Oh, Starfleet captains can be so cruel. : risa

[+] Stamets@startrek.website 44 points 11 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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[-] StellarExtract@lemm.ee 25 points 11 months ago

She should bring Tuvix back so she can kill him again

[-] andthenthreemore@startrek.website 24 points 11 months ago

And that's the power of good Trek, almost 30 years later we are still arguing about the morality of an episode.

[-] auriken@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

if tuvix was still on board, untold numbers of heinous acts would have been made. one such would be the keeping of janeway and Paris as giant salamanders. shudder

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

We were robbed of Neelix's delicious transwarp salamander egg omelets. Put a little schplict cheese on top and you've got a real Delta Quadrant breakfast.

[-] FancyLad@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

Surely they had knowledge of Thomas Riker and the way he was duplicated. If only Janeway would have studied the historical documents, she could have saved Tuvix and unmerged their combined genome.

[-] TheMongoose@kbin.social 20 points 11 months ago

If Starfleet had the ability to duplicate that freak transporter accident at will, do you honestly think Section 31 wouldn't do that to their agents before sending them on a dangerous mission and put the original in stasis until they knew whether the duplicate had died or not?

Also, someone's already asked that here. If you duplicated Tuvix, you have exactly the same ethical dilemma as to whether to murder the new Tuvix (I can't in good conscience call that one the Twovix thanks to the brilliant LD episode, but maybe I could get away grammatically with Toovix?).

In fact, that would be even worse. "Sorry guy, we created you in a transporter specifically so we could murder you and bring back the originals...". At least the original Tuvix was an accident. Creating a sentient being specifically to murder it is... well, it's something Archer would do, come to think about it. RIP Sim.

[-] FancyLad@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

How dare you make me question my personal ethics and having empathy for freaks of nature. Next, you'll be telling me that Janeway and Paris should have stayed lizard creatures. They had a fresh spawn of children that will die in the wilderness now. All life is sacred!

[-] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Life begins at trans-warp devolution!

[-] electriccars@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

Why not put Tuvix in the pattern buffer, copy his pattern to storage, separate one copy of the pattern into Tuvok and Neelix, then transfer the Tuvix pattern back before rematerializing him thus saving all 3?

[-] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

If it was that easy wouldn’t there be a lot more clone armies

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Oh yeah, that’s exactly what we need, a machine that makes more Neelixes.

[-] CarlsIII@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

And as for Tuvix, he shouldn’t have mouthed off like that!

[-] aeronmelon@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

I'm having SevTrek flashbacks.

Risa