"Tuvok I Find You Irritating" | Star Trek Voyager

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Remember, if there's an spatial anomaly it's always trying to communicate!
Episode Name: Twisted
Aired: October 2nd 1995

[@Seetiyan]

My first thought, "That's a hell of a way to communicate." Then I remembered/realized - in the act of talking, we distort space too, with our sound waves. Whoa.

[@AlanGresov]

Well not quite, by speaking we're shifting pieces of matter that occupy space, but whenever we communicate electronically, we do create fluctuating electromagnetic waves, which unlike sonic waves, are waves carried through the medium of empty space, and actually act to distort space as they travel, in the electric and magnetic sense, so from the perspective of a charged particle, radio waves do bend and stretch out space.

[@Chevroletcelebrity]

your dump

[@jeskerjames3260]

Tuvok reaching his hand down to comfort Janeway is one of the most wholesome things in all of Star Trek. Even a logical and disciplined Vulcan like Tuvok couldn't keep those emotions entirely in check when it came to the woman who is his closest friend.

[@CeltycSparrow]

I love how everyone is scared and holding onto someone....even the men...and Tuvok is watching over his Captain, making sure she stays safe through the crisis.

[@oddish4352]

Tom and Harry are your typical insecure heterosexual men. A hand on a shoulder and admitting that they're scared is a big deal for them.

[@demarcusfaulkner7411]

@@oddish4352 they don't seem insecure to me that's what real friends do stand beside you

[@michael.barlow]

@@oddish4352 Idk you're the one who found a way to drag that into the conversation. Anything you'd like to get off your chest?

[@oddish4352]

@@michael.barlow No, but I've got a few kilos of flab I'd like to get off my stomach. 😝

[@andrewross4685]

@@oddish4352 are you inferring that only heterosexual men can be insecure? I am heterosexual and am very secure with my feelings and fears. Men in general guard their emotions around those they are not comfortable with, regardless of sexual preference. Learn psychology.

[@q-m-q1362]

Is there any more professional conduct than this? Both men did an amazing job in this interaction. Man, do I learn something new from this show every time I watch. 7 of 9 Tuvok almost have no room for irrelevant words or small talk.

[@mcewenhandcraft]

Mutual dislike doesn't mean you can't have mutual respect.

[@murrethmedia]

I love the friendship between Tom and Harry, and how candid Tom is when Harry asks if he's afraid.

[@jarednil69]

When you are anticipating the end... Taking it with confidence is the best option. I love this scene. 🥰

[@rhettorical]

A weird episode but also an excellent window into how people react in the face of inevitable death, or at least what they think is death.

[@ronwade2206]

Holding on to an annoying friend is Love.

[@menacelurkingyet8345]

Chakotay: "I Find You Irritating." Tuvok: Another one of your illogical human emotions ? 7of9: Irrelevant ! You both are irrelevant !

[@Natetendo83]

I actually love this episode.

[@CaptCovfefe515]

Some episodes of Star Trek used to scare the crap out of me as a kid, such as the DS9 episode where a Pah’Wraith possessed Jako Sisko and a Bajoran Prophet possessed Kira and they had an anime-style energy fight on the station promenade. This episode was another one that scared me because of how Captain Janeway was affected by the anomaly. But I’m glad I kept watching through. Still a Star Trek fan.

[@demarcusfaulkner7411]

Voyager was a very good show

[@collinsdarkwa281]

Chakotay Finds Tuvok Irritating

[@rucu8311]

You gotta love this show. How they pull together.

[@angryspoidah9607]

It was actually an entity of pure asmr tingles.

[@beckywalters2]

I think that for somone who represses emotion Tuvok would still have done anything for Janeway

[@demarcusfaulkner7411]

I agree they had been friends for more than 20 years at that point. I think Tuvok would have given his life for her.

[@mre4u422]

well they do suppress their emotions but try as they might they can't get free of them completely so ya i feel like he has more of an emotional connection to her than even he realizes

[@dlc1119]

Vulcans suppress 'transient' emotions but deep loyalty, forged over time, would not interfere (often) with logical thinking,

[@gherbert7020]

Repressed doesn't mean gone, just managed. His reply to Chak was priceless, in the face of insult he shows Grace.

[@DarkGob]

I never realized how asymmetric Tuvok's facial expressions are.

[@DarkGob]

@Patrick McMahon I'm aware of that -- but it doesn't make them not asymmetric. That's actually how asymmetry works.

[@666chapelofblood]

@@DarkGob Most faces are asymmetric, I think our brains just trick us into thinking otherwise.

