The "Star Trek: Voyager" episode "Tuvix" remains controversial to this day, perhaps unexpectedly so. The premise of the episode is absurd: the logical Vulcan Tuvok (Tim Russ), and the hobbit-like chef Neelix (Ethan Phillips) beam up from a plant-gathering away mission, only to find their botanical samples somehow interfered with the transporter beam. The two men eerily merge together into a composite being that is just as much Tuvok as he is Neelix. The new being, calling himself Tuvix (Tom Wright), possesses the memories and skills of both Tuvok and Neelix.

At first, Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) feels that this new Tuvix being should be placed back on the transporter pad ASAP and re-separated back into Tuvok and Neelix, but an ethical conundrum arises. Tuvix announces that he rather en

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