• ThenThreeMore@startrek.website
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    11 months ago

    even addresses the “needs of the many” argument by stating the truth: the other two are gone and the new being is there.

    articulate case for their life, and even addresses the “needs of the many” argument by stating the truth: the other two are gone and the new being is there

    That only addresses the needs of Tuvok and Neelix. What about the rest of the crew whose chances of survival and reaching home are materially hindered by the effective loss of a crew member. Presumably Tuvix isn’t going to work 8 hours in the galley then straight away 8 hours on tactical. What if there’s an emergency that needs both skillets at the same time? What if Tuvix is killed in six months time on an away mission?

    It’s true that Tuvok and Neelix were gone, but the option now existed to have them both back. So the fact that they were gone is reductive and inaccurate. Again ultimately Janeway has around 150 lives to think of, not just three.

    The doctor straight up says that the procedure is unethical and refuses to do it.

    Because he’s a doctor. I doubt he’d be able to order someone into a jefferies tube to fix an ODN conduit in an active warp plasma shaft. Yet that’s literally part of the bridge officers test. https://youtu.be/rC6rGoyEe2s?si=ho_FOBjSaUdTRurX

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      11 months ago

      Janeway’s own log started that Tuvix was better than the sun of the parts; a better cook and tactical officer. The point of a team is that no one person is a point of failure. Factoring in a hypothetical future scenario is spurious.

      An extrajudicial execution (to be charitable) for no crime is beyond most ethical frameworks.

      And not one person has even tried to reconcile the speech to the Vidiians.

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        The point of a team is that no one person is a point of failure.

        Exactly. Tuvix is a potential single point of failure. You’re doubling your risk. Eggs and baskets.

        Factoring in a hypothetical future scenario is spurious.

        Why? It goes hand in hand with your point about points of failure. It’s something that would have had to be considered. Voyager wasn’t snug and safe in the alpha quadrant where they could just go to a starbase and get more crew members if they lost any.

        And not one person has even tried to reconcile the speech to the Vidiians.

        It’s right there in the speech I will do whatever is necessary to protect my people

        At the end of the day the murder of Tuvix pales into insignificance compared to her out and out genocide of the Borg. All to protect her people and get them home.


        I don’t personally think the murder of Tuvix was justifiable, but it’s definitely not an open and shut case. Janeway had to consider 150 people and their chances of surviving and getting home in one piece she also had to consider Tuvok and Neelix.

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          11 months ago

          Were we watching the same speech? The one where she condemns them, but states that she doesn’t have the freedom to kill someone that another might live (in this scenario, killing an alien for the sake of a crewman) and ultimately decides to turn them loose with a promise of reprisal if encountered again?