[@Ragitsu]

@@DarkGob gob? Live long and prosper.

[@janpayne2877]

When all options were exhausted but only option was left is to do nothing. It was a intelligent lifeform wanted to know Voyager and its crew and dumped loads of information in Voyager’s database.

[@awsomewe360]

When I was a kid seeing this for the first time, I got nightmares of rooms of my house randomly morphing and getting lost in them. I also had a nightmare where I was on Voyager in a corridor and I was running away from Borg, but they always found me. That shit was so scary.

[@jrag1000]

I always took control of my bad dreams, making myself a superhero or strong enough to fight back. You can learn to control your dreams.

[@Ragitsu]

Our imagination is the greatest gift.

[@develynseether4426]

VOY scene that creeped me the most was Neelix dream of the girl burnt but it was Kes in Season 1 episode 'Jetrel'. Whole Episode that creeped me was Season 2 'The Thaw'.

[@phoenixrivenus9270]

I always thought about what Janeway would sound like bouncing on my Johnson. 7 of 9 once she joined;)

[@Wasabiofip]

@@jrag1000 I started doing that when I would get a recurring dream that I wash pushed or fell onto the tracks while waiting for the subway. I made myself a superman type and stopped the train before it hit me.

[@tomv5988]

I liked the episode, guess I am the only one. I liked the interaction between Tuvok and Chakotay.

[@NateSean]

I never had a problem with it.

[@talyar04]

It’s one of my favorite episodes. Personally I like the episodes where they don’t leave the ship and just have adventures there.. I especially enjoy what I call the “fever dream” episodes.

[@K-11609]

3:32 there’s something about the subtle use of the Voyager theme that is just so amazing and idk why

[@tompengelly8030]

Which part of the theme? I can't make it out (and really want to understand 😁)

[@K-11609]

@@tompengelly8030 it's hard to explain. Just the three notes that play there are similar to the ones in the beginning of the theme. am I making sense? XD

[@markfox1545]

You're imagining it.

[@g.herbert3810]

Tuvok, a class act all the way.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

A shame we never got to see Tuvok and Spock together on-screen.

[@talyar04]

I have always thought that too. It would be amazing to hear them having interesting Vulcan conversation about their captains and adventures. I think that would be amazing. They could also chat about Sulu since they both knew him.

[@Chevroletcelebrity]

​@@talyar04 that would've made for a good discovery episode 😀

[@Quicksilver1936]

@@Chevroletcelebrity good and discovery can't be used in the same sentence.

[@Jokie155]

@@Quicksilver1936 Well you just proved yourself incorrect right there.

[@Quicksilver1936]

@@Jokie155 sucks to have no value

[@andromedaone3640]

On the thumbnail Chakotai looks like Glen Qwagmire lol

[@rayloc420]

B'elana attacked her spirit guide. Hopefully she was cool with Chakotay's

[@thegrimmretails3777]

Her spirit guide knew what it was getting into.

[@HowDidIGet3700Subs]

If anyone is wondering why they all look so different it’s because the video is back to front, mirrored

[@stargirl7646]

This episode creeped me out so much as a kid! Even now their farewells are emotional

[@MackerelCat]

Tho it’s generally regarded as a weak episode after a recent rewatch it was so much better than I remembered. Them all getting lost all the time and everything they try to solve the problem making it worse. The weaknesses are that the characters aren’t quite properly formed yet:

[@LordZontar]

What really happened of course is that Neelix dosed the chow with LSD.

[@lucyferos205]

This almost sounds like a real plot to an episode

[@bobpage6597]

We get so used to seeing a person's face a certain way, that when you flip the image around.......the difference is noticable. Chakotay's face looks crooked like he's been whacked on the nose! They all look a little "off" when they've been flipped, but Chakotay looks awful!

[@tystin_gaming]

It's why most people hate photos of themselves, we are used to seeing ourselves in a mirror which is a reversed image. But when you see a photo taken of you, you always see yourself different. A lot of cameras on phones actually invert the picture as well. Which is why if you take a selfie while in lets say the driver's seat, when you view the photo it will look like you are in the passenger seat.

[@RecoveringChristian]

He's still soo hot to me regardless

[@StoicLion]

The image was flipped! About 30-seconds in I noticed something odd.

[@Bargoth60]

I just watched this episode a few nights ago, (I had followed most of Voyager from its original airing back in the '90s---guess a few episodes slipped through the cracks.) When Chakotay is attempting to contact his spirit guide, and says to B'Elanna, "We might be in for another long journey"---I immediately thought of our own lives---both corporeal and spiritual. We're born, live, and die---and that in itself is a journey. After we die, I believe we return "home"; until we return again in another corporeal existence. That in and of itself may be a "long journey" as well. I wonder if that's what Chakotay meant with that one, poignant line.

