Alright, those of you who are familiar with Star Trek: Voyager already knows this episode,
BUT
I'll give a rundown for folks who aren't familiar and still have an opinion, because anyone could have an opinion on this situation.
Do you think Captain Janeway made the right choice in regards to Tuvix and what is your gender?
Yes - Cis Woman
No - Cis Woman
Yes - Trans Woman
No - Trans Woman
Yes - Trans Man
No - Trans Man
Yes - Nonbinary Person
No - Nonbinary Person
Yes - Cis Man
No - Cis Man
Voting ended onJul 13
Explanation of the situation below the cut:
The USS Voyager is a Starfleet ship that ends up in the Delta Quadrant - unexplored by the Federation - after getting sucked through a black hole. They are very far from home and are trying to get back, which means they have limited resources and some decisions they make are given additional leeway.
In this particular episode, two members of the crew are transporting back onto the ship after being on a planet and collecting plants, specifically orchids.
These two members are:
Tuvok, a Vulcan who is Captain Janeway's second-in-command and - as Vulcans are predisposed to be - very logical, reserved, etc etc.
Neelix is a Talaxian, actually someone from the Delta Quadrant who came onto the Voyager to cook for them. He's personable and outgoing.
Tuvok (left) / Neelix (right)
These two members of the crew end up merged - due to the orchids transporting with them - into one being. This being portmanteaus the two members' names together and calls themself Tuvix, as pictured below.
Tuvix has the memories and emotions of both men. He calls Kes, Neelix's partner "sweeting," which is a name Neelix calls her and says he loves her as he loves T'pel, Tuvok's wife.
Anyway, weeks pass. Tuvix has shown himself a capable tactician and a very good chef. He integrates himself into the crew, but the crew is still kind of mourning Tuvok and Neelix.
Eventually, the Doctor aboard the ship figure out a way to separate them. The whole crew rejoices, except for Tuvix.
He doesn't want to cease being/die. He asks Kes to vouch for him, she does not. No one on the crew vouches for Tuvix's right to exist.
Captain Janeway orders Tuvix to go through with the procedure. He fights it, security takes him to sickbay.
While being escorted, Tuvix says this:
"Each of you is going to have to live with this. And I'm sorry for that. For you are all good, good people. My colleagues. My friends. I forgive you."
However, the Doctor refuses to do the procedure, because the patient does not want it.
Captain Janeway does the procedure herself, Tuvix is successfuly separated/dies so Tuvok and Neelix return as individuals.
Everyone has an opinion about Captain Janeway's decision in this matter. (Often that opinion is played off as horrified.)
Personally, I think Captain Janeway did the right thing. Without knowing Tuvok and Neelix's opinions on the situation, if you can feasibly separate Neelix back into them, that's the right thing to do.
I don't think Tuvix inherently had the right to exist at the cost of Tuvok and Neelix.
(Also, he didn't help his case, imho, by assuming people from Tuvok and Neelix's past would just, like, accept him to replace them? And he did put Kes in the middle and he insinuated the crew was doing a bad thing by "killing" him to get Tuvok and Neelix back. It felt emotionally manipulative and I don't like that.)
But, really, the "everybody wins" workaround was to make a copy of Tuvix - since transporters can do that, albeit "accidentally" - and to separate one while leaving the other intact. But no one was creative enough for that solution, apparently.
But, idk, I want to know opinions and I'm curious if there's something to be said about the play of gender in opinions on this matter.
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possibly hot take but i think it’s kinda sexist that trekkies won’t shut up about janeway being a murderer because of the tuvix thing but they turn a blind eye to picard refusing to destroy the borg when he had the chance in i, borg. that choice made picard single-handedly responsible for billions of deaths but nobody talks about it because picard is constantly getting glazed. ALSO i don’t give a shit that hugh was technically kind of sentient. you know why? picard sent off HIS OWN OFFICERS to their deaths for less. he risked sito jaxa’s life and eventually got her killed, he was responsible for the death of jack crusher, and the fact that he got to keep his command after being assimilated is actually insane.
Star Trek/The Locked Tomb crossover where a TLT character goes into a bar post Voyager canon and hears a tale about two souls that were combined into a single person. Fascinated, the character asks the bartender what became of this lyctor Tuvix, and the bartender shakes her head sadly and explains he was killed by his ship’s commander, the fearsome Captain Janeway.
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I think Picard would’ve had a table discussion with his senior staff, heard everybody’s pov, and then decided to let Wuinan live. Because they weren’t morally responsible for Worf or Guinan’s individual deaths—that was an accident—but splitting apart Wuinan against their (singular) will would be a moral act they’d be responsible for. Then they would’ve published an article about it in Starfleet Ethics, and Wuinan would be one of the co-authors.
