-: I'm Tim Russ, and I played Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager.
I'm Captain Janeway's chief of security.
The original series, we grew up with watching
because there was only three channels at the time
and maybe three or four shows
that they played over and over,
Gilligan's Island, Star Trek
and then Twilight Zone and a few other things,
so we were quite familiar with that series growing up
because that was all that we saw
in syndicated repeat television.
Initially I had worked with the producers of the series
on Deep Space Nine playing a guest star role as a Klingon
on one of the episodes.
Let's go, ally.
And then subsequently played in a role in the
feature film Generations.
We appear to be in some sort of temporal flux.
And I also had a role on TNG, The Next Generation,
as a terrorist on a ship.
You're Starfleet, you won't kill me.
So I had worked with the,
with the producers of the series
at least three times prior to Voyager,
so it was a long run-up.
It would take several hours to explain it all.
I suggest we proceed to your quarters.
Perhaps he would care for a bath.
The human is probably the easiest,
the Vulcan might be the most interesting over time,
the Klingon not so much.
It's a lot of makeup and it's not comfortable
to wear that for 12 hours at a time.
The specific memories that I had
are mostly of working with my crew,
the crew that actually worked in terms of production
and also my castmates that I was able to work with.
Those are the days and the moments that I remember the most
that are the, they're the fondest of.
In terms of anything spectacular happening on set,
not necessarily, once in a while the special effects
explosions would singe my tail,
but outside of that it's mostly just the moments
I had working with my cast and crew.
Kate Mulgrew is my favorite captain because I spent
so much time working with her and she's a wonderful person
and a very solid actress.
I really enjoyed working with her and I did enjoy
working with Jean-Luc Picard's character, Patrick Stewart.
Very nice.
-: And you're sure?
-: Right, and he was the first person I worked with
in terms of my introduction as an actor
to the Star Trek series franchise.
-: It seems you're right.
-: Did you take any props?
-: I managed to get a small piece of my station, yes.
(chuckling) I got a small, a small piece of it.
It is the most logical explanation.
Live long and prosper.