[@hebrewyisraeliteyahawadahite]

*Analytically logical* *Logically analytical*

[@NateSean]

Might be a bad episode but had some great character moments.

[@henry222ist]

They don't make star trek like this anymore. RIP real star trek.

[@matthewjones2095]

Voyager is not real trek it was written incompetent writers that couldn't stick to there own promise

[@mitchellmelkin4078]

@@matthewjones2095, UPN had more than a little to do with that, in reality.

[@matthewjones2095]

@@mitchellmelkin4078 and i learned that recently like they didnt want on going storys they wanted as self contained as possible

[@mitchellmelkin4078]

@@matthewjones2095, The possibility of a year-long Year of Hell arc, also got the push. While I wouldn't absolve the showrunners of having made ANY errors of judgement, in the main, they did about the best they could, throughout the run of the series.

[@gpl4908]

I was hoping Chakotay and Be'lanna would end up together but I wasn't disappointed when she ended up with Tom

[@borghome]

She should of been with Harry as they had that funny first meeting when they were both kidnapped In the first episode

[@WatchThis-ek2og]

Tom should have been with 7

[@MrRandomcommentguy]

Chaoktay does something Native American, cue stereotypical cultural mysticism pan pipes...

[@Nyx773]

I always giggle and think of John Redcorn’s flowing hair

[@paulscott2037]

The episode wasn't great but the character moments carried a fuck ton of weight.

[@Lanceb131]

A favorite episode of mine

[@jrag1000]

note to self. Stay out of Space.

[@stargirl7646]

But... you are already in space... We all are... The entire world... 👀

[@jrag1000]

@@stargirl7646 Encapsulated inside the Earth, but yeah we are on a BIG Space SHip floating through Space, Scary enough.

[@browonmb]

Since this episode occurred in the second season I assumed viewers would one day find out about the "20 million gigaquads of information" inputted into the main computer from the message and its meaning, but nothing came of it, or did it?

[@Sam-ey1nn]

It turned out it was billions of memes sent by some aliens pranking them. When the crew realized they simply deleted the data.

[@sephservant]

Yeah. The weekly reset button made everyone forget any of this happened.

[@menacelurkingyet8345]

"Qigaquad is a fictional term for a unit of storage based on some other form of compiling data other than the binary system."

[@steveleeart]

@@sephservant yea upn wanted the show to be contained with little ongoing stories. They wanted it so you could air reruns out of order and people wouldn’t be confused or lost. So silly. Season one should have been spent beefing up Ocampan home world so they could become self sufficient. Working with them and Neelix to build up resources for the eventual start of the trip towards home. Have Kazon testing them and trying to get Ocampa. Maybe Janeway negotiates and finds other local inhabitants who don’t like Kazons and are willing to help cooperate and work together as a kind of new mini federation. A lot of this was done but Ocampa was forgotten right away. So many of the first season episodes could have happened. Season two could have also still happened, with them moving away, maybe still leading to Basics as a season ending. Cause Kazons were factions weren’t they, maybe Janeway helps unite some but you have some that still hate the new power dynamic, and chase Voyager- the same group Seska joins. Anyway. Yeah so much of those first two years could have been built upon. Visiting planets to get supplies and resources, build defences like torpedoes. Cause they know their route will take them to Borg space eventually… and other hostile areas. That’s information Neelix would have been able to provide. But not being able to have too many arcs hampered the premise a lot.

[@mitchellmelkin4078]

@@sephservant, Not necessarily. Although not referenced again, it seems reasonable to me that some of that data might have provided the impetus to observe certain civilizations or unusual spatial phonemona along the way (or conversely, led them to avoid others). I don't believe such a possibility would have needed to have been explicitly spelled out in a log entry of Janeway's , to accept it happening.

[@Jeng4280]

Ha! Yeah Twisted was a bizarre one!

[@mrmrsgamer6938]

still an enjoyable episode though "phenomenomenon"

[@tilasole3252]

As soon as the doctor embraces Kess, Nelix drops from the ceiling in a jealous rage!

[@thENDweDIE]

I.....have become... Comfortably Numb...

[@andrewporter3393]

Has anyone ever realized the com badges switched sides on their uniforms in this episode

[@bryanalexander7571]

In order to avoid copyright strikes, you tubers will sometimes "mirror" the screen.

[@Locutus]

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Did I mention wrong? Look at the collars too, you will see that the rank insignia is also swapped. That means that the video has been mirrored.

