While most performances "Star Trek" are an ensemble plays, it can always be said when the series writers favor one character over another. At "Old Trek: Next Generation", for example, Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the data (Brent Spinner) got the lion's part of the stories, while some of the other characters - Dr. Krusher (Gates McFaden), especially - there was no difficult. The same can be said about "Star Trek: Voyager". The show's writers clearly loved Captain Ewenevey (Kate Mulgru), and it became the essence of most Voyager plots. The wealth was shared a bit of "Voyager", though, as characters like Chakotay (Robert Beltran), Nelix (Ethan Philips) and Doctor (Robert Picardo) all got their moments to shine.

But when seven of the nine (Eriers Ryan) joined the show in her fourth season, she became more or less the star, attracting much of the writers' attention to herself. Writers wanted seven so many that many stopped writing stories about characters like B'Alana Torres (Roxan Dawson), Harry Kim (Garrett Wang, who was definitely insufficiently used), and Tukov (Tim Rus).

Watching Tukov was particularly frivolous because, as they noticed /film in the past, He is the best franchisee volcano. (Apologizing to Spack.) Tukov was a great member of the Voyager ensemble and brought a strict sense of seriousness to the desperate premise of the show. He served as a security officer on the Board of Voyager, which seemed to be a great idea; If someone examines the crimes on the ship, you will want someone with a logical mind. Unfortunately, Tukov rarely had episodes all of his, often supporting other players through times of crisis. He was a calming presence in the series. It is a pity that he was not often the focus.

In an interview with 2020 TrekmovieRus calmed down on why Tukov was insufficiently used at Voyager. In short, he felt that the cast is too big for everyone to share the spotlight equally. He also noted that seven of the nine had a lot of time on the screen.

It should be noted that Voyager had several main characters (as stated above). With such a big cast, he posed, it was difficult for the show writers to give everyone enough time:

"It could have been different. We introduced other characters - like seven of the nine, later in the series - which I think changed the dynamics of how many stories will be distributed to everyone. Plus, we had nine people in the cast. So, there are nine characters for everyone had back -stories and stories.

Tukov seems to have been a member of the cast that just never had to take place in the center of the stage. Rus was positive, suggesting that the show's writers were really thinking about interesting things to do Tukov at Voyager, but that they often turned to more stories friendly about ensemble or significant episodes of "event". However, more than everything, Rus felt that seven is the real reason he was pushed into the ensemble. Not only did the series write the series, but also for her late entrance to "Voyager", also demanded many episodes "Catch" to explain her backstew and her character. As Rus said:

"(T) Hey focused on it to do it. And it would have taken a few stories of all just to finish (that) process. It was a decision that made it. We didn't go with that regular team all the time.

Tukov in the end returned to Kimo on "Star Trek: Picard", However, so he was always part of the Star Trek family. As for Rus, he seems to be in peace with the size of his role.