Well in the EU she ends dying if that makes you feel better. Oh and when they get back the Federation damn near court martials everybody on the ship. And they didn't get a welcome back party because everyone else was cleaning up after the Dominion War.
How would you deal with the Tuvix Dilemma?
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Well in the EU she ends dying if that makes you feel better. Oh and when they get back the Federation damn near court martials everybody on the ship. And they didn't get a welcome back party because everyone else was cleaning up after the Dominion War.
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BrokenEchelon
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Never read any of the EU stuff and I'm just playing along for the sake of argument. I don't have a strong opinion either way, I was just doing a little bit of role play.
That is one way to look at it. The way I look at it is the accident killed Neelix and Tuvok. Because as you said there is no way to know just how much of them survived in Tuvix. So from my perspective it means Janeway killed an innocent unique and seperate lifeform to bring two of her crew back from the dead.
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Meant to write this a while ago, but GAF went down. Anyway one could argue that trading one for two is a good trade and while I disagree with that I can see the logic. The biggest problem I have with the choice is that it's not what a Starfleet officer would do. Over and over again you are told that they would do the moral thing no matter the cost. No matter what you consider Tuvix he is at least his own man and I fail to see how Janeway could consider it the morally right thing to drag him off to his death.
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Keep Tuvix alive until his body eventually started breaking down because mixing two people is going to cause some fatal problem somewhere. In the meantime, take samples for future study.
Once the breakdown ends and he's at death's door naturally, separate the two, who should be as well as they were to start with. Reset button applied. Then you can ignore everything that happened except as continuity nods a few seasons down the road.
No muss, no fuss, no blunderbuss.
Once the breakdown ends and he's at death's door naturally, separate the two, who should be as well as they were to start with. Reset button applied. Then you can ignore everything that happened except as continuity nods a few seasons down the road.
No muss, no fuss, no blunderbuss.
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Then it's not even like falling asleep on the plane. To the person using the transporter it like getting on a plane and then instantly getting off it. No perceptible change to consciousness.
My problem with the Tuvix episode isn't Janeway's choice, it's that she showed no remorse about it. She could've at least acknowledge the fact that both choices are horrible. But no, she acts like her choice is obviously the correct one and she doesn't need to feel bad about it at all.
The Technomancer
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Honestly, as much as I love Star Trek, the more interesting version of a similar dilemma from science fiction television for me would be Young Amy or Old Amy from Doctor Who
Escape Goat
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She was totally conflicted. She knew she had two choices and both were going to cause pain. She asks the question when Tuvix ceased being an accident and an individual. She even asks Tuvix what he feels. The last shot of the episode is of Janeway walking down a corridor as she feels the weight of ending Tuvix's life descend upon on her shoulders.
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