• rambaroo@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The way I see it, Tuvok and Neelix died in an accident, and a separate life emerged from it. The crew just couldn’t accept their deaths so they killed Tuvix to get them back.

    I don’t see it as a logical decision but an emotional one. How Tuvix came to exist doesn’t matter, he was still a person, and they basically murdered him to get their friends back. He wouldn’t be the first living thing that wasn’t “meant” to exist.

    Either way it’s a very difficult moral question and probably the best episode in Voyager as far as emotional impact.

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      9 months ago

      I agree with this. However, I can understand why Janeway did what she did. Two crew members are better than one in the world where their crew had to survive in.

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        9 months ago

        Same. It’s understandable, yet at the same time horrible when you look at it from Tuvix’s perspective. You make a good point about the survival aspect though. From that perspective it is logical.

        I really wish Voyager had spent more time on the survival theme throughout the show, kind of like BSG did. Trying to survive in a remote part of the galaxy should’ve had a much bigger impact on the characters than it did.