[@heartsalive3157]

Lay back, let it happen, and remember to breath.

[@lizzychrome7630]

Chak trying to have a rivalry with a Vulcan XDDD

[@brettthomas7038]

Doc's voltage differential spike there for a bit.

[@mitchellmelkin4078]

Brett Thomas, If I'm taking your meaning correctly, that's a pretty crude reference which could just as easily been stifled. Granted, the writers put such a concept in play, in Projections (which Picardo has subsequently said was creepy), but your rather heavy handed reiteration, simply besmirches the nature of the relationship between Kes and the Doctor, that was beautifully established over 3 seasons, IMO.

[@johnwilson1851]

A good episode

[@HowDidIGet3700Subs]

That guy holding the stick 🦯 is the neighbour who lives upstairs in friends… mr… something.

[@jblonar]

Mr Heckles

[@bovnycccoperalover3579]

I couldn't watch the whole clip but still better than the one where Janeway and Paris mated as amphibians and produced offsprings and finding Earheart alive in the Delta Quadrant in the '37s. A lot of us know what Earhart looked like so they could at least cast a blond!

[@menacelurkingyet8345]

"Amelia Earhart had auburn red hair worn in a double-dip pompadour for formal occasions such as lectures and museum soirees."

[@WatchThis-ek2og]

Those episodes make no sense, and turns out Earhart did crash her plane.

[@Miniweet9167]

Commander Chipotle.

[@JonGreen91]

I thought you would never ask I never thought you would ask Switch a word, and you can create a different meaning

[@michelleregis6181]

Voyager is justb one of the best series in the star trek universe.

[@davewolf6256]

I'm glad someone finally agrees with me.

[@josephmanno4514]

Yeah, like 6th best.

[@smallspacearcade8158]

Voyager....no longer the worst....Discovery takes that honour.

[@dark_ops1651]

@@smallspacearcade8158 My ranking would be. 1. TNG DS9 VOY 2. TOS ENT 3. DIS PIC

[@mitchellmelkin4078]

@@smallspacearcade8158, You may well be aware of this, but Voyager has been the most popular iteration, per streaming services' metrics, over the course of the Pandemic, and likely even before that. Very often, it's been referred to as comfort food among the Classic Trek offerings. While that isn't exactly a critical laud, strictly speaking, it does have some not inconsiderable meaning, IMO.

[@stratfordbaby]

Noticed the video was in mirror image.

[@Steph6n]

Chakotay contacting his spirit guide... forgot about that... seems he left that in the Delta Quadrant

[@Locutus]

It would come up now and then, but there are only so many times you can show someone praying without it being repetitive.

[@ColvyMolvy]

@@Locutus Don't want it to be repetitive like Power Rangers. Its Prayin Time!

[@rikosaikawa9024]

Tuvok is the best black Vulcan

[@tripdiz1341]

Riko Saikawa who’s the best white vulcan then? Who’s the best overall Vulcan? You know the future sees no colour...

[@grahamscott7308]

Riko Saikawa how many black vulcans were there? Tuvok is the only one I remember

[@tripdiz1341]

Graham Scott the same actor who played tuvok played another vulcan in one of TOS movies. I think the one with the lady manager from cheers. But yeah i dont recall any other black vulcans.

[@ClarinoI]

@@tripdiz1341 It was in Generations, the character isn't named at the time, it seems to have been confirmed later that this was Tuvok in the episode where he has flashbacks to serving under Sulu on the Excelsior. He also played a human mercenary in TNG and a Klingon in DS9.

[@tech83studio38]

"Raises eyebrow" 👀

[@MasterofSpiders]

3:13 - "I LOVE YOU HARRY!"

[@jackgibsxxx0750]

I saw com badges on the wrong side. Then I realized that the pix is flipped. Why do this?? It does not give you copyright exemption. Please don't flip the pix. Thank you.

[@Valicore]

It prevents it from being automatically rejected.

[@Sam-ey1nn]

Why is this considered a "bad" episode exactly? I certainly would say it's not one of the best but IMO it is on par with many episodes done in all the other Star Trek series where there ends up being some underwhelming plot twist.

[@astrostar49]

I don't think it's bad. Just average. Good character moments.

[@davewolf6256]

@@astrostar49 Strictly speaking, for me it's the character moments that make Voyager. That's why I kind of like this episode.

[@vinnyc.1265]

This episode is horrible, all it is is them walking into a room and saying "im not supposed to be here!"

[@WatchThis-ek2og]

It's just kind of boring, another stuck in space episode that doesn't advance the story or journey.

