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Tuvix

A personal favorite. Tuvok and Neelix are accidentally combined into one person,
Tuvix.. who is both of them,yet neither.. as he refers to himself as a seperate
entity from the two.

He refers to the two as being his " parents ", yet, when a cure is found after a few weeks to seperate and bring back Neelix and Tuvok, Tuvix balks at what would turn out to be his death, though it would restore the two.

Captain Janeway orders Tuvix to submit to the procedure, which involves tagging one set of DNA in Tuvix and utilizing the medical transporter in sickbay to seperate Tuvix and bring back Tuvok and Neelix.

The Doctor refuses to do this, citing that it is due to Tuvix not complying of his own free will.

So Janeway does the procedure herself..looking a silent Tuvix in the eye, as he says he forgives them for this..

She activates the transporter, and Tuvok and Neelix are back.. and Tuvix is gone.

This is the most contoversial and thought provoking Voyager episode of all, and, as Ray Adler has stated - Deep Space Nine had episodes like that almost every time, where very few Voyager episodes went that route.

But I love Voyager for what it is.. not for what it wasn't.


Basics

Seska lures Chakotay and Voyager to her, claiming that Maj Cullah is going to kill the baby she created using Chakotay's DNA, once he learns that it isn't his. Chakotay feels compelled to rescue his child, while all the time, he fears it could be a trap.

With the crew stranded on a barren planet, and the ship controlled by the Kazon, it's up to Tom Paris, Lon Suder, and The Doctor to retake Voyager and rescue their crewmates.

Suder has to forget all the training from Tuvok on keeping himself calm, and must go back to his killer's nature if he is to save the ship.

Meanwhile, on the planet where nearly all the crew has been left by the Kazon, Captain Janeway and the rest must deal with hostile primitives, giant cave dwelling monsters, and erupting volcanoes...

Suder kills a Kazon and the Doctor hides the body in a stasis chamber; Seska confronts the Doctor ( Who has already been contacted by Tom Paris with a plan to re-take Voyager. ) who shows her the body and does his best to give Seska as much mis-information as possible. Seska leaves but damages the holo - emitter in sickbay.. the Doctor is now offline.

Paris and a few Talaxian ships attack Voyager's main phaser banks! Suder goes to where he needs in the ship to damage the back up phaser couplings! He kills all the Kazons, and does the sabotage... but is shot by a dying Kazon, and, mortally wounded, Suder finishes his task, then dies..


The phasers over load! Seska is killed! Her baby lives though. A surviving Kazon guy gives the order to abandon Voyager. He takes the baby, who turns out to be his, and not Chakotay's.

Paris and a few Talaxians beam aboard. They repair the ship! They go back to the planet, where Janeway and Company have helped rescue a woman from the primitive tried who'd been trapped by a lava flow!

The woman helps save Ensign Wildman's baby, who was very ill, with a homemade remedy.

Just then, Voyager returns!

The crew is saved!

At episode's end, Seska and Suder's bodies are in sick bay.

Tuvok say that awesome line to the now dead hero, Suder:

"I offer you a Vulcan prayer, Mr Suder. May your

death bring you the peace you never found in

life." - Tuvok.



This is my signature here, as you all can see. It is a fantastic line, one of the very best from this show, and it sums up my thoughts about life and death and the afterlife perfectly.

I watched this terrific two parter and Tuvix with my Mom today; I'd just been to the dentist and had yet another perfect check up.

It was her 76 th birthday yesterday. I am quite fortunate to still have her, as I am 50 now. I enjoy sharing my shows with her, and she enjoys them, too.

Basics is an exciting episode from start to finish; it remains a favorite of mine, and is still fun to watch, even several years after it first aired in 1996.