Comment on Janeway’s “Tuvix” Decision Divides ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Cast: “It Kind Of Hurt Her Character”
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 10 months agoWe could have saved Tuvix’ pattern, split him into the family members we all meme over, and then used energy to pop him back
explodicle@local106.com 10 months ago
Wait so then why don’t they duplicate people all the time? The galaxy could use another Data.
wahming@monyet.cc 10 months ago
Because the star trek transporter is pretty much the definition of deus ex machina, with a particularly lazy deus that only works every few episodes
michaelgemar@mstdn.ca 10 months ago
@explodicle @startrek I think it’s best not to ponder the capabilities of the transporter too closely, otherwise it kinda breaks the world.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I wonder if that falls under eugenics, too close to cloning.
explodicle@local106.com 10 months ago
They had a pretty broad definition of “eugenics” anyways. Bashir’s parents did nothing wrong.