Tim Russ played a lot of characters in Star Trek, as well as other things like the 'We ain't found shit!' "Desert Combing Trooper" in Spaceballs.
Voyager later retcons Tuvok having been an ensign on the Excelsior during Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and while Russ had another role during ST: Generations as an LT on the Enterprise B he didn't have Vulcan ears for that part. Still, the LT was that minor a character and set after Tuvok's time as an ensign on Excelsior it wouldn't be the worst head canon to suggest it was the same character.
We're getting into a really weird subject that Star Trek never covered. There is no way everyone from a single planet looked the same and had the same culture. There should be bagel shops in Klingon, and multiple languages to go with that shop.
It was easier to tell the story as if the planet only had one culture of several billion people. Tuvok was a sign of this thought process, but not an end result of it. I doubt Star Trek will ever really cover these ideas because the stories would get too convoluted.
An extremely good point! You almost never see ethnicities of demi-humans or aliens done naturally in this type of shit. Ethnic variants come about via long-term evolution in different climates. There's a reason people can look as different as they do, and it's not culture-based. But then you put someone like that in a setting where they are the odd one out, for dIvErSiTy. It makes no sense in medieval fantasy settings. Star Trek though, everything is already being brought together by the Federation, and the various races are all space-faring, so cultural isolation can only be a choice rather than nature taking its course.
Leave Tuvok out of this!
Yea. It’s not like Tuvok was a race swap. I’m sure Vulcan has hotter regions. Great video overall though and true
Tim Russ played a lot of characters in Star Trek, as well as other things like the 'We ain't found shit!' "Desert Combing Trooper" in Spaceballs.
Voyager later retcons Tuvok having been an ensign on the Excelsior during Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and while Russ had another role during ST: Generations as an LT on the Enterprise B he didn't have Vulcan ears for that part. Still, the LT was that minor a character and set after Tuvok's time as an ensign on Excelsior it wouldn't be the worst head canon to suggest it was the same character.
Oh yea! One of my favorite space all scenes. I do remember him popping up throughout Star Trek
Every depiction I've seen that wasn't a city was desert.
Oh yea. I never thought of that. Spock is my favorite Vulcan but I liked Tuvok as well.
Some regions could still have more UV radiation than others.
We're getting into a really weird subject that Star Trek never covered. There is no way everyone from a single planet looked the same and had the same culture. There should be bagel shops in Klingon, and multiple languages to go with that shop.
It was easier to tell the story as if the planet only had one culture of several billion people. Tuvok was a sign of this thought process, but not an end result of it. I doubt Star Trek will ever really cover these ideas because the stories would get too convoluted.
An extremely good point! You almost never see ethnicities of demi-humans or aliens done naturally in this type of shit. Ethnic variants come about via long-term evolution in different climates. There's a reason people can look as different as they do, and it's not culture-based. But then you put someone like that in a setting where they are the odd one out, for dIvErSiTy. It makes no sense in medieval fantasy settings. Star Trek though, everything is already being brought together by the Federation, and the various races are all space-faring, so cultural isolation can only be a choice rather than nature taking its course.
He wasn't even the first black Vulcan. There were some black Vulcan background characters in The Search for Spock.
It wasn't Tim Russ's first Star Trek role either. He was the terrorist that got VULCAN NECK PINCHED by Picard.
He was also on the bridge crew of the Enterprise B in Star Trek Generations.