a lot of people in Starfleet do.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : So, this murder could in fact be explained as outburst of rage against Starfleet?

  Crewman Lon Suder : Look... if that's how you want to look at this.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : I want the truth.

  Crewman Lon Suder : [gets up and approaches Tuvok from his side of the forcefield]  I don't like Starfleet. I won't deny that, but...

  Lieutenant Tuvok : Yes.

  Crewman Lon Suder : I have killed people who weren't in Starfleet for the same reason. I did not like the way they looked at me. I've thought about killing you, Lieutenant.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : In my case you have a motive. My previous mission as a spy, my role as your accuser, but to my knowledge Crewman Darwin had done nothing to you.

  Crewman Lon Suder : That's true.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : Then why choose him as a victim?

  Crewman Lon Suder : I don't know.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : Do you feel remorse?

  Crewman Lon Suder : [that question seems to amuse Suder]  I don't seem to feel anything at all.

  [Suder returns to his bed rest] 

  Crewman Lon Suder : Most Betazoids can sense other people's emotions - I can't even sense my own. So, what's going to happen to me now?

  Lieutenant Tuvok : I'll have to discuss that with the Captain.

  Crewman Lon Suder : [Tuvok turns to leave]  I know what I'd do if I were her.

  [Tuvok turns back] 

  Crewman Lon Suder : Guess I'm lucky - the Federation doesn't execute people.

• Commander Chakotay : [about Suder]  In combat there was something in his eyes.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Maybe he had something personal against the Cardassians.

  Commander Chakotay : Sometimes I had to pull him back, stop him from going too far, and once or twice when I did, he looked at me with those cold eyes, and I just knew he was this far away from killing me.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : I find it curious that none of this was included in your initial crew evaluation, Commander.

  Commander Chakotay : I don't put down hunches or bad feelings in my crew evaluations, Lieutenant. A Vulcan should appreciate that.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : Considering the fact that your Maquis crew included malcontents, outlaws and mercenaries, I believe it would have been appropriate.