#like how Tuvok tells Kes about how important acceptance of trauma is in the fight to move forward but also from an outside perspective
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Hey. There's something here to me about how Tuvok had not one but two traumatic memories which were repressed for years [one is not technically a "real" memory but his reactions to it WERE real and his body/mind treated it as real and thus I'm counting it as two traumatic memories], we're told that Vulcans react incredibly poorly to repressed memories or in fact any discrepancies between the conscious vs unconscious mind, and then later Tuvok is revealed to have an emerging condition which causes neurological degeneration. + The fact that it's repeatedly stated that for Vulcans, contact with trusted people's minds are crucial, actually medically necessary, to deal with all manner of things from traumatic events to medical disorders and how Tuvok has no one he can go to for that kind of support or treatment except for Janeway and in the end not even she can help him with certain things since it has to be a Vulcan.
#Tuvok#character analysis#st voy#star trek voyager#small snippet of the tuvok trauma thoughts in my head#like how Tuvok tells Kes about how important acceptance of trauma is in the fight to move forward but also from an outside perspective#how HARD it is to actually do that especially if you're an alien with only one person on board a 70-years-off-course ship that you can trus#with yourself - the most intimate part of yourself but even she can't help you the way you really need sometimes#through no fault of her own#Tuvok had two repressed traumatic memories for YEEEARS oh could you imagine?? How do you trust your mind again??
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