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2.24 — \u201cTuvix\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plot:<\/strong> A transporter accident combines Tuvok and Neelix into one person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thoughts:<\/strong> Another installment for the \u201cTransporter is Terrifying\u201d annals. I hope we can agree that, from a scientific point of view, the premise of combining Tuvok and Neelix is preposterous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nevertheless, somehow, eventually, by asking a hard question, the right question for once (last week no one bothered to question the sentience or human rights of “The Thaw’s” fear clown), \u201cTuvix\u201d becomes one of the best episodes of Voyager<\/em> so far, one that I actually expect to remember by the time I post this blog entry. Maybe even for years to come, the way I can still remember every episode of TOS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let me cut to it. Janeway\u2019s decision is wrong, isn\u2019t it? Neither Tuvix nor anyone else aboard Voyager<\/em> bears any fault in the disappearance of Tuvok and Neelix (that fault lies with the writing staff). While someone close to the departed like Janeway or Kes may wish for Tuvix to sacrifice himself to recreate them, they can\u2019t ethically compel him to do that, any more than they can compel a person to dive into treacherous rapids to save a drowning stranger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Add in that Neelix and Tuvok\u2019s consciousness does survive, albeit in altered form, and that you will never<\/em> convince me that EMH\u2019s untested-on-Vulcans-or-Talaxians transporter remedy is safe, and I don\u2019t think this is even a close question. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m surprised no member of the crew besides EMH is willing to stand up for Tuvix. This does not reflect well on them. It would have been interesting to add a utilitarian aspect. Do the interests of the ship and the lives within require for Tuvok and Neelix to be separate people in some way ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Janeway\u2019s conduct seems true to where her character is heading. She likes to make tough calls and demands a rigid standard of sacrifice from herself and her crew. She has a tendency to see things in black and white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I imagine Tim Russ and Ethan Phillips shitting themselves reading this script. This is how you get written off a show. “What do you mean they\u2019ve hired another actor to play me? What if he turns out to be better than me?” (He is!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have to deduct a point based on the first half of the episode, before EMH announces his cure, which does not measure up to the second half. I do not think Kes\u2019 standoffish, reserved reactions are true to character, and certainly not Janeway\u2019s perfunctory, hardly-seems-curious initial response to meeting Tuvix and losing her closest friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4 out of 5 sickbay executions.<\/p>\n\n\n

http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Tuvix_(episode)<\/a>