[@jonathanmckeage8222]

Does Tuvok have feelings for the captain

[@MackerelCat]

Methinks yes but only deep friendship

[@plainbagel9192]

in a nutshell this is why VOY had potential , could of been a better scene if Tuvok and Chakotay actually did not get along

[@davewolf6256]

An I the only person in the internet that actually liked this episode?

[@richardrichard5680]

I liked it

[@josephgarrett5693]

It wasnt the best episode but it was far from the worst

[@mitchellmelkin4078]

@@josephgarrett5693, It's far better than False Profits, for example, which I'd rate as about the worst in the series.

[@MackerelCat]

@@mitchellmelkin4078 surely the worst episodes include Threshold and Fair Haven?

[@mitchellmelkin4078]

@@MackerelCat, That's hard to dispute, though as I believe many have pointed out over the years, there are elements in the concept of the former, which might have been much more engaging if some basic guardrails or breakers, had been put in play by Voyager's scientific consultant. 🙄 🙄 🙄 Still, there may be about just as many fans who insist that Threshold has been officially stricken from canon, or should be. I disagree, as even taking its execution into account, I find several moving moments to enjoy, and there's always its inherent value for Janeway/Paris shippers. 😄 😄 😄 Interestingly, the essential premise is rather similar to the original Lost in Space's 1st season episode, A Change of Space, though with markedly less grandiose evolutionary consequences depicted. Anyway, my take is that False Profits is so grossly guilty of falling back on lazy and stupid tropes, along with soporific exposition detailing the alien culture, that any value provided by the connection to established ST continuity, in explaining the Ferengis' presence, is reduced to an afterthought. Just awful in my opinion, but as always, YMMV.

[@jerwin2885]

From 2:21 through 2:28.... said every engaged man ever.

[@hansenkho3835]

Wonder why in this episode they place their comm badge at right chest 🤔

[@mitchellmelkin4078]

Hansen Kho, I believe the image in this clip was reversed by the poster to avoid having the entry deleted by YT.

[@CarlosSuperCute]

Tuvok is not only a Vulcan he seems to be like a Spock stand-in. Do all Vulcans act and talk the same?

[@westmcgee9320]

I don’t recall this episode at all.

[@EddieA907]

Mandela effect.

[@GugilusVugilusMagnus]

You lost me when you said ‘helix is resourceful’. 😂

[@dariusgreysun]

And double helixes are necessary

[@-M0LE]

VOY writing FLAWLESS

[@ihl8608]

he certainly is no Spock

[@BigAntTVMedia]

Anybody notice Robert Beltran got a nose job ?

[@MissMarinaCapri]

Everything seem reversed like in a mirror image.

[@davidlindsay131]

Nobody thought to jump into the field? For analysis? Let the others know it Might be okay?

[@Starbat88]

Decent enough scene. But bad episode.

[@saquist]

Everyone's faces look distorted

[@briansabo2348]

I wonder who got fired first the prop guy or the costume guy. There pips and comm badges are on the wrong sides.

[@dirtysouth9222]

The video feed in the upload is mirrored so youtube doesn't automatically reject it

[@checkmate79]

This is voyager. They both got promoted

[@SiouxW4rrior3856]

why is the video "mirrored" ???

[@captainbryce1]

Probably avoiding copyright issues

[@SiouxW4rrior3856]

@@captainbryce1 true true

[@Ephisus]

If voyager just committed to it's premise, it could have been the best trek.

[@lucasgiles7613]

They are backwards and it’s weird

[@AshleeWalkerTea]

Why are you showing this in Reverse filming ??????

[@mitchellmelkin4078]

@AshleeWalkerTea, Almost certainly, so it could be shown at all.

[@DavidLS1]

I thought Paris and Kim were finally going to kiss.

[@thepsychnurse4406]

For all 7 seasons I found Commander Chakotay irritating and annoying. My least favorite Star Trek character.

[@dirtysouth9222]

Agreed. He had no real defining characteristics, no hallmark performance or episode. At least Kim had some interesting acting moments

[@trinitytwo14992]

Checokie and Bellana should have gotten together!

[@demarcusfaulkner7411]

Their Dynamic was like brother and sister wasn't it. At lease it seemed like to me.

[@mitchellmelkin4078]

@@demarcusfaulkner7411, Except during their fugue state in Persistence of Vision, which I think was the only outlier in that regard, we ever saw.

[@CarlosSuperCute]

Tuvok is not only a Vulcan he seems to be like a Spock stand-in. Do all Vulcans act and talk the same?