It’s a transporter accident episode. Haven’t had one of them in a while. Especially one where two become one. No the Spice Girls don’t make an appearance, I can be grateful for small mercies. So one of the better characters, Tuvok, and one of the worst ones, Neelix, become one life form. You win some, you lose some.
Over the course of the episode people become attached to the new Tuvix, emotionally I mean, not that there’s another transporter accident. Now that would be a Star Trek story.* Needless to say Kes is the one most affected by this, so we follow her emotional arc as she’s first apprehensive and then grows to accept him. I do think though it would have been much better if the Tuvix character had been allowed to stay around for a few episodes so the ending when it eventually came would have more resonance.
I have to say while I do criticise Janeway a lot, she has been pretty ruthless in this episode and the last, which I liked. So when the decision came to separate Tuvix weeks later he wasn’t very dignified about it, which really did help, but then why would you be?
* Note to Paramount producers, that would not be a story.
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