Janeway: How do I get this thing to go down both tracks?
Yes! The Trolley Problem: Tokyo Drift
Everyone is talking about Tuvix but no one is talking about the flower. Were they able to save it? It is arguably more useful than Neelix.
I’ll let myself out
That flower appeared again in Lower Decks, some episode of last season, iirc.
Man, Janeway didn’t fuck around.
Janeway had nothing to do with it that time. They found it on Museum-Voyager while doing some cleaning up or whatever shenanigans. A lot of people got fused.
I never thought of the capacity for evil that flower allows.
Imagine Janeway Tuvixing the royalty of some planet into a crew member so that they could force a monarchy to be subjects of her ship.
where is flower?
OMG, I had the flower behind the transporter and forgot to move the layer forward!
I am… appeased, thank you :)
Pattern buffer. She keeps its matrix on file for those moments when she’s feeling a touch “murdery” now and again.
I still don’t understand why they couldn’t have restored Neelix and Tuvok and kept Tuvix around.
Technically, they could, but then you’ve got a hybrid person with full past memories of the others. Ethically touchy, since Tuvix would not be able to be with Tuvok’s family or Kes in the same manner previously.
I feel like they could have kept Tuvix and Tuvok and given up Neelix…
I kid. Mostly…
Still better than being annihilated
I mean, that would be up to Kes and Tuvoks family to decide. Complex, but families and relationships often are.
Not shining a light on the trek “transporters are actually infinite cloning beams” problem was probably for the best though.
That’s been similarly tackled from the eugenics perspective on TNG with these guys:
On the other hand, it’d be fun to have a Gary from Fallout type episode caused by the transporters.
Huh, what TNG episode is that?
s2e18 “Up the Long Ladder” aka the planet Ireland episode.
The other plot involves a more “refined” planet populated by clones who need fresh DNA to not degrade their society.
Ahh the Ireland episode. That’s why. Ive skipped it for so long I forgot the plot lines.
I don’t think “ethically touchy” mattered much to Janeway…
