YOUTUBE - Tuvix | Star Trek Fans First Time Watching Voyager

It just occurred to me that Tuvix had escape as an option. He'd be the most viable for attempting it. Neelix is Voyager's Delta Quadrant guide and Tuvok is the security/tactical officer. You could hardly combine two other people aboard to make one better suited for an escape. Paris maybe because of his piloting skills or Torres for engineering and Maquis experience but Tuvok and Neelix is close to the ideal combo for an escape plan. And Neelix is one of only two members of the crew that could plausibly have a life already waiting for him out here. Granted, as Tuvix, he can't expect that they'd treat him like Neelix but that might be an advantage for him

This is the trolley problem. Would you switch the tracks to kill one guy, who would otherwise be fine, to save two people on the other track who would die if you don't? What if the two guys are your partner and your best friend? What if you get to know the stranger? There is no easy answer morally, but I totally agree I would switch the track, just like Janeway does.

"Wouldn't it be funny if Tuvok, who quite dislikes Neelix, somehow got merged with him in a transporter accident? No, no it wouldn't, in more ways than you can possibly imagine. Hmm, let's explore that...

Honestly Captain Janeway made the only choice there was to make given the circumstances. Given its two lives vs one, the needs of the many and all that. Just my opinion though

My major fault with this episode is that it was a missed opportunity for a PERFECT two parter. In so many two-parters, it feels like a thin plot with a foregone conclusion is being stretched out past its necessary length, but in TUVIX, I feel like the missed opportunity was exploring the nuances of the character, and seeing exactly HOW either Tuvix is a "new person" OR that "he" is both Tuvok and Neelix. These questions could have been explored more fully in a two parter. In this single episode, I feel like it's glossed over.

I’ve been waiting for you guys to watch this episode! On a rewatch, it’s not so bad. But at the time, it actually broke me from Voyager for a while. I stopped watching and didn’t come back until a later season. Now, I actually kinda like the episode. It’s grown on me over the years. But it also leaves me wondering why anybody in Starfleet would ever willingly use a transporter. If it doesn’t make an evil clone of you, obliterate you into nothing, send you through time, or trap you in some alternate dimension, apparently it can mash you together into an abomination of a being. #BonesWasRight

They could have cloned TUVIX and then reversed the process on the original and have Tuvix, Neelix and Tuvok

another solution nobody is talking about would have been to only extract/transport out the vulcan DNA and just call it a day

I couldn't even bring myself to approach Tom Wright at the recent Star Trek convention in Vegas! However, I believe he defended Janeway's decision during an interview. This episode is still very much debated and considered controversial all of these years later! It really makes you think!