This was inevitable.

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• snake_case@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Should have cloned tuvix in the transporter then split the older one.

  Or should have sedated tuvix so a unique personality couldn’t manifest in the time before the doctor could design a cure.

  But it’s easy looking back with hindsight, when you’re there and it’s actually happening you don’t have the luxury of time to think of the most perfect solution.

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  • teft@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you cloned him you’ve just doubled the problem since a cloned tuvix is still Neelix and Tuvok. Even if you split one copy the other is still made of people who deserve to live their own lives.

    Also, fuck Tuvix.

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    • mpa92643@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the other is still made of people who deserve to live their own lives.

      But those “people” (i.e., the clones of Tuvok and Neelix) never existed in the first place.

      The main issue in this episode is that two sentient beings were effectively destroyed against their will to create a new sentient being. To rectify the issue of two sentient beings being destroyed to create one new sentient being, the one was destroyed against his will.

      But a clone of Tuvix would not come into existence at the expense of any sentient beings besides the original Neelix and Tuvok. It doesn’t solve the original “we’re killing a sentient being to bring back our friends” problem the original Tuvix caused, but it doesn’t create new problems either.

      We could just transporter-clone and combine Tuvok and Neelix into Tuvix in one shot. The net effect is one new being, Tuvix, at the expense of nobody. Doing it by cloning Tuvix is just an added intermediate step.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What problem have you doubled? You flush Tuvix out the airlock it’s not like you can never use that airlock again

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  • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In a transporter duplication is there an older one?

    It’s some banach tarsky shit to create the same person twice out of their original matter steam, though mathematically possible.

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  • Infynis@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tuvix was on Voyager for a long time. Keeping him sedated that whole time would have been a strange choice

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  • darelik@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t help but think this episode was paid for by Mars Inc to promote Twix

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    • Maven@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Twix aren’t conjoined… Are you thinking of kitkats?

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What they should’ve done is just recreated him on the holodeck

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• Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not hear to debate anyone, but if you think it is ok to kill a currently living being to resurrect a dead being, then you are fucked in the head.

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  • HolyDuckTurtle@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think from their perspective Tuvok and Neelix weren't "dead", which was why they were more inclined to "correct" the situation at hand and save their crewmates while they still had the chance to do so.

    Regardless, it's a fucked up decision, I don't envy it.

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    • limelight79@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s a line in the episode around that point:

      “At what point did he become an individual, and not a transporter accident?”

      But that’s the whole point of the episode - it’s a moral quandary with no real “right” answer. It’s Hugh of Borg all over again.

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  • SwampYankee@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On the other hand, Tuvix creeped me out.

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    • TheMongoose@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      WELL THAT'S ALL RIGHT THEN!

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  • Saeculum@hexbear.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One for one, sure. One for two? I can see the argument.

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    • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So what if you could save five lives by harvesting the organs on one little old person?

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    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How many people could we save if we harvested you for spare parts? You can’t, or at very least shouldn’t, make moral decisions on arithmetic alone.

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    • Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not an equation to be worked out. It simply boils down to respecting the wishes of a currently conscious being.

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  • m_r_butts@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Moreover, Neelix and especially Tuvok as an enlisted Starfleet officer consented to the risk of death that comes with serving aboard a starship. And that's exactly what happened to them. Tuvix was never given the choice and was murdered for having had the bad fortune to be born aboard Voyager. So much for seeking out new life.

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• aeronmelon@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love this because the Toymaker is basically Q.

  Do this one again, this time use Janeway in the second panel.

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  • khaosworks@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Here you go!

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The whovian in me screeches the toymaker came first, the trekker points out that while Q seems to have some peculiar moral purpose the Toymaker is just an eternal ancient who sets shit on fire for fun.

    Also supernovas can harm Q IIRC. The Toymaker, not so much.

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• TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One of my co-workers perfectly quoted the Cyberman-Dalek scene never having seen a single episode of Doctor Who. Apparently it was all over her tik tok. I mean, I’ll take it, I hope the memeability encourages more viewers. And if that doesn’t do it, NPH should.

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