Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Riddles (1999)

Tim Russ: Lt. Tuvok

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• [last lines] 

  Tuvok : Sundays.

  Neelix : I beg your pardon?

  Tuvok : I have given further consideration to your riddle, regarding the ensign who survived by consuming the dates from his calendar. It occurs to me that he could also have eaten the "Sunda-y-es."

  Neelix : [intrigued]  That's a very clever answer, Mr. Vulcan... but it's not very logical, is it?

  Tuvok : [ponders this]  No... it's not.

• Neelix : A lone ensign finds himself stranded on a class L planetoid with no rations. His only possession: a calendar. When Starfleet finds him twelve months later, he's in perfect health. Why didn't he starve to death?

  Tuvok : It is a theoretical possibility that such planetoids contain hot water springs, which could sustain the man for several weeks.

  Neelix : Hmm - but not for a whole year.

  Tuvok : I concur. Logic dictates that the ensign in question would perish.

  Neelix : A-ha! Hahahaha - ha! I stumped you! As a matter of fact, he not only survived, but his belly was full. Why? Because he feasted on "dates" from the calendar.

• Neelix : Do you know who I am?

  Tuvok : You're Neelix. I'm... safe... with you.

• Neelix : How about a riddle?

  Tuvok : [irritated]  Mr. Neelix...

  Neelix : Come on! It'll be fun.

  Tuvok : I have no desire for fun.

  Neelix : Okay, forget fun. A good riddle can stimulate the mind. Now, no self-respecting Vulcan can say no to that.

  Tuvok : [sighs]  Very well - *one* riddle.

  Neelix : Here goes...

• Harry Kim : [explaining kal-toh to an amnesic Tuvok]  The object of the game is to turn this jumble of rods into a perfect sphere. We take turns positioning our pieces. Whoever gets the shape to appear first, wins.

  Tuvok : I like the way it looks now.

• Tuvok : I'm not a Vulcan! Not anymore!

• Tuvok : I want to be able to have fun - with YOU! I won't be able to... will I?

  Neelix : Well... you won't call it 'fun.' You'll call it 'deriving satisfaction,' but it's basically the same thing. You'll still experience emotions.

  Tuvok : But I won't express them.

  Neelix : Probably not.

  Tuvok : Then how will you know how much I enjoy being with you?

  Neelix : You've just told me.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : What's all this?

  Tuvok : We're having fun.

• [Tuvok has gone through his personnel file] 

  Tuvok : I was an instructor at Starfleet Academy; I've received seventeen commendations for valor; I'm a husband... a father...

  Neelix : You're an extraordinary fellow, Tuvok.

  Tuvok : I WAS an extraordinary fellow.

• Tuvok : I LIKE to smile.

• [after making contact with the Ba'neth, the Doctor has developed a cure to restore Tuvok] 

  Neelix : You... you should be proud of yourself. I-if you hadn't drawn that picture on the cake, we may never have found a treatment.

  Tuvok : I wish I never drew that picture.

• Neelix : Where are you going?

  Tuvok : To find some peace and quiet.

  Neelix : Have fun!

• Tuvok : We'll still be friends?

  Neelix : Of course.

  Tuvok : Even if I... merely tolerate you?

• Tuvok : I have much more important things to do than engage in the preparation of nutritionally deficient foods.