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<v ->I'm Tim Russ, and I played Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager.</v>

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I'm Captain Janeway's chief of security.

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The original series, we grew up with watching

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because there was only three channels at the time

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and maybe three or four shows

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that they played over and over,

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Gilligan's Island, Star Trek

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and then Twilight Zone and a few other things,

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so we were quite familiar with that series growing up

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because that was all that we saw

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in syndicated repeat television.

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Initially I had worked with the producers of the series

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on Deep Space Nine playing a guest star role as a Klingon

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on one of the episodes.

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Let's go, ally.

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And then subsequently played in a role in the

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feature film Generations.

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We appear to be in some sort of temporal flux.

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And I also had a role on TNG, The Next Generation,

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as a terrorist on a ship.

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You're Starfleet, you won't kill me.

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So I had worked with the,

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with the producers of the series

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at least three times prior to Voyager,

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so it was a long run-up.

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It would take several hours to explain it all.

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I suggest we proceed to your quarters.

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Perhaps he would care for a bath.

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The human is probably the easiest,

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the Vulcan might be the most interesting over time,

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the Klingon not so much.

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It's a lot of makeup and it's not comfortable

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to wear that for 12 hours at a time.

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The specific memories that I had

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are mostly of working with my crew,

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the crew that actually worked in terms of production

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and also my castmates that I was able to work with.

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Those are the days and the moments that I remember the most

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that are the, they're the fondest of.

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In terms of anything spectacular happening on set,

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not necessarily, once in a while the special effects

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explosions would singe my tail,

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but outside of that it's mostly just the moments

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I had working with my cast and crew.

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Kate Mulgrew is my favorite captain because I spent

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so much time working with her and she's a wonderful person

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and a very solid actress.

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I really enjoyed working with her and I did enjoy

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working with Jean-Luc Picard's character, Patrick Stewart.

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Very nice.

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<v ->And you're sure?</v>

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<v ->Right, and he was the first person I worked with</v>

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in terms of my introduction as an actor

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to the Star Trek series franchise.

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<v ->It seems you're right.</v>

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<v ->Did you take any props?</v>

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<v ->I managed to get a small piece of my station, yes.</v>

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(chuckling) I got a small, a small piece of it.

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It is the most logical explanation.

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Live long and